MyWar: Participation in an Age of War

MyWar: Participation in an Age of War

12 March to 30 May 2010
http://www.fact.co.uk

With: Phil Collins, Joseph Delappe, Dunne & Raby, Harun Farocki, Harrell Fletcher, knowbotic research, Oliver Laric, Renzo Martens, SWAMP, Thomson & Craighead, Milica Tomic and Sarah Vanagt.


Blog!, participate! and share! are the battle cries of a media culture in which the boundaries between private and public, between personal and political have been decisively eroded. The exhibition MyWar: Participation in an Age of War pinpoints the moral implications of wars when they are experienced through media. This intervention is delineated by a media landscape where web 2.0 tools are consistently altering the way that audiences and users both consume, and exchange information. The related artistic strategies of personalization go far beyond the Internet and its social networks, extending into quite different forms of appropriation. A radically personal look at war through the work of 12 international artists, MyWar investigates identity, participation and the reality of conflict in a digitally networked world.

Exhibition produced by FACT, Liverpool and Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg in cooperation with ISEA2010 RUHR. Curated by Andreas Broeckmann, Heather Corcoran and Sabine Himmelsbach.

FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) | 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, UK. L1 4DQ | FREE Entry
Gallery 1, 2, Media Lounge and online: http://www.fact.co.uk