New Reviews & Articles on Furtherfield.org March 06.
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META-CC.net by Conglomco. Reviewer: Mark R Hancock.
NODE.London - States of Interdependence. Article by Marc Garrett and
Ruth Catlow
Glitchbrowser, a collaboration between DMTR.org, BEFLIX.com,
Organised.info. Reviewer: Alison Colman
Latest Works by Michael Magruder. Reviewer:Tsila Hassine
The Danube Panorama Project by Michael Aschauer. Reviewer:Yasser Rashid
Revisiting Backspace/ Bukspc- a Node.London event. Reviewer: Marc Garrett.
META-CC.net by 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.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=171
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.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=169
Glitchbrowser - A collaboration between DMTR.org, BEFLIX.com,
Organised.info.
The term "glitch", coined in 1962 by former U.S. astronaut John Glenn,
originally referred to a spike or change in voltage in an electrical
current. The meaning of the word glitch has since expanded to refer to
any unmistakable yet unexplainable hiccup in what would otherwise be a
smoothly functioning system. When referring to computer glitches, they
range from the merely annoying to the panic-inducing symptom of a
full-scale systems breakdown (e.g., the "blue screen of death"¯). On the
other hand, glitches can also be about serendipity, a full-on happy
accident, embracing a mistake and running with it, or functioning as a
veritable readymade. In the case of artists Dimtre Lima and Iman
Morandi's Glitchbrowser, a fascination with glitch-as-metaphor serves as
a conceptual basis for a work of Internet art.
Reviewer: Alison Colman.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=173
Latest Works by 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
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=170
The Danube Panorama Project by Michael Aschauer.
This ambitious piece of work uses Europe’s second largest river as its
subject. The goal being to produce a full panorama of the Danube's
coastline using slit-scan photography, the result of which will be,
according to Aschauer, a “unique cross-section of contemporary Europe”.
In the digital realm, slit-scanning involves taking a series of images
and concatenating them together to create one whole image. Aschauer's
technique utilises GPS data to control the speed at which the video
camera records material, resulting in a series of images that are
indexed according to longitude and latitude. The geographical precision
of the images provide a unique method to contrast the area of the Danube.
Reviewer: Yasser Rashid.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=174
Revisiting Backspace/ Bukspc- a NODE.London event.
Backspace officially opened to the public in spring 1996 and ended its
evolutionary, dynamic and explorative short life in 1999. The space was
situated in London and the building kissed right up against the River
Thames, on Clink Street. It was a central location, near the London
Bridge and also a few steps away ironically from the historically known
Clink Prison Museum, built on the foundations of one of the original
prisons owned by the Bishop of Winchester. "It is thought it got its
name from the clinking of the manacles, fetters, chains and bolts that
were used there. It was also the origin of the phrase "In the Clink", to
mean in prison."
Reviewer: Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=175
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