[spectre] New Reviews & Articles on Furtherfield.org March 06.

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New Reviews & Articles on Furtherfield.org March 06.
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All recent reviews & articles can be seen at http://www.furtherfield.org

META-CC.net by Conglomco. Reviewer: Mark R Hancock.
NODE.London - States of Interdependence. Article by Marc Garrett and 
Ruth Catlow
Glitchbrowser, a collaboration between DMTR.org, BEFLIX.com, 
Organised.info. Reviewer: Alison Colman
Latest Works by Michael Magruder. Reviewer:Tsila Hassine
The Danube Panorama Project by Michael Aschauer. Reviewer:Yasser Rashid
Revisiting Backspace/ Bukspc- a Node.London event. Reviewer: Marc Garrett.

META-CC.net by Conglomco
"A website featuring a real-time video captioning engine that allows 
users to access multiple perspectives and resources to the mainstream 
news media. The website seeks to create an open forum for real time 
discussion and commentary of televised media by combining strategies 
employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling, 
on-demand video streaming, and search engines. " META[CC] takes the 
original texts and creates a new meaning for them. Positioning them as 
it does within the larger context of keywords, images and blogs within 
the database. But is it fair to describe the project within the context 
of a SI reading? Certainly the theoretical grounding of the SI is both 
political and social."
Reviewer: Mark R Hancock.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=171

NODE.London - States of Interdependence.
"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."
Collaborative text by Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=169

Glitchbrowser - A collaboration between DMTR.org, BEFLIX.com, 
Organised.info.
The term "glitch", coined in 1962 by former U.S. astronaut John Glenn, 
originally referred to a spike or change in voltage in an electrical 
current. The meaning of the word glitch has since expanded to refer to 
any unmistakable yet unexplainable hiccup in what would otherwise be a 
smoothly functioning system. When referring to computer glitches, they 
range from the merely annoying to the panic-inducing symptom of a 
full-scale systems breakdown (e.g., the "blue screen of death"). On the 
other hand, glitches can also be about serendipity, a full-on happy 
accident, embracing a mistake and running with it, or functioning as a 
veritable readymade. In the case of artists Dimtre Lima and Iman 
Morandi's Glitchbrowser, a fascination with glitch-as-metaphor serves as 
a conceptual basis for a work of Internet art.
Reviewer: Alison Colman.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=173

Latest Works by Michael Magruder.
In his recent works, {transmission} and re_collection, Magruder looks at 
reality through the eyes of our two new best “friends”: the cell-phone 
camera, and of course the inevitable Internet. In both works he 
addresses the notion of our perception of reality, both on the personal 
and the global level. In both works, reality is visually fragmented by 
the binary medium that carries it. His visual creations examine the 
nature and sources of the images we consume on a daily basis – be it 
images produced by global networks or ones we produce ourselves.
Reviewer: Tsila Hassine
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=170

The Danube Panorama Project by Michael Aschauer.
This ambitious piece of work uses Europe’s second largest river as its 
subject. The goal being to produce a full panorama of the Danube's 
coastline using slit-scan photography, the result of which will be, 
according to Aschauer, a “unique cross-section of contemporary Europe”. 
In the digital realm, slit-scanning involves taking a series of images 
and concatenating them together to create one whole image. Aschauer's 
technique utilises GPS data to control the speed at which the video 
camera records material, resulting in a series of images that are 
indexed according to longitude and latitude. The geographical precision 
of the images provide a unique method to contrast the area of the Danube.
Reviewer: Yasser Rashid.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=174

Revisiting Backspace/ Bukspc- a NODE.London event.
Backspace officially opened to the public in spring 1996 and ended its 
evolutionary, dynamic and explorative short life in 1999. The space was 
situated in London and the building kissed right up against the River 
Thames, on Clink Street. It was a central location, near the London 
Bridge and also a few steps away ironically from the historically known 
Clink Prison Museum, built on the foundations of one of the original 
prisons owned by the Bishop of Winchester. "It is thought it got its 
name from the clinking of the manacles, fetters, chains and bolts that 
were used there. It was also the origin of the phrase "In the Clink", to 
mean in prison."
Reviewer: Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=175