[spectre] Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour

[marc]

Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
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An E-Mail-Art project on the NetBehaviour email list culminating in an 
exhibition at the HTTP Gallery in London.

Open Call for contributions from 31st January to 28th February 2007
via NetBehaviour email list: Subscribe here 
http://www.netbehaviour.org/DIWO.htm
Exhibition at HTTP Gallery, London : http://www.http.uk.net
Initiated by Furtherfield.org : http://www.furtherfield.org
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The Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art exhibition aims to highlight the 
already thriving imaginations of those who use social networks and 
digital networks on the Internet as a form of distribution. Just like 
Mail Art, E-Mail-Art bridges the divide between artists and non artists 
to share a freely accessible form of distribution.

The Mail Art projects of the 60s, 70s and 80s demonstrated Fluxus 
artists’ common disregard for the distinctions of ‘high’ and ‘low’ art 
and a disdain for what they saw as the elitist gate-keeping of the 
‘high’ art world. They often took the form of themed, ‘open calls’, in 
which all submissions were exhibited and catalogued. Mail Art has always 
been a useful way to bypass curatorial restrictions for those who wish 
to create active and imaginative exchange on their own terms; this form 
of activity usually flourishes outside of the gallery system.

This E-Mail-Art exhibition, intends to follow the spirit of past Mail 
Art endeavours by asking those submitting their works to open themselves 
to a shared dialogue as part of the process and medium on the 
NetBehaviour mail list, as a playful platform for experimentation 
together at the same time.

The theme of this E-Mail-Art project is Do It With Others (DIWO).

This project suggests that we extend the DIY ethos of some early net art 
and tactical media (said to be motivated by curiosity, activism and 
precision) towards a more collaborative DIWO approach. Peers connect, 
communicate and collaborate, creating controversies, structures and 
culture using both digital networks and shared physical environments.

You are invited to contribute and curate text, images, sound, net 
movies, physical objects, installation plans etc. on the theme of DIWO, 
only via the NetBehaviour email list, towards an open exhibition at the 
HTTP Gallery in London that opens in March '07.

To participate in Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour 
please join the NetBehaviour email list: 
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

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What Will Happen?

All posts to the NetBehaviour email list between 31st January and 1st 
April 2007 will be considered part of the artistic and curatorial 
project. In the spirit of early Mail Art Do It With Others (DIWO): 
E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour is completely open. For the HTTP Gallery 
contributors are be invited to propose works for networks, computers, 
screens, projection, sound, print...

31st January: Contributions to Netbehaviour email list begin.
List members are invited to devise their own ordering and selection 
strategies for the exhibition.

25th February 2 - 5pm GMT: Collaborative Curation Event
Open review of contributions and discussion about the exhibition. The 
event will be webcast from the HTTP gallery. List contributions thus far 
will take physical form as an exhibition. Discussions using IM (chat) 
between Furtherfielders and other active contributors. Documented and 
posted to the list.

1st March: Gallery Opening of Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at 
NetBehaviour

1st March- 1st April: Continue to shape the exhibition via the email 
list by contributing more work, suggesting things be taken down, put 
back up, rearranged, anything!

1st May: All contributions documented in a catalogue available as a pdf 
download.

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The project will also be documented in:-
-- the NetBehaviour email list archive
-- LaurenDIWO's Blog [http://blog.netbehaviour.org/?q=blog/7] maintained 
by Furtherfield newcomer Lauren Wright.

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Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour a project by Ruth 
Catlow, Marc Garrett and Lauren Wright for Furtherfield in collaboration 
with all contributors to the NetBehaviour email list.