An account of experimental networked co-curatorial process
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Featuring: furtherfield, Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail Art
Text commissioned by Cont3xt.net for Vague Terrain: The Curediting Issue
In February 2007 Furtherfield initiated the Do It With Others (DIWO) E-mail Art Exhibition that opened at HTTP Gallery, London in March 2007. This short essay accompanies the Networks and Narratives exhibition for the Networks of Design conference at University College Falmouth and the production of the DIWO mailbox; a complete archive of the project for exhibiting, viewing and redistribution within an email inbox. To introduce the project we have gathered together and re-edited various statements and discussions from a number of mailing lists. We also give an account of the experimental networked co-curatorial process and an introductory guide to some of the threads, streams, experiences and debates generated as part of this project. We think about how the relational mess, partiality and complexity of networked behaviour generated by this media art project are distinct from the behaviours promoted by web 2.0 social networking utilities.
We accept that the scale-free networks of the Internet do not in fact operate as an automatic teleport for the masses, to a utopian world of individual empowerment, communitarian values and higher human civilisation - Step 3 from the MAA (Media Artists Anonymous) 12 step programme, DIWO
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