Children of Prometheus | Hosted by NeMe Gallery, Cyprus. 11 Oct – 20 Dec 2019.
NeMe and curator Marc Garrett, cofounder and co-Director of Furtherfield have
the pleasure to invite you to Children of Prometheus. The exhibition, opening
on Friday, 11 October at 7:30pm at the NeMe Arts Centre, #Limassol,
investigates the landscape of a rapidly transforming world and how some of
these shifts inform and affect our immediate environment.
The complex nature of the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus has inspired
philosophers, authors and artists throughout many centuries and will continue
to do so because of the powerful contradictions which it embodies which
reflects the ongoing dualities present in both the human mind and physical
existence. Acknowledging that the Promethean spirit lives on in the ambitions
of science and technology, which in many cases defies the limits imposed upon
humanity by nature, the post-modern Prometheus belongs to an organised world
focused on the technology of the internet. This rapidly expanding domain, with
its presumed ethos of democracy belies the technologies of data mining, fake
data, targeted personalised advertising, etc used by global conglomerates to
engineer/manipulate people’s perception via media into a state of hyper-real
urgency by dislocating the individual from physical realities.
Participating artists: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Anna Dumitriu, Carla Gannis, Alan
Sondheim, Gretta Louw, Joana Moll, Kypros Kyprianou, AOS (Salvatore Iaconesi &
Oriana Persico), Mary Flanagan, Alexia Achilleos, with with Egor Chemokhonenko,
Guido Segni, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Marinos Koutsomichalis.
More information can be found on
http://www.neme.org/blog/children-of-prometheus-press
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Marc Garrett
Co-Founder, Co-Director, main editor for Furtherfield. Art, technology & social
change, since 1996 http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park. Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
Just finished PhD at Birkbeck University, London. Title -- 'Furthefield: Twenty
years of Art, Technology & Social Change.
Recent publications:
Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain. Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan
Jones, & Sam Skinner. Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK
State Machines: Reflections & Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship,
Finance, & Art. Edited by Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich.
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2019 http://bit.do/eQgg3
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