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Revisiting... http://www.furtherfield.org Furtherfield.org has always felt proud to be working with people who dare to explore beyond traditional remits at the intersections of art, technology and social change; whether writing about it, making it or curating it. The array of artworks, activities and outlooks that make up this community is not only diverse, it is always immediate and present, alive and kicking. We are not yet jaded by the opportunities the Internet provides to own, shape and exchange our own cultural production and celebrate the varied and talented individuals and groups who share with us, this ever expansive and dynamic culture. So, we thought it worth reminding you how alive things really are, by inviting you to revisit the reviews/articles/interviews which have been published on the Furtherfield.org website since the end of January this year, 2010. Below is a selection of those reviews... Decode: Digital Design Sensations at V&A. Rob Myers reviews the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition Decode: Digital Design Sensations. Framed as a digital design show, but it's a landmark survey of art computing in all but name. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=386 SMartCAMP: The Arts on the Social Web. Review by Angela Ferraiolo. Part of New York's Art Week, SMartCAMP, or social media art camp, took place on March 5th and 6th, at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York, a slightly unusual kind of place in that it's a hotel with its own production company. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=385 An Interview with Chris Dooks. Interview by Marc Garrett. A 'Polymath' exploring various creative avenues, making his art using different media. Whether it be directing arts-based TV documentaries, explorative psychogeographical projects, design, composing and making music or audio visual installations. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=382 F.A.T Lab at Transmediale.10. Article/interview by Marcello Lussana and Gaia Novati. F.A.T Lab (Free Art and Technology Lab) were found causing trouble at the Transmediale.10 this year. Marcello Lussana and Gaia Novati were intrigued to find out what all the fuss was about - some observations and an interview. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=384 HTML Color Codes. Review by Susan Ballard. The Internet exhibition features a selection of internet based artwork that address the topic of digital color. The central question that the exhibition poses is whether or not artists working with the internet are in fact limited to a "ready-made" color palette, a premise that many artists working with film, photography, and mass produced, standardized paint sets have assumed. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=383 Transmediale.10 - Futurity Now! A collaborative review by Marcello Lussana and Gaia Novati. This year's edition of Transmediale explores the theme futurity now through connections between arts and technology. Marcello Lussana and Gaia Novati take us through some of the highlights of the exhibition, conference programme and satellite events. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=380 Digital Pioneers. Review by Rob Myers. At the V & A Museum, An overview of the first decades of the computer's history in art and design. including some of the earliest computer-generated works in the V&A's collections, many of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=381 If not you not me. Article by Ruth Catlow. This essay accompanies If not you not me, an exhibition of networked performance art by Annie Abrahams. While social networking sites make us think of communication as clean and transparent, Abrahams creates an Internet of feeling - of agitation, collusion, ardour and apprehension. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=378 Mark Napier's Venus 2.0. Review by Angela Ferraiolo. Venus 2.0 consists of software written by the artist that collects images of the body parts of Pamela Anderson, an erotic icon of our time, from the hundreds of pictures of her available on the Internet and recreates a mobile, three-dimensional figure out of these flat, fragmentary pictures. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=379 Representing Labor: Ten Thousand Cents and Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Review by Madeleine Clare Elish. Madeleine offers here a review of Ten Thousand Cents, a project by artists Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima. Although she acknowledges the beauty of the project Madeleine points to its conceptual ambivalence. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=376 Link to all reviews & interviews: http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology, people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. ********** * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE