Being Social: Furtherfield's first exhibition in Finsbury Park asks some tough questions about our relationship with social media.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, blogs, Flickr...so many ways to share all our waking moments, the highs and lows, the funny and the tragic. Chances are, you are all using some form of social media, even if only membership of Harringay Online. Does this new technology change us? More and more, people, especially the young, are sharing intimate details and feelings online, where they can be accessed easily by strangers. Being Social, the new exhibition at Furtherfield’s gallery in Finsbury Park explores our relationship with social technology and asks questions about our willingness to share so much of ourselves. All the exhibits are fascinating; these are the ones that particularly provoked a reaction from me... By Liz, on Harringay Online more of the article here http://www.harringayonline.com/profiles/blogs/being-social-furtherfield-s-first-exhibition-in-finsbury-park-ask -- 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
