Do It With Others (DIWO) Exhibition at HTTP Gallery

Private View: Thur 1st March, 7 & 9 PM
Exhibition: 2nd March - 1st April
Friday - Sunday: 12noon - 5pm
email: info@http.uk.net
tel: +44 (0) 20 8802 2827

An E-Mail-Art project on the NetBehaviour email list culminating in an
exhibition at the HTTP Gallery in London.

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 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.