FEBRUARY2007
Furtherfield is currently looking for more reviewers.
http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield connects to an ever increasing and diverse
community of people from all walks of life who are hungry
to experience and explore contemorary media art and
related creativities. We regularly receive submissions
from artists/groups from all over the world inviting us
to feature their work on Furtherfield. Because we receive
so many interesting submissions by those who want their
work reviewed on Furtherfield, we are always interested
in having more reviewers.
As a reviewer you will be asked to select from these
works and contribute to the context of what is being
created and write about why it is relevant. You will also
have the option of seeking out and writing about other
works that you think should be seen.
We are interested in people who understand and know net
art, software art, aspects of media art (new media art),
social networks connected to media art, live net art
(real-time), psychogeography, live Internet tv, open
source, tactical media, art blogs, activist games, net
activism, relational media art & its variants...
If you possess knowledge and enthusiasm for any of these
subjects, are able to write;-) and are interested in
being part of a group that is growing daily as an
adventurous community, join us and share the rewarding
experience of engaging in a contemporary, critical and
creative digitally vista that is shifting and changing
each day.
If you are interested, please contact- marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
IN 1999 I VISITED A HYPNOTHERAPIST
- By Ruth Catlow
He told me I was in a room and began to describe it to me. This is what I saw. The walls of the dark room were raw brick and the bright blue day shone through the windows. On the wall facing the open door stood a small vase of purple and red anenomes on a wooden table. There was a staircase behind this wall which led down to the garden. The hypnotherapist counted me slowly down the stairs and turned me towards the garden. After that point there were no words.
The garden had a high wall and dark green shrubs. The grass was bouncy under my feet and sprang between my toes. The garden was warm in the sun with the clouds speeding overhead. I went off in search of my next sculpture, afraid that I wouldn't find anything or that if I did, I wouldn't be able to recognise it. I took a wander around and came across it bobbing in the shrubs.
It was luminous, bigger than me and moving towards me. It's structure was impossible, changing continuously. It moved around me so I could see it from all angles, it was laughing. It bounced weightlessly as we circled and displayed our body forms to each other. We both laughed and left the garden.
I went and made it
The Furtherfield Reader
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In response to demand from visitors at HTTP Gallery (http://www.http.uk.net/) as well as Furtherfield.org visitors
and artists, in Summer 06, we will publish selected
Furtherfield reviews/articles as pdf downloads. These
quarterly editions will be accessible via the Internet
for print in a book format. This is also due to the
influx of fresh interest in media arts, especially in the
UK as evidenced by projects such as the upcoming
NODE.London Season of Media Arts http://www.nodel.org/.
Furtherfield and the HTTP Gallery, has been connecting
with various Colleges and Universities in the UK and
internationally, gaining interest in the ideas, content
and context(s) provided and investigated by both
platforms. We are dedicated to bringing about a new and
wider audience to media arts, bringing about a more
engaged culture of understanding, critical thinking and
independent consciousness.
OTHER FURTHERFIELD PROJECTS:
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http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercritic
(MEZ is our current resident
critic)
http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/
(archived for view)
http://www.furtherfield.org/gestation/
http://www.furtherfield.org/dissensionconvention/
(archive of event)
http://www.skinstrip.net/index_archive.htm
http://www.netbehaviour.org
(an open email list that explores networked
behaviour & media arts)
NODE.London - States of
Interdependence
A collaborative text written by Marc Garrett and Ruth
Catlow, for "Media Mutandis: A Node.London
Reader" (to be published in February 2006)
There is a Sufi fable in which a group of foreigners sit
at breakfast, excitedly discussing their previous
night’s exploration. One starts saying
“…and what about that great beast we came
across in the darkest part of the Jungle? It was like a
massive, rough wall.” The others look perplexed.
“No it wasn’t!” says one, “It was
some kind of python”. “Yeah…” another
half-agrees, “…but it also had powerful
wings”. The shortest of the group looks bemused-
“well it felt like a tree trunk to me.”
This fable aptly illustrates many aspects of the
NODE.London experience. The name, which stands for
Networked Open Distributed Events in London, indicates
the open, lateral structure adopted to develop a season
of media arts. It is intentionally extensible, suggesting
possible future NODE(s), Rio, Moscow, Mumbai etc. As
participants/instigators in the project’s ongoing
conceptualization and praxis, we are just two individuals
positioned on the interlaced, scale-free networks of
NODE.L (more on these later). As such, our descriptions
of this collectively authored project are inevitably
incomplete and contestable, with a complete picture
emerging only in negotiation with others.
Scale-free networks such as the network of Nodes are
constantly adopted by NODE.L’s to facilitate the
emergence of a grass roots media arts culture in London
and in building its own organisational and communication
structure. The Internet is a scale-free network.
Scale-free networks are described by scientists as
maintaining their levels of connectivity regardless of
their size. They do this by linking small
‘clusters’ of locally networked nodes to more
massively linked hubs, which are in turn connected to
each other. Theoretically this allows one to link from
one node on a local cluster to another distant, local
node with just a couple of steps through the hubs. This
creates the “small world” phenomena whereby
anyone on the network is felt to be close to any other as
well as to the centre.
To read more of the article visit Mazine:
http://www.mazine.ws/NODE.L_Interdependence.
More about
NODE.London:
NODE.London [Networked, Open, Distributed, Events.
London] is committed to building the infrastructure and
raising the visibility of media arts practice in London.
Working on an open, collaborative basis, NODE.London will
culminate, in its first year, in a month long season of
media arts projects across London in March 2006. http://nodel.org/
Media Mutandis: A NODE.London Reader: A survey of
media arts, technologies and politics which aims to
provide a critical context for NODE.London's activities
as an evolving media arts production and
infrastructure-building project. A 1000 publications will
be printed initially and sold at a low price at the
events of the March season. Contributing authors and
artists include: Armin Medosch, Simon Yuill and
Chad McCail, Adam Hyde, Sabeth Buchmann, Ruth Catlow and
Marc Garrett, Michael Corris, Matthew Fuller, Graham
Harwood/Mongrel, Richard Barbrook and Neil Cummings.
The publication is engineerd via the Print On Demand
system by NODE.London partner OpenMute. It will be
available as a printed and bound volume, a PDF document
on the publication website (url tbc) and the texts will
be made available in formatted versions individually for
editing and recompilation by readers, who can either
order a printed and bound version of their selections
through Print On Demand or simply print them off at home.
Readers can also become 'agents,' or
distributors - please see www.metamute.org
for a fuller explanation of the magic potential of POD.
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