Controlling_Connectivity

Controlling_Connectivity is work by interdisciplinary digital artist, writer, and curator Gretta Louw. www.grettalouw.com

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Download Mirawarri for iPhone or iPad now! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mirawarri/id1240220547?mt=8

Android coming soon.

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Mirawarri is a brand new photo editor, digital image-maker, and selfie app from Warnayaka Aboriginal Art Centre and media artists Gretta Louw and Owen Mundy. The app lets you decorate your photos with stunning, original artwork from the Warlpiri indigenous artists from Lajamanu - 900 km south of Darwin at the edge of the Tanami Desert in central Australia. You can interact live with the fun photo frames, add unique digital stickers to your favourite photos, use the beautiful hand-painted designs to create your own abstract images, and even make illustrations or narrative images with the app.

Download Mirawarri and share your images under the hashtag #Mirawarri on social media to possibly have your photo included in upcoming museum exhibitions of the project. Help us spread the word about this absolutely unique, beautiful app from a remote indigenous community in Australia, and help keep our digital culture diverse, vital, and inspiring!

The #Mirawarri app is now available for download from the App Store - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mirawarri/id1240220547 - (iPhones) and coming soon to Android.

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‘Future Present Desert’, a recent collaboration with the Warnayaka Art Centre - a Warlpiri, Aboriginal owned and operated cultural corporation in the remote indigenous community of Lajamanu. The video is currently on show as an installation with wall paintings by Isaiah Jungarrayi Lewis and myself at LABoral museum for contemporary art and industrial design in Gijón, Spain, in the exhibition ‘Monster of the Machine’, curated by Marc Garrett.

Future Present Desert was produced with the support of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial and includes digital effects by Josua Rappl.

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Colonise the Cloud, Gretta Louw, animated GIF, 2016. A self-portrait GIF I made for NARGIFSUS, an exhibition of GIFs curated by Carla Gannis and Tina Sauerländer that was shown IRL at Transfer Gallery in New York and online at NewHive, in 2016.

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[YAMA, Gretta Louw and Warnayaka Art Centre, installation view at Furtherfield Gallery, London, 2016, photo by Michael Erglis.]

My exhibition, Networking the Unseen, at Furtherfield has now closed. Here’s a press round-up from the show’s run in London: http://www.metamute.org/community/your-posts/another-future-aboriginal-digital-art http://hyperallergic.com/316272/digital-colonialism-and-the-marginalization-of-australias-indigenous-peoples/ http://ruthcatlow.net/?p=509 http://www.aqnb.com/2016/08/17/networking-the-unseen-furtherfield-gallery-reviewed/ And everyone should read Warlpiri scholar Steve Jampijinpa Patrick’s piece that accompanies the YAMA installation: http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/home-within-yama-and-ngurra-kurlu

I am currently working on an expanded version of this exhibition project, which will be shown at Villa Merkel [http://www.villa-merkel.de/] late next year as part of the Bahnwärte Stipendium for artist/curators. It will include the current schedule of artists, including new commissioned works for the exhibition, and many new artists including Katie West [https://katiewularni.com/], Nine Yamamoto-Masson [http://nineyamamotomasson.tumblr.com/], and many more TBA.

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Research for upcoming workshop and talk at @furtherfield Commons in London in the first week of August. Screenshots of my recent ‘frequently used’ #emojis. #Data Selfie.

Your Emojis Are Not Innocent: Alterity and Selfies.

Gretta Louw, 4 August 2016, Furtherfield Commons, London.

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Video documentary of Networking the Unseen, the exhibition I curated with Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett at Furtherfield in London.

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Gorgeous photos from our exhibition, Networking the Unseen, at Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park, London. This is the first exhibition of a long term curatorial and collaborative project that I initiated with Warnayaka Art Centre back in 2011. The hard work was worth it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/http_gallery/sets/72157670054696915

Artists: Gretta Louw, Neil Jupurrurla Cooke, Isaiah Jungarrayi Lewis, Sharon Nampijinpa Anderson, Curtis Taylor, Lily Hibberd, Brook Andrew, Jenny Fraser, and Warnayaka Art Centre.

Curated by: Gretta Louw with Furtherfield (Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett)

Thanks: Alessandra Scapin, Rich White, Olivia Brook-Alfa, Furtherfield, Australia Council, Louisa Erglis, Michael Erglis, Peter Kupser, Lajamanu Community and Elders, Warnayaka Board of Directors.

Photos by: Pau Ros

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Discarded draft for a little something I’m working on...

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The Cloud Myth (installation view), 2016, Gretta Louw, LAB 3.0 Unpainted digital art fair, curated by Annette Doms and Nate Hitchcock, Munich, Germany.

Short TV clip about the installation (German): http://www.br.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/nachrichten/medien-kunstmesse-unpainted-muenchen-100.html

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Low-res draft for a new animation I’m working on called ‘Colonise the Cloud’, will be showing this week at Unpainted LAB 3.0 digital art fair in Munich. http://www.unpainted.net/en/munich-2/

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20 commissioned GIF Portraits by multimedia artist Gretta Louw.

New #GIFPortrait online - this one was challenging; Kate Anthony, from Online Therapy Institute (http://onlinetherapyinstitute.com/) wanted a portrait to commemorate a sailing trip she was planning with her husband, but ended up having to cut the trip very short due to illness. Happy to have been able to give Kate something positive and beautiful after that difficult experience.

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December 9, 2015, 7:00 pm @ 28.301002, 6.853764

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Wow, this one is pretty gob-smacking. Read my review of Guido Segni’s net-based work ‘A quiet desert failure’ here: http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/guido-segni%E2%80%99s-quiet-desert-failure

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Hilarious outtakes GIF made with the wonderful german actress, Georgia Stahl, during our photoshoot for the GIF Portrait she commissioned from me. So much fun! She has such amazing control of her face!

http://www.gifportrait.net/

http://www.georgiastahl.de/

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Preach.

Be part of my peer-to-peer cloud network and receive a small part of my digital history, your very own digital gift. Disbursing the Cloud: http://gifportrait.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b82a2f50c75bf1b9f330f8beb&id=5c799fbb3f

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Pioneering net artist and dear friend, Igor Štromajer (aka http://intima.org/), made this great piece out of iChat data from my decomissioned laptop that I sent him as part of ‘Disbursing the Cloud’.

More info: http://tinyurl.com/o37h62e

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More spectacular remixes of data sent via ‘Disbursing the Cloud’ - in which I am dismantling an old laptop by dispersing my entire data history piece by piece to participants in the project. Send me email me at thecloud(at)grettalouw.com to receive your own piece of digital detritus. More info: http://tinyurl.com/o37h62e

These works are remixes of a photoshop file called ‘nesting’ that I sent artist Alan Sondheim. Alan also made a beautiful virtual reality video incorporating the data, which can be viewed on his website here: http://www.alansondheim.org/exportskin.mp4