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A Blank Screen - A Set of Rules - Welcome to artworkornetwork The artworkornetwork screen was installed at the entrance to Surface Gallery and was visible during all 5 of the exhibitions which made up
Rules of the Game, 19th April - 19th May.
At the start of the exhibition the screen was 'blank' a space divided up into 8,170 rectangles. As visitors to the gallery take one of the postcards, located next to the screen, and follow the Rules/instructions, they begin to change the image on the screen by 'occupying' the empty rectangles.
They were then asked to invite 5 of their friends to take part, who were asked to invite 5 of their friends.....
These "social connections' begin to reflect those which are part of the series of openings. Artists exhibiting in each of the 5 exhibitions invite their friends to their opening reception - these people might then tell their friends about what they have seen.
There will be an overlap of connections between each of the people who attend the 5 opening receptions. Some people see the artworkornetwork screen each time. Some will ignore it each time.
Below are images from each of the exhibition openings - some of these people have followed the Rules of the Game and started the 'spread' of artworkornetwork.
Exhibition 5 - Double Take The fifth exhibition, Double Take opened on Tuesday May 15th.
Curated by Claire Sterland from the Surface Gallery, in includes work by James Bowen, Alexandria Clark, Tom Duggan, Mirja Koponen, Elizabeth Teasdale, Katherine Webborn and Katharine Wojcik.
The double-take phenomenon is inventively investigated in this exhibition by means of disorientation, impersonation, perfidiousness and manipulation. Ideas are explored using interventionalist approaches, performative text questioning the value of truth, public interruption and obscure treatment of everyday objects. The viewer’s perceptions will be challenged, toyed with and tricked opening up a space for reconsideration of that which is familiar and often overlooked.
Double Take was on show 15th - 19th May 2007
Exhibition 4 - Hybrids The fourth exhibition, Hybrids opened on Tuesday May 8th.
Co-curated by Lauren O’Grady and Liam Aitkin. Including work by Jenna Finch, Amy Fish, Ashley Gallant, Laura Taylor, Naomi Terry and Thomas Wingrove.
Exploring the notion of the chimera or hybrid object formed when different rules or languages collide and diverse practices emerge as the result of unlikely couplings and strange conflations. This odd viewing scenario mutates ideas and styles, casting a new frame to the works brought together.
Hybrids was on show 8th - 12th May 2007
Exhibition 3 - Transition The third exhibition, Transition, opened on Tuesday May 1st.
Co curated by Lucy Stevens and Cat Preston. Including work from Owen Baxter, Tetsuya Fukushima, Leif Gifford, Joon Kwon, Soo Kwon, Sandrea Simmons and Joe Wong.
Selected from the current Visual Arts MA, at Nottingham Trent University, the exhibition examines the notion of play as a form of subversion and social critique through role, transition and creative appropriation. Through sonic washing machines to ‘Sandrea gets a date’ this presents a series of games, some sinister and some fun.
Transition was on show 1st - 5th May 2007
Video documentation, and more images, can be found on the Transition Exhibitions website, www.transitionexhibition.blogspot.com
Exhibition 2 - Burning Holes The second exhibition, Burning Holes, opened on Tuesday April 24th.
Co-curated by Chie Hosaka & Hugh Dichmont and including work by Ben Hargrave, Harriet Kerrs, Lauren O’ Grady, Laura Taylor, Elizabeth Teasdale and Daniel Warren.
The exhibition presents a series of miniature worlds that plunge the viewer into the realm of childhood, changing the rules of the gallery by shrinking the audience perspective to the space and the work on show.
Burning Holes, was on show 24th - 28th April 2007
Exhibition 1 - Spectacles The fist exhibition, Spectacles, opened on Thursday April 19th.
Curated by, and including work by Matthew Cooper, Samuel Mercer and Hannah Phillips.
Different practices collide and negotiate for territory in a collaborative, interactive and performative exhibition that draws on ideas of competition and control. The audience is directed through a one way system, removing the common route of negotiating the Gallery Space.
During the opening event, visitors were able to take postcards, with instructions on how to participate in artworkornetwork, explore the Spectacles environment, using the provided 'viewers', and follow Matthew Cooper's on-site work/perfomance.
Spectacles, was on show 19th - 21st April 2007
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The map above is charting the location of everyone viewing artworkornetwork on the web.
Each red dot represents the location of someone watching this site. The larger the dot, the more visitors from that location.
Before the opening of Rules of the Game, no one knew about artworkornetwork. Knowledge about it has 'digitally spread' directly from the actions of people visiting the Surface Gallery.
What influence do gallery exhibitions have in a networked world?
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