[spectre] Low-fi exhibition opens at Stills, Edinburgh next week!

[Jon Thomson]

Stills invites you to the opening of our Festival Show
on 05th August 7-9pm

Low-fi.
new works by international artists using networked media

06 August – 02 October 2005 FREE
Stills, 23 Cockburn St, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP
Open daily 11am – 6pm

Featuring;
Mauricio Arango (Colombia/US)
Cavan Convery (UK)
James Coupe (UK)
Radarboy (South Africa/Japan)
Kate Rich (UK)
UK Museum of Ordure (UK)

Low-fi commissions exist to support the production of new artworks that 
use networked technologies. Although these artworks thrive on the 
internet, in this exhibition the artists use sound, projection and 
other methods to inhabit the physical space of the gallery. They work 
in tangible, engaging and sensory ways to convey ideas about our 
relationships with the media, technology and digital and commercial 
networks.

Among the works, Kate Rich forges new routes of import while Mauricio 
Arango's map of the world reveals how international news media is 
creating new cartography. James Coupe's sound installation dispenses 
wisdom gathered from metaphysical travels on the net, while the UK 
Museum of Ordure invite you to add to their gradually degrading sound 
files.  Throughout the exhibition, the works react and grow in response 
to visitors' input -unroll familiar contemporary technologies as one 
would ancient scrolls in Cavan Convery's Vertical Scroll and take 
responsibility for the maintenance of radarboy's Big Five Digital Zoo.
 
Low-fi is an artist collective focused on net art, mediation and 
distribution systems
(http://www.low-fi.org.uk)

STILLS is one of Scotland’s leading centres for research, production 
and exhibition of contemporary art inspired by existing and emerging 
technologies
(http://www.stills.org)

More info...
http://www.stills.org/exh_current.html