Ffffound

An exhibition that invites innovative and independent online art initiatives to each come do a 4-hour residency inside the space of a galleryattempting to explore how the distribution, production, analysis, and consumption of culture are rapidly evolving in an online context. In particular the exhibition aims to render the labor of these online pra... ctices transparent, providing real life access to these cultural producers, and overall inspiring public dialogue around their practices. VVORK will invite a male stripper to the gallery space whose task will be to perform a 4-hour slow strip while surfing the internet. Renda Morton and Samuel Sherman, contributors to the website Ffffound, will assemble and go about ffffounding as usual, except in public, and for 4 hours straight. Participants from the exhibition IN REAL LIFE including Art Fag City, Club Internet, Ffffound, The Highlights, Humble Arts Foundation, Platform For Pedagogy, Private Circulation, UbuWeb, Why + Wherefore, and others will collectively discuss the concept of browser as exhibition space. Moderated by Laurel Ptak. Reception to follow. Lance Wakeling will email the fifteenth installment of Private Circulation, featuring a project by artist Martijn Hendriks. There will be coffee and tea as well as a 4-hour slideshow and mix tape session. All members of Club Internet will be invited to sit behind their computers, either at home or in the gallery, as Harm van den Dorpel announces the curatorial criteria for them to create a new work on the spot and participate in an opening partyall within 4 hours. The resulting show will remain online for one month at clubinternet.org . Performed by artist Tyler Coburn. Reception to follow. In a performance that enacts a recent history of data compression and transmission techniques, I Heart Photograph will attempt to assemble the worlds largest archive of photographs transmitted via telefacsimile. The sites viewers will be invited to send one photograph each by fax machine during the hours of 124pm EST on ...Read More