Off Site Project (Pita Arreola-Burns and Elliott Burns) shared a selection of their work, exploring notions related to online circulation and curation of networked images. Using their own homepage or other existing platforms such as Google Maps and downloadable ZIP folders as exhibition spaces, they have developed an alternative curatorial online practice, experimenting with different formats and challenging ideas of exhibiting. For this Screen Walk, Off Site Project took the audience through 5 of the projects they created over the last 5 years, sharing their knowledge and experience with creative and artistic spaces online.
Off Site Project is an online curatorial platform founded by Pita Arreola-Burns and Elliott Burns in 2017. Via homepage exhibitions, downloadable ZIP shows and a residency situated in Google Maps it supports emerging new media artists and addresses pressing techno-sociological topics. Through partnerships, Off Site Project has created exhibitions and projects for anonymous gallery, the Austrian Cultural Forum London, distant.gallery, Electric Artefacts, INDUSTRA, isthisit? and the Summer Works Festival. On the subject of online art ecosystems, they have been invited to speak at Central Saints Martins, Centro de Cultura Digital, the CSNI, the DRHA conference, Goldsmiths, Modern Art Oxford, the RCA, Somerset House Studios, Tate Exchange, the UCL Multimedia Anthropology Lab, the University of Denver and the Whitworth Gallery.
Pita Arreola-Burns is the Curator of Digital Art at the V&A. Through her role in the museum, she has generated projects to produce new knowledge around historical artworks from the digital art collection and links between pioneering and emerging generations of digital artists. Previously, she has held positions with Furtherfield Gallery and had a career in Cultural PR & Communications.
Elliott Burns is a Lecturer in Digital Cultures at Central Saint Martins. Recently he has coordinated an R&D project for the British Council exploring visions for majority world orientated UI online collection design and with I-AM has investigated compound disadvantages in the CCI sector, informing the creation of the WeTransfer Supporting Act Foundation.
