(sent via Ele Carpenter) Hi Everyone,
You are welcome to come along to the opening of Furtherfield's new space in Finsbury Park on Saturday afternoon where I will be exhibiting 'Meme' as part of the Embroidered Digital Commons. Furtherfield Gallery McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London. Being Social: Annie Abrahams, Karen Blissett, Ele Carpenter, Emilie Giles, moddr_ , Liz Sterry, Thomson and Craighead. Opening: Saturday 25th February, 1-4pm Exhibition continues until 28 April 2012. Here's some info about my work in the show: Embroidered Digital Commons: Meme The Embroidered Digital Commons is a collectively stitched version of the Raqs Media Collective’s text ‘A Concise lexicon of / for the Digital Commons’ 2003, facilitated by Ele Carpenter. The term 'meme' will be stitched as part of Furtherfield's exhibition 'Being Social' opening in their new gallery in the middle of Finsbury Park, London. The Saturday morning workshops are open to all and will be facilitated by Emilie Giles and Ele Carpenter with special guests. See http://www.eleweekend.blogspot.com for more details. A cultural ‘meme’ is the way in which an idea spreads; so if you are a crafter, computer programmer, artist, blogger, maker, or just interested in cultural memes and social networks then you are invited to come along and find out more about the project. The embroidery of 'meme' will include a series of grey on black embroideries in support of the protest against the highly restrictive SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy laws. So if you feel strongly about digital rights and electronic freedoms black fabric and grey thread will be provided. ------------- Further Info on the Embroidered Digital Commons: The full lexicon of the digital commons is an A-Z of the interrelationship between social, digital and material space. It weaves together an evolving language of the commons that is both poetic and informative. The terms of the lexicon are: Access, Bandwidth, Code, Data, Ensemble, Fractal, Gift, Heterogeneous, Iteration, Kernal, Liminal, Meme, Nodes, Orbit, Portability, Quotidian, Rescension, Site, Tools, Ubiquity, Vector, Web, Xenophilly, Yarn, and Zone. The ‘Embroidered Digital Commons’ is an ambitious project to hand-embroider the whole lexicon, term by term, through workshops and events as a practical way of close-reading and discussing the text and its current meaning. Each term is chosen in relation to the specific context of its production through group workshops, conferences and events. Each term is then stitched by 20-40 people and is used as the basis for a short film depicting the sequence of embroideries. The embroidery is a slow reproduction of ‘A Concise Lexicon of / for the Digital Commons’ text, transmitting the meme of the lexicon to hundreds of people stitching across the globe. In this way the work is a cultural meme, transmitting ideas through thinking and making as part of a distributed participatory project. The meme of the digital commons travels fast through networks that investigate the language of shared production and distribution, for example crafters and open source programmers are committed embroiderers of the digital commons. As a particularly virulent meme, the idea of the digital commons has spread across all areas of cultural production including music, design and art. Reference: Raqs Media Collective, 2003, A Concise Lexicon of/for the Digital Commons. In: Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies, ed. Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi, Ravi Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram + Geert Lovink, Sarai-CSDS Delhi/WAAG Amsterdam, 2003. p365. Available at: http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/texts4.html http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk/EDC.htm http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/being-social -- Ele Carpenter Curator Lecturer, MFA Curating, Dept of Art, Goldsmiths College, Uni of London. m: +44 (0)7989 502 191 www.elecarpenter.org.uk -- Other Info: Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997 Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space: http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery About Furtherfield: http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
