[spectre] Open Vice/Virtue: The Online Art Context. Andy Deck at HTTP Gallery.

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HTTP [House of Technologically Termed Praxis] presents
Open Vice/Virtue: The Online Art Context
by Andy Deck.

‘Open Vice/Virtue: The Online Art Context’ is an exhibition and public 
production space featuring real-time, online collaboration and 
interventions in public and private spaces by software artist Andy Deck. 
HTTP Gallery is pleased to present this solo show by American artist 
Andy Deck, as part of NODE.London season of media arts. For this, his 
first exhibition in London UK, Deck uses the Internet, the gallery and 
public space to challenge corporate control over communication, tools 
and software, and by extension the social imagination.

'The giantism of media corporations and the ongoing deregulation of 
media consolidation (Ahrens), underscore the critical need for 
independent media sources. If it were just a matter of which cola to 
drink, it would not be of much concern, but media corporations control 
content. In this hyper-mediated age, content -- whether produced by 
artists or journalists -- crucially affects what people think about and 
how they understand the world. Content is not impervious to the 
software, protocols, and chicanery that surround its delivery. It is 
about time that people interested in independent voices stop believing 
that laissez faire capitalism is building a better media 
infrastructure.' Andy Deck

Glyphiti is an online collaborative drawing project resented uniquely at 
HTTP. A large-scale projection forms an evolving graffiti wall and 
visitors to the space are invited to edit and add graphical units or 
'glyphs', which compose the image, in real time. The marks made by each 
person, combine with others and are shown as a time-lapse image stream. 
Hanging fabrics being shown here for the first time provide a tactile 
document of recent years’ of Glyphiti. Unlike most image software 
available on the Internet, Glyphiti functions through most corporate 
firewalls by using standard Web server requests. For the artist, 
penetrating firewalls acts as a metaphor to graffiti making: both 
activities necessitate the appropriation of privatised space for visual 
play.

For more information about the exhibition please visit the link below:
Press Page: http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib9/exhibitions9.htm

Private View: Thursday 9th March 2006 7-9pm
Exhibition: 9th March – 22nd April 2006
Gallery Opening Hours: Friday- Sunday: 12noon-5pm


Screening and presentation of works at Science Museum's Dana Centre 8th 
March 5.30-8-30pm
http://www.danacentre.org.uk/

HTTP [House of Technologically Termed Praxis]
http://www.http.uk.net/

Getting to HTTP
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.htm

contact: info at http.uk.net

Supported by NODE.London
Season of media arts, March 2006.
http://nodel.org/