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Date: Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:00 AM<br>Subject: [FurtherNews] Welcome to the brand new FurtherNews<br>To: <a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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<h1>Welcome to the brand new FurtherNews</h1>
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<h2>New Collection</h2><h4>Collaboration and Freedom � The World of Free
and Open Source Art</h4><p>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. <br><br> Curated by Furtherfield: Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett with introductory
texts by Charlotte Frost and Rob Myers. Commissioned by Arts Council England
for <a href="http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/about-us/digital-innovation-development/thinking-digital/" target="_blank">Thinking
Digital.</a><br><br> Displayed at the <a href="http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/about-us/digital-innovation-development/thinking-digital/collaboration-and-freedom/" target="_blank">ACE/Thinking
Digital website</a><br> The full editable version can be found at the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art" target="_blank">Foundation
for P2P Alternatives wiki</a><br> Also to be presented at <a href="http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=189%20" target="_blank">FLOSSIE </a>(the Women in FLOSS
conference) in London, November 15th.</p><h2>Two New Furtherfield
Commissions</h2><h4><a href="http://acrowdedapocalypse.com/" target="_blank">Online: A
Crowded Apocalypse by IOCOSE</a></h4><p>Commissioned by <a href="http://www.andfestival.org.uk/" target="_blank">AND (Abandon Normal Devices)
Festival</a> and Furtherfield<br><br> <img src="" style="float: left; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;" height="250" width="250">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. <br>
A project by <a href="http://www.iocose.org/" target="_blank">IOCOSE</a><br> AND Festival -
29th September 2011 to 2nd October 2011. <a href="http://www.fact.co.uk/" target="_blank">FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative
Technology)</a></p><p></p><h4><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/balloon-dog-rob-myers" target="_blank">Balloon Dog
by Rob Myers</a></h4><p><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/balloon-dog-rob-myers" target="_blank">A
downloadable freely licensed 3D model of an artwork to print and
remix</a>.<br> <br><img src="" alt="Balloon Dog by Rob Myers, 3D Model" style="float: left; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;" height="250" width="250">2011
Furtherfield commission.<br><br> 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.<br><br><br><br></p><h2></h2><h2></h2><h2>Media Art Ecologies</h2><h4><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/ruth-catlow/re-rooting-digital-culture-isea-2011" target="_blank">Community
Blog - Re-rooting digital culture at ISEA 2011</a></h4><p>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.</p><p></p><h4><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/" target="_blank">Zero Dollar Laptop -
Upcoming Workshops</a></h4><p><b>Southend on Sea Linux User Group</b> (<a href="http://wiki.soslug.org/" target="_blank">SoSLUG</a>) and <a href="http://www.digitalexplorationcentre.com/" target="_blank">Digital Exploration
Centre</a> 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.<br><br> <b>Furtherfield and Access Space</b> have been invited to run a 2
day ZDLT workshop for future workshop leaders at the <a href="http://www.maribor2012.info/en/index.php?ptype=0&echosub=1&menu=0&id=163" target="_blank">Urban
Furrows</a> 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 Panad�s Massanet and
Jake Harries.<br><br></p><h2>Reviews, Articles & Interviews on
Furtherfield</h2><h4><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/philosophy-software" target="_blank">The
Philosophy Of Software. By Rob Myers</a></h4><p>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.</p><p></p><h4><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/videogame-appropriation-contemporary-art-racing-games" target="_blank">Videogame
Appropriation in Contemporary Art: Racing Games. By Mathias
Jansson</a></h4><p>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.</p><p></p><h4><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/we-demand-impossible-interview-john-jordan-and-gavin-grindon" target="_blank">We
Demand The Impossible: An Interview with John Jordan and Gavin Grindon. By
Marc Garrett</a></h4><p>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."</p><p></p><h4><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/remixthebook-everything-all-once" target="_blank">Remixthebook:
Everything, all at once. By Mark Hancock</a></h4><p>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.</p><p></p><h4><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/secret-war-between-uploading-and-downloading" target="_blank">The
Secret War Between Uploading And Downloading. By Rob Myers</a></h4><p>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.</p><p></p><h4><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/features" target="_blank">Other reviews, articles,
interviews</a></h4><p></p><h2>Recent Exhibitions</h2><h4><a href="http://evg.dematerial.org/collection/free-yourself" target="_blank">Free Yourself?
Exhibited as part of the Electronic Village Hall series</a></h4><p>'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. <b>Featured artists</b>: Rob Myers, moddr_ & Fresco Gamba,
Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, Karen Blissett.</p><p></p><h4><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibition/made-real" target="_blank">MADE REAL: An
exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern</a>, the founders of
Wikipedia Art reviewed in Digimag</h4><p><a href="http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=2124" target="_blank">THREE GHOSTS "MADE
REAL" ALLA FURTHERFIELD GALLERY</a> by Michael Szpakowski<br><br> <i>And
we shall play a game of chess� </i>- Eliot, The Waste Land<br><br>
<i>Thunder. Second Apparition: A bloody Child </i>- Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act
IV, Scene 1<br><br> <i>Other echoes, Inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?
Quick, said the bird, find them, find them, round the corner.</i> Eliot, Four
Quartets<br><br> 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.</p>
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