Video | Feral trade cafe: buying a narrative with your coffee.

Video | Feral trade cafe: buying a narrative with your coffee.

by William Shaw from The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre.

"It’s interesting to see how the best media art moved on from the idea of creating networks in the virtual world, to seeing how those networks could affect the real world. Early net communities were full of idealism; how far does that ability to change the way we interact with each other spill over into the physical?"

William Shaw visits North London’s HTTP Gallery, where media artists/gallerists Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett are exhibiting the Feral Trade Cafe, implemeting artist Kate Rich’s Feral Trade network in their gallery space.

The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre is an organisation whose role is to catalyse, publicise, challenge and support artists who are responding to the unprecedented environmental challenges of our era. Using their inspirations, RSA Arts and Ecology aims to create a positive discussion about the causes and the human impact of climate change through commissioning, debate, interdisciplinary discourse and a high-profile website.