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FurtherNews Issue 3, Nov 2010.
Welcome to Furtherfield's 3rd Newsletter. Albert Einstein said "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." This is where we all meet. With this thought in mind jump into Furtherfield's dynamic networked neighbourhood, dedicated to exploring further than prescribed protocols. It's time to share...
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Moving Forest - How Can A Forest Move? AKA the Castle | @ Furtherfield & SPACE MediaLab
Date: Friday 09, Saturday 10 and Monday 12 December 2011
Venue: Furtherfield Gallery and SPACE MediaLab
Strategy workshops: How Can A Forest Move?
Part of Moving Forest London2012 development workshops
All events are free but space is limited.
Booking essential. Please RSVP to now@movingforest.net
EVENTS
Friday 9 December 2011, 11-4pm. Furtherfield Gallery
Isaac Marrero-Guillamón – The Militant City
Saturday 10 December 2011, 11-4pm. Furtherfield Gallery
Rachel Baker and Kayle Brandon – The Witches and 3-Keys
Monday 12 December 2011, 6-9pm. Furtherfield at SPACE MediaLab
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination presents:
TREE THOUGHTS: Strategies of artivisme and permaculture, a taster.
Latest Reviews, Articles & Interviews on Furtherfield
Failed utopia: The art of surveillance and simulating control: An interview with Toni Dimitrov. By Darko Aleksovski
Darko Aleksovski interviews artist Toni Dimitrov about his work 'Total surveillance' featured in the group exhibition SEAFair ’11 'Energy, Biopolitics, Resistance strategies and Cultural subversion'. Curated by Melentie Pandilovski, Elena Veljanovska, Zoran Petrovski, ending on the 20th November at the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, SEECAN (South East European Contemporary Art Network) and Kontejner, Zagreb.
Image essay on 'Training for a Better World'. By Michael Szpakowski
A derivative work in the form of a photo-essay comprised of documentary photographs and sketches by Michael Szpakowski. This is both an artwork and a review of an exhibition by Annie Abrahams, Training for a Better World. On 28th October 2011 Michael travelled to Sète in the South of France to see and to review her show. "What was particularly pleasing about going to the press view and then staying on for the opening proper was the opportunity to engage with the work over quite a long period of time - some four hours."
Recent Contributions to Furtherfield's Community Blog Stream
Hypothesis: An Art/ Science Fair By Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
About 8 years ago I came up with the idea to have a science fair for artists. Last night it happened.
The Science Fair is a common elementary school experience for kids in the United States. Each student picks a scientific topic to investigate, conducts research and experiments, then presents their findings in a display. All the displays are presented together in a show-and-tell extravaganza with cookies and punch while judges award ribbons and prizes. At the heart of these projects students learn the “Scientific Method” of defining a question or concept, gathering information and observations, forming a hypothesis, conducting experiments and processes, analyzing data, and drawing a conclusion.Performing across a 13 hour time difference . By Helen Varley Jamieson
This summer i am going home to new zealand for a visit; it's going to be part holiday and part work, as we will perform make-shift a number of times over december-january. make-shift is a networked performance by myself and paula crutchlow that connects audiences in two domestic houses in separate geographical locations with an online audience. i will be in the middle of the southern summer, with everyone on holiday and in total beach mode; meanwhile paula will be in the uk, 13 hours behind and in the depths of winter. thus, scheduling performances is a little ... challenging, shall we say!
BYOB Chicago: jonCates, Digital Arts Collector - jonCates (2011)
The Business Card feels to me like an old-fashioned format for interpersonal interactions, like an antique form of communication or rather (self) promotion from an earlier era. at a recent conference I was often asked for my business card (which i do not normally carry or even maintain current versions of) and presented w/a range of business cards from academics and artists. i found receiving these cards both novel and strange. this experience combined w/my invitation to participate in this most recent BYOB Chicago iteration of the ongoing series/platform. the BYOB Worldwide project initiated by Rafaël Rozendaal relies on Salon-style 'hanging' of the projections, social networks and networking and recent Web 2.0 technologies/platforms (such as tumblr, which the BYOB Worldwide site exists on and through). this intersection of very recent technologies and the turn of the second to last century approaches (late 1800's/early 1900's Academic Art exhibition formats) strikes me as similarly novel and strange, like business cards from New Media Artists and academics.
CONTEXT: BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) Chicago: http://www.byobworldwide.comContemporary Internet/Networked Art & Social Autonomy: Mobile Phone Technology
On the 26th October 2011, Marc Garrett (from Furtherfield) was invited to lecture students at Westminster University, currently studying 'MA in Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culure.
View the various essays by the students in response to the presentation and lecture.
The brief was - To understand contemporary media art practice. Exploring the ideas, social contexts, and relationship with the technology (used) is essential. One can only develop critical skills through a process of being analytical, observing and critiquing not only our relationship with technology culturally, socially and historically, but also see beyond mainstream presumptions around it. Artists using technology possess varied skills which include technological, theoretical and practical insight. As a critical thinker on the subject, one has to unearth these attributes as well as understand other meanings communicated by the artists using digital media technologies.