Being Social :: February 25 - April 28, 2012 :: Opening: February 25; 1:00 - 4:00 pm :: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Being Social is the opening exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park in North London. Furtherfield has established an international reputation as London’s first gallery for networked media art since 2004. With this exciting move to a more public space Furtherfield invites artists and techies — amateurs, professionals, celebrated stars and private enthusiasts — to engage with local and global, everyday and epic themes in a process of imaginative exchange.

This exhibition brings together artworks by emerging and internationally acclaimed artists: Annie Abrahams, Karen Blissett, Ele Carpenter, Emilie Giles, moddr_ , Liz Sterry and Thomson and Craighead.

Since the mid-90s computers have changed our way of being together. First the Internet then mobile networks have grown as cultural spaces for interaction — wild and banal, bureaucratic and controlling — producing new ways of ‘being social’. Visitors are invited to view art installations, software art, networked performances and to get involved with creative activities to explore how our lives — personal and political — are being shaped by digital technologies.

Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997