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Join us for Being Social, our opening exhibition of contemporary artworks that explore how our lives - personal and political - are being shaped by digital technologies.

Furtherfield has established an international reputation as London's first gallery for networked media art since 2004. With this exciting move to a more public space we invite the public, artists and techies - amateurs, professionals, celebrated stars and private enthusiasts - to engage with local and global, everyday and epic themes in a process of imaginative collaboration and exchange.

Saturday 25 February 2012

Auto-Destructive Art [1959], visit Gustav Metzgers site and WIKIPEDIA.

Auto-destructive art is primarily a form of public art for industrial societies.

Self-destructive painting, sculpture and construction is a total unity of idea, site, form, color, method, and timing of the dis-integrative process.

Auto-destructive art can be created with natural forces, traditional art techniques and technological techniques.

This is the best sign, a snake of cars is eating the way through the jungle. The cars full of innocent tourist, ready to do all and everything to see the Jarawa tribes people. This is Disney world, they pay for, the only thing which can stop this is some wild cat attacks.
A good resource about: George Weber's Lonely Island. The Negrito People and the Out-of-Africa Story of the human race.

occupy london with cartoons

At the the Occupy LSX site at St Pauls there are many drawings and paintings sellotaped to the walls; the area has become a public Art gallery. Works full of slogans and messages, full of passion. It's obvious that people all over the UK want to make art work to share with the Occupy London movement, to expressing support and solidarity; but they can't physically be there.