[spectre] New Reviews/articles on Furtherfield.org (August 06).

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New Reviews/articles on Furtherfield.org (August 06).
 
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SCANZ - Article Written by Helen Varley Jamieson.
SCANZ (Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand, represented several firsts: 
it was the first Polar/Solar Circuit event to be held in New Zealand, 
and the first festival of its kind in this country, bringing together 25 
artists from NZ and around the world for a two week collaborative 
residency. SCANZ provided the context for the first faces meeting in New 
Zealand, and it was also the first time a group residency had been 
offered to Avatar Body Collision – our first opportunity for the four 
globally dispersed Colliders to actually meet and work together in the 
same physical space … !!!
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=195
 
Slippage - Review by Yasser Rashid.
An exhibition of net.art curated by Nanette Wylde, bringing together a 
group of 8 artists that include: Mez Breeze; Krista Connerly; Juliet 
Davis; Lisa Hutton; Paula Levine; Jess Loseby, et al.; UBERMORGEN.COM; 
and Jody Zellen. The exhibition presents an eclectic mix of work under 
the broad concept of 'exploring and exposing relationships between 
intention, perception, control, experience, behavior, memory, knowing 
and the unexpected'.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=196
 
aPpRoPiRaTe! - Review by Mark Hancock.
Feeding a movie that you’ve downloaded from a Peer to Peer network, into 
aPpRoPiRaTe by Sven König, reveals the nature of the “collaborative” 
effort that the image/audio undergoes in the sharing process. Watching 
the individual frame sequences on his website, we see how the image is 
staggered and broken into 'blocky' difficult to view images. There’s an 
aesthetic at work here that feels right in the context of shared content 
on the web. What appeals most of all is that the software reminds us of 
what movies really are.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=194
 
Elephants Dream By The Blender Foundation - Reviewer: Rob Myers.
Visually, Elephants Dream is a brooding European social-realist 
surrealist fantasy rather than an American Disney-inspired Pixar 
fantasy. Bleak mid-20th-century technological landscapes are twisted 
into a fantastic realm of vertiginous, deep, dark spaces and vague but 
ever-present threats. Flying electrical cables and cthonic telephone 
earpieces attack as clockwork birds and self-dictating typewriters watch 
on. Proog and Emo walk on robotic footholds across bottomless pits or 
argue in front of fragments of a world projected by giant projectors on 
tripods that have the air of martian war machines.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=197
 
 
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