[spectre] New Reviews/Interviews at Furtherfield.org Dec 2006.

[marc]

New Reviews/Interviews at Furtherfield.org Dec 2006.

Welcome to Furtherfield's current collection of reviews and interviews.
Please find time to read the writings and explore the work and projects.
Wishing all collaborators and interested minds an enjoyable Xmas and a 
good new year...


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-Ele Carpenter: Interviewed by Jess Laccetti.
-The Amazon Noir Team: Interviewed by Franz Thalmair.
-Bio Mapping by Christian Nold: Review by Cinzia Cremona.
-The GROUNDED exhibition: Review by Lauren A Wright.
-Andy Stringer ehibition: Review by Rob Myers.
-Installation of Ombea by Pash*: Review by Palo Fabuš.


Ele Carpenter: Interviewed by Jess Laccetti.
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Open Source Embroidery: Jess Laccetti Inquires about Ele Carpenter’s 
Latest Work.
“‘The Open Source Embroidery’ project brings together programming for 
embroidery and computing. It's based on the common characteristics of 
needlework crafts and open source computer programming: gendered 
obsessive attention to detail; shared social process of development; and 
a transparency of process and product.” Ele Carpenter is undertaking 
post doctoral research with CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media 
Bliss) at the University of Sunderland. Her curatorial practice-based 
research is focused on socially and politically engaged art activism 
with and without new technologies. Research outcomes include: the RISK 
project, 2005; the Open Source Embroidery Project, 2006; and thesis due 
to be completed in January 2007.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=209


The Amazon Noir Team: Interviewed by Franz Thalmair.
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THE BIG BOOK (C)RIME.
About one year after the release of Google Will Eat Itself the artists 
Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, Hans Bernhard and Lizvlx (both 
ubermorgen.com ) out foxed Amazon.com, the second global Internet 
player. The results of the Media Art-event, Amazon Noir - The Big Book 
Crime, were presented to the public on the 15th of November 2006. In 
this interview the Amazon Noir Crew talks about the framework of the 
project, its coding and art historical background, the official feedback 
and copyright issues.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=208


Bio Mapping by Christian Nold: Review by Cinzia Cremona.
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If you go to http://www.biomapping.net, the first (moving) image you see 
looks like an aerial view of a spiky fence enclosing a small area of 
Greenwich (London) implanted onto a Google Map. Two red dots at the 
opposite ends are labeled ‘Yachtclub Sneaky Drink’ and ‘Busy Traffic 
Crossing’. This is a visualization of an individual experience of 
Christian Nold’s Bio Mapping Project. Christian started working on Bio 
Mapping in 2004 by building a Galvanic Skin Response sensor/data logger 
and connecting it to a commercial GPS unit.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=212


GROUNDED exhibition: Reviewer by Lauren A Wright.
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GROUNDED Unearthed. An exhibition curated by Axel Stockburger, at E:vent 
in Bethnal Green, London. Which has in the past few months relocated 
from the basement of its converted warehouse, artist-community home into 
a main floor space. The group exhibition GROUNDED brings together a 
diverse range of international artists. Showing work that deals with 
processes of modeling and simulation, activities that form the 
conceptual backbone of digital culture. However all of the artists 
involved are tackling this subject with an array of practices that are 
firmly rooted in physical environments, from architecture to 
installation thus addressing important elements of digital culture with 
essentially non-digital means.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=211


Andy Stringer exhibiton: Review by Rob Myers.
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The Destabilisation of perception by Andy Stringer.
TheSpace4, Peterborough, 10th November 2006 - 12th January 2007.
Andy Stringer's show at TheSpace4 in Peterborough consists of a series 
of large-scale abstract paintings. The labels and the catalogue identify 
these works as paintings, and they are areas of liquid pigment on 
substrate laid down with a flatness that Greenberg could only have 
dreamt of. These paintings are in fact wide-format inkjet prints of 
images created on computer using imaging software. Artists who pursue 
abstraction through new technology are often accused of technological 
determinism. Usually, ignoring the historical relationship of art to 
technology and of technology and culture. J David Bolter's theory of 
determining technologies explains how societies regard their humanity in 
metaphoric terms of their highest technology, whether that is fire, 
pottery, steam or computers.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=207


Installation of Ombea by Pash*: Review by Palo Fabuš.
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Moving Sounds of Ombea - Pash*. Ombea is what Russian conceptual artist 
Ilya Kabakov calls a total installation, a designed experience. Ombea is 
an interactive installation, consisting of an empty room with 4 
speakers, 4 light sources and 2 cameras, which are placed within a 
space, partially isolated from light and sound coming from outdoors, 
provided with a lockable entrance; a computer is located outside the 
ombea space with max/msp/jitter patch which serves to direct the space 
reaction.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=210


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