FURTHERFIELD NEWSLETTER 17.
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A warm welcome to all regular and new subscribers to the 17th
Furtherfield Newsletter.
As usual, there is much happening within and around the neighbourhood of
furtherfield. Each of the platforms/projects are expanding and
developing according to their own natural, creative paces. Connecting
with larger audiences, collaborators, artists, writers, curators each
day. Which is why the newsletter is a reliable format for catching up
with activities involving these ever changing nodes and networks,
whether it be online or physical.
Take your time and to browse through suggested projects and related
activities. If you wish to discuss about any of the items, or projects
specifically or in general, do not hesitate to contact, we are always
interested in your comments, suggestions, ideas or potential
collaborations :-)
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NEWSLETTER CONTENTS
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(1) NEW REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES ON FURTHERFIELD.ORG
(2) Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour.
- Images of the exhibition at HTTP Gallery by Pau Ros.
(3) The VisitorsStudio blog.
- VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena
for creative 'many to many' dialogue, interviews, networked
performance and collaborative polemic.
(4) The Furtherfield Blog.
- A shared space for personal reflections on Media Art
practice: making it, curating it, translating it.
(5) ARTICLES, REVIEWS ABOUT FURTHERFIELD PROJECTS.
- An update of articles written either by ourselves or other
critics and writers about Furtherfield projects, within the last
month.
(6) FURTHERNOISE NEWS:
- Furthernoise is on Bristol Radio (BCFM).
- New Furthernoise Reviews.
- Latest fn net LABEL, Explorations in Sound - Appropriate
Re-Appropriations.
(7) OPPORTUNITIES AT FURTHERFIELD:
- Opportunities for involvement with the Furtherfield team.
(8) OTHER FURTHERFIELD PROJECTS.
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(1) NEW REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS/ARTICLES ON FURTHERFIELD.ORG
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New Reviews can be seen here:
www.furtherfield.org
Bits and Bytes: A Conversation with Chris Joseph.
Jess Lacetti interviews Chris Joseph (Babel). Digital Writer in
Residence at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He is a writer and
artist who has produced solo and collaborative work since 2002 as babel.
Yves Klein Article by Joseph Nechvatal.
Yves Klein is for me, and many others, the most important French artist
after Henri Matisse. This may sound somewhat appalling to some, as Klein
enjoyed only a very concise, but invigorating, seven-year artistic career.
Review by Natasha Chuk.
What If We Played A War and Nobody Won?: Critical Approaches to War in
Videogame Art is a mouthful of a title that asks the big question that
lingers in our contemporary culture’s collective mind and begs its
audience to consider the possibility of deconstructing war through game
metaphor.
Review by Nathan Lovejoy.
The Last Tag Show by Pash*, a live “net performance,” took place on
Last.FM on 14/4/07, and cleverly took advantage of Last.FM's technical
structure to pull off a 24 hour performance.
Review by Luis Silva.
The Postnational Foundation by Dan Phiffer, is an ongoing series of
brief, personal interventions about personal agency and a starting point
for doing something meaningful.
About Furtherfield Reviewers:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviewersbio.php
If you want to be a reviewer or wish for work to be reviewed on
Furtherfield,
contact - [log in to unmask]
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(2) Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour.
- Images of the exhibition at HTTP Gallery by Pau Ros.
The Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art exhibition took place
between 31st January to 28th February 2007 via NetBehaviour
email list (http://www.netbehaviour.org).
Exhibition images:
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/Diwo_exhibition2.shtml
For more info:
http://www.netbehaviour.org/DIWO
HTTP Gallery, London : http://www.http.uk.net
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(3) The VisitorsStudio blog.
- VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative
'many to many' dialogue, interviews, networked performance and
collaborative polemic.
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Latest Audio/Visual VisitorsStudio mixes by Graziano Milano.
http://blog.visitorsstudio.org/?q=node/47
VisitorsStudio Version2, incorporates new artistic tools and community
building facilities. Users are able to schedule and promote their own
networked performance programmes. These can be recorded, archived,
rated, downloaded and redistributed as screensavers to users' own desktops.
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(4) The Furtherfield Blog.
- A shared space for personal reflections on Media Art practice:
making it, curating it, translating it.
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http://blog.furtherfield.org
2 resent submissions:
CRUMB and the Anti-Conference by Charlotte Frost:
On Thursday 26th April I was honoured to be a ‘specialist advisor’ at
the CRUMB ‘Bliss-Out’ Centre at the Enter Unknown Territories conference
in Cambridge. CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss) have
recently been exploring holistic approaches to skill exchange in more
traditional conference environments and, if the customised
beauty-therapy tunics sported by the CRUMB team were anything to go by,
this was their most radical conference antidote yet! More...
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/121
Still singing along with the Flying Lesbians buy Aileen Derieg:
About a month ago, I had the great pleasure of translating a wonderful
article about the history of women's music, especially in
German-speaking countries. Right at the start of the article, references
to the group the Flying Lesbians and excerpts of lyrics triggered a
whole cascade of memories – very vivid, almost physical sensory
memories. Most of all I remembered a feeling of excitement, a sense of
exhilarating defiance that even just the name of the band evoked among
the women I belonged to then, who listened to the Flying Lesbians' music
so many years ago. Those memories then set off a long chain of
reflections leading me to wonder what happened: How did "feminism" come
to have such negative connotations?
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/115
Context about The Furtherfield blog:
It is a place for Media Arts practitioners to intuitively explore their
practice together as it occurs, to develop understanding and to learn,
without the pressure to formulate complete arguments or to come up with
answers. The blog was set up in Autumn 2006, initially as a place for
informal, day to day exchange between members of the Furtherfield.org
team, including editor/reviewers. We discovered that this format suits
some people more than others and invited a couple more to join. The
Furtherfield blog is not intended as a platform to promote particular
projects. Instead bloggers explore their own perspectives on their own
terms; personal thoughts, emotional responses and critical intentions
that are rarely publicly discussed elsewhere in such detail.
Regular Furtherfield bloggers so far, are: - Camille Baker, Ruth Catlow,
Aileen Derieg, Charlotte Frost, Marc Garrett, Mark Hancock, Helen Varley
Jamieson, Patrick Lichty and Lauren A Wright.
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(5) ARTICLES, REVIEWS ABOUT FURTHERFIELD PROJECTS.
- An update of articles written either by ourselves or other
critics and writers about Furtherfield projects, within the last
month.
A Handbook for Coding Cultures
Commissioned by Francesca da Rimini and d/Lux/MediaArts
http://www.dlux.org.au/codingcultures/handbook.html
Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett, Furtherfield (England)
Do It With Others (DIWO): contributory media in the Furtherfield
Neighbourhood.
Other writers in the book:
Lisa Havilah, David Cranswick, Francesca da Rimini, Maja Kuzmanovic and
Nik Gaffney, Andrew Lowenthal, Leandro Fossá, Claudio Prado, Lam Oi Wan,
Agnese Trocchi, Alice Angus and Giles Lane, Mervin Jarman, Sonia Mills,
Camille Turner, David S. Vadiveloo, Tallstoreez Productionz, Christopher
Saunders, Lena Nahlous, Ben Hoh and Trey Thomas (aka MC Trey).
It can all be downloaded on PDF.
A Handbook for Coding Cultures provides a lasting companion to the
inspiring projects and topical currents of thought explored in the
Coding Cultures Symposium and Concept Lab. Six invited writers and
groups from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, England, Italy and Hong Kong
share their experiences of building imaginative digital tools, social
networks, open labs and internet-based knowledge platforms for
communication and creativity. Complementing these commissioned texts are
contributions from our guest artists from Canada, England and Jamaica.
Artist statements from Symposium speakers completes this snapshot of
contemporary cultural practice.
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(6) FURTHERNOISE NEWS:
- Furthernoise is on Bristol Radio (BCFM).
- New Furthernoise Reviews.
- Latest fn net LABEL, Explorations in Sound - Appropriate
Re-Appropriations.
As usual, regular engaging reviews by the Furthenoise team.
http://www.furthernoise.org
Also a chance to download mp3s of the weekly broadcasts by Roger MIlls
(Furthernoise Main Editor) that take place on BCFM.
Furthernoise BCFM Playlist.
http://www.furthernoise.org/radio.php
fn net LABEL:
Appropriate Re-Appropriations.
A compilation of innovative music & sound created with Creative Commons
licensed audio.
Furthernoise has teamed up with Freesound presenting an exciting special
file sharing opportunity. Part exquisite corpse, part Chinese whispers,
part peer2peer ping pong.
Over the past few years the amount of audio available to re-use and
manipulate governed by creative commons licensing has grown massively.
Freesound (amongst others) has been a major part of this, building up an
astounding library of audio which is available to anyone to download and
use within the confines of the Sampling + License. This compilation
illustrates new ways of using these archives of plunderphonic delight to
create an ever expanding terrain of inventive new sound.
http://www.furthernoise.org/label.php
Curated by Mark McLaren and Roger Mills
Inspired by The Freesound Project sample archive
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu
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.
(7) 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, new media & HTTP
Gallery, then you will be in good company.
Opportunities for involvement in the Furtherfield team:-
Furtherfield Reviewers, interviewers anywhere.
HTTP Gallery - help out with installation and invigilation.
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(6) OTHER RELATED PROJECTS - The Neighbourhood:
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- [HTTP] Gallery - http://www.http.uk.net
- NetBehaviour List - www.netBehaviour.org
- FurtherNoise - www.furtherNoise.org
- Furtherfield Blog - http://blog.furtherfield.org
- 5+5=5 - http://netartfilm.furtherfield.org
- Rosalind - http://www.furtherfield.org/rosalind
- VisitorsStudio - www.visitorsStudio.org
- Node.London - http://www.nodel.org (with many others)
- VisitorsStudio Blog - http://blog.visitorsstudio.org
- Skinstrip - http://www.skinstrip.net/index_archive.htm
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