Harwood (2009)
Harwood's Class Library is presented in the context of the Arnolfini web site in parallel to the exhibition Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie. It is a 'codework' - a combination of program code and written text - that stresses the material conditions of working with code and its poetic form. In computing, a 'Class library' is a collection of subroutines, together used to produce software; or in this case ready to be executed in opposition to bourgeois lifestyle as class action.
Harwood is currently working with Richard Wright and Matsuko Yokokoji on a series of Social Telephony projects. He previously worked with Mongrel 1997-2007, a celebrated artists group specialising in digital media. They had an international reputation for their pioneering arts projects, usually combined with working with marginalised peoples who are on low incomes, the socially excluded and cultural minorities.
