Exhibition
Media Wall: D(^_^)B / Miku, Monsters and Musicians
17 Jul 2015 – 15 Sep 2015
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 19:00
Address
- 16-18 Ramillies Street
- Soho
- London
- W1F 7LW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Just off Oxford Street so accessible by bus services to Oxford Street and a 2 minute walk from Oxford Circus Tube Station.
In parallel with We Want More, the Media Wall presents a stream of work from those who are reshaping the relationship between music and image making online.
About
Social media has helped to connect communities of fans and created opportunities for critical reflection, subversion and playful interaction and we present a sample of this rich culture.
Tumblr has become an important site for image curators to collate, observe and challenge industry voices, whether for researchers creating visual catalogues of photographs around a subject, or musicians collecting images for their own interests.
Communities such as Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters are emblematic of new types of relationships between musicians and fans. We’ll be presenting a range of imagery produced by the Little Monsters themselves, from fan art and memes to homages to Gaga herself.
We also highlight Hatsune Miku, a Japanese music superstar with long turquoise pigtails who began her life as a ‘voice’ plugin for music software. A virtual pop idol, she can be used as a performing avatar by any budding producer, songwriter or fan. She has appeared in over 100,000 songs created by fans, and appears as a hologram performing ‘live’ to thousands of fans in Japan and across the world.