Showing: Sat 4th Oct – Sun 2nd Nov 2008 Employing digital photography and new media, this youth art project explores the sign systems of Barcelona, Berlin, London and Sofia

Guided and accompanied by professional artists, 300 young people in over 30 workshops have investigated and recorded the signs of their cities as a way of documenting their lives.

CITIPIX is the interface between the four cities. It is an online database which has gathered all the images produced in the workshops and turned this into a contemporary archive which is freely accessible. Anyone can select images from this archive to create their own personal interpretation of the signs that are there.

Go to http://www.citipix.net where you can search and regroup the images using the ‘play-search-engine’. You can enlarge individual images and create your own stripes. These are image bars which you put together by choosing 5 photographs from the archive which can be saved and shared with everyone else.

The exhibition at Watermans is going to be curated by the artists and young photographers who contributed to the project.

As part of the project a limited number of young people will also have an opportunity to gather for Youth Art Festival in Barcelona from Oct 6th till Oct 12th 2008.

To coincide with the opening of the exhibition and to provide the opportunity for closer look at the issues raised by the project a one day conference will be held at Goethe Institute in South Kensington, London on Oct 4th. The event will bring together students, educationalists, artists, and academics working in the area of cultural education, urban studies and European studies with the aim of engaging a dialogue about:

• visualising contemporary urbanisation
• young people and  European citizenship
• participatory arts practice

The conference is free but places are limited, so you must register in advance by Friday 19 September 2008 by sending an e-mail to a.tu@gold.ac.uk