g_URL x Noble Studios, London, 2017

Exploring the relationship between technology, the Internet and female identity, g_URL, an ongoing curatorial project, presented its first group exhibition featuring Corie Denby McGowan, Roxman Gatt, Sophie Rogers, Lily Evangeline and Hannah Dinz. Combining works across video, sound, sculpture, textiles and installation, g_URL explored how developing technologies, virtual reality and the internet are investigated within their practice.

Social media platforms and the development of virtual and augmented reality have provided us with a framework to construct and perform a variety of online identities. Their application blurs boundaries between online and offline space, and consequently merging our identities IRL and URL. g_URL seeks to explore how this has impacted our perception of ­ and relationship to ­ ourselves and others, with a particular focus on the influence of these new technologies for women. How has technology shaped female identity and notions of femininity? How has the Internet interfered with our intimate relationships? Are we closer to our iPhone screens than we are to each other?

g_URL was co­-founded and co­-curated by Olivia Yallop and Alex Hull and as a means of showcasing and collaborating with emerging female­-identifying artists who are working at the intersection of art and technology.