The Visual resources centre faces imminent destruction

Calling all students:

Hello, we are wanting to hear from anyone who has produced work in their course or for their end of year shows this year that in any way is influenced by or has made use of images from the Visual Resources Centre ( the slide library) in Manchester School of Art.
As many of you may know the slide library is under threat of being closed and the majority of its contents disposed of, as it looks now this is likely to happen during the summer break.
There is a small group of us acting to do what we can to stop this from happening and in petitioning the Dean of Faculty of the art school we want to show supporting evidence in how this resource is being used by students.

What are we asking from you?
Photos or links to work you have done that has used the slides
Anything you can share with us via our facebook page below
will be a huge help in stopping the demise of the slide library.
Thanks very much for reading
the adopt a a slide team
http://pickaslide.wordpress.com/

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Our-Slides/563251040474916

http://www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/visualresources/

 

Adopt a slide

 

Celebrating the Visual Resources Centre at Manchester School of Art

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Images from the night

Well, Slideshow has come and gone and it was a roaring success, people really enjoyed interacting with the various slide projectors and viewers we had around the room and there were images changing all the time which kept it visually really interesting, please check here for loads of great photos of the night. Many thanks to Jacob for the fabulous photos.

Sarah Cook

Sarah Cook

Sumarni Fothergill

Katie Cooper

Kandice Bertenshaw

Lucy Illingworth

Sumarni Fothergill

Lucy Illingworth

John and Lucy

Hannah Weston

Lucy designed and printed the poster in letterpress

Ash van Dyck

sneak peek

slide viewing

We will have a 1950's vintage Kodaslide single slide machine with a box of random slides for people to get to grips with, see what you find in the box.

Slideshow Press release

On the 19^th of November a group of 1^st year interactive arts students from the Manchester School of Art are holding a special one night exhibition at the Salutation Pub on the MMU campus.

The school of art has within its walls a unique visual resource that's existence is currently threatened. The Visual Resources Centre is a library of images in slide format that chronicle the history of the school of art, the history of Manchester and anything else you could imagine.

For a taste of the unique imagery please visit the flikr page here

Students for across the art school are producing work in response to the imagery in the archive and there will also be slideshow presentations of course. Please come along to this public event for the chance to check out some really inspiring work and some images you will quite likely never otherwise get the chance to see while supporting our efforts to save this resource for the future students and people of Manchester and the world.

We will be holding monthly themed short presentations and talks of no more than half an hour, if you are interested in being one of our guest presenters then please get in touch here saveourslides@gmail.com

A lantern slide image of Oxford Road   

                                                                                                       a selection of Design Council images

“Slideshow”

19^th of November 7 pm onwards

Salutation pub, Higher Chatham Street ( MMU campus)

Public event, FREE, bar open as usual

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Please come along to our exhibition. We will be presenting slide shows on a variety of topics, there will be a lot of exciting work inspired by the images in the slide library. Salutation pub.

A taste of the wonderful imagery in the Design Council collection