The ‘Generation Z’ project was put together by Salford University students to analyse contemporary youth culture.
Stephanie Grundy told SalfordOnline.com about her work: “People are always on mobile phones these days.
“We are a generation that has never experienced life without technology.
“Although social media was designed to bring us closer together it is, in fact, isolating us by forging an anti-social generation of smarter phones used by dumber people.”
The Children of Generation Z, born in the 1990s, inhabit a world previously unimagined by many older artists.
Smartphones, the internet, social media, and digital technology have a massive effect on the way we live our lives, and how we perceive the ever-changing world we live in.
Some of the highlights of the exhibition include A Nation Divided by Matthew Hanlon, who reflects on the recent Scottish Independence Referendum.
He said: “I chose this topic because the Independence Referendum has been of the biggest moments in Scotland’s history.”
“It was quite exciting for me to express my political views and those of the ‘Yes’ campaign to a mainly English audience.”
Deborah Hughes’s piece of art was titled, Words Cannot Express.
She told us: “The idea behind this was a basic one, I looked at how people use emoticons. Words can’t express how you feel with one of those.”
This exhibition provides real insight into how the explosion of digital technologies has impacted on the human race.
The above work and much more will be available to view between 25 and 29 March, opening times between 12 and 5pm.
Find Artwork at 95 Greengate, Salford, M3 7NG or go online here for more information.
