DAAMN

Submitted by pete on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 01:11.

DAAMN are taking the opportunity of having space in the real world to show an exhibition of artists who use new media tools.

Exhibiting artists include Ele Carpenter, Topsy Grewlike, Clare Ruddock and Conor Lawless.

Topsy Grewlike will be showing the work of his friends, rather than his own work. For the past year, this bastion of the local artistic scene has been exploring web 2.0’s greatest hit, the online community known as Flickr. He has created a project that allows individual users to reflect on their method of communication with their computers. Each photo in their collaborative work features a small arrow motif, a handmade sculpture which has now reached all over the world. Drop in on Sunday to see some of the photographers

Open Source Embroidery is a socially engaged new media art project, drawing parallels between the craft environment of knitting, embroidering, and weaving, and the Open Source Software movement.

As part of the Open Source Embroidery project, Clare Ruddock will be inviting visitors to the exhibition to contribute to the HTML Patchwork project. A collaborative project between members of DAAMN in Newcastle and Access Space in Sheffield. For more information visit Ele Carpenter’s blog, which has a selection of relevant links.

Lastly, we are very proud to include the work of Conor Lawless, a mathematician by trade, currently working at the University of Newcastle on the properties of genetic code. Thankfully, Conor relaxes by creating a stream of lens-based works. In the short showreel of films he has created recently, Conor has applied his mathematical know-how to video files, manipulating them in several different ways.