[P2P-F] [FurtherNews] FurtherNews Issue 3, Nov 2010.

Sat Nov 26 05:20:29 CET 2011

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Furtherfield <info at furtherfield.org> wrote:

>    [image: furtherfield logo]   [image: for arts, technology & social
> change]   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...
>   Moving Forest - How Can A Forest Move? AKA the Castle | @ Furtherfield
> & SPACE MediaLab<http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/moving-forest-how-can-forest-move>
>
> 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 at 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.*
>
>
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> Latest Reviews, Articles & Interviews on FurtherfieldFailed utopia: The
> art of surveillance and simulating control: An interview with Toni
> Dimitrov. By Darko Aleksovski<http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/failed-utopia-art-surveillance-and-simulating-control-interview-toni-dimitrov>
>
> 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<http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/image-essay-training-better-world>
>
> 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."
>
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> Recent Contributions to Furtherfield's Community Blog StreamHypothesis:
> An Art/ Science Fair By Rachel Beth Egenhoefer<http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/rachel-beth-egenhoefer/hypothesis-art-science-fair>
>
> 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<http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/helen-varley-jamieson/performing-across-13-hour-time-difference>
>
> 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)<http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/rachel-beth-egenhoefer/hypothesis-art-science-fair>
>
> 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.com/tagged/chicago_mca>:
> http://www.byobworldwide.com
> Contemporary Internet/Networked Art & Social Autonomy: Mobile Phone
> Technology<http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/furtherfield/contemporary-internetnetworked-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.
>
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