So thrilled to be part of this incredible project, thank you Marc!
> On 1. Oct 2019, at 10:50, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > <http://www.neme.org/blog/children-of-prometheus-press> > > ------------------------------------------------------------///\\\ > > Marc Garrett > > Co-Founder, Co-Director, main editor for Furtherfield. Art, technology & > social change, since 1996 http://www.furtherfield.org > <http://www.furtherfield.org/> > > Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park. Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ > http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery <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 > <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 > <http://bit.do/eQgg3> > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com/> Secure Email. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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