Brilliant and congratulations! Please post images etc. from this -
Alan
On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, ruth catlow wrote:
Hello,
Michael, Annie, Liz Sterry, Emile and Maxime, and I are featured in this
exhibition - Stranger Collaborations - as part of London Art Fair this
week.
See info below.
All the best
Ruth
ART PROJECTS SCREENING ROOM
The radical development fostered by net art was the possibility that artists
who had never met to nonetheless be inspired by, use and remix each other?s
work. Hosted in the Art Projects Screening Room, ?Stranger Collaborations? is an
exhibition featuring artworks that in some way wouldn?t have been possible
without the collaborations formed via the internet, showing how strangers
can, sometimes even unknowingly, create an artistic partnership online.
The artworks of Annie Abrahams and Liz Sterry create temporary communities
that are ?safe spaces? in which socially-proscribed behaviours ? such as public
anger or private alcohol consumption ? are accepted and even embraced. In
Abrahams? ?Angry Women? series, people who met via the internet come together to
both vent their frustrations and explore the power of anger, while Sterry?s
?Drinking Alone with the Internet? documents a succession of online performances
in which the artist put out an open call for internet users to join her in
dressing and drinking like a Star Wars character, creating a virtual party
in which everyone is both together and very much alone.
The practices of Michael Szpakowski and the art duo ?milie Brout & Maxime
Marion appropriate the creations of others, individuals whose identities
usually remain anonymous and who probably never expected their works to be
re-presented as constituents of a work of art. Szpakowski?s ?Shit Happens in
Vegas? remixes images from Google Street View to stage a vicarious cruise
through Las Vegas and Brout & Marion?s ?Gold and Glitter? is a shimmering,
largescale projection comprising several hundred golden animated GIFs
sourced from the internet.
As the technology of the internet develops, so do the types of collaboration
that it enables. Ruth Catlow?s Time Is Speeding Up is an online video created
in real time with the participation of visitors to the Screening Room, which
is then authenticated using the anonymous, distributed network of the
blockchain.
Curated by Pryle Behrman, ?Stranger Collaborations? runs throughout London Art
Fair in the Art Projects Screening Room on Gallery Level 1.
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