[spectre] New articles, reviews of projects on Furtherfield.

[marc garrett]

New articles, reviews of projects on Furtherfield.
http://www.furtherfield.org

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Edward Picot.
Review by Marc Garrett.

Edward Picot's visually playful, web art interpretation of Wallace 
Stevens's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is a curious 
artwork for many reasons. Once you have visited the work it lingers in 
the mind and on each return it maintains a strong freshness. So what is 
it in this work that compels me to re-experience its particularly 
strange and magical reasoning?

It consciously acknowledges the original spirit of the text, whilst 
introducing a response that at the same time attempts to deal with what 
these words may mean today. This interpretation of the poem not only 
gives us the opportunity to appreciate how special the original work is 
by following the text, whether in order, or haphazardly, but it also 
creates a moment in time that opens up a rare experience of two creative 
minds as a kind of collaboration.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=285

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Summerbranch Exhibition at TheSpace4 gallery, UK by Artists igloo.
Review by Rob Myers.

Summerbranch is a hyperreal cross-media woodland environment created by 
Igloo during a residency at Artsway Gallery in the New Forest during 
2005. Installed across the three rooms of TheSpace4 gallery in 
Peterborough from 14th July - 9th September.

"The use of multiple media to present the virtual scene as a complement 
to the recording of the real scene creates a hyperreal landscape. The 
reality of this is altered, but not interrupted, in the VRs by the 
motion-captured dance of moss-covered dancing female forms if you can 
find them among the foliage. Layer upon layer of invocation of nature, 
technology and mystery building up to produce the final effect of the 
work which consists as much in what is absent as in what is present in 
it. This experience of the work is hard to put into words, which for a 
piece of art is a strong sign of its effectiveness."
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=286

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_Reality Mapping: Navigating the Social-Nodes_
Article by MEZ (Maryanne Breeze).

Web 2.0 is based on a collusive tapestry of adjoining social nodes. 
Social Networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Liveleak, 
YouTube, Twitter and Pownce aren't prefaced on pre-set connotative 
connections maintained through historicized emotional depth or satisfied 
by biological drives. Friends aren't friends as we have come to know 
them: there is no establishment of shared geophysical experiences, no 
cathartic or chronologically defined friendship markers evident. What's 
important is [inter]action and the quantity of it - the residual volume 
of contact and the fact of shared connection minus a meatbody context. 
Identity is constructed in these friendship pathways via the idea of 
notations; of naming labels, of icon attribution, and of clustered 
info-snippets streamlined through an interface designed for momentary 
persona snapshots.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=281