[spectre] 3 New Features on Furtherfield.org, Sept 08

[marc garrett]

3 New Features on Furtherfield.org, Sept 08
http://www.furtherfield.org

FLOSS Manuals - review by Rob Myers
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=317

Digital Stitchings: An Interview with Rachel Beth Egenhoefer by Jess 
Laccetti
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=316

"Neurotic" - performance at ICA by Fiddian Warman featuring three robots 
and a number of Punk bands. Reviewed by Rob Myers.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=318


FLOSS Manuals
Recently won the communities award at the New Zealand Open Source Awards 
on Sept 24th in a ceremony in Wellington, New Zealand. FLOSS Manuals 
provides manuals for a variety of Free Software. Graphics, video, audio, 
office, Internet, even GNU/Linux itself. There is an entire section 
devoted to manuals for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) system. And there 
is a selection of manuals for web sites including Wikimedia Commons, 
Archive.org and the FLOSS Manuals site itself. You can read these online 
or download PDF versions to read or print offline. Some manuals are 
available in different languages; English, Dutch and Farsi.

Digital Stitchings: An Interview with Rachel Beth Egenhoefer
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer considers her Commodore 64 Computer and Fischer 
Price Loom to be defining objects of her childhood. She creates tactile 
representations of cyclical data structures in candy and knitting and is 
currently researching the intersection of textiles, technology, and the 
body. Currently Rachel Beth is focusing on new projects. She was an 
artist in residence at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China (November & 
December 2007) and worked as an Artist in Residence in the UK at the 
University of Brighton, Lighthouse Brighton and Furtherfield in London 
(January-May 2008).

Neurotic by Fiddian Warman
A performance by Fiddian Warman featuring three robots and a number of 
Punk bands over three nights at London's Institute of Contemporary Art. 
Warman and the bands performed for the robots which shared the dance 
floor with the audience. Powered by hydraulic pistons whose motions 
simulate the deliberately artless pogo dancing of Punks, the robots 
activated when the neural net system running on the computer controlling 
them decided that a band sounded Punk enough to dance to.

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