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The exhibition Full/Operational/Toolbox intends to investigate a range of contemporary artistic practices that negotiate the ways of management and distribution of information in the context of the creative process.

Deriving inspiration from the extensive experimental wave, the information society, the DIY and hacking culture of the mid-20th century, we acknowledge that historical continuity runs through contemporary ideas and actions. Examples, such as the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system Memex, the periodical publication Whole Earth Catalog, the instructional manuals for nomadic constructions related to the ideas of "Comprehensive Design", the demonstration The Mother of all Demos and the pursuit for the personal computer technology, contributed to the shaping and promotion of the "personal empowerment tools" in different aspects of culture.

Half a century later, scientific, technological and social developments, such as the Internet, transformed the vision of empowerment through access to knowledge, in a common place that realized the demand of information distribution at an everyday level.

Collecting works that represent different approaches and intentions, Full/Operational/Toolbox doesn't start from a given ideological incitement or fixed point of reference. It intends to communicate and highlight those artistic practices that reassess the relations between the expert and the amateur, functioning in a inspirational and educative manner that opens up to comprehensive and dynamic creative processes and possibilities. The works to be presented in Full/Operational/Toolbox highlight and realize, each one in its own way and using its own codes, ideas and creative strategies that concern the management of the artistic work mainly as "information''. The works, thus, set out new conditions for the access and distribution of culture and of the viewer's participation in it.

Exploring the dynamics and the status of these creative activities, Full/Operational/Toolbox, aims at functioning as a platform of debate on the ways of management of the cultural product in terms of directness and immediacy, as well as on the reconsideration of material and institutional processes and limitations.

Full/Operational/Toolbox is curated by KERNEL