Digital Exhibition by Montag Residency and Manchester Metropolitan University SODA Collaboration ‘Work-Unity’ No:1 w/ Dr. Helen McGhie
•The works of the participants who responded to the open call of Montag Residency for the students and academics of the Manchester Metropolitan University SODA (School of Digital Arts) are coming together in a digital exhibition within the scope of the project titled
Work-Unity No:1 ‘Open Networks’ https://www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/soda-students-showcase-work-at-montag-residency-in-istanbul/
Participators: Alexander YEWMAN – Antony HALL – Archie ELLIOTT – Audrey ALBERT – Bee JONES Gracie BROOKES – Charlie LYONS – Chloe TOMKINSON – Chris Paul DANIELS Christopher GLADWIN – Dajana HILTON – David PENNY – Duncan WOOLDRIDGE Ellis DINSMORE – Freya Macintyre GEORGE – Greg HODGE – Helen McGHIE Holly CLARE – Iqra ILYAS – Kye MARSH – Leticia FREIRE Lois MACDONALD + Adam CAIN – Maria RUBAN – Markus HETHEIER May VIRATIKUL – Megan SHARLAND – Mike KELLY – Neil BRUCE – Occulta DAMA Raz ULLAH – Richard HIGGINBOTTOM – Rory VILLARS – Ruben GRAY Saleem SAMEJA – Sam SOLMAN – Sian MACFARLANESophie LEE + Land DIALOGUES – Rommel SUMAYANGSummer SHEPHERD – Thom BRIDGE + Sonja THOMPSEN Thomas HOLLOWAY – Tristan POYSER – Victor Manuel Garcia CERVANTES William OXLEY
This special event, which includes a total of 44 participants, will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at İMÇ5533. The pop-up exhibition, which offers a temporary digital experience, can be visited between 14:00 and 19:30.
You are invited to discover the innovative productions of the SODA community in this event that bears the traces of creative technologies, digital art and interdisciplinary studies. All applications have been accepted. Thanks to all students and academics for the cooperation <3 and work – unity @helen_mcghie
Dr. Helen McGhie is a photographer, practice-based researcher and Senior Lecturer in Photography in the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research explores how photographic practice fosters meaningful relationships and mutual benefits with third sector partners and photographic communities, articulating this as a model for generative creative practice. In 2024, she completed a practice-based PhD entitled Close Encounters: A Practice-Based Photography Study in Collaboration with a Science Communication Organisation, in partnership with Kielder Observatory, a dark sky charity and visitor attraction in Kielder Forest, at Northumberland International Dark Sky Park (University of Sunderland). Funded by the National Productivity Investment Fund (AHRC), this research reveals the generative benefits of a creative photographer immersing themselves in the dark sky park, creating still, moving and sonic imagery outputs and exhibitions inspired by the narratives of the observatory and forest communities. McGhie previously studied at the Royal College of Art (2014), has exhibited widely and has published in academic contexts, most recently through the chapter on ‘Creative Approaches to Dark Skies Research: A Dialogue Between Two Artist-Researchers’, written with Natalie Marr for Dark Skies: Places, Practices, Communities, edited by Nick Dunn and Tim Edensor (Routledge, 2024). www.helenmcghie.com
