[spectre] 6 new works/features at furtherfield

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[New Explorations & discoveries of non-singular
Net/Web creativity featured/hosted on furtherfield]

This month we have another 6 new works/features at furtherfield. Bare with
us, this mailout is a little long info-wise, definatley worth a gander...

[S.C.A.R.E.] August Highland.
[DAYS OF MY LIFE] Shirin Kouladjie
[WEST NILE VIRUS] MEDIAMIXER.
[MY IDEA OD FUN] Bruce Eves.
[Ubiquitous Identities] Claudio Parentela.
[Power and Jtwine] Interview and review with Lewis Lacook.

[Info on new work]

[S.C.A.R.E.] August Highland.
S.C.A.R.E. Subversive Clowns Against Readable Etext - The intro reads:
UNREADABLE IS UNBEATABLE!! 'When you first see our work your eyes are going
to pop out on the ends of long stems and you are going to pull your cheek
around to the front of your face'.

August Highland creates literary identities that are networked, hyper
textural poetic complexities. Their existence challenges the singular,
bypassing the notion of 'I'. August's multi-presences function like an
active bacteria, digital organisms chomping into virtual Universe. Growing
perpetually and spanning Internet portals everywhere. Punk in spirit,
S.C.A.R.E's underbelly possesses many shadows, the text's originate from
Microsoft programmer's development kits and from porn sites. Both aspects
consist of powerful corporate intentions and are mutually entwined in
dominating the Internet for profit via desire for either getting on in the
world, or getting off in the virtual (if you see what I mean). Yet this is
not August's message, it more part of the palette, a very small part of the
greater whole.(mgarrett)

[DAYS OF MY LIFE] Shirin Kouladjie
'An object gains importance when it is separated from the things around it-
a few frames of a movie take a new life of their own when they are cut from
their environment: A new thought is born'. (Shirin Kouladjie).

These archived visual diary accounts exude an intuitve and playful intimacy.
As you journey through the collection of pages, static images, moving
images, dates, times and moments; you get the sense that images are a
platform for communicating what cannot be said by words alone. The user
experiences a methodology, an 'in tune' optical awareness. The emotion and
poetic mind behind these works explores life by seeing, shining light on
other people's lives as well as her own. Viewing the external world as part
of her own inner world, relational identification. The use of Flash, sound
and other techniques are subtle and do not distract you from the subject at
hand. (mgarrett)

[MY IDEA OD FUN] Bruce Eves.
'Navigating the grey area between desire and despair, my work operates
against the principle that in this newly whiny and Victorianized Disney era,
people’s delicate constitutions will tolerate nothing less than civility and
happy-talk'.(Bruce Eves)

Bruce Eves, is a 'male' with many shadows, declaring an intellegent and
conscious disdain towards our over consumptive, mediated western culture(s)
driven by its endless insipid self-conscious, protocolian schemes. His
healthy distrust of 'art for family' viewing is a refreshing non conformist
stance. Some of his best work creates a dark honest (sometimes frightening)
clarity, juxtaposing different psychological contradictions of cultures and
their underline practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that
one does not hold or possess; thus falseness. He knows that hypocrisy is
part of life but is not part of the realization of life. 'Hypocrisy is the
necessary burden of villainy' Rambler. '1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS' and 'ALL MALE
ORGY' are a perfect examples of this. (m.garrett)

[WEST NILE VIRUS] MEDIAMIXER.
An amazing journey following the 'West Nile Virus' as it starts in the Bronx
Zoo, New York, then spreads across 38 States, found in both mosquitos and
birds. [MEDIAMIXER] uses online surveillance tracking the outbreaks of the
virus, plus visual broadcasts of news reporting various incidents. The
documentation featured is awesome, hospitalized victims, a water monitering
form section and a plethora of other themes and formats including
performance. This site is a well put together, comprehensive multimedia
exploration via the Web. It will engulf you as you move further into the
flux and spectacle of paranoia. This requires various players: Quicktime,
Flash, Shockwave, Realplayer, all can be downloaded free. (m.garrett)


[Ubiquitous Identities] Claudio Parentela.
Italian artist Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, mail artist & cartoonist
and active in the international underground scene. He collaborates with
numerous zines, magazines and publishers in Italy and around the world. His
drawiings are always playful, offering a visceral intellegence with an 'Art
Brut' edge. He collaborates with various labels and bands of industrial,
noise, metal, punk music. He has illustrated stories and poems of:Vittorio
Baccelli,Lisa Massei,Alberto Rizzi,Cristiano Quadalti,Shannon Colebank,Gavin
Burrows,Gary Sneyd,Robert Smith,Michael Kriesel,Mark Sonnenfeld.

[Power and Jtwine] An interview and review with Lewis Lacook.
The splash page for his site cautions: "Be aware of your surroundings and
exercise caution when visual reflections refer to you." It's an awareness of
just how much of human perception is grounded in human predisposition. One
piece on his site, "mindgame", opens a flash animation of a seated figure
(it's one of those egg-shaped chairs, in fact, supposed to yield such
comfort in the office) superimposed against an exploding color background
that keeps declaring, looped, ad infinitem, "empty refill."

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