[spectre] Foundland: Critical Stories.

[marc garrett]

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Foundland: Critical Stories.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/foundland-critical-stories

Annet Dekker interviews Foundland, a multi-disciplinary art and design 
practice based in Amsterdam. With backgrounds in graphic design, art and 
writing Foundland’s approach focuses on research based, critical 
responses to current issues. While moving around in advertising, printed 
matter, the Internet, and off line art spaces they dig up interesting 
stories about Disney, SpongeBob and defected soldiers.

Foundland is:

Ghalia Elsrakbi (Damascus, SYR) Ghalia completed a BFA in Graphic Design 
at Artez Hogeschool voor der Kunsten in Arnhem, followed by a Masters 
(design) at the Sandberg Institute. In 2009, she followed a research 
post-graduate at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.

Lauren Alexander (Cape Town, ZA) Lauren completed a BFA in Graphic 
Design at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. After shortly 
working in advertising she went on to pursue a Masters (design) at the 
Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, and thereafter an MFA at the Dutch Art 
Institute Arnhem (2011).

Annet Dekker is an independent curator and researcher. Subjects of 
interest are the influence of art on technology, science and popular 
culture, and vice versa. Currently she is tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, 
Rotterdam. Previously she worked as webcurator for SKOR (Foundation for 
Art and Public Domain), was programme manager at Virtueel Platform, and 
head of exhibitions, education and artist in residence at the 
Netherlands Media Art Institute. In 2009 she initiated aaaan.net with 
Annette Wolfsberger. They organised the Artist in Residence programme at 
the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam and produced Funware, 
an international touring exhibition in 2010 and 2011 about fun in 
software (curated by Olga Goriunova). Since 2008 she is writing a PhD on 
strategies for documenting net art at the Centre for Cultural Studies, 
Goldsmiths University, London, under supervision of Matthew Fuller. 
http://aaaan.net/

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