Future Sessions: Atmospheric Memory Walking Tour – Voices in the air, Ghosts in the machine

Name: Future Sessions: Atmospheric Memory Walking Tour - Voices in the air, Ghosts in the machine
Start: 2019-07-06T13:00:00
End: 2019-07-07T14:30:00
Location: Science and Industry Museum

Johnny James, Managing Editor Posted 19 June 2019

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Future Sessions: Atmospheric Memory Walking Tour - Voices in the air, Ghosts in the machine

Science and Industry Museum, Manchester

6-7 July 2019

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Further unravelling Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s installation piece, local tour guide Anne Beswick will take participants back to the Victorian age with its mechanical stage illusions, before moving through to early computing and onto the contemporary experiential technologies found in Atmospheric Memory.

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