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8/10/2002

The Imaginery Hotel

Chapman Gallery, Manchester

An interactive installation in a public space, linked to a website communicating with the real room.

Gallery visitors are invited to make up their own room.
Internet users are invited to take part online.

The Imaginary Hotel allows visitors to occupy and design their ideal room and fill it with personal content and inspiration. It will be set up in the Chapman Gallery in Salford between October 9th and 31st and linked to the Cornerhouse, Manchester and the Folly Gallery, Lancaster, where visitors are able to interact with the gallery installation and its audience from a special net terminal. The installation architecture resembles a typical hotel room; yet choosing image, video and sound footage from the net via the room TV menu, can alter the standard interior and even hotel location. At the same time internet participants can interfere by modifying or uploading further material via the hotel website. They are also able to ring up the gallery visitors via a specially designed web-telephone interface. A web cam is streaming real time video from the hotel to the website to document the ongoing changes.

A hotel as such stands for an anonymous social melting pot in a constant state of flux ­ The Imaginary Hotel further mirrors digital travel in a distorted concept of space and time. It represents a virtual retreat accommodating permanently migrating residents. Similar to a blank canvas, the vacant room is successively populated and shaped by individuals. Real and virtual guests arrive, meet and disappear from out of nowhere and leave their personal traces, reflecting the seamless border between physical and imaginative places of being.

Supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the University of Salford and the North West Arts Board.

Coding by Onno Baudoin

Opening of the Hotel on site and online: October 9th, 2002 at 6.00 pm

The Chapman Gallery, University of Salford, University Rd, Salford, M5 4WT,
Tel. 0161-295-5241
October 9th to 31st, 2002, 9.30 am ­ 5.00 pm, Monday - Friday. Admission is free.

Web terminals are set up at the Cornerhouse, Manchester and the Folly Gallery, Lancaster.

Special project presentations by the artist:
October 10th, 6.30 pm, Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH
October 19th, 2.00 pm, Folly Gallery, 26 Castle Park, Lancaster, LA1 1YQ

The Chapman Gallery, Salford, Manchester

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