The Recipe Exchange, Exeter Spacex, Saturday 14th May to Saturday 9th July
The Recipe Exchange has been developed as an off-site project by artist Helen Pritchard.
Her work as an artist and researcher in the field of digital art and innovation often uses instructions as creative tools for collaboration.
Expanding on the notion of a recipe, The Recipe Exchange draws on the age old tradition of the community cookbook through which detailed information is shared socially.
Together with the artist, residents of Farringdon and Woodbury Salterton in East Devon developed a digital archive of ‘know-how’. This online space serves as a common resource, a catalyst for initiating dialogue locally and an open platform for exchange.
During the project a series of events were co-hosted by the artist and participants in which exchanges of information, ideas and practical advice were explored.
In the gallery, texts, diagrams and videos will be on display that relay some of the loacalised sharing that took place during the off-site project.
Visitors will be encouraged to contribute, read, modify and take home recipes.
Helen Pritchard will be present at the gallery on occasions throughout the exhibition to further engage with audiences, hold events and host discussion groups.
Re-modelling the gallery space as a workshop, the exhibition will incorporate a number of talks, discussions and artist-led participatory events. These will explore subjects such as digital aesthetics, Open Data, and how open digital cultures can lead to positive transformations in our individual lives and societies.
Issues covered during the exhibition will feed into current debate taking place across different sectors about the democratisation of data and the social potential of using open source methods and technology.
Through open source and open data networks, information about our communities and lives is increasingly available. The Recipe Exchange presents the opportunity to debate
‘being open’ as a way of ‘being together’.
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm
Admission free
EVENTS
Led by Graham Dean from Highwire, doctoral training centre. For further information see: www.aghillo.org
Open Data Cities – Talk and discussion
Saturday 18 June, 3 – 4pm, free, booking essential
Julian Tait of FutureEverything discusses the creative and social impact of making national and publicly owned datasets open, with reference to Manchester as Britain’s first Open Data City.
The cities in which we exist are vast repositories of information, endlessly collecting and archiving data. Following the example set by cities such as San Francisco, Vancouver and Edmonton, FutureEverything are championing a global movement calling for the opening up of publicly held datasets. Open data and transparency is being firmly promoted by artists, activists, developers and government alike. Can freely available data enable social change around transparent governance and so help to reconnect people to the democratic process?
FutureEverything creates year round Digital Innovation projects that combine creativity, participation and new technologies to deliver elegant business and research solutions. For further information see: http://futureeverything.org/
Making is Connecting: The Social Meaning of Creativity
Thursday 16 June, 7 – 8pm, free, booking essential
David Gauntlett will explore how everyday creativity, technology and craft can intersect to foster engaged citizenry in the 21 Century. He will be discussing his new book Making is Connecting. “If you want to understand how digital participatory cultures can lead to positive transformations in our individual lives and in our societies, read this book.” (Lyn Schofield Clark, University of Denver.)
Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Communications at the School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster. For further information see: http://www.theory.org.uk/david/
Review Group
Thursday 2 June, 6-8pm, free, booking essential
For this Review Group session Magda Tyzlik-Carver will discuss the project Common Practice and her research into the critical use of online networking tools in the context of ‘the commons’ and knowledge production.Tyzlik-Carver’s curatorial work is concerned with projects that utilise in an innovative and critical way online networking tools, such as wikis, Skype, iChat, and offline public spaces and galleries. For further information please see: http://www.magda.thecommonpractice.org/index.php?/about-this-site/