New work & reviews on Furtherfield - Jan 2004
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FurtherStudio - Welcomes Rich White.
View from the ground floor - Jess Loseby. Review by Marc Garrett.
multiAMAZE - Andy Forbes. Review by Ruth Catlow.
Plug & Pray - Holy Soft. Review by Marc Garrett.
Tandem Surfing the Third Wave - OnRamp Arts. Interview by FurtherCritic Ryan
Griffis.
Opensource, digital arts publishing - Ars Publica. Review by Garrett Lynch -
Net Art Review.
VideoHomeTraining - Live at Trondheim Matchmaking. Review by Marc Garrett.
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FurtherStudio - Rich White.
Furtherfield welcomes Rich White to FurtherStudio the current online
real-time resident. View him working from his desktop, live. From you the
Internet user Rich requires snippets of Javascript, HTML, Action-script -
any code that does something interesting or unusual that can be used without
need of a compiler. For this 'readymade' net.art project, the artist will
attempt to use scripts sent in to create new artworks live online. So join
in and send in your coded odds & ends to be transmuted now.
Visit http://www.furtherstudio.org for more info & send direct to
richwhite@furtherstudio.org
Views from the ground floor - Jess Loseby.
With her recent project, Views from the ground floor, Jess Loseby's
digital-based, net.art and new media practice has taken a evolutionary leap
forward from her smaller net based artworks, into a larger production of
interactive net.film. This ambitious experiment fully incorporates layered
slices of text, audio and visual composites, each declaring independent
dialogues in their own right. When stitched together, this series of flash
and html pages, amalgamate into a closely woven multi-narrative tapestry of
consecutive pieces. Review by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idy
multiAMAZE - Andy Forbes.
Negotiating the audio device selection process I set my Dr Octagon CD
playing, chose a colour, and entered multiAMAZE. Here I sat, with an
insect-bum's eye view of an elegantly animated, flying insect reminiscent of
the MAVs (Micro Air Vehicles) I'd just seen scarily represented in the
'Future Space' at Birmingham's museum of science and discovery, Think Tank
in the UK. Putting dark thoughts of surveillance swarms of spy flies behind
me, I buzzed gaily around, using the arrows on my keyboard to navigate,
dodging and diving through the jittering palm leaves and the shattered
planes. Review by Ruth Catlow.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idu
Plug & Pray - Holy Soft.
In the guise of a business corporation, 'Holy Soft' sell us the Internet
user, packaged faiths in Plug & Pray, an imaginative play on 'choose your
religion, choose your politics'. The web site itself is well designed,
presented with an accurate and meticulous verve. If you were to take the
time to observe official software-selling sites on the Internet you'd notice
the blanketing of dubious commercial presentations with sober identities
that Plug & Pray have consciously mimicked. It seems authentic at first
glance, (almost) believable. Review by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idt
Resident FurtherCritic Ryan Griffis.
Tandem Surfing the Third Wave - OnRamp Arts.
An edited transcript of a phone conversation between Ryan Griffis and OnRamp
Arts co-founder Jessica Irish on OnRamp's past, present and future, the
relationship between technology and education, and her move from LA to
Boston. Recorded on June 4, 2003.
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id
Opensource- digital arts publishing - Ars Publica.
Through a no-restrictions policy, regardless of where the content originated
or what language is used, their "policy is to support collaboration,
community, transparency and immediacy in the arts: net art, media art,
correspondence/mail art, network art, context art, or other otherness and
marginal artifactualizations." The server space embraces art work and its
byproducts in all shapes and forms, functioning and non-functioning; in
fact, it revels in the successes, changes and even failures of the
combinations of art and technology, documenting work as it is, in an almost
dadaesque manner. Review by Garrett Lynch - Net Art Review.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idw
VideoHomeTraining - Live at TEK's 'Trondheim Matchmaking' conference,
Norway.
Marieke and Gijs, up on the screen as animated super 2d fantasy heroes,
video game avatars, using high-end vector FX. The whole show was controlled
live on stage via their physical selves, from their lab-tops, incorporating
a funky mix of noisy sound samples with cut up animations. The epic series
featuring iconic game characters such as Transformers and Lara Croft forged
an immediate connection born of deep familiarity with the audience. They
fought against dark forces in the form of various aliens, spaceships and
dangerous clones of bikini-clad women. Their performance reminded me of the
1982 Disney movie 'Tron' written and directed by Steven Lisberger. Like Tron
caught up in virtual landscapes, these electric warriors possess heroic
superhuman strength. Review by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idx
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