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[Michel Bauwens]

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   [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.

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