In Real Life / Organized by Laurel Ptak

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IN REAL LIFE
organized by Laurel Ptak

March 7– March 28, 2009

Capricious Space is pleased to announce the opening of IN REAL LIFE, a unique exhibition
that invites the people behind 14 influential and innovative online art initiatives to each come do a 4-hour residency inside a gallery space. Exploring how the distribution, production, analysis, and consumption of culture are rapidly evolving in an online context, the exhibition aims to render the labor of these web practices transparent, providing “real life” access to these cultural producers, and overall inspiring public dialogue around their practices.

Each website has created a special, one-time-only project exclusively for the exhibition and the viewing public is greatly encouraged to stop by, strike up conversation, and participate in the process. Some highlights include: VVORK’s slow 4-hour strip tease while surfing the internet; I Heart Photograph’s attempt to assemble the world’s largest archive of photographs transmitted via fax; UbuWeb’s functional tutorial of D.I.Y. digitization strategies for would-be-bootleggers; Art Fag City’s quest to determine which artist has the largest number of public sculptures visible on Google Maps, plus much more. Please visit letsmeetinreallife.com for full details.

Participating websites include the irreverent art criticism blog Art Fag City; publishers of the cult-classic “Wikipedia Reader” ASDF; new media exhibition space Club Internet; everyone’s favorite image bookmarking site Ffffound; online arts journal authored by artists The Highlights; home to emerging fine-art photography Humble Arts Foundation cutting-edge contemporary photography blog I Heart Photograph; dissident internet surfer Loshadka; roving curatorial experiment Netmares/Netdreams; devotees of the public lecture as form Platform For Pedagogy; art-related curiosities as PDF Private Circulation; online archive of all things avant-garde UbuWeb; infamous daily selection of art VVORK; and the experimental curatorial platform Why + Wherefore.

The exhibition is accompanied by a free exhibition catalogue and the website  letsmeetinreallife.com. Special events to include a “museum style docent tour of art on the internet” performed by artist Tyler Coburn; roundtable discussion: Browser As Exhibition Space; and an opening and closing reception. IN REAL LIFE is organized by Laurel Ptak.

artfagcity.com
asdfmakes.com
clubinternet.org
ffffound.com
thehighlights.org
humbleartsfoundation.org
iheartphotograph.com
loshadka.org
netmaresnetdreams.net
platformed.org
privatecirculation.com
ubuweb.com
vvork.com
whyandwherefore.com

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