<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi,<DIV>sorry for backtracking to an old thread but thought i would let you know about an exhibition i am opening tonight in Germany which is a kind of playful poke at the web 2.0 hype....</DIV><DIV>i particularly like tom sherman's little known essay on 'abundance and redundance' which talks about unpopular art and amateurism in today's context of social softwares... i'll have a read of these articles too, and blog about them on the exhibition's online catalogue...</DIV><DIV>sarah</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>====</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We would like to invite you and your friends to visit the upcoming exhibition at the Edith Russ Site for Media Art in</DIV><DIV>Oldenburg.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>MY OWN PRIVATE REALITY</DIV><DIV>Growing up online in the 90s and 00s</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>12 May - 1 July 2007</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://myownprivatereality.wordpress.com">http://myownprivatereality.wordpress.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In the last decade, the Internet has become one of the most important</DIV><DIV>tools of the information society and has changed our culture. With the</DIV><DIV>ever-increasing democratisation of the media, new social communi*ties</DIV><DIV>based in the global network have emerged, which operate with their own</DIV><DIV>rules. These new *Social softwares* are the communica*tion tools by</DIV><DIV>which interaction and collaboration online takes place, yet their use is</DIV><DIV>regulated more through social conventions than genuine software</DIV><DIV>characteristics.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Participatory platforms, such as MySpace, YouTube, or Second Life, have</DIV><DIV>become an important part of the online culture. In order to upload</DIV><DIV>content on these websites users today do not need specialist technical</DIV><DIV>knowledge and can more easily play a crucial role in the creation of</DIV><DIV>networks. The so called *web 2.0* offers a space for private</DIV><DIV>opinions to be globally shared. New forms of communication arise from</DIV><DIV>this development - individual, personal styles, which create a new form</DIV><DIV>of authenticity.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The exhibition MY OWN PRIVATE REALITY demonstrates how artists are</DIV><DIV>using the web to discuss and engage with social software and the effects</DIV><DIV>it has in the offline/real world. The net-based works included in the</DIV><DIV>exhibition deal with online developments of the last ten years and</DIV><DIV>discuss the new distinctions between private and public, the identity</DIV><DIV>structuring potential of the Internet and the possibility that today</DIV><DIV>one*s own private thoughts are so easily made public. The featured</DIV><DIV>works are not all web-based, but they all reflect the phenomenon of</DIV><DIV>social communities on the Internet and its widely discussed</DIV><DIV>democratisation, which seems to go hand in hand with these new uses. MY</DIV><DIV>OWN PRIVATE REALITY is an interface for the manifold possibilities of</DIV><DIV>networked thinking and acting.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The works in the exhibition have been selected by Sabine Himmelsbach</DIV><DIV>and Sarah Cook, whose involvement as co-curator has been supported by</DIV><DIV>her work with the online resource for curators of new media, CRUMB</DIV><DIV>(<A href="http://www.crumbweb.org">www.crumbweb.org</A>).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Artists in the exhibition:</DIV><DIV>Cory Arcangel, Jonah Brucker-Cohen / Mike Bennett, Nick Crowe, Exonemo,</DIV><DIV>Ute Hörner / Mathias Antlfinger, Humanbeans, Miranda July / Harrell</DIV><DIV>Fletcher, Olia Lialina / Dragan Espenschied, Les Liens Invisibles,</DIV><DIV>Jillian Mcdonald, Marisa Olson, Tanja Ostojic, Annina Rüst, Thomson &</DIV><DIV>Craighead, ubermorgen.com / Paolo Cirio / Alessandro Ludovico, Angie</DIV><DIV>Waller</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The exhibition is sponsored by Land Niedersachsen and EWE</DIV><DIV>Stiftung.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 9 May 2007, at 05:20, R Labossiere wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">just came across this, in the context of art, a kind of inverse situation...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">an essay by Shumon Basar entitled The Professional Amateur</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">in the book Did Someone Say Participate?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><A href="http://www.didsomeonesayparticipate.com/contents.html">http://www.didsomeonesayparticipate.com/contents.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I'll have to check out Tous Sublimes, referred to by Michel in the Agency thread: can be purchased here, in French only</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><A href="http://www.decitre.fr/livres/fiche.aspx?code-produit=9782082102858">http://www.decitre.fr/livres/fiche.aspx?code-produit=9782082102858</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">the topic is changing labour markets towards more "casual" work patterns</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">a game based on this phenomenon: </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><A href="http://www.siswo.uva.nl/tlm/root_files/Transitions%20%20A%20General%20Presentation%20of%20key%20concept-3.pdf">http://www.siswo.uva.nl/tlm/root_files/Transitions%20%20A%20General%20Presentation%20of%20key%20concept-3.pdf</A></FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>