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isthisit? is a platform for contemporary art, exhibiting over 700 artists since its creation in May 2016, founded by its current director, artist and curator Bob Bicknell-Knight. Online, it operates as a gallery producing monthly exhibitions showcasing emerging to mid-career artists, hosting a roster of guest curators experimenting with the medium of the internet to interrogate a variety of concepts. The website also hosts monthly residencies, where artists are given a web page to create new work that exists on the internet as a piece of net art. Offline, it has held exhibitions nationally and internationally and is the publisher of isthisit?, a book series released on a triannual basis.

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In the past two years offline exhibitions have been held at Annka Kultys Gallery, arebyte Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, State of the Art Berlin, The Muse Gallery, CBS Gallery, Serf, A217 Gallery and The Take Courage Gallery. These are venues that we have either been invited to curate a show for, or have submitted a proposal to. If you're interested in us curating an exhibition at your gallery or project space, email us, we're always looking for physical spaces to collaborate with.

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We have shown and collaborated with a range of individuals, from art students to internationally recognised artists, from Harun Faroki to Jillian Mayer, Molly Soda to Eva and Franco Mattes. The predominantly online nature of the platform allows us to work with artists from around the world.

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Our monthly online shows are curated by a number of guest curators, who are either invited to participate in the platform or have emailed us with a proposal for an online show. We are open to all types of art, although we are predominantly interested in artworks or curatorial proposes with a technological focus, tackling subjects surrounding artificial intelligence to digital avatars.

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The monthly residencies feature artists working within these tech inspired areas, being given a number of blank web pages on the website over the course of a 25 day period to create a new piece of net art, as well as access to the isthisit? Instagram account. This can manifest as a digital diary, a finalised piece of work or anything the individual wishes to create. We encourage artists to email us with a proposal if this interests them.

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The book series has covered a number of broad themes, from contemporary modes of surveillance to the culture surrounding video games. The sixth issue is currently being developed, focused on the fake news, alternative facts and the rise of clickbait.

https://www.isthisitisthisit.com/