REFF - Remix The World! Reinvent Reality! Art is Open Source :: until March 2011 :: Furtherfield Gallery (formerly HTTP), Unit A2, Arena Business Centre, 71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY.

In a world where individuals and communities are connected via real-time technologies in a state of mutual hyper-presence, what does it mean that our interactions can be traced and viewed by people unknown to us? Can we claim these effects to consciously produce new realities and create new adventures beyond given structures and stories? Can we remix our realities?

REFF - Remix The World! Reinvent Reality! offers tools and strategies to explore different ways of ‘being’ with others physically and virtually to intervene in the world. Let’s see what we can do…” Furtherfield.

Italian artist duo Art is Open Source (AOS) and Fake Press will present an ongoing exhibition of their latest project, REFF (RomaEuropaFakeFactory). REFF presents itself as a fake institution, designing crafted applications and invasive practices; a book; an urban performance; and an augmented reality drug that creates alternative, stratified, mashed-ups, remixed worlds. In the AOS scenario the drug reinvents reality and the artists are “pushers”, distributing an illegal substance around the world.

REFF map - a global narrative describing the life of REFF all over the world: 60 authors, artists, designers, architects, hackers, journalists, and activists; hundreds of actions; and a live realtime stream of information collectively produced by our worldwide community of re-inventors of reality. The map will be constantly available online and will be featured in an advanced version at the Opening. The process is open: please contact us if you feel that your actions are reinventing reality and, thus, should be added to the visualization.

Alongside the augmented world of REFF, the exhibition will showcase works by Garrett Lynch, Rebar Group and Eleonora Oreggia aka XNAME, all featured in the REFF publication. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of live performances, events and urban interventions across London and around the world.