excellent work by furtherfield.org ... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Furtherfield <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:00 AM Subject: [FurtherNews] Welcome to the brand new FurtherNews To: [email protected] [image: furtherfield logo] [image: for arts, technology & social change] Welcome to the brand new FurtherNews This newsletter is available to all subscribers of our shared communities every 2-4 weeks. We have much to share with you so let's not waste any more time... New CollectionCollaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art A collection of artworks, texts and resources about freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet. Freedom to collaborate – to use, modify and redistribute ideas, artworks, experiences, media and tools. Openness to the ideas and contributions of others, and new ways of organising and making decisions together. Curated by Furtherfield: Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett with introductory texts by Charlotte Frost and Rob Myers. Commissioned by Arts Council England for Thinking Digital.<http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/about-us/digital-innovation-development/thinking-digital/> Displayed at the ACE/Thinking Digital website<http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/about-us/digital-innovation-development/thinking-digital/collaboration-and-freedom/> The full editable version can be found at the Foundation for P2P Alternatives wiki<http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art> Also to be presented at FLOSSIE <http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=189%20>(the Women in FLOSS conference) in London, November 15th. Two New Furtherfield CommissionsOnline: A Crowded Apocalypse by IOCOSE<http://acrowdedapocalypse.com/> Commissioned by AND (Abandon Normal Devices) Festival<http://www.andfestival.org.uk/>and Furtherfield Conspiracy theories are, by their definition, neither ultimately refutable or acceptable. In order to hold true, they rely on the acceptance that the full evidence is not reachable. They are based on a shared belief: the idea that each one of us is an unaware piece in a mysterious master plan. Crowdsourcing, instead, makes this more transparent. Each user contributes to the creation of something which is bigger than the sum of each singular production. The final plan remains unknown, but it is actively produced by a large crowd. IOCOSE will exploit crowdsourcing as a tool for the creation of a shared belief. The "crowd " will assemble its own conspiracy which will involve them again, at the end, as human beings. A project by IOCOSE <http://www.iocose.org/> AND Festival - 29th September 2011 to 2nd October 2011. FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) <http://www.fact.co.uk/> Balloon Dog by Rob Myers<http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/balloon-dog-rob-myers> A downloadable freely licensed 3D model of an artwork to print and remix<http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/balloon-dog-rob-myers> . [image: Balloon Dog by Rob Myers, 3D Model]2011 Furtherfield commission. Balloon Dog forms part of a series of shareable DIY 'readymades' for an era of digital copying and sharing. Iconic objects from the history of appropriation and remixing art are recreated as 3D-digital models. Users can then download and send the digital model to 3D printers via the Internet to receive their own physical artwork through the post at a scale of their choosing. Media Art EcologiesCommunity Blog - Re-rooting digital culture at ISEA 2011<http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/ruth-catlow/re-rooting-digital-culture-isea-2011> Some thoughts on returning from ISEA 2011 in Istanbul. By Ruth Catlow. It is ever more urgent for us to develop functional infrastructures for imaginative interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. Our Sunday morning panel, Re-rooting Digital Culture- Media Art Ecologies, with Helen Varley Jamieson, Paula Crutchlow, Michel Bauwens and Sophie Jerram, was shaped by the emerging debate surrounding these issues. This blog post attempts to relate what happened in our panel in connection with these and other linked ideas and occurrences. Zero Dollar Laptop - Upcoming Workshops<http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/> *Southend on Sea Linux User Group* (SoSLUG <http://wiki.soslug.org/>) and Digital Exploration Centre <http://www.digitalexplorationcentre.com/> in collaboration with Southend YMCA and Furtherfield have been working on the development of a Southend pilot which will deliver a series of creative technology based workshops for homeless and young people at risk. *Furtherfield and Access Space* have been invited to run a 2 day ZDLT workshop for future workshop leaders at the Urban Furrows<http://www.maribor2012.info/en/index.php?ptype=0&echosub=1&menu=0&id=163>International Congress, Rethinking Potentials, held in Maribor, Slovenia on 5-6 October 2011. The intensive ZDLT taster session will provide an opportunity for future workshop leaders to share ideas, expertise and know-how with the group; and learn more about successes, challenges and issues from the London pilot. Workshop leaders: Olga Panadés Massanet and Jake Harries. Reviews, Articles & Interviews on FurtherfieldThe Philosophy Of Software. By Rob Myers <http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/philosophy-software> The Philosophy Of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age. By David M Berry. This book is a critical introduction to code and software that develops an understanding of its social and philosophical implications in the digital age. Written specifically for people interested in the subject from a non-technical background, the book provides a lively and interesting analysis of these new media forms. An ambitious book where Berry turns his attention from the social relations and ideology of software (in "Rip, Mix, Burn", 2008) to the question of what software means in itself. Videogame Appropriation in Contemporary Art: Racing Games. By Mathias Jansson<http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/videogame-appropriation-contemporary-art-racing-games> Mathias Jansson continues with his series on classic Videogames and their appropriation into contemporary art. This time round he explores the theme of racing games, with a selection of examples of how the game has impacted artists' work and contemporary art culture. Including the videogame that gasses its players 'Colorless, odorless and tasteless' by Eva and Franco Mattes. We Demand The Impossible: An Interview with John Jordan and Gavin Grindon. By Marc Garrett<http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/we-demand-impossible-interview-john-jordan-and-gavin-grindon> Marc Garrett interviews John Jordan and Gavin Grindon about their collaborative publication, 'A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible'. "This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." Remixthebook: Everything, all at once. By Mark Hancock<http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/remixthebook-everything-all-once> Mark Hancock reviews Remixthebook by artist, author Mark Amerika and co-curator and artist Rick Silva, consisting of over 25 contributing international artists, poets, and critical theorists, all of them interdisciplinary in their own practice-based research, who sample from remixthebook and manipulate the selected source material through their own artistic and theoretical filters. The Secret War Between Uploading And Downloading. By Rob Myers<http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/secret-war-between-uploading-and-downloading> Rob Myers reviews Peter Lunenfeld's new publication 'The Secret War Between Downloading & Uploading: Tales Of The Computer As Culture Machine'. A vivid new conceptualization of threats to and the promise of networked computers as culture machines and presenting a new way of looking at the cultural struggle for control of the Internet, whilst managing to avoid, singularization, fantasy and anthropological despair, and reaching a surprising conclusion. Other reviews, articles, interviews <http://www.furtherfield.org/features> Recent ExhibitionsFree Yourself? Exhibited as part of the Electronic Village Hall series <http://evg.dematerial.org/collection/free-yourself> 'Free Yourself?' was curated by Furtherfield as part of a larger, touring exhibition project called 'Electronic Village Hall'. An experimental platform that that supports arts communities to host new media art events in their local village halls. Each work in this small collection connects with some aspect of freedom and identity in the Internet age: freedom to collaborate and to use, modify and redistribute popular consumer technologies, software and media. These artists are social hackers, taking the new tools and conditions of our digital culture to reflect on and remould our values and relations. *Featured artists*: Rob Myers, moddr_ & Fresco Gamba, Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, Karen Blissett. MADE REAL: An exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern<http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibition/made-real>, the founders of Wikipedia Art reviewed in Digimag THREE GHOSTS "MADE REAL" ALLA FURTHERFIELD GALLERY<http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2124>by Michael Szpakowski *And we shall play a game of chess… *- Eliot, The Waste Land *Thunder. Second Apparition: A bloody Child *- Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1 *Other echoes, Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow? Quick, said the bird, find them, find them, round the corner.* Eliot, Four Quartets Furtherfield Gallery is currently haunted by three ghosts. And the haunting is as stylish as we’ve come to expect there – elegant, carefully disposed and thoroughly good-looking. Unsubscribe from this newsletter<http://furtherfield.org/newsletter/confirm/remove/21bb795d3d1438t1117> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens