Shouldn't that be, "If !you !me;" or "!me if !you;" or "if(!you){!me;}" ?On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:30 PM, info <i...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > If not you not me > Annie Abrahams > > [image: e_image1] > > HTTP Gallery, London > 12 February – 20 March 2010 > Open Thursday - Saturday, 12-5pm > > Private view and performances: Friday, 12 February 2010, 6:30-9pm > Free admission to exhibition and events. > http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/ifnotyounotme/index.shtml > > Annie Abrahams (b. NL 1954 , lives and works FR) is an internationally > regarded pioneer of networked performance art. 'If not you not me' at HTTP > Gallery in London is the first exhibition of her work in the UK. Where > social networking sites make us think of communication as clean and > transparent, Annie Abrahams creates an Internet of feeling – of agitation, > collusion, ardour and apprehension. Working with simple interfaces, > carefully crafted instructions and disruptions in data-flow, Abrahams > sensitises participants and audiences to glitches in communication and > invites them to experience and reflect on different ways of being together > in a machine-mediated world. The exhibition asks how we deal with the > tensions of collaboration and physical separation as we negotiate > relationships through video imagery, computer software and digital networks. > > Abrahams has created three new works for 'If not you not me' at HTTP > Gallery, inviting collaboration from visitors to the gallery and others > around the world. Shared Still Life / Nature Morte Partagée, a telematic > still life for mixed media and LED message board, asks visitors to HTTP > Gallery and Kawenga - territoires numériques in Montpellier, France to > communicate with one another by arranging objects in the still life and > sending messages to one another, with the results visible in a projection in > both galleries. > > The exhibition's private view also includes two new collaborative > performances to be documented and shown in the exhibition. On Collaboration > Graffiti Wall, a collective text and speech performance, draws on > reflections around the nature and problems of online collaboration collected > via a website. > Huis Clos / No Exit - Jam involves four women artists sitting before > webcams in different locations around the world. They will try to organise a > unified sound performance, working with and around the inevitable delays > that result from the international live feed. In addition to the new works, > the exhibition presents documentation of recent networked performances > created and curated by Abrahams. > > If not you not me is co-produced by Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery, > London, and bram.org and Kawenga - territoires numériques, Montpellier, > France. Furtherfield.org supports experimental practices at the > intersections of art, technology and social change. This exhibition was > conceived in connection with Furtherfield.org's Rich Networking project > interrogating the transparency of communication, artistic collaboration and > sociability through digital networks. This is the fourth event in > Furtherfield.org's three-year Media Art Ecologies programme which > foregrounds practices sharing an ecological approach - an interest in the > interrelation of technological and natural processes: beings and things, > individuals and multitudes, matter and patterns. > > > Events > ====== > > Private view and performances: Friday, 12 February 2010, 6:30-9pm, HTTP > Gallery > > 7pm: On Collaboration Graffiti Wall - Collective text and > speech performance at gallery. > To contribute or view texts to be used during the performance visit > http://bram.org/collaboration/index.php. > > 8pm: Shared Still Life / Nature Morte Partagée goes live - telematic still > Life installation at HTTP Gallery and Kawenga - territoires numériques, > Montpellier, France. > > 8:30pm: Huis Clos / No Exit - Jam - Telematic performance projected at HTTP > Gallery, featuring Anteye Greie (Hailuoto, FI), Pascale Gustin (Paris, FR), > Helen Varley Jamieson (Wellington, NZ), and Maja Kalogera (Madrid, ES). > > More Information > > Annie Abrahams - http://aabrahams.wordpress.com > Bram.org - http://bram.org > Kawenga - territoires numériques - http://www.kawenga.org > Furtherfield.org's Media Art Ecologies programme - > http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php > > HTTP Gallery > Unit A2, Arena Design Centre, > 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY. > http://www.http.uk.net > > HTTP Gallery is Furtherfield.org’s dedicated space for media art. > Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery are supported by Arts Council England, > London. > > Contact: > Lauren Wright, HTTP Gallery > i...@furtherfield.org > > > =========end > > If you are not supposed to be on our mailing list please type 'unsubscribe' > in the subject header and press reply - thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit *****************************
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