This Hayward Touring exhibition (from Southbank Centre, London) was premiered at Bluecoat. For its curator, the Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey, “the real and the virtual co-exist”, and the exhibition explored a magical world where new technology was in conversation with the beliefs of our distant past, and suggested that technology has developed its own form of consciousness.

An eclectic selection of objects and artists included William Blake, Louise Bourgeois, Martin Creed, Richard Hamilton, Nicola Hicks, Jim Shaw and Leckey himself, who showed a giant inflatable Felix the Cat in the Vide space. The image used on the poster is by David Musgrave: Animal (1998), collection Tate, and shows the cartoon character Snoopy, dissected to reveal its internal organs.