Don’t just Do It Yourself, Do It With Others!

DIWO (Do It With Others) is a distributed campaign for emancipatory, networked art practices instigated by Furtherfield in 2006. Extending the DIY Do-It-Yourself ethos of early net art, punk & Situationism, towards a more collaborative approach, DIWO uses the Internet as an experimental artistic medium and distribution system to explore radical forms of openness and foment critical grass-roots creativity.

‘It’s DIWO if it…

• Enlarges artistic freedoms.
• Uses the metaphors, tools, cultures and processes of digital & physical networks.
• Is led by experimental artistic processes rather than utilitarian or theoretical concerns.
• Disrupts traditional hierarchies and concepts of ownership working with decentralized peer 2 peer practices.
• Involves diverse participants (unwitting and active collaborators), ideas and social ecologies.
• Generates unruly and provocative relationships between symbolic meanings and material effects.
• Co-creates a new, freer, art context for more and more diverse people.’

Extract from the Furtherfield DIWO resource

2006, DIWO – Do It With Others defined on Rosalind – Upstart New Media Art Lexicon

Selected Exhibitions and Festivals

2007, DIWO – Do It With Others E-Mail-Art – open call to the email list Netbehaviour, open curation and exhibition at [HTTP] (now Furtherfield) Gallery.

2009-10 DIWO- Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain – provocation and open call to the email list Netbehaviour, open curation, exhibition, and disassembly event at [HTTP] (now Furtherfield) Gallery

2012, DIWO – Pixelache Festival, Helsinki, Finland

2014 DIWO CLICK Festival, Helsingør, Denmark

Collection of DIWO Essays available at the Furtherfield DIWO resource