CRITICAL FORUM Thursday 26th February 16:00GMT
http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/online

Charlie Gere and Giles Lane, will discuss the ideas and themes explored by
'create/remove' with the artist Rich White. Chaired by Marc Garrett.

To view the live critical debate, select FORUM from the FurtherStudio menu.
You are then invited to join the panelists in an open, public discussion in
the FurtherStudio chat room.

THE PANELISTS
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MARC GARRETT will be chairing this event and is a net artist & co-director
of Furtherfield.org http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett

CHARLIE GERE is Lecturer in Digital Art History in the School of History of
Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is
the author of Digital Culture (Reaktion Books, 2002). He is currently
undertaking research into the relation between speed, technology and the
avant-garde.

GILES LANE is the founder and director of Proboscis, a non profit creative
studio and cultural think tank. Giles founded and edited COIL journal of the
moving image (1995-2000) as well as conceiving and developing the DIFFUSION
eBook downloadable book format. He has published around 30 titles in this
format since 2000. In 1998 Giles founded the imprint RCA CRD RESEARCH at the
Royal College of Art where he commissioned, edited and published five books
on experimental interaction design projects. He has written other books on
digital design and creativity for Rotovision and product design company
IDEO.
http://www.proboscis.org.uk/publications
http://www.diffusion.org.uk

RICH WHITE uses various themes and ideas to explore the meaning and value of
art including art history, context, perception, time-travel,
decontextualisation and censorship. For the Furtherstudio residency Rich is
creating a project with two parallel bodies of work under the headings
'create' and 'remove'.
In 'Create' Rich is exploring the theoretical, conceptual and practical
possibilities of creating an 'original' net/software artwork - that is, a
work that remains unique in a digital environment. 'Remove' concerns
censoring art available on the net. The result will form a comprehensive
archive of censored artworks. One half creates - art is made by addition.
One half removes - art is made by subtraction.

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FurtherStudio is an exploratory, year long project, set up to create online,
real-time, net art residencies during which time the artists need not leave
their studio or home environments, as the FurtherStudio web facility offers
a public window on the artist's PC desktop as they work.
The curatorial theme of 'appropriation and ownership of ideas, services,
products and images' is explored with the artist through a programme of open
studio events and discussions between artists, net art critics and anyone
interested in exploring creativity on the Internet. More about FurtherStudio
at http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/docs/about.html