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In 2010, Chinese Arts Centre organised a Liberation Exhibition-an exhibition growing out of an ongoing discussion with Carol Yinghua Lu and Liu Ding following the blocked use of a selection of social networking and self-publishing websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube in China.

This exhibition takes the form of a visual art exhibition as well as a series of events, a debate, and a blog discussion among the curators of the exhibition and invited guests.

Speakers at the Chinese Arts Centre discussed a range of perspectives on the online media and the power of social networking sites.

Guest speakers include exhibiting artist Brendan Fan, FaceRook artist Candy Chen Shuhui, Laurence Kaye from Pirate Party UK, Matthew Trump from the Northern Cybercrime Forensics Group, and Tom Kinniburgh, Associate Producer of the Application Company Chillingo Limited.

It proposes a close look into the openness and potential of the Internet world as well as its susceptibility to power and political manipulation and ideological controls.

The event is sponsored kindly by City Inn Manchester, and supported by Arts Council England and AGMA, Association of Greater Manchester Authorities.