[spectre] Video | Feral trade cafe: buying a narrative with your coffee.

[marc garrett]

Video | Feral trade cafe: buying a narrative with your coffee.

by William Shaw from The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre.
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/07/27/feral_trade/

"It’s interesting to see how the best media art moved on from the idea
of creating networks in the virtual world, to seeing how those networks
could affect the real world. Early net communities were full of
idealism; how far does that ability to change the way we interact with
each other spill over into the physical?"

William Shaw visits North London’s HTTP Gallery, where media
artists/gallerists Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett are exhibiting the Feral
Trade Cafe, implemeting artist Kate Rich’s Feral Trade network in their
gallery space.

The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre is an organisation whose role is to
catalyse, publicise, challenge and support artists who are responding to
the unprecedented environmental challenges of our era. Using their
inspirations, RSA Arts and Ecology aims to create a positive discussion
about the causes and the human impact of climate change through
commissioning, debate, interdisciplinary discourse and a high-profile
website.

Details about the exhibition:
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml