[spectre] Interview with 'Monsters of the Machine' Artist, Eugenio Tisselli

Sorry for any cross posting... Interview with 'Monsters of the Machine' Artist, Eugenio Tisselli Marc Garrett interviews artist, Eugenio Tisselli about his collaborative project with Tanzanian farmers currently being shown as part of a larger, touring exhibition 'Monsters of the machine:

[spectre] Interview with Inke Arns & review of the transmediale show, alien matter

Interview with Inke Arns & review of the transmediale show, alien matter Sorry for any cross posting... Interview: Looking at Alien Matter with Inke Arns Since 2005, Inke Arns has been the curator and artist director of Hartware MedienKunstVerein, an institution focusing the cross-section

[spectre] Review: New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 - 1978)

Sorry for any cross posting... New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 - 1978). Kristian Lukić reviews Armin Medosch's New Tendencies – Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961-1978), comparing the movement's approach and relationships with the

[spectre] That Ends That Matter – An Installation by Jean-Paul Kelly

Sorry for any cross posting... New review on Furtherfield That Ends That Matter – An Installation by Jean-Paul Kelly Review by Chloe Stavrou. That Ends That Matter is a three-channel video installation by Jean-Paul Kelly exploring the lack of transparency elucidating a direct relationship

[spectre] Review: HFT The Gardener: A Network of Financial Trading, Drugs & Botany | Susan Treister @ Annely Juda

Sorry for any cross posting... Garrett Lynch reviews HFT The Gardener, the recent exhibition by Susan Treister at Annely Juda Fine Art, London. The review relates Treister's work to the artistic visualisation of networks and the links between network structures and art practice. The work of

[spectre] Data Asymmetries: An Interview with Burak Arikan

Sorry for nay cross posting... Data Asymmetries: An Interview with Burak Arikan | By Carleigh How does network mapping exist as a tool for visualizing a politics of control as well as routes of emancipation from surveillance? In the first of a two-part interview series, artist/technologist Burak

[spectre] The Spectacle of Failure in Drone Warfare

Sorry for any cross posting... The Spectacle of Failure in Drone Warfare. Dave Young writes on the politics of the drone crash in response to the artist collective IOCOSE and their sculptural work Drone Memorial. "In IOCOSE's Drone Memorial, our attention is drawn to the fact that these complex

[spectre] IGNORANCE: The Power of Non-Knowledge

Sorry for any cross posting.. IGNORANCE: The Power of Non-Knowledge The Disruption Network Lab (DNL) has been presenting in Berlin some of the finest platforms for the discussion of art, hacktivism and disruption, presenting academic debates on not-so-conventional forms of thought. Pedro Marum

[spectre] Review of Dreams Rewired

Sorry for any cross posting... Review of Dreams Rewired -- Screening at Watermans, London By Samantha Penn The 2015 film Dreams Rewired (dirs. Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhardt, Thomas Tode) will be screened at Watermans, London on 3 December. By comparing historic and current responses to new

[spectre] Harun Farocki - Empathy at Fundació Antoni Tàpies

Sorry for any cross posting... Harun Farocki - Empathy at Fundació Antoni Tàpies By Chloe Stavrou - https://t.co/kxglEoPK9J Two years after Harun Farocki's death, a project-retrospective collaboration of his work was undertaken, with its first part at The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM)

[spectre] Backdoored: An interview with Nye Thompson

Sorry for any cross posting... Backdoored: An interview with Nye Thompson By Millicent Hawk @furtherfield #surveillance #webcams #privacy... How much can users really know about the functioning of the cameras which are embedded in their devices? Backdoored, Nye Thompson's recent work, explores

[spectre] Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21st Century.

tre, Regina de Miguel, Joana Moll & Cédric Parizot, Guido Segni, Karolina Sobecka, Alan Sondheim, Thomson & Craighead. Curated by Marc Garrett on behalf of Furtherfield. Monsters of the Machine is a contemporary take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and asks us to reconsider her warning, tha

[spectre] Soviet or Internet - Cyberneticists in Hell

Sorry for any cross posting... Baruch Gottlieb reviews Benjamin Peters' How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet, The MITPress, 2016 - http://bit.ly/2dqngBU In Benjamin Peters’ “How not to Network a Nation” we learn that the USSR had the engineers with the technical

[spectre] Soviet Utopian Past in the Critical Present: Power and Architecture.

Sorry for any cross posting... Soviet Utopian Past in the Critical Present: Power and Architecture. reviewed by Molly Hankwitz - http://bit.ly/2e5HmaA In Power and Architecture, the post-Soviet city and utopian public space was used as a critical framework with which to discuss issues related

[spectre] A Contemporary Delphic Oracle: The Church of Big Data

Sorry for any cross posting... A Contemporary Delphic Oracle: The Church of Big Data New article on Furtherfield by Marloes de Valk. An essay on waiting for the technological rapture in the church of big data. Marloes de Valk writes about the paralysing effect of hiding the human hand

[spectre] The tireless enchantment of technological sorcery | Ars Electronica 2016 Review.

The tireless enchantment of technological sorcery Ars Electronica 2016 Review At Furtherfield.. By #KissMyArs - http://bit.ly/2ctU82g A participant asks how Ars Electronica, one of the longest standing and biggest media arts festivals in the world, has found itself so far distanced from

[spectre] Video of DIWO - Art and Solidarity in the Age of Networks at Wysing Arts

Sorry for any cross posting... On Saturday 6th August Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett from Furtherfield led, or rather collaborated on the 'Do It With Others - Art and Solidarity in the Age of Networks' event, with Gretta Louw and They Are Here (Helen Walker & Harun Morrison) and writer Tim Wate

[spectre] contesting/contexting SPORT 2016: Interview with Zeljko Blace

Sorry for anyh cross posting... contesting/contexting SPORT 2016: Interview with Zeljko Blace Josephine Bosma interviews Zeljko Blace on his involvement in the exhibition and program 'contesting/contexting SPORT 2016' and discusses how it contests the field of SPORT through critical art and

[spectre] Pawnshop - the Greek Reality Board Game

Sorry for any cross posting... Pawnshop - the Greek Reality Board Game. What is the relationship between state corruption and economic collapse in Greece? Lina Theodorou, artist and creator of the board game 'Pawnshop', talks with Furtherfield’s Ruth Catlow about Grexit, Brexit, and crisis in

[spectre] Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot To Make You Poorer

Sorry for any cross posting... Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot To Make You Poorer By Dmytri Kleiner. The reason many people on the left are excited about proposals for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is that it acknowledges economic inequality and its social consequences. In reality,

[spectre] Revisiting the future with Laboria Cuboniks | A conversation

Sorry for any cross posting... By Cornelia Sollfrank and Rachel Baker. Techno-feminisms are, once again, on the ascent. The Xenofeminist Manifesto, published in 2015 by the collective Laboria Cuboniks, is a provocative and elaborate example for the renewed exhortation for gendered bodies to

[spectre] Do It With Others - Art and Solidarity in the Age of Network

we have invited Furtherfield (Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett) to develop and lead a day-long symposium with contributions from artists Gretta Louw and They Are Here (Helen Walker & Harun Morrison) and writer Tim Waterman. Furtherfield create online and physical spaces and places for different k

[spectre] The Home Within: YAMA and Ngurra Kurlu

al Culture, YAMA is also the name given to the multimedia installation made by artists from the Warnayaka Arts Centre with Napanangka (Gretta Louw) for the Networking the Unseen exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery. Article http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/home-within-yama-and-ng

[spectre] Review of exhibition ‘As Rights Go By’.

Sorry for any cross posting... Review by Gerald Straub. The “As rights Go By” exhibition at freiraum Q21 aimed to unfold the irregularities of a ‘regular legal system’ in today's postdemocratic societies. The 15 works on show, curated by Sabine Winkler, focused on the complex dynamics of this

[spectre] Digital Pop | Review of the 12th Athens Digital Arts Festival

Sorry for any cross posting... Digital Pop | Review of the 12th Athens Digital Arts Festival By Marianna Christofi. What kind of digital content do we consume and what culture do we create? How are we “feeding” today’s digital markets? How ephemeral is digital Pop culture? Under the theme of

[spectre] Julian Rosefeldt`s Manifesto

Sorry for any cross posting... Julian Rosefeldt`s Manifesto Review by Inga Seidler, on Furtherfield. For the exhibition „Manifesto“ Julian Rosefeldt collaged the texts of numerous manifestos — from Futurism to Pop Art, Conceptual Art or Dogma 95 - into poetic and entertaining monologues

[spectre] The Critical Atlas of the Internet

Sorry for any cross posting... The Critical Atlas of the Internet An interview with Louise Drulhe by Chloe Stavrou, on Furtherfield. The Critical Atlas of the Internet, Louise Drulhe’s latest project, is a virtual and physical exploration of the Internet space. The implications of our physical

[spectre] Review of Gerald Raunig's latest book 'Dividuum’.

Sorry for nay cross posting... Mathias Fuchs reviews Gerald Raunig's latest book 'Dividuum' @furtherfield - http://bit.ly/1UBrl7g Gerald Raunig's latest book examines the concept and the genealogy of “dividuum”. Locating its roots in Epicurean and Platonic philosophy and referring to its

[spectre] Under New Moons, We Stand Strong

Sorry for any cross posting... Under New Moons, We Stand Strong Silvia Casini reviews Teresa Dillon's latest project at Seventeen, Art Centre, Aberdeen, Scotland. Can citizens today read, confront and resist infrastructures of surveillance? Teresa Dillon's latest project at the Seventeen, Art

[spectre] Lynn Hershman Leeson's - Civic Radar: Book Review

Sorry for any cross posting... Lynn Hershman Leeson's - Civic Radar: Book Review. Marc Garrett reviews Civic Radar, the first comprehensive monograph of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s pioneering artistic career, spanning across five decades, in the fields of photography, video, film, performance,

[spectre] On Obscurity: An Interview with Paolo Cirio

Sorry for any cross posting... On Obscurity: An Interview with Paolo Cirio By Daphne Dragona Obscurity, the latest project of Paolo Cirio, targets american mugshot websites aiming to sabotage their functioning and expose their supposed ethics. Cirio cloned some of the most known mughshots,

[spectre] Exhibition: Networking the Unseen @Furtherfield 18 June - 14 August 2016

tal networks manifest physically as tonnes of cabling, and electrical or electronic devices, the social and cultural impacts of the networks remain somehow invisible, eroding clearly felt boundaries of geography, place, culture and language. Together with artist and curator Gretta Louw, Furtherfi

[spectre] Nervous Systems – Algorithms and our everyday life.

Sorry for any cross posting... Nervous Systems – Algorithms and our everyday life. By Valie Djordjevic - 28/04/16 Statistics, probabilities, correlations – more and more quantifying methods and tools are becoming the epistemological grounding of governance in the 21st century. The exhibition

[spectre] Banter With Corporate Governance, or, like, Neoliberal Lulz (at Carroll/Fletcher).

Sorry for any cross posting... Banter With Corporate Governance, or, like, Neoliberal Lulz (at Carroll/Fletcher). Review by Nicole Sansone. Constant Dullaart, Femke Herregraven, Émilie Brought & Maxime Marion, and Jennifer Lyn Morone. Showed at the Carroll/Fletcher Gallery 12 February – 2 April

[spectre] Accelerationist Art | By Rob Myers

Sorry for any cross posting... Accelerationist Art | By Rob Myers. Despite its image of rapid technological change, progress under capitalism has stalled. Spinning ever faster is not the same as going somewhere. Contemporary Accelerationism wants to take off the brakes, and it is enlisting art's

[spectre] Article 27: Algorithmic politics.

Sorry for any cross posting.. Article 27: Algorithmic politics. By Eugenio Tisselli. Eugenio Tisselli shares his thoughts on global, financial dictatorship and Necrocapitalism, where politics itself is reduced to market related executables based on algorithms of finance. “The global financial

[spectre] Dimensioning - Live Architectures By Chiara Passa At Furtherfield

Sorry for any cross posting... Furtherfield Gallery is proud to present Dimensioning – Live Architecture an exhibition of new digital artworks by Italian artist Chiara Passa, part of Furtherfield's Open Spot programme. Opening event: Friday 1 April 2016, 1 - 4 PM. (Please RSVP by 25th March

[spectre] Ordinaryism: An Alternative to Accelerationism. Part 3

Sorry for any cross posting... Ordinaryism: An Alternative to Accelerationism. Part 3 - What Motivates the Accelerationist impulse? By Robert Jackson. In this third article on Accelerationism, Jackson further investigates its philosophical roots and looks at skepticism, Enlightenment

[spectre] Ordinaryism: An Alternative to Accelerationism. Part 2 - Exit versus Voice: Freedom, Reasoning and Skepticism

Sorry for any cross posting... Ordinaryism: An Alternative to Accelerationism. Part 2 - Exit versus Voice: Freedom, Reasoning and Skepticism. By Robert Jackson. Robert Jackson continues with a second journey into the realms of Accelerationism and Ordinaryism. Having articulated how

[spectre] Transmediale 2016: Necessary Conversations Off-the-Cloud

Sorry for any cross posting... Marc Garrett writes about strategies for solidarity discussed in the Off-the-Cloud-Zone at this year's Conversation Pieces at Transmediale festival 2016. ""Last year’s festival explored the marketing of big data in the age of social control. This year, the chosen

[spectre] An Exploration of Diminishing 'Hope' & its Correlation to 'Constructive Alienation'

Sorry for any cross posting An Exploration of Diminishing 'Hope' & its Correlation to 'Constructive Alienation' Chloe Stavrou reviews the exhibition 'What Hope Looks Like After Hope (On Constructive Alienation)' curated by Bassam El Baroni featuring Hisham Awad, Katia Barrett, Amanda Beech,

[spectre] A celebration of twenty years on the Web: 'My Boyfriend Came Back From The War'.

Sorry for any cross posting... A celebration of twenty years on the Web: 'My Boyfriend Came Back From The War'. Annet Dekker in conversation with Olia Lialina - http://bit.ly/1SPNkZN Twenty years ago, in 1996, Russian artist Olia Lialina created My Boyfriend Came Back From The War (MBCBFTW).

[spectre] What rights in Copyright? Interview with artist Antonio Roberts

Sorry for any cross posting... What rights in Copyright? Interview with artist Antonio Roberts By Filippo Lorenzin @furtherfield - http://bit.ly/20T5ECp Antonio Roberts is a digital artist based in Birmingham. His artwork focuses on the errors and glitches generated by digital technology

[spectre] Review of STUNTS, Disruption Network Lab, Berlin 2015.

Sorry for any cross posting... The closing stunt of Disruption Network Lab, Berlin 2015. By Pedro Marum. After a full year of events focusing on several topics, from drones to surveillance, cyberfeminism to hacktivism, or even the famous Technoviking and a hot debate on the politics of the

[spectre] INTERRUPTIONS: Between You and Me/The Bad Vibes Club

Sorry for any cross posting... INTERRUPTIONS: Between You and Me at Furtherfield Commons - http://bit.ly/1NHaIR1 Discussion event with presentation and film screening. (free lunch) Interruptions is a new research project by The Bad Vibes Club commissioned by Field Broadcast. Interruptions

[spectre] Neterarti - it's like twitter but for art

are talking to. You can connect to neterarti via this web interface or via any computer or mobile device software that supports GNU social (or its predecessor, StatusNet). — The Furtherfield Crew __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive

[spectre] The Wrong Biennial: The Wrong Project that’s So Right – a metacritique

Hey all, sorry for any cross posting... The Wrong Biennial: The Wrong Project that’s So Right – a metacritique. By Patrick Lichty. The Wrong Biennial, organized by David Quiles Guilló, is possibly the largest internet-based exhibition to date. Patrick Lichty gives a structural & historical

[spectre] PORNTUBES: Reveals All @Disruption Network Lab, Berlin

Sorry for any cross posting... PORNTUBES: Reveals All @Disruption Network Lab, Berlin Pedro Marum 'gets physical' with the PORNTUBES conference, hosted by Disruption Network Lab in Berlin, where "porn practitioners, sex worker activists, entrepreneurs and critical thinkers discuss disruptions in

[spectre] Guido Segni’s A quiet desert failure, reviewed on Furtherfield

Sorry for any cross posting... Gretta Louw writes about Guido Segni’s 'A quiet desert failure', an ongoing algorithmic performance in which a custom bot traverses the datascape of Google Maps in order to fill a Tumblr blog and its datacenters with a remapped representation of the Sahara Desert.

[spectre] Furtherfield's People’s Magna Carta on Flic kr

Sorry for any cross posting... Hi all, Images on Flickr for Furtherfield's People’s Magna Carta, at the Frequency festival. Lincoln 2015. http://bit.ly/1WUfz6T As part of Frequency Festival of Digital Culture (Lincoln 2015), Furtherfield presented People’s Magna Carta, a contemporary remixing

[spectre] Ground Truth: ‘The Migrant Machine’ Dani Admiss and Cecilia Wee

Sorry for any cross posting... Ground Truth: ‘The Migrant Machine’ Dani Admiss and Cecilia Wee Date: Saturday 28 November 11.30-5pm LAB #4 ipart of the Art Data Money series at Furtherfield more info - http://bit.ly/1kMbiq0 A day-long workshop, led by independent curators and researchers Dani

[spectre] Video of 'The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies' opening @furtherfield

Sorry for any cross posting... Thanks again to all those who came along ;-) Video of 'The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies' opening @furtherfield This video was taken at The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies opening event at Furtherfield Gallery (London) on Friday 16 October 2015. https://vimeo.com

[spectre] Value in the Digital Age: In Conversation with Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion

of collected gold trinkets; at Furtherfield Gallery now a single golden helium balloon hovers in front of a floor to ceiling projection. Nakamoto (The Proof) is video documentation of the artists’ efforts to try and place a face on the elusive Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto (but is it his face

[spectre] The Museum of Contemporary Commodities. A review by Joss Hands on Digicult.

Sorry for any cross posting... The Museum of Contemporary Commodities. A review by Joss Hands on Digicult. The Museum of Contemporary Commodities – on exhibition at the Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park, London, is engaging the nature of our stuff – how commodities enter and disappear

[spectre] Choose Your Muse Interview: Stanza

Sorry for any cross posting... Choose Your Muse Interview: Stanza Marc Garrett interviews media artist Stanza and asks what inspires him, personally, artistically and culturally. He's an internationally recognised artist who has exhibited worldwide since 1984, and shown over 50 exhibitions

[spectre] Situating the Digital Commons

Sorry for any cross posting... Situating the Digital Commons. A conversation between Ruth Catlow and Tim Waterman. The negotiation of the commons takes place in two distinct realms that are increasingly reaching into and shaping one another: the long history of the landscape commons both in

[spectre] Plantoid: the blockchain-based art that makes itself.

Sorry for any cross posting... Rob Myers reviews Okhaos' "Plantoid" (2015), art that makes itself - with a little help from the blockchain and human artists. Plantoid (2015) by Okhaos is a self-creating, self-propagating artwork system that uses blockchain technology to gather and manage the

[spectre] Know Your Filesystem (and how it affects you)

events focusing on Google's entry into media art curation, and the role of analog radio as a potential commons in the digital age. He has presented workshops and given talks at institutions and festivals internationally, including at Edinburgh College of Art, V2 Rotterdam, Furtherfield, LiWoLi

[spectre] Does the blockchain lead to more transparency?

Sorry for any cross posting... Does the blockchain lead to more transparency? By Annette Doms “Copyright has been a relevant topic since the development of the printing press. It grants the author the exclusive right to reproduce, publish, and sell the content and form of intellectual property.

[spectre] Art & Data from the Ground up

Sorry for any cross posting... Art & Data from the Ground up Marc Garrett’s speech at The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies opening last Friday - http://t.co/9B5pUPPykB __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help:

[spectre] Crypto 2.0 and DAWCs

Sorry for any cross posting... Crypto 2.0 and DAWCs | By Rob Myers #artdatamoney #bitcoin #blockchain #cryptocurrency The Anarcho-Capitalist future utopia of post-Bitcoin Crypto 2.0 systems meet the historical organizational forms of Socialism. Rob Myers brings the trustless code of

[spectre] Set of rules, online interactions and feminism: Interview with Angela Washko

Sorry for any cross posting... Set of rules, online interactions and feminism: Interview with Angela Washko Filippo Lorenzin interviews artist Angela Washko about her performances within the virtual space of World of Warcraft, the connections with situationism and feminism.

[spectre] Disruptions: Party Crashing through the Front Door - An ISEA 2015 Late Post-Mortem

Sorry for any cross posting... Disruptions: Party Crashing through the Front Door - An ISEA 2015 Late Post-Mortem. Patrick Lichty reviews the 2015 International Symposium of the Electronic Arts in Vancouver on Furtherfield. He examines a crossover between media art and mainstream contemporary

[spectre] How representations of the future are mired in the past: a case study

Sorry for any cross posting... How representations of the future are mired in the past: a case study. An analysis of the Mercedes-Benz collaboration with Ars Electronica for the European launch of the brand's intelligent car prototype - the F 015 Luxury in Motion - and the problems that many

[spectre] Rob Myers' Shareable Readymades

Sorry for any cross posting... Rob Myers' Shareable Readymades We are delighted to launch a special edition of Rob Myers' Shareable Readymades to collect. Available in a variety of delightful finishes, complete with certificate of inauthenticity.

[spectre] The Bitcoin Blockchain discussion in digital art.

Sorry for any cross posting... The Bitcoin Blockchain discussion in digital art. By Annette Doms "Even if digital art is still in its infancy, it flourishes while essentially remaining unevaluated and the public approaches it with a degree of curiosity. New art forms in the immaterial digital

[spectre] The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies

Sorry for any cross posting... The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies Private view: Friday 16 October 2015, 5-7pm 17 October - 22 November 2015 The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies exhibition opens at Furtherfield Gallery in the heart of London’s Finsbury Park, as part of Furtherfield's Art Data Money

[spectre] Choose Your Muse Interview: Annie Abrahams

Sorry for any cross posting... Choose Your Muse Interview, Marc Garrett interviews Annie Abrahams and asks what has inspired her, personally, artistically and culturally. Abrahams is known worldwide for her net art and collective writing experiments and is internationally regarded as a pioneer

[spectre] Furtherfield announces: Art Data Money

Sorry for any cross posting... Art Data Money We are proud to announce a new programme at Furtherfield. Art Data Money aims to build a commons for arts in the network age, and invites people to join us and discover new ways for cryptocurrencies and big data to benefit us all. While

[spectre] Sonic Tunnel by Hazar Emre Tez at Furtherfield Commons, London

Sorry for any cross posting... Sonic Tunnel by Hazar Emre Tez at Furtherfield Commons, London Hazar Emre Tez has created Sonic Tunnel as a delightful and innovative solution to wayfinding in Finsbury Park. Come and explore the park following a sonic route that has been created using

[spectre] Review of Arthur Kroker's 'Body drift'.

Sorry for any cross posting... Review of Arthur Kroker's 'Body drift'. Review by Marc Garrett. Body Drift by Arthur Kroker, takes the work of three leading women thinkers as its main focus. Re-examining their critical perspectives and creative processes - assemblages, remixing and cyborgs-

[spectre] The creative promise and open collections: An interview with Template

Sorry for any cross posting... http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/creative-promise-and-open-collections-interview-template Annet Dekker interviews Template, a graphic design and digital development studio run by Lasse van den Bosch Christensen and Marlon Harder. They engage in both

[spectre] Inside the internet there’s glory: Interview with Guido Segni.

Sorry for any cross posting... Filippo Lorenzin interviews Guido Segni about Top Expiring Internet Artists, an art project that ranks internet artists on the basis of the expiring date of their websites. They discuss other works, the hypercompetition, charts and the state of the Web Art scene (if

[spectre] Robert Hewison’s Future Tense 25 Years Later

Sorry for any cross posting... Robert Hewison’s Future Tense 25 Years Later. New Article by Marc Garrett. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/25-years-after-future-tense This article revisits Robert Hewison’s book, Future Tense: A New Art For The Nineties, [1] published in 1990. The book

[spectre] #TransActing: A Market of Values - an interview with Marsha Bradfield

Sorry for any cross posting... #TransActing: A Market of Values - an interview with Marsha Bradfield. Charlotte Webb interviews Marsha Bradfield of Critical Practice, about #Transacting – a pop-up market made up of over 60 stall holders invited to creatively explore and produce alternative

[spectre] Museum of Contemporary Commodities: Free Market

Sorry for cross x'ing... Museum of Contemporary Commodities: Free Market We've been in residency at Furtherfield physically in Finsbury Park since April doing work on data, trade, place, values in relation to contemporary commodity culture. This weekend we're prototyping a few things we're

[spectre] Science Fiction Realism | New article on Furtherfield

Sorry for any cross posting... Science Fiction Realism Erik Zepka considers the interface of science fiction ideas and experiential realism in contemporary internet cultural practice. As part of art production shifts towards online networks of makers. A consideration of that content could

[spectre] New reviewers on Furtherfield

Sorry for any cross posting... Hi Spectre list users, Furtherfield are looking for new reviewers - for articles and interviews about art, technology and social contexts relating to media art. We feature contemporary works, projects, manifestos, exhibitions, events, festivals, conferences

[spectre] Choose Your Muse Interview: Jeremy Bailey.

Sorry for any cross posting... Choose Your Muse Interview: Jeremy Bailey. Marc Garrett interviews Jeremy Bailey, known for his satire and parodies on the practices of new technologies. We find out what has inspired him, personally, artistically and culturally.

[spectre] Symposium: Designing Digital Creative Commons for the Performing Arts

Sorry for any cross posting... Symposium: Designing Digital Creative Commons for the Performing Arts Creativeworks London Sat 27 June 2015 (Free Event) http://t.co/G7x0waFCMX This Symposium aims to bring together a range of practitioners from the Performing Arts and theorists, including those

[spectre] Dead Reckoning – Ellie Harrison and The Art of Austerity

Sorry for any cross posting... Dead Reckoning – Ellie Harrison and The Art of Austerity Gordon Dalton reviews High Street Casualties: Ellie Harrison's Zombie Walk, through the city in collaboration with Ort Gallery. Highlighting the 'creative destructive' forces of capitalism on Birmingham's

[spectre] Headed out of Beta/Picking Your Superpower.

Sorry for any cross posting... Headed out of Beta/Picking Your Superpower. Patrick Lichty visits this year's Augmented World Expo to find out whether the increasingly immersive technologies of Augmented and Virtual Reality will give us superpowers or lock us in to the whims of our technological

[spectre] Massive Media: A Geology of Media book review.

Sorry for any cross posting... J. R. Carpenter reviews Jussi Parikka's A Geology of Media. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/massive-media-geology-media-book-review J. R. Carpenter reviews A Geology of Media, the third, final part of the media ecology-trilogy. It started with Digital

[spectre] Beyond the Interface - London - ends this weekend.

of events presented by Furtherfield, where leading international contemporary artists explore the technical devices that pervade our lives. “The interface is the sense organ of the computer, whereby it becomes part of human culture” - Søren Bro Pold1 How much of our life do we spend in front

[spectre] MoCC: Data Derby Day. Who is tracking who in Finsbury Park?

Sorry for any x-posting... MoCC: Data Derby Day. Who is tracking who in Finsbury Park? Date: Saturday 13 June, 10.30am - 4.30pm Venue: Furtherfield Commons Walkshop, making session and drop-in day Come for one or both sessions, or just drop in for a chat about MoCC over tea and cake. 11am-1pm

[spectre] Choose Your Muse Interview: Igor Štromajer

Sorry for any x-posting... Choose Your Muse Interview, with Igor Štromajer http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/choose-your-muse-interview-igor-%C5%A1tromajer By Marc Garrett Choose Your Muse is a new series of interviews where Marc Garrett asks emerging and established artists,

[spectre] Synthetic Selves: Mediated Body Art | New article By Erik Zepka

Sorry for any cross posting... Synthetic Selves: Mediated Body Art | New article By Erik Zepka How do we represent ourselves and bodies in an environment that is increasingly saturated with mediation? Erik Zepka looks at the work of a series of artists practising on the internet to get a idea

[spectre] Choose Your Muse Interview: Mike Stubbs, Director of Fact in Liverpool, UK.

Sorry for any cross posting... Choose Your Muse Interview: Mike Stubbs, Director of Fact in Liverpool, UK. Choose Your Muse is a new series of interviews where Marc Garrett asks emerging and established artists, curators, techies, hacktivists, activists and theorists; practising across the

[spectre] Tracking Drones, Reporting Lives/ We Make Money Not Art

and cartographic processes. The panel was moderated by Marc Garrett, director and founder (together with Ruth Catlow) of the community and art space Furtherfield. http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2015/05/tracking-drones-reporting-live.php#.VVG9fOS37qR

[spectre] Data Walkshop* led by data activist Dr Alison Powell

Sorry for any cross posting... Data Walkshop* led by data activist Dr Alison Powell LOCATION -Furtherfield Commons (map) WHEN - Thursday 7 May 2015, 6:00-8:30 PM FREE EVENT Explore and discuss the data surveillance processes at play in Finsbury Park through a process of rapid group ethnography

[spectre] CLICK seminar 2015: Art, Technology, Human Existence

with Furtherfield explores how identity and perceptions of reality have changed in a world where humans, society and technology have merged in unexpected ways. Who are we, what's real, where can we expect to go from here, and how can we get there together? From future shock to FOMO (fear of missing out

[spectre] New on Furtherfield. Broke and Scared: The Home of the Future

Sorry for any cross posting... Broke and Scared: The Home of the Future Ben Valentine contrasts the implications of his couchsurfing present with the precarious and monetized future of the ideal home in his review of Space Caviar's book of commissioned essays SQM: The Quantified Home. I’ve been

[spectre] Reminder: Beyond the Interface - London

Sorry for any cross posting... Zach Blas, Branger_Briz, Mez Breeze, Heath Bunting, Jennifer Chan, Francesca da Rimini, Genetic Moo, Nathaniel Stern http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/beyond-interface-london Public Opening: Saturday 25 April, 2-4pm The interface is the boundary

[spectre] Telluro-geo-psycho-modulator workshop and field trip

Sorry for any cross posting... Telluro-geo-psycho-modulator workshop and field trip Workshops by Jonathan Kemp Date: 2 - 3 May 2015 Venue: Furtherfield Commons Epping Forest Field Trip Furtherfield Workshop: Saturday 2 May 2015 from 12pm Epping Forest Field Trip: Sunday 3 May 2015 from 12pm

[spectre] Beyond the Interface - London

Sorry for any cross posting... Beyond the Interface - London At Furtherfield Private View: Friday 24 April, 6-8pm Public Opening: Saturday 25 April, 2-4pm 25 April - 21 June 2015 Open Friday to Sunday 11-5pm Zach Blas, Branger_Briz, Mez Breeze, Heath Bunting, Jennifer Chan, Francesca da Rimini

[spectre] Interview With Domenico Quaranta

Sorry for any cross posting... Interview With Domenico Quaranta By Daniel Rourke. At Furtherfield on November 22nd 2014 Quaranta launched a Beta version of 6PM Your Local Time, in collaboration with Fabio Paris, Abandon Normal Devices and Gummy Industries. Daniel Rourke talks to artist Domenico

[spectre] being being read being reading being read and reading beings

Sorry for any cross posting... being being read being reading being read and reading beings Curated by Torque (Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner) Date: Open Saturdays and Sundays 11am – 6pm, 11 - 19 April 2015. Venue: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion. Torque is a transdisciplinary project

[spectre] Rob Myers reviews the book Mainframe Experimentalism

Sorry for any cross posting... Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts Book reviewed by Rob Myers Remembering the heroic age of arts computing is often a family affair in Hannah B Higgins and Douglas Kahn's book Mainframe Experimentalism, which leads

[spectre] Body Anxiety: Woman As Bearer Of The Look | Leah Schrager and Jennifer Chan

Sorry for any cross posting... Body Anxiety: Woman As Bearer Of The Look | Leah Schrager and Jennifer Chan Review by lauragonzalez In a psychoanalytic review of the online exhibition Body Anxiety, curated by Leah Schrager and Jennifer Chan, Laura González explores fear, symptom, sublimation and

[spectre] Cyberformance in the Third Space: A Conversation with Helen Varley Jamieson

Sorry for any cross posting... Cyberformance in the Third Space: A Conversation with Helen Varley Jamieson By Randall Packer. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/cyberformance-third-space-conversation-helen-varley-jamieson Since 1999, pioneering cyberformance artist Helen Varley Jamieson has

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