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Swoomptheeng At Work
Exhibition
Vague But Exciting
7 Jun 2019 – 22 Jun 2019
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 16 Minerva Works
- 158 Fazeley Street
- Birmingham
West Midlands - B5 5RS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 4, 5, 6, 37, 37A, 27Y, 41 649, 560, 66Y 57, 57Y, 58, 58A, 60, X66
- New Street, Moor Street
Vivid Projects is pleased to present VAGUE BUT EXCITING, an exhibition of 10 artists and collectives responding to the 30th anniversary of a revolutionary concept: the World Wide Web.
About
In 1989, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee conceptualised the World Wide Web (WWW) whilst working at CERN. His paper ’Information Management: A Proposal’, noted as ‘vague but exciting’ by his manager, initially sought to create a distributed information system for scientists. The proposal to use the internet to link one document directly to another expanded to become a universal and free ‘information space’ to share, communicate and collaborate: the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee’s invention came during a revolutionary wave of successful civil resistance across Europe. Thirty years on, the web’s inventor has called for the fight to create a better web.
The exhibition features artists working in the UK, India, USA and Europe. We are pleased to support five new commissions alongside recent works exploring the origins, structures and consequences of the web using digital media, performance, live streaming and installations.
Artists:
Ambie Drew (UK) I Exist On The Internet (2019)
Antonio Roberts (UK) Proxy Pavilions (2019)
Compiler (UK) Twin Pixel (2019)
David Checkley (UK) Dialled away on the 56k (2019)
Emily Mulenga (UK) Electric Lady Land (2018)
Everest Pipkin (USA), default filename tv (2019)
Kanad Chakrabarti (India/USA) Exorbitant Privilege (2018)
Rosa Francesca* (UK) Personae (2019)
Sandra Araújo (Portugal) U$AAR (2018)
Swoomptheeng (UK) web%20birthday.gif (2019)
