[NetBehaviour] Exhibition: Networking the Unseen @Furtherfield 18 June - 14 August 2016

[dave miller]

seems to be a problem with the link?
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/programmes/networking-unseen

On 5 May 2016 at 10:55, furtherfield <furtherfielder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Networking the Unseen
>
> Private view: Friday 17 June 2016, 6-9pm (register)
> From 18 June - 14 August 2016
> Open 11am-5pm, Saturday-Sunday or by appointment
> http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/programmes/networking-unseen
>
> Five culturally and geographically disparate Australian artists – Gretta
> Louw, Jenny Fraser, Lily Hibberd, Brook Andrew, and Curtis Taylor – and
> artists, including Neil Jupurrurla Cook, Isaiah Jungarrayi Lewis, and
> Sharon Nampijinpa Anderson from the Warnayaka Art Centre in Central
> Australia, present work situated at the intersection between avant garde
> digital, media, and installation art, the sociological study of digital and
> networked culture, and activism.
>
> Networking the Unseen is the first exhibition of its kind to focus on the
> intersection of indigenous cultures and zeitgeist digital practices in
> contemporary art. While digital networks manifest physically as tonnes of
> cabling, and electrical or electronic devices, the social and cultural
> impacts of the networks remain somehow invisible, eroding clearly felt
> boundaries of geography, place, culture and language.
>
> Together with artist and curator Gretta Louw, Furtherfield presents an
> exhibition and event series that brings together concepts and experiences
> of remoteness and marginalised cultures, with art-making in contemporary
> society. It proposes a radical rethinking of widely accepted stereotypes
> concerning the impact of networks on contemporary global cultures, digital
> art, the avant garde, and indigenous art-making. It tackles subjects
> ranging from digital colonialism and cultural marginalisation (or,
> conversely, diversity/empowerment) within an increasingly connected, online
> world to universal concerns around cultural change as a result of
> technological migration. The exhibition extends our focus to the
> extremities of the global digital network. It subtly proposes ways to claim
> power back from centralising forces of control to use these tools for
> positive change; for intercultural exchange and empowerment for
> marginalised communities.
>
> Tags: activism art, exhibition, digital print, installation,
> collaboration, digital art, digital colonialism, digitalisation,
> multi-disciplinary networks, social and cultural geography…
>
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