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

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The Photographers' Gallery

London, United Kingdom

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  • Just off Oxford Street so accessible by bus services to Oxford Street and a 2 minute walk from Oxford Circus Tube Station.
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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.

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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. 

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