About The Digital

A large flat-screen television on a blue wall. The video on the screen depicts a club party, with everyone covered in bubbly foam. There are subtitles on the screen reading: "I feel like the music sounds better with you"

Elliott Flanagan, A piece of something bigger, 2018

A piece of something bigger, Elliott Flanagan, 2018

A large flat-screen television on a blue wall. The screen has green blocky text upon it, like you'd see in old movies where they hack computers - think the matrix. The screen reads: industry, a pillar of flame, the call to industry

Joe Fowler, Call to Industry, 2023

Call to Industry, Joe Fowler, 2023

A colourful still image from 'Nodes' showing a distorted background with purples, greens, browns, and black and whites. Code, describing sounds sits ontop of the background in white text on pink.

James Chadderton, Media City (from the Manchester Apocalyse series), 2012

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A film still, showing a woman looking out of a car window. From the lighting we can assume it is nightime

Noor Afshan Mirza and Brad Butler, The Scar, 2018

Brass Art, Shadow Worlds | Writers Rooms’ – Freud’s House, 2016

A white page with small lettering in the centre in black and red ink, reads anagrams of the phrase 'the war on terror'

Thomson & Craighead, The War on Terror, 2016

An intentionally glitched abstract image with multicolour vertical stripes

Thomson & Craighead, Corruption I & II, 2014

A landscape format black rectangle, with a very small image of planet earth in the centre.

Parham Ghalamdar, Birds or Borders, 2020

Birds or Borders, Parham Ghalamdar, 2020

A white skeletal digital rendering of an ornate bandstand floats against a dark blue background.

Laura Daly, The Storm Cone, 2021

The Storm Cone, Laura Daly, 2021

A digital rendering of cheese wheels of various sizes, coated in red, yellow and black wax. They are presented against a pale blue background.

Pat Flynn, Cheese, Cheese Selection and Cheese Hole, 2015

A monochrome computer generated image showing a simplistic figure in the centre of a plain, with the traces of bouncing tennis ball paths

aaajiao, Tennis for None, 2016

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Ryoichi Kurokawa, unfold.alt, 2016

A photograph of a projection in a dark room in Salford Museum and Art Gallery. The footage shows an older white man playing the drums inside a professional music recording studio.

Open Music Archive, Everything I Have is Yours, 2019

Open Music Archive, Everything I Have Is Yours, 2019

a film still showing a sunset over an outdoor theatre

Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Song for Armageddon, 2017

Liam Young and Tim Maughan, Where the City Can’t See, 2016

Liam Young & Tim Maughan, Where the City Can’t See, 2016

A close up of a human eye, with black eyelashes and a blue-green iris.

Rachel Maclean, Again and Again and Again, 2016

A black and white film still, showing a man climbing over a thin fence, approximately 3 metres tall. He has reached the top and has one leg over each side.

Simon Faithfull, 0°00 Navigation, 2008

Artist: Simon Faithfull (b. 1966) Title: 0°00 Navigation Year: 2008 Medium: Black and White Super 8 video, transferred to DVD. Silent Duration: 55′ Accession Number: US2014-7 Acquisition info: 0°00 Navigation was screened at the Future City festival in Salford Quays MCUK in April 2014, through a partnership with Quays Culture. The film was acquired into […]

A film still, in colour, showing a white man with short, slicked back cropped hair, reading a document. He is wearing a light brown suit and blue tie.

Declan Clarke, The Most Cruel of All Goddesses, 2015

Artist: Declan Clarke (b. 1974) Title: The Most Cruel of all Goddesses Year: 2015 Medium: 16mm Black and white film converted to DVD. Shown as projection. With Sound Duration: 60′ Accession Number: US2015-19 Acquisition info: The Most Cruel of All Goddesses was co-commissioned by HOME and the University of Salford as part of ‘The Heart […]

An aerial photograph showing an oil and gas facility. From this perspective it resembles a computer chip board.

Mishka Henner, Wasson Oil and Gas Field, Yoakum County, Texas, 2013-2014.

Artist: Mishka Henner (b. 1976) Title: Wasson Oil and Gas Field, Yoakum County, Texas Year: 2013-2014 Medium: Archival pigment print mounted to aluminium Dimensions: H:149cm W:258cm Accession Number: 2015-6 Acquisition info: Purchased in 2015 Henner is one of the UK’s most significant artists working with and interrogating the photographic medium. Based on the collection and […]

an aerial photograph showing an oil field facility. From this perspective the facility becomes abstract, with terrain resembling an abstract expressionist painting.

Mishka Henner, Cedar Point Oil Field, Harris County, Texas, 2013-14

Artist: Mishka Henner (b. 1976) Title: Cedar Point Oil Field, Harris County, Texas Year: 2013 – 14 Medium: Archival pigment print mounted to aluminium Dimensions: 149 x 258 cm Accession Number: US2015-5 Acquisition info: Purchased 2015 Henner is one of the UK’s most significant artists working with and interrogating the photographic medium. Based on the […]

A still from a video, showing a person with a beard and shoulder length hair, in a white labcoat. They are looking into a glass chamber, which is obscured by reflection.

Shezad Dawood, Leviathan Cycle, Episode 1: Ben, 2017

Artist: Shezad Dawood (b. 1974) Title: Leviathan Cycle, Episode 1: Ben Year: 2017 Medium: Single Channel HD Video, Colour, Stereo 5.1, 16:9 Duration: 12’52” Accession Number: 2017-09 Acquisition info: Commissioned by University of Salford Art Collection and Leviathan – Human and Marine Ecology, with support from The Contemporary Art Society