Hi everyone,
Throw some flames in my direction if anyone ,feels that this is not
appropriate. Sue posted our last newsletter on here a couple of months
ago in 2005. So I thought that I'd do this one myself and see what
happens :-)
marc
FURTHERFIELD NEWSLETTER 13.
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A warm hello to all subscribers of the Furtherfield newsletter. It has
been a very busy time for us at Furtherfield.org with HTTP Gallery and
other connected projects. Much is happening and we want you to be a
part of it- expanding the context, sharing the spirit of what is
becoming a more open, scale-free networked arts culture. It seems that
Media Art and related creativities are at last becoming more inclusive
and we are proud to be a part of making this happen. So, join in and
enjoy the noise. Here we go...
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NEWSLETTER No.13 CONTENTS
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(1) NEW REVIEWS AND ARTICLES ON FURTHERFIELD.ORG:
Projects by: Conglomco, Michael Magruder , Node.London
(2) NEXT AND FUTURE EXHIBITIONS AT THE HTTP GALLERY:
[House of Technologically Termed Praxis].
- Open Vice/Virtue: The Online Art Context - Andy Deck
- Invitation to create posters through Andy Deck's Imprimatur
- Urban Eyes: Marcus Kirsch & Jussi Ängeslevä
- GAME/PLAY: games selected by Corrado Morgana, new commission from
Mary Flanagan
(3) FURTHERNOISE:
- New Sound & Reviews at FurtherNoise.org
(4) NODE.LONDON: [Networked, Open, Distributed, Evnts. London]:
- open, participatory season of Media Arts in London during March 2006.
- Discussion about NODE.London from the New Media Curating List.
(5) VISITORSSTUDIO EVENT/ AS PART OF NODE.LONDON MARCH 06:
- Workshop and performance: Idea Store, Chrisp Street, London. 26th March
(6) OPPORTUNITIES AT FURTHERFIELD:
- Opportunities for involvement with the Furtherfield team.
(7) OTHER FURTHERFIELD PROJECTS:
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(1) NEW REVIEWS ON FURTHERFIELD.ORG
- Articles and new projects reviewed on Furtherfield.
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http://www.furtherfield.org
META-CC.net - Conglomco.
A website featuring a real-time video captioning engine that allows
users to access multiple perspectives and resources to the mainstream
news media. The website seeks to create an open forum for real time
discussion and commentary of televised media by combining strategies
employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling,
on-demand video streaming, and search engines. "
META[CC] takes the original texts and creates a new meaning for them.
Positioning them as it does within the larger context of keywords,
images and blogs within the database. But is it fair to describe the
project within the context of a SI reading? Certainly the theoretical
grounding of the SI is both political and social." Reviewer: Mark R
Hancock.
NODE.London - States of Interdependence.
There is a Sufi fable in which a group of foreigners sit at breakfast,
excitedly discussing their previous night’s exploration. One starts
saying “…and what about that great beast we came across in the darkest
part of the Jungle? It was like a massive, rough wall.” The others look
perplexed. “No it wasn’t!” says one, “It was some kind of python”.
“Yeah…” another half-agrees, “…but it also had powerful wings”. The
shortest of the group looks bemused- “well it felt like a tree trunk to
me.”
This fable aptly illustrates many aspects of the NODE.London
experience. The name, which stands for Networked Open Distributed
Events in London, indicates the open, lateral structure adopted to
develop a season of media arts. It is intentionally extensible,
suggesting possible future NODE(s), Rio, Moscow, Mumbai etc.
Collaborative text by Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow.
Latest Works - Michael Magruder.
In his recent works, {transmission} and re_collection, Magruder looks
at reality through the eyes of our two new best “friends”: the
cell-phone camera, and of course the inevitable Internet. In both works
he addresses the notion of our perception of reality, both on the
personal and the global level. In both works, reality is visually
fragmented by the binary medium that carries it. His visual creations
examine the nature and sources of the images we consume on a daily
basis – be it images produced by global networks or ones we produce
ourselves. Reviewer: Tsila Hassine.
If you want to be a reviewer on Furtherfield contact -
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(2) PRESENT AND FUTURE EXHIBITIONS AT HTTP GALLERY
HTTP// [House of Technologically Termed Praxis]
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- Open Vice/Virtue: The Online Art Context - Andy Deck
- Invitation to create posters through Andy Deck's Imprimatur
- Urban Eyes: Marcus Kirsch & Jussi Ängeslevä
- GAME/PLAY: games selected by Corrado Morgana, new commission from
Mary Flanagan
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Open Vice/Virtue: The Online Art Context.
A solo show by American artist Andy Deck.
as part of the NODE.London season of media arts
Dates: 9 March – 22 April 2006
Preview: Thursday 9 March 7-9pm
"Content is not impervious to the software, protocols, and chicanery
that surround its delivery. It is about time that people interested in
independent voices stop believing that laissez faire capitalism is
building a better media infrastructure." Andy Deck
For his first London exhibtion, Deck present three artworks which use
the Internet, the gallery and public spaces to challenge corporate
control over communication tools and software. Exhibited works include
Imprimatur, Glyphiti and Panel Junction. For more details please visit
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib9/exhibitions9.htm
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You are invited to create posters through Andy Deck's Imprimatur
http://turbulence.org/Works/imprimatur/
Imprimatur consists of an online 'groupware' for poster illustration
and layout accessible through a computer workstation installed in the
gallery space. Visitors can use the software to create their own poster
in collaboration with their online counterparts. This piece provides a
framework for visitors/participants to launch a personal poster
campaign based on their own social and political concerns.
All posters created on Imprimatur during February, March and April will
be displayed at HTTP Gallery and the surrounding public spaces. Also
photographs of posters displayed in public locations will be documented
on the HTTP website. So please download, print out and paste up
archived posters in your own localities - send your photos to
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This project is supported by Node.London and Awards For All
Associated Event:
"Open to All – Get In-to-Net Art" The Science Museum's Dana Centre,
Wednesday 8th March 5:30 – 8:30pm
Meet Andy Deck, interact with his work, and chat to HTTP Curators Marc
Garret and Ruth Catlow.
5.30 -6.30 pm Screenings of Deck's interactive works.
7.00 - 8.30 pm Deck will present his practice.
FREE ADMISSION. Visit www.danacentre.org for more information.
The event is a collaboration between HTTP Gallery and the Science
Museum Arts Programme.
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July-->
Urban Eyes
Award winning cross-media project by Marcus Kirsch and Jussi Ängeslevä.
Dates: 1st June - 9th July 2006
Preview: Thursday 1st June 7-9 pm
Urban Eyes is a location-based installation which uses technology and
pigeons to reconnect us with our surroundings.
Adopting a psycho-geographic methodology Urban Eyes represents a
network of ever-changing patterns created by the omnipresent urban
pigeon. By establishing a connection between these "flying rats" and
people, it crosses and expands human mobility patterns, reconnecting
people with their neighbourhood.
The gallery installation will combine pigeon feeding platforms and
pigeons ringed with RFID devices - when the pigeons land on the
platforms, they will deliver the imagery and messages they have
gathered on their journeys to surrounding bluetooth devices.Please
bring your own bluetooth and perhaps a little birdseed.
This project is supported by Arts Council England (London) and V2 lab (
Rotterdam, Netherlands).
More details soon.
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GAME/PLAY
Dates: 23rd July - 3rd September 2006
Preview: Saturday 22nd July 2006 7-9pm
"Video-gaming, much like cinema, music and the arts has an independent
scene. [...] The selection for the Game/Play exhibition attempts to
showcase examples of independent gaming which are self referential,
transgressive and do not follow commercial game-types but function as
great games." Corrado Morgana.
This touring exhibition curated in collaboration with Q Arts in Derby
will feature works which subvert familiar gaming behaviour and explore
the limits of the social relationships such games set-up between users,
and indeed the limits of the individual gamer.
The exhibition takes place across two sites: HTTP and Q Arts, which are
connected by a selection of online, multi-user artworks and game
environments. It will include [giantJoystick] a newly commissioned work
by activist, net artist and ‘girl gamer’ Mary Flanagan and a selection
of independently produced video games selected by Corrado Morgana. The
exhibition will then combine in a single site at the Lighthouse, Poole
(and other UK venues).
More details to follow: visit http://www.http.uk.net
------------------------------------------------------------------ HTTP-->
Getting to HTTP://
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.htm
Contact:
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd,
London N4 1NY
+44 (0) 208 802 2827
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(3) FURTHERNOISE:
New Sound & Reviews at FurtherNoise.org
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http://www.furthernoise.org
For the first edition of 2006, kick off your winter worn galoshas and
step into the warmth. Explore the varied and explorative talents
featured on Furthernoise. Featuring Canadian sonic comics The Dry
Heeves and Dale Lloyds collaborative album Amalgram on the net label
Conv. The King of Norwegian Noise, Lasse Marhaug is the subject of Mark
Francombes feature on the Norwegian Art Noise scene.
Other reviews include:
UK improvised guitar & drum duo Ian Kearey and Paul Wigens.
Argentinian orchestral composer Serge Smilovich.
Italian ambient artist Enrico Cosimi.
Australian sonic art star Jodie Rose with her double album Singing
Bridges release Vibrations : Variations.
A/V Net performances now online.
And what seems to be of popular interest these days by the many
visitors to the site is, the A/V net performances on Visitors Studio
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/.
We now have last years A/V net performances on VisitorsStudio archived,
available through the following artists links in the Editors Forward.
They feature Mark Francombe, John Kannenberg, Chris Vine and french A/V
duo 2Toms. Stretching the studio's capabilities to it's limits these
performances are some of the most innovative to date. Highly
recommended viewing / listening.
'Exploration in Sound' compilation.
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Due to the encouraging success from various radio stations such as
resonance fm (UK) and Spanish radio, and many visitors downloading the
Net Label content, with some pretty cool feedback. We are now
feverishly setting up the next 'Exploration in Sound' compilation.
Furthernoise.org - Explorations in Sound is a net label releasing
quarterly high quality MP3 compilations of adventurous critical music &
sounds. Each selection is a limited edition release, available free to
download (artwork included) for 3 months before being replaced by the
next editions compilation. We will be featuring a diverse array of
artists and groups who are pushing the boundaries of their genre and
exploring new terrains that communicate via sound.
We have an open submissions poilicy for these releases and you don't
necessarily have to be featured in any edition to be considered for
inclusion.
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(4) NODE.L: [Networked, Open, Distributed, Events. London]
-an open, participatory season that aims to support and stimulate Media
Arts in London during March 2006.
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Furtherfield is also involved (as you may have guessed by now) with
NODE.London. http://www.nodel.org/
NODE.L: [Networked, Open, Distributed, Evnts. London] is an open,
participatory season that aims to support and stimulate Media Arts in
London. The project is committed to building the infrastructure and
raising the visibility of media arts practice in London. Working on an
open, collaborative basis, NODE.London will culminate, in its first
year, in a month long season of media arts projects across London in
March 2006.
The website http://www.nodel.org/ allows you to explore the network
of artists, organisations and venues. Plan your own programme of visits
to this diverse season of projects and events, using the events
calendar http://www.nodel.org/calendar.php.
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NODE.LONDON DISCUSSION:
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Discussion about NODE.London from the New Media Curating List.
From 13/02/06 – 15/02/06 The New Media Curating List was host to a
discussion about NODE.London with contributions from Marc Garrett,
Simon Biggs, Geoff Cox, Saul Albert, Luci Eyers, Patrick Simons, Jemima
Rellie, Ruth Catlow, Marcia Tanner and Susan Collins.
The relevant postings are displayed at MAzine - www.mazine.ws All are
welcome to take part in the open discussion.
You will have to register to contribute and comment but do not that
deter you- join in the debate :-)
Mazine is a NODE.London media partner- a place to review, blog and
discuss the Season of Media Arts.
http://www.mazine.ws/NodeLondon
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(5) VISITORSSTUDIO EVENT/ PART OF NODE.LONDON-MARCH.
At Idea Store, Chrisp Street, East India Dock Road E14 6BT. 1pm- 11pm
26th March.
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As part of the NODE.London Season of Media Arts during March.
Furtherfield will be running a VisitorsStudio workshop followed by a
live, performance event at the Idea Store. Visit this link
http://visitorsstudio.org/ for more information about how to get involved.
VisitorsStudio is a multi-user online arena for creative dialogue and
networked media performance for both established artists and those who
are not represented by traditional art structures. Participants upload
images and sound files responding to each other’s compositions in real
time. The simple web-based interface allows users to collage and
manipulate their own and others’ audio-visual files, and to
imaginatively recontextualise existing media.
VisitorsStudio Version2 launches in March ‘06. This incorporates new
artistic tools and community building facilities that allow users to
schedule and promote their own performance programmes.
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(6) OPPORTUNITIES AT FURTHERFIELD
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If you are interested in getting involved, joining us in the running of
Furtherfield at a deeper level and you possess one or more of the
talents listed below - get in touch, [log in to unmask] Please make
a note, that we are funded but only regarding the continuation of our
projects - we are still a grass roots organization. If you wish to be
involved in something that is progressive, and exploring beyond
traditional remits regarding net art, networked art and new media, then
you will be in good company.
Opportunities for involvement in the Furtherfield team:-
Furtherfield Reviewers – anywhere.
Office administatror – intern. (London or SE England)
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(7) OTHER FURTHERFIELD PROJECTS:
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http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercritic (MEZ is our current resident
critic)
http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/ (archived for view)
http://www.furtherfield.org/gestation/
http://www.furtherfield.org/dissensionconvention/ (archive of event)
http://www.skinstrip.net/index_archive.htm
http://www.netbehaviour.org (an open email list that explores networked
behaviour & media arts)
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