Technophobes

About this event

A pop-up exhibition featuring local and UK artists, replacing our phones with tiny canvases, and returning to the analogue world. WHAT IS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THIS PROJECT? • Almost everybody uses a smartphone, so I thought it would be fun to challenge people to create an artwork that is the same size and shape as their phone, but made of canvas, and taking us away from the screen, as a kind of digital detox • Our experience of each other and of art, has become flat, small and owned by big tech • This is also a protest against AI art – AI can copy photos but it can't create these artworks – every artist has made something completely unique, and handcrafting is a contrast with the environmentally-destructive data centres being built WHO ARE THE ARTISTS? The 20+ local and UK artists who have created pieces for this exhibition include: • Well-known local artists including Jez Dolan and Yasaman Mollasalehi • Artists from the 1838 Collective at Islington Mill, Salford (Rebecca Garrard, Oriana Loucaidou, Yasaman Mollasalehi, Blake Prol Barbosa, Aliya Farakh) • Artists from Macclesfield (Sabine Kussmaul, Erika Groeneveld, Mel Ashby, Deborah P. Graham) • Artists from across the UK includ

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Date

Saturday, 24 October 2026

Start time

12:00

Venue

MANCHESTER

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