Embroidered Digital Commons weekend workshops Starting this Saturday 3rd March
Embroidered Digital Commons workshops with Ele Carpenter and Emilie Giles at the new Furtherfield Gallery & social space in Finsbury Park, London. Every Saturday 3 March - 28 April 2012, 10-1pm (excluding 7 April). All welcome The Embroidered Digital Commons is a collectively stitched version of ‘A Concise Lexicon of/for the Digital Commons’ by the Raqs Media Collective (2003). The project seeks 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. Would you like to stitch the Digital Commons with us? Furtherfield invites all gallery visitors to take part in one or more of our Saturday morning embroidery sessions and come together to stitch the term 'Meme' from the lexicon for the Digital Commons, chosen in relation to the theme Being Social. A cultural ‘meme’ is the way in which an idea spreads through social networks. We are inviting crafters, programmers, artists, makers, and people interested in working collaboratively, or taking part in participatory projects to each stitch a few words of the term meme. The resulting patches will then be turned into a short film depicting the sequence of embroideries. Saturday workshops schedule & more info http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/activities/embroidered-digital-commons-workshops Part of the Being Social exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery. http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/being-social -- 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
