[spectre] A New Furtherfield & New Work...

Thu Aug 21 19:31:31 CEST 2003

Furtherfield.org are pleased to announce a new adventure.

http://www.furtherfield.org

Furtherfield has a new content management system and new design. This is the
first stage in a gradual shift which will allow visitors and artist members
to contribute more dynamically to the site.

A big shout goes out to artist Chris Webb who has recently become an
essential member of Furtherfield and has left his own excellent
Pogogallery.com to join the team. He has worked with us consistently on the
new site, taking the lead in its redesign.

Also, a cute holler of intense gratitude goes out to new recruit Adrian
Eaton, the content management dude who is also currently working with Ruth
Catlow on 'Rethinking Wargames Activate'.
http://www.furtherfield.org/rcatlow/converse/documents/rethink.htm

Other new changes on the new Furtherfield site?

Visitors can now register with furtherfield and become members (no charge).

Members can now contribute dynamically to discussions about the artwork
featured on Furtherfield and receive regular updates about latest
activities.

The 'Public Broadcast' section on the home page enables visitors to upload
information about projects and events relating to digital/web/net art from
all over the world.

And yes, more artwork featured on Furtherfield

The Archaea Series - Alan Sondheim
Graffoto - Man of the Crowd/ Glowlab
Frequency Love - Chris Webb

PANSE  - Páll Thayer

World - Glorious Ninth
Web Cam Theatre - Ivan Pope

The House that George Built - Dion Laurent

The Archaea Series - Alan Sondheim

'I've developed, over the last few years, certain assumptions about software
art. Just browse through the many entries available at runme.org
(http://runme.org/), and you, too will likely come away with some of these
assumptions: that software art is, at its heart, utilitarian; it functions,
it does something; it's tool-like; it's often more software than art.
Over the last month or so, July and August 2003, the writer Alan Sondheim
has been happily chipping away at those assumptions. - Lewis Lacook

Read full text and view the work at

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=39

Graffoto - Man of the Crowd/ Glowlab

'In Graffoto02, MOTC (man of the crowd) has printed out photographs of the
streets, pasted them back onto the surfaces where they were taken, and then
rephotographed them in situ. I guess that in the streets these images act as
a mirror of sorts for the street artists of Brooklyn. Also as a sign that
the guttural and wonderfully articulated expressions of protest, humour,
threat and joie de vivre can be both appreciated and participated in but
also consumed by the world of mediation. These second stage images do evoke
a strange threat of surveillance.' - Ruth Catlow

Read full text and view the work at

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=40

Frequency Love - Chris Webb

'Frequency Love is a net art piece, not in the networked sense but
conceptually filled to the brim with a net consciousness, a net object. This
visual deviation playfully captures the dark side of the Internet and its
globally collective and obsessive mannerist activities. It reveals a
psychological nuance of the everyday Internet sexual experience.' - Marc
Garrett.
Read full text and view the work at

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=4

PANSE  - Páll Thayer

'PANSE is the latest in a series of generative audio-visual pieces created
by Reykjavík based artist Páll Thayer. PANSE or 'Public Access Network Sound
Engine' is a server based program which creates a live audio stream based on
(multi) user interaction. Alongside the continuous live mp3 stream, visitors
to the site can interact with the piece, modifying and mutating the audio
created in real time, through a series of interfaces that also respond
visually to the live audio data being generated by PANSE and other
concurrent visitors.' - Neil Jenkins

Read full text and view the work at
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=46

World - Glorious Ninth

'This strangely emotional work weaves finely tuned aesthetic formalism with
polemic. Unusually for Internet based media works (though not for much of
the generative Flash work made by collaborators Kate Southworth and Patrick
Simons of GloriusNinth), after an initial cascade of data, the piece unfolds
at an intensely slow pace, inducing a mesmeric state in the viewer and
winding down the desire to click, for the next feature.' - Ruth Catlow

Read full text and view the work at

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=43

Web Cam Theatre - Ivan Pope

'Objects are cast in a performative context displaying motion and time using
Internet technology. By using very basic equipment, cheap web cams, cheap
software, cheap objects Ivan has created a twilight world. We witness a
psychogeographically influenced environment that engages a fluent mix of
conceptual and poetic crossovers with performance/live action. The
installation is minimal, with light settings, the quality of the image and
time-based changes largely uncontrollable.' - Marc Garrett

Read full text and view the work at
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=38

 The House that George Built - Dion Laurent

Dion Laurent's website of 'The House that George Built' contains 3 galleries
of photographs which document a remarkable, satirical project in the grand
tradition of doing exactly as you are told, in order to reveal and subvert
the idiocy of national government. The shelter that Laurent built in his
home, takes as its starting point, instructions issued by the US Department
of Homeland Security in their 'Campaign for citizen preparedness'.

 Read full text and view the work at
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=45

 See you there

http://www.furtherfield.org