We're exploring the currency of cultural exchange in our new exhibition...

For centuries silk was the embodiment of China and its luxurious, highly-prized fibers represented Chinese technology, material culture and identity abroad. But what are the new silk roads? China exports a range of personal electronic devices and manufactured goods across the globe - are laptops and iPhones the new silk? Or is it contemporary art? Two thousand years before the advent of globalization, the Silk Road exported objects and ideas and was a precursor to the social phenomenon we call transnationalism, the heightened interconnectivity and flow of cultural and economic exchange across the borders of nation-states. Our latest exhibition, "Silk To Bitcoin," traverses the new silk roads.

"Silk to Bitcoin" opens THIS SATURDAY at the island6 main gallery.

http://island6.org/SilkToBitcoin_info.html