HTTP [House of Technologically Termed Praxis] is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. Working with artists from around the world HTTP provides a public venue for experimental approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual space, and for online projects that explore participative and collaborative art practice. Artists' projects on DVD, real-time, webcast, software art and live art also play a role in the curatorial work of HTTP.
Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices in art, technology and social change. Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery are supported by Arts Council England, London.
Statement:
Net art is at the forefront of a kind of global cultural evolution, with new communities (of artists and audiences) who have a less reliance on existing, traditional art world structures, developing independent grass-roots expression and representation. The potential of current network technology for promoting distributed creativity raises a whole series of issues by giving rise to a more permeable boundary between artists and audiences. It radically changes the life of the artwork in the world, and the ways in which people come across it.Distributed creativity means that artists and audiences alike are able to create and publish audiovisual content on their own terms with equitable access and control over networked resources, maximizing the users control over the language, style and form of expression. This gives rise to innovation that springs from open, playful collaboration between diverse national and specialist cultures and a cross fertilisation of critical thought and new ideas. A technologically facilitated extension of the Beuysian idea.
