Stills invites you to the opening of our Festival Show on 05th August 7-9pm

Low-fi
new works by international artists using networked media

06 August 02 October 2005 FREE
Stills, 23 Cockburn St, Edinburgh, EH1 1BP
Open daily 11am - 6pm

Featuring;
Mauricio Arango (Colombia/US)
Cavan Convery (UK)
James Coupe (UK)
Radarboy (South Africa/Japan)
Kate Rich (UK)
UK Museum of Ordure (UK)

Low-fi commissions exist to support the production of new artworks that use networked technologies. Although these artworks thrive on the internet, in this exhibition the artists use sound, projection and other methods to inhabit the physical space of the gallery. They work in tangible, engaging and sensory ways to convey ideas about our relationships with the media, technology and digital and commercial networks.

Among the works, Kate Rich forges new routes of import while Mauricio Arango's map of the world reveals how international news media is creating new cartography. James Coupe's sound installation dispenses wisdom gathered from metaphysical travels on the net, while the UK Museum of Ordure invite you to add to their gradually degrading sound files. Throughout the exhibition, the works react and grow in response to visitors' input -unroll familiar contemporary technologies as one would ancient scrolls in Cavan Convery's Vertical Scroll and take responsibility for the maintenance of radarboy's Big Five Digital Zoo.

Low-fi is an artist collective focused on net art, mediation and distribution systems (http://www.low-fi.org.uk)

STILLS is one of Scotland’s leading centres for research, production and exhibition of contemporary art inspired by existing and emerging technologies (http://www.stills.org)

More info...
http://www.stills.org/exh_current.html