[spectre] FACT exh. preview - MyWar: Participation in an Age of War

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Preview Invitation


MyWar: Participation in an Age of War
Thursday 11 March 2010 6.00pm - 8.00pm


You are invited to join us for the private launch 
of FACT's MyWar Exhibition, a radically personal 
look at war through the work of 12 international 
artists, MyWar investigates identity, 
participation and the reality of conflict in a 
digitally networked world.

Artists: Phil Collins, Renzo Martens, S.W.A.M.P, 
Thomson & Craighead, Dunne & Raby, Milica Tomic, 
Sarah Vanagt, Oliver Laric, Joseph DeLappe, Harun 
Farocki, knowbotic research.


Open to the public from 12 March to 30 May 2010, Free Entry

From June to August, the exhibition will be 
presented at the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art in 
Oldenburg/Germany.


Blog, participate and share are the battle cries
of a media culture in which the boundaries
between private and public, personal and
political have been eroded by social media.
This exhibition, MyWar - Identity and
Appropriation under War Condition, explores the impact of
web 2.0 on the experience of war.

  The show seeks to pinpoint real and imagined
levels of moral implication in wars that are often
only experienced in a mediated form. It presents
art and media projects with a radically personal
affection to war, whether as reality or fiction,
motivated by serenity, desperation, projection, or hysteria.



Breakfast With The Artists
The Box, 12 March
10:30am-12:30pm
Price: £4.00/£3.00 (Members & concs)

A unique opportunity to haer some of the MyWar 
artists, including Thomson & Craighead and 
Knowbotic Research, talk about their work and the 
themes of the exhibition.


Tickets are available from the FACT Box Office, or by calling 0871 704 2063.
For more information, visit: http://www.fact.co.uk



MyWar is produced by FACT, Liverpool, and Edith 
Russ Site for Media art, Oldenburg, in 
cooperation with ISEA2010 RUHR. Curated by 
Andreas Broeckmann, Heather Corcoran and Sabine 
Himmelsbach. The preview is supported by Barefoot 
Wine.

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