Furtherfield.org are pleased to announce a new adventure.
http://www.furtherfield.org

Furtherfield has a new content management system and new design. This is
the first stage in a gradual shift which will allow visitors and artist
members to contribute more dynamically to the site.

A big shout goes out to artist Chris Webb who has recently become an
essential member of Furtherfield and has left his own excellent
Pogogallery.com to join the team. He has worked with us consistently on
the new site, taking the lead in its redesign.

Also, a cute holler of intense gratitude goes out to new recruit Adrian
Eaton, the content management dude who is also currently working with
Ruth Catlow on 'Rethinking Wargames Activate'.
http://www.furtherfield.org/rcatlow/converse/documents/rethink.htm

Other new changes on the new Furtherfield site?

Visitors can now register with furtherfield and become members (no
charge).

Members can now contribute dynamically to discussions about the artwork
featured on Furtherfield and receive regular updates about latest
activities.

The 'Public Broadcast' section on the home page enables visitors to
upload information about projects and events relating to digital/web/net
art from all over the world.

And yes, more artwork featured on Furtherfield

The Archaea Series - Alan Sondheim
Graffoto - Man of the Crowd/ Glowlab Frequency Love - Chris Webb
PANSE - Páll Thayer
World - Glorious Ninth Web Cam Theatre - Ivan Pope
The House that George Built - Dion Laurent

The Archaea Series - Alan Sondheim

'I've developed, over the last few years, certain assumptions about
software art. Just browse through the many entries available at
runme.org (http://runme.org/), and you, too will likely come away with
some of these assumptions: that software art is, at its heart,
utilitarian; it functions, it does something; it's tool-like; it's often
more software than art. Over the last month or so, July and August 2003,
the writer Alan Sondheim has been happily chipping away at those
assumptions. - Lewis Lacook

Read full text and view the work at
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=39

Graffoto - Man of the Crowd/ Glowlab

'In Graffoto02, MOTC (man of the crowd) has printed out photographs of
the streets, pasted them back onto the surfaces where they were taken,
and then rephotographed them in situ. I guess that in the streets these
images act as a mirror of sorts for the street artists of Brooklyn. Also
as a sign that the guttural and wonderfully articulated expressions of
protest, humour, threat and joie de vivre can be both appreciated and
participated in but also consumed by the world of mediation. These
second stage images do evoke a strange threat of surveillance.' - Ruth
Catlow

Read full text and view the work at
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=40

Frequency Love - Chris Webb

'Frequency Love is a net art piece, not in the networked sense but
conceptually filled to the brim with a net consciousness, a net object.
This visual deviation playfully captures the dark side of the Internet
and its globally collective and obsessive mannerist activities. It
reveals a psychological nuance of the everyday Internet sexual
experience.' - Marc Garrett.

Read full text and view the work at
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=4

PANSE - Páll Thayer

'PANSE is the latest in a series of generative audio-visual pieces
created by Reykjavík based artist Páll Thayer. PANSE or 'Public Access
Network Sound Engine' is a server based program which creates a live
audio stream based on (multi) user interaction. Alongside the continuous
live mp3 stream, visitors to the site can interact with the piece,
modifying and mutating the audio created in real time, through a series
of interfaces that also respond visually to the live audio data being
generated by PANSE and other concurrent visitors.' - Neil Jenkins

Read full text and view the work at
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=46

World - Glorious Ninth

'This strangely emotional work weaves finely tuned aesthetic formalism
with polemic. Unusually for Internet based media works (though not for
much of the generative Flash work made by collaborators Kate Southworth
and Patrick Simons of GloriusNinth), after an initial cascade of data,
the piece unfolds at an intensely slow pace, inducing a mesmeric state
in the viewer and winding down the desire to click, for the next
feature.' - Ruth Catlow

Read full text and view the work at
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=43

Web Cam Theatre - Ivan Pope

'Objects are cast in a performative context displaying motion and time
using Internet technology. By using very basic equipment, cheap web
cams, cheap software, cheap objects Ivan has created a twilight world.
We witness a psychogeographically influenced environment that engages a
fluent mix of conceptual and poetic crossovers with performance/live
action. The installation is minimal, with light settings, the quality of
the image and time-based changes largely uncontrollable.' - Marc Garrett

Read full text and view the work at
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=38

The House that George Built - Dion Laurent

Dion Laurent's website of 'The House that George Built' contains 3
galleries of photographs which document a remarkable, satirical project
in the grand tradition of doing exactly as you are told, in order to
reveal and subvert the idiocy of national government. The shelter that
Laurent built in his home, takes as its starting point, instructions
issued by the US Department of Homeland Security in their 'Campaign for
citizen preparedness'. - Ruth Catlow

Read full text and view the work at
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=45

See you there

http://www.furtherfield.org