FOR almost 100 years the horns of ships using the Manchester Docks rang out across Trafford and Salford.

Now, 35 years after their closure in 1982, visitors to the Lowry can reimagine that sound as part of a major digital art exhibition.

An installation called Black Hole Horizon by the German Artist, Thom Kubli uses giant gramophone horns to project huge bubbles that will float throughout the Lowry galleries.

Through sound and the physicality of the bubble and machine, Kubli hopes to touch the emotional history of the docks, as well as moving audiences with this impressive artwork.

It forms part of a new exhibition, humansbeingdigital, which explores the emotional reactions digital art work can provoke includingjoy, anxiety, sadness and love.

Other exhibits are:

* Matt Dovery’s Hipster Bar which uses facial recognition technology to identify and reward those who are deemed hipster enough, touching on the emotion of how it feels to belong.

* Machine with hair caught in it by U_Joo+LimbeeYoung, which unnerves audiences as human hair is pulled through a mechanical head.

* Apocalypse. A perfume that capures the end of the world by UK artists Thomson and Craighead.

Julia Fawcett, chief executive of the Lowry who grew up in Salford, remembers the sound of the docks and the silence after they closed.

Lucy Dusgate, digital programming associate at the Lowry said: “We’re really proud of the variety and internationalism we have brought together for this exhibition. It includes work by artists from South Korea, Germany, Slovenia and the UK."

In July 2014, the Lowry galleries were renamed ~The Andrew and Zoe Law Galleries - in recognition of the couple’s £1m donation to the arts centre- which is a registered charity.

The exhibition runs from November 18 2017 to February 26, 2018. Admission Free. Donations welcome.