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i'm in this, along with a few others, it's been organised by Jan Vantomme. It's getting a surprising amount of press (WSJ, New Scientist, Wired etc) which is good. Having just been to DigitalRevolution this week, I can say we need to be making more noise than ever - it's a show full of 'interactive entertainment' masquerading as art. Some of it's good, but there's a hell of a lot that feels like 'tech demos' On 1 Aug 2014, at 09:48, marc garrett wrote: > Artists virtually gatecrash Google's DevArt Barbican exhibit > > By Katie Collins. > > A collective of coders and artists who go by the name Hack the Artworld have > gatecrashed the Google-sponsored DevArt exhibition currently taking place at > the Barbican in London. > > The artists have uploaded their own digital artworks to a website and have > placed location markers within the DevArt exhibition itself -- digitally > fencing it off, so that only visitors to the Barbican can access the artworks > on their smartphones or tablets. > > The DevArt exhibition is meant to be an exploration of art that has been made > with code, but it has not chimed well with everyone involved in the digital > arts community, many of whom have been displeased by various elements of > Google's efforts. On the Hack the Artworld website the artists have published > an open letter addressed to Larry Page and Sergey Brin laying out their > objections in full. > > Wired - http://bit.ly/1mDOZw1 > > > -- > ---> > > A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - > proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;) > > Other reviews,articles,interviews > http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php > > Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, > discussing and learning about experimental practices at the > intersections of art, technology and social change. > http://www.furtherfield.org > > Furtherfield Gallery – Finsbury Park (London). > http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery > > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT2166AAoJEBecN5rmsGZ0prUIAMLytr0Br5TV4TPZlZ3f4yiP MmWDLLhi5GSq1dl6HUhuOTkKR/OAtFtER1hH2aAhzPfNnmx7V4cQZiilKRjAEMPL 3yJgDfCD1xon7rjMkS2DurzkX8N6X/MjMqgjAIPwtX4vJM9UtLfsWyPceXwRaURS ZUGovPAV+Vm08PQgA1R8sREuG5sg3UfzYrRyEzpHrV0KU3sFAcP0QhcK3yigP273 0cnvX/FgIZCSu9eqSacwNcfYaIo8Zi7XCuBg8Od3l/0feDxhxcgODFNxqWPmFuyJ fGQtWSzrKAHk33ONXBUlUg10imJOK3p2upz3U64u8og1QqMjn4OhD/ZGVMVJxFM= =9poY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
