[spectre] Embroidered Digital Commons weekend workshops

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross posting...

Embroidered Digital Commons weekend workshops

Starting this Saturday 3rd March

Embroidered Digital Commons workshops with Ele Carpenter and Emilie 
Giles at the new Furtherfield Gallery & social space in Finsbury Park, 
London.

Every Saturday 3 March - 28 April 2012, 10-1pm (excluding 7 April).

All welcome

The Embroidered Digital Commons is a collectively stitched version of ‘A 
Concise Lexicon of/for the Digital Commons’ by the Raqs Media Collective 
(2003). The project seeks to hand-embroider the whole lexicon, term by 
term, through workshops and events as a practical way of close-reading 
and discussing the text and its current meaning.

Would you like to stitch the Digital Commons with us?

Furtherfield invites all gallery visitors to take part in one or more of 
our Saturday morning embroidery sessions and come together to stitch the 
term 'Meme' from the lexicon for the Digital Commons, chosen in relation 
to the theme Being Social. A cultural ‘meme’ is the way in which an idea 
spreads through social networks.

We are inviting crafters, programmers, artists, makers, and people 
interested in working collaboratively, or taking part in participatory 
projects to each stitch a few words of the term meme. The resulting 
patches will then be turned into a short film depicting the sequence of 
embroideries.

Saturday workshops schedule & more info
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/activities/embroidered-digital-commons-workshops

Part of the Being Social exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery.
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/being-social

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Other Info:

Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network
http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997

Also - Furtherfield Gallery&  Social Space:
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery

About Furtherfield:
http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield