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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
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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
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