[spectre] 'Being Social' Exhibition News.

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross posting.

'Being Social' Exhibition News.

Video of Being Social, at Furtherfield Gallery.
https://vimeo.com/39408401#

This video was taken at the opening of the Furtherfield Gallery in the 
heart of Finsbury Park, in April 2012. The show featured artists: Annie 
Abrahams, Karen Blissett, Ele Carpenter, Emilie Giles, moddr_, Liz 
Sterry and Thomson and Craighead.

"Since the mid-90s computers have changed our way of being together. 
First the Internet then mobile networks have grown as cultural spaces 
for interaction - wild and banal, bureaucratic and controlling - 
producing new ways of 'being social'. Visitors were invited to view art 
installations, software art, networked performances and get involved 
with creative activities to explore how our lives - personal and 
political - are being shaped by digital technologies."

Link to the exhibition 25 Feb - 28 April 2012.
furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/being-social

The Being Social exhibition Tour in England.

The exhibition will now be touring 6 venues in England in 2014. Leeds (2 
different venues), Blackpool, Sunderland & in the London areas of 
Lewisham, Hammersmith & Fulham.

In partnership with CultureCode (http://www.culturecode.co.uk/). 
Furtherfield will deliver a pilot tour of participatory digital art to 
six shopping centres in the North of England and London with the aim of 
establishing a sustainable touring network offering increased access and 
engagement in high quality art for people in places with limited arts 
provision. This tour has been made possible after receiving an award of 
£65,000 from the Arts Council of England (http://bit.ly/15bN4cP), as 
part of their Strategic touring programme. amounting to the total of 
£902,795 to 8 projects.

These touring exhibitions actively explore beyond where art is typically 
expected to be seen. It is our belief that the art we are engaged with, 
'is' contemporary art. In contrast to the marketed and branding 
mythologies of mainstream art culture - our mission is to step outside 
of these hermetically sealed safety zones.

Furtherfield has already proven there are audiences and new 
collaborators interested in the culture we share, with record numbers of 
visitors reaching to 150 a day at our (since jan 2102) location in 
Finsbury Park, London.

The Internet made it possible for a revolution of critical, networked 
artists to explore their contemporary artistic practice on their own 
terms, and with others. However, we have always believed that the 
physical world (meat space), also plays a necessary role. But, not only 
in galleries. So, we are of course interested to seeing how this pilot 
works out - we view this as a small part of creating new forms of 
creatively based emancipation.

Small steps, once proposed by Mahatma Ghandi can achieve profound and 
enduring change.

Selected Reviews written about Being Social:

Furtherfield: from virtual to physical.

Furtherfield Gallery opens with exhibition questioning online society 
Culture. By Katie Scott
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-03/12/being-social-at-furtherfield-gallery

The People's Serpentine Gallery of North London. By Erica Scourti.
http://www.labkultur.tv/en/blog/furtherfield-virtual-physical

Being [Social] [Media] [Art] (by Mark Amerika)
http://professorvj.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/being-social-media-art-by-mark-amerika.html

The Furtherfield Gallery's debut show in its new Finsbury Park home will 
make you question what you put online. By George Nott.
http://bit.ly/ADVF3A

Wired.co.uk Podcast 67: Cyborg snails, homeless hotspots, BBC downloads. 
By Nate Lanxon.
http://www.wired.co.uk/podcast/episode-67




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intersections of art, technology and social change.
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Furtherfield Gallery – Finsbury Park (London).
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Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
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