Hi everyone, once again- a warm welcome to all subscribers to the 12th issue of the Furtherfield Newsletter, a resource that aims to inform everyone who is interested about what is currently happening at Furtherfield.org, HTTP Gallery and various connected projects. There is always loads happening, it shifts and changes all of the time. Currently we are very busy setting up for this Thursday’s opening of an exhibition of work by Stanza at HTTP. So lets waste no more time and get straight to it…

CONTENTS

(1) NEW REVIEWS/ARTICLES/WORKS ON FURTHERFIELD.ORG DEC 05: Featuring work by: Florian Cramer, DVblog Quicktime Platform, Roxana
Torre, Tony Scott, Glorious Ninth.

(2) FURTHERCRITIC- ]]MEZ[[.
_Pull of The[ory] Narrative + P[H]ush of The Context_. Featuring The Endless Forest project.

(3) CURRENT EXHIBITION & EVENTS AT HTTP GALLERY.
– Stanza: Abuse of the Public Domain.

(4) REVIEW ABOUT FURTHERFIELD/HTTP SPACE.
– Art, Autonomy and Automata. At MetaMute.

(5) NEW SUBMISSIONS ON FURTHERFIELD.
– How to submit and what we are interested in reviewing.

(6) NODE.L: [Networked, Open, Distributed, Evnts. London]
-an open, participatory season that aims to support and stimulate Media
Arts in London during March 2006.

(7) OPPORTUNITIES AT FURTHERFIELD:
-Opportunities for involvement with the Furtherfield team.

(8) OTHER FURTHERFIELD PROJECTS.

========================>let’s go< (1) NEW REVIEWS/ARTICLES/WORKS ON FURTHERFIELD.ORG DEC 05: Featuring work by: Florian Cramer, DVblog Quicktime Platform, Roxana Torre, Tony Scott, Glorious Ninth. ==================================== http://www.furtherfield.org Words Made Flesh by Florian Cramer. Although it was not until 1957 that mathematician John W. Tukey coined the term “software”, its history can be traced back to Antiquity, according to Florian Cramer. One of the main advocates of Software Art and long-time researcher on the relations between literature and computing, Cramer has written the book “Words Made Flesh. Code, Culture, Imagination” during a fellowship in the Media Design Research program at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. In this 140-page essay, he develops a historical overview of the philosophical, mystical, literary and artistic currents that lead to the present concept of software as a cultural practice. Article by Pau Waelder. DVblog Quicktime Platform. "DVblog.org is a Vlog and platform for artists and scholars for presenting or publishing stand-alone quicktime works." The deal is simple, if you are currently creating work in Quicktime, upload them and let everyone see it. As well as the central column of recently uploaded works for all to view, on the left side of the blog sits a list of archived works, tagged with various genre titles such as Trailer Cinema& Ephemera. It also has other categories such as: realtime, net art, personal, quicktime tech, quicktime VR and many more. Review by Marc Garrett. Personal World Map by Roxana Torre. Roxana Torre's "Personal World Map" is an interactive world map, where the world is distorted according to the potential traveler's time/budget limitations. The user chooses a "center", and defines time and money boundaries. After processing that data against a database of commercial flight data, a new map is produced, a personal world map. This new map is a distorted map, as geography and physical distances are no longer relevant in face of those new limitations and the availability of flights and their cost distribution. Review by Tsila Hassine Glitch Art by Tony Scott. Behind the word 'Glitch' there is now adigital art movement emerging that explores imperfection by producing or saving unwanted images. Made with a digital camera, a printer or a scanner and based on an accident or a malfunction in a program causing a computer crash, a glitch can be defined saying that it is the on-screen output of something not working properly. Review by Joachim Desarmenien. Packet Switching by Glorious Ninth. “Ultimately there are only two basic states or basic phases and everything of interest takes place on the boundary between them: on the boundary between chaos and order, on the boundary of water and ice, on the boundary of finite and infinite computer process.” Tor Norretranders*. Kate Southworth and Patrick Simons have been creating audiovisual artworks, output in Shockwave, for exhibitions, projections at public gatherings of various kinds and for distribution across the Internet since the year 2000. Collaborative Review by Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett. To be a Reviewer on Furtherfield contact - marc.garrett@furtherfield.org Reviewer's Bio's - http://www.furtherfield.org/reviewersbio.php Past Reviews - http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreviews.php o—o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o (2) FURTHERCRITIC RESIDENCY- ]]MEZ[[. New FurtherCritic article by ]]MEZ[[ _ Pull of The[ory] Narrative + P[H]ush of The Context _ [This article uses a threading system. Thread 1 comments + critiques the notion of narrative. The 2nd Thread lyrically describes the Endless Forest project (http://www.tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/index.html). Intertwine at your (peri)leisure]. http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id=18 - ]]MEZ[[ Article. The FurtherCritic Residency series started early 2002, offering a range of dynamic and accessible critical reviews, interviews and articles to a diverse, interested public. Starting with Lewis LaCook, it was continued by Ryan Griffis and now we are pleased to announce the start of a new residency with ]]Mez[[ (Mary-anne Breeze). More information about the FurtherCritic Residency. http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercritic.php Information about ]]MEZ[[ http://www.furtherfield.org/displayartist.php?artist_id=206 o—o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o (3) CURRENT EXHIBITION & EVENTS AT HTTP GALLERY. Stanza: Abuse of the Public Domain. HTTP presents Abuse of the Public Domain, the first solo show of networked media art by UK artist Stanza. This exhibition features large-scale projections of 2 works, which use live real-time data from CCTV cameras cited in two cities, London and New York . Security tracking data is Stanza's chosen medium for these process led artworks. YOU ARE MY SUBJECTS uses data from a single fixed camera in NYC, focusing on subjects as they pass below it. AUTHENTICITY [Trying to imagine the world from everyone elsesÂ’ perspective, all at once] draws its imagery from cameras all over London. Bother works can be viewed in a web browser via the Internet and turn us all into voyeurs of eerie 'parallel realities'. “CCTV systems are everywhere in the public domain. Millions of hours worth of data are recorded every day by these cameras. We are all unwitting bit part actors, in the filming of our own lives. Usually we cannot watch, the results are not collected for broadcast back to the public. Rather they are monitored, filtered, distributed and archived without our knowledge or permission. Private View Thursday 8th December 7-9pm 9th December 2005- 23rd January 2006 Friday- Sunday: 12noon-5pm email: info@http.uk.net tel: 0208 802 2827 more info: http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib8/exhibitions8.htm o—o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o (4) REVIEW ABOUT FURTHERFIELD/HTTP SPACE. - Art, Autonomy and Automata. At MetaMute. By Finn Smith. ============================ The review by Finn Smith, also includes within it, a review about the last exhibition at the HTTP Space of the 'theatre of restless automata' (September-October, 2005) by boredomresearch. Last year digital arts platform Furtherfield extended itself into meat space, opening its HTTP gallery in Finsbury Park. Finn Smith visited the space, the boredomresearch exhibition ‘theatre of restless automataÂ’, and the resident pussy cat. I was recently shown an article in The Sunday Times Style Magazine which extolled the merits of 'creative collectives'. If the title 'Group Therapy' wasn't nauseating enough, the article went on to claim that 'like all things Warhol, the creative collective is back.' Several groups were interviewed and made statements such as: 'We want to rent our art to businesses'; 'We could be arrested if we were caught selling drinks' and 'We hope to become a famous institution'. This left me feeling grumpy and disillusioned and I travelled to the HTTP artist-run space a cynical man, expecting the worst. To read the full Review/Article: http://linkme2.net/62 o—o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o (5) NEW SUBMISSIONS ON FURTHERFIELD. - How to submit to Furtherfield and what we are interested in reviewing. If you want your current work(s) or project(s0 to be on Furtherfield and reviewed please read below to see if your work relates to the definitions & check the web site to see if your work is appropriate... What work is Furtherfield interested in? We are interested in Net Art, Networked Art, Media Art, PsychoGeography, Real-time Art, Media Art Conferences, Activist Games, Open Source, Soft Groups, Database Art, Media Activism, Networked Collaborations, Surveillance Art, Online Media & Net Exhibitions, Networked Communities, Software Art, Wireless Projects, Street Art, Art Blogs, Tactical Media, Generative Art, Free Software, Hactivism, networked resistance & related works/projects... What happens if your work is featured on Furtherfield? If we feature your work, it will appear on the Furtherfield homepage with a review by one of the Furtherfield Reviewers . The work will then be publicized on a range of email lists & also promoted in Furtherfield's Newsletter. Your personal ID-card on Furtherfield We will set up a personal ID-card for you on Furtherfield. This will display a personal statement and URLs of websites also displaying your work. link to your CV or a biog, Once your work is added to our database, we will provide you with a Username and Password that will allow you to update your own ID-card (independently) with any additional information about yourself and current projects. When you update your ID-card with new projects we will view it and put it up for review. Only current work/projects will be reviewed, although you are very welcome to update and put on older works at your leisure. http://www.furtherfield.org/submissions.php. (6) NODE.L: [Networked, Open, Distributed, Evnts. London] -an open, participatory season that aims to support and stimulate Media Arts in London during March 2006. ======================================================= Some of the Furtherfield crew Ruth Catlow, Charlotte Frost, Marc Garrett; have been involved in a major and exciting project in London that was once called SMAL, now called NODE.L: [Networked, Open, Distributed, Evnts. London]. Join in... NODE.L: [Networked, Open, Distributed, Evnts. London] is an open, participatory season that aims to support and stimulate Media Arts in London during March 2006. From collaborative mapping projects on the street to community radio and free wireless networks in the air, people across London are finding new and creative ways to produce, display and distribute art and media, and exciting new ways to work, connect and communicate. NODE.L is a showcase for work that in production and/or exhibition, performance and processes, employs electronic or digital technologies (whether audiovisual, computerised, or telematic). While NODE.L will be International in terms of participation, we are really serious about the 'London' bit. NODE.L will be city-wide, seeking out every borough, bridge, and public walkway; towering views, glass and steel, crumbling brick, winding alleys and waterways ...help us locate media art in London, and put yourself on that map too. http://nodel.org For amore deeper context, you can vist and even join in at: http://smal.omweb.org/modules/wakka/HomePage o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o (7) OPPORTUNITIES AT FURTHERFIELD ================================= If you are interested in getting involved, joining us in the running of Furtherfield at a deeper level and you possess one or more of the talents listed below - get in touch, info@furtherfield.org. Please make a note, that we are funded but only regarding the continuation of our projects - we are still a grass roots organization. If you wish to be involved in something that is progressive, and exploring beyond traditional remits regarding net art, networked art and new media, then you will be in good company. Opportunities for involvement in the Furtherfield team:- Furtherfield Reviewers – anywhere. Assistant web site designer - intern. (London or SE England) Web marketing – anywhere. Assistant programmer - intern. (London or SE England) Office administatror – intern. (London or SE England) o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o (8) OTHER FURTHERFIELD PROJECTS: ======================================================= http://www.furthertxt.org (send in your papers, new version of the site up next year) http://www.furtherfield.org/(archived for view) http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/ (open to all to use) http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercritic http://www.furtherfield.org/gestation/ (re-activated) http://www.furtherfield.org/dissensionconvention/ (archive of real-time event) http://www.skinstrip.net/index_archive.htm (de-activated for the moment due to it being to expensive to run) http://www.furtherfield.org/networking (another event soon) http://www.netbehaviour.org ---------------------------------------------------->
Furtherfield is an online platform for the creation, promotion, and
criticism of adventurous digital/net art work for public viewing,
experience and interaction.

Furtherfield creates imaginative strategies that actively communicate
ideas and issues in a range of digital & terrestrial media contexts;
featuring works online and organizing global, contributory projects,
simultaneously on the Internet, the streets and public venues.
Furtherfield focuses on network related projects that explore new social
contexts that transcend the digital, or offer a subjective voice that
communicates beyond the medium. Furtherfield collaborates with artists,
programmers, writers, activists, musicians and thinkers who explore
beyond traditional remits.

Furtherfield was founded in 1997 and is a London based, non-profit
organisation. Who received an interim grant from the Arts Council of
England, last year. Even though this (main) fund supports Furtherfield
to continue its diverse directives online and in physical space. We
still apply for other grants to support other projects, some we get,
some we don’t and some of the work we don’t apply for, still- the
majority of Furtherfield activities and projects are self funded and are
sustained by the passion, ideas, exploration and skills of the
Furtherfield team as well as its diverse membership.
Occasional public funding facilitates a more in-depth collaboration with
programmers and artists on specific projects, usually leading to more intuitive audience interaction and accessibility.
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