Digital technology in focus

AN EXHIBITION highlighting the way digital technologies have revolutionised everyday life has opened at a north-east arts centre.

The Recoded: Landscapes of Politics and New Media exhibition at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen features film screenings and workshops and is being run in conjunction with a debate on digital media at Aberdeen University.

Highlights of the exhibition include a science fiction film put together entirely from CCTV footage and a monument of ball bearings used to represent the number of deaths reported on internet news.

The installation, Monument (If It Bleeds, It Leads), is by American artist Caleb Larsen. A computer programme scans the headlines of 4,500 English-language news sources around the world and a growing pile of yellow ball bearings represents each person reported killed. The debate, under the same Recoded banner, started yesterday and will continue today, attended by leading academics from a broad range of disciplines. The exhibition runs until May 31.