yes it does! happily i'll be in london again while the exhibition is on :) any chance the symposium on 6 august will have an online component???
h : ) On 5/05/16 1:05 47PM, Michael Szpakowski wrote: > Gosh this sounds absolutely great! > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 5 May 2016, at 10:55, furtherfield <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Networking the Unseen >> >> Private view: Friday 17 June 2016, 6-9pm (register) >> From 18 June - 14 August 2016 >> Open 11am-5pm, Saturday-Sunday or by appointment >> http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/programmes/networking-unseen >> >> Five culturally and geographically disparate Australian artists – >> Gretta Louw, Jenny Fraser, Lily Hibberd, Brook Andrew, and Curtis >> Taylor – and artists, including Neil Jupurrurla Cook, Isaiah >> Jungarrayi Lewis, and Sharon Nampijinpa Anderson from the Warnayaka >> Art Centre in Central Australia, present work situated at the >> intersection between avant garde digital, media, and installation >> art, the sociological study of digital and networked culture, and >> activism. >> >> Networking the Unseen is the first exhibition of its kind to focus on >> the intersection of indigenous cultures and zeitgeist digital >> practices in contemporary art. While digital networks manifest >> physically as tonnes of cabling, and electrical or electronic >> devices, the social and cultural impacts of the networks remain >> somehow invisible, eroding clearly felt boundaries of geography, >> place, culture and language. >> >> Together with artist and curator Gretta Louw, Furtherfield presents >> an exhibition and event series that brings together concepts and >> experiences of remoteness and marginalised cultures, with art-making >> in contemporary society. It proposes a radical rethinking of widely >> accepted stereotypes concerning the impact of networks on >> contemporary global cultures, digital art, the avant garde, and >> indigenous art-making. It tackles subjects ranging from digital >> colonialism and cultural marginalisation (or, conversely, >> diversity/empowerment) within an increasingly connected, online world >> to universal concerns around cultural change as a result of >> technological migration. The exhibition extends our focus to the >> extremities of the global digital network. It subtly proposes ways to >> claim power back from centralising forces of control to use these >> tools for positive change; for intercultural exchange and empowerment >> for marginalised communities. >> >> Tags: activism art, exhibition, digital print, installation, >> collaboration, digital art, digital colonialism, digitalisation, >> multi-disciplinary networks, social and cultural geography… >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- helen varley jamieson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.upstage.org.nz
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