ps If anyone wants to go there, please send me a private message, I can get a few free entrance tickets. Unfortunately I can't come myself. Best Annie
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 3:12 PM, ruth catlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Michael, Annie, Liz Sterry, Emile and Maxime, and I are featured in this > exhibition - Stranger Collaborations > <http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/whats-on/art-projects/stranger-collaborations/> > - as part of London Art Fair this week. > > See info below. > > All the best > > Ruth > > ART PROJECTS SCREENING ROOM > > The radical development fostered by net art was the possibility that > artists who had never met to nonetheless be inspired by, use and remix each > other’s work. Hosted in the Art Projects Screening Room, ‘Stranger > Collaborations > <http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/whats-on/art-projects/stranger-collaborations/>’ > is an exhibition featuring artworks that in some way wouldn’t have been > possible without the collaborations formed via the internet, showing how > strangers can, sometimes even unknowingly, create an artistic partnership > online. > > The artworks of Annie Abrahams and Liz Sterry create temporary communities > that are ‘safe spaces’ in which socially-proscribed behaviours – such as > public anger or private alcohol consumption – are accepted and even > embraced. In Abrahams’ ‘Angry Women’ series, people who met via the > internet come together to both vent their frustrations and explore the > power of anger, while Sterry’s ‘Drinking Alone with the Internet’ documents > a succession of online performances in which the artist put out an open > call for internet users to join her in dressing and drinking like a Star > Wars character, creating a virtual party in which everyone is both together > and very much alone. > > The practices of Michael Szpakowski and the art duo Émilie Brout & Maxime > Marion appropriate the creations of others, individuals whose identities > usually remain anonymous and who probably never expected their works to be > re-presented as constituents of a work of art. Szpakowski’s ‘Shit Happens > in Vegas’ remixes images from Google Street View to stage a vicarious > cruise through Las Vegas and Brout & Marion’s ‘Gold and Glitter’ is a > shimmering, largescale projection comprising several hundred golden > animated GIFs sourced from the internet. > > As the technology of the internet develops, so do the types of > collaboration that it enables. Ruth Catlow’s Time Is Speeding Up is an > online video created in real time with the participation of visitors to the > Screening Room, which is then authenticated using the anonymous, > distributed network of the blockchain. > > > Curated by Pryle Behrman, ‘Stranger Collaborations’ runs throughout London > Art Fair in the Art Projects Screening Room on Gallery Level 1. > > -- > Co-founder Co-director > Furtherfield > > www.furtherfield.org > > +44 (0) 77370 02879 > > Bitcoin Address 197BBaXa6M9PtHhhNTQkuHh1pVJA8RrJ2i > > Furtherfield is the UK's leading organisation for art shows, labs, & > debates > around critical questions in art and technology, since 1997 > > Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company limited by Guarantee > registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. > Registered business address: Ballard Newman, Apex House, Grand Arcade, > Tally Ho Corner, London N12 0EH. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- http://bram.org https://aabrahams.wordpress.com http://e-stranger.tumblr.com
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