New Reviews/Articles/Interviews on Furtherfield May 21st 07.

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- Charlotte Frost Interviews David Rokeby.
- Twisting Fistfuls of Time (Part 1).

An Interview with David Rokeby, in conjunction with his first UK 
retrospective ‘Silicon Remembers Carbon’, FACT, Liverpool, (20th April – 
10th June). David Rokeby has won acclaim in both artistic and technical 
fields for his new media artworks. A pioneer in interactive art and an 
acknowledged innovator in interactive technologies, Rokeby has achieved 
international recognition as an artist and seen the technologies which 
he develops for his work given unique applications by a broad range of 
arts practitioners and medical scientists. 2nd part of the interview 
will be published on 28/05/07.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=233


- Review on TRANSreveLATION by Natasha Chuk.

TRANSreveLATION was a one-night showcase of live performance, dance, 
real-time processing, and a reverie of previously recorded audio 
compositions. Performed on April 26, 2007 in the basement auditorium of 
the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of New York in midtown 
Manhattan, fifty guests gathered to engage in and aurally witness a 
unique collection of sound art and movement.

Nature and technology remarkably mix as a means of exploring the concept 
of ekphrasis, the basis for this concert, developed and curated by 
Melissa Grey and Jim Briggs III. Put simply, ekphrasis is imagery 
dramatically translated by poetry, but it pertains to any form of media. 
Pulling us deep into the trail of inspiration, ekphrasis can provide an 
artist the opportunity to delightfully bury the tracks of artistic 
motivation in an interpretative web of rhetoric, freely describing one 
form with another. That tactic is clearly demonstrated in this program.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=232


- Review on html_butoh by Alexandra Boutros.
-lost in…metamorphosis: ursula endlicher’s html_butoh.

Butoh is enigmatic. Sometimes characterized as dance, sometimes as 
theatre, sometimes as meditation on what it means to be human, butoh 
seems to resist definition and easy categorization. Undeniably, however, 
butoh is about movement. Butoh emerged in post world-war II Japan, in 
part rising out of dissatisfaction with the prevalence of Western dance 
movements and influences in that country. Some have suggested that the 
goal of butoh is for the dancer to cease being him/herself, to stop 
being human, and to become instead another entity altogether. If butoh 
drives the human out of the dancer through movement, Ursula Endlicher’s 
html_butoh—a web-driven performance piece—raises questions about 
humanness in the realm of the internet.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=231


Review by Wylie Schwartz.
Kollabor8 - Toegristle Studios.

Kollabor8 is a ‘perceptual canvas blog,’ where any given chain of images 
has infinite potential for change as each artist manipulates the 
previous image, and so forth. Functioning as an artists’ hub, members 
are invited to transform works of digital collage by adding original 
images, digital photos, reproductions and scans, or by starting a new 
chain. To encourage collaboration, members are not permitted to upload a 
direct mutation to their own image. To encourage growth of chains a 
system of credits is in place. Two credits buy a new chain, and one is 
earned for every five images uploaded to a pre-existing chain. The art 
in this case is a virtual archive of the process of creating a work of art.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=230

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