*New reviews & articles on Furtherfield - September 2004.*

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*Eclectic Tech Carnival (/etc) 2004
By Helen Varley Jamieson.
*Second of a series of articles by Helen for Furtherfield.org
documenting her participation with commentary of her experiences at
networked media festivals.
"The first Eclectic Tech Carnival took place in Pula, Croatia in 2002,
last year it happened in Athens, Greece, and already plans are afoot
for /etc 2005 in a location to be announced. Each event has been
organised by local women inspired by the previous /etc, and by the
desire to create a positive space for women to learn about and play with
computers. As long as this grass-roots desire exists, there will be an
/etc. What drives /etc, and what brought the internet back from the dead
for our performance of "swim", is this spirit of co-operation, sharing
and of getting on and doing what needs to be done."
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id9

*Revisiting Collateral Assets by Deb King
Review by Molly Hankwitz*
"Deb King is a dedicated online artist and publisher, with a background
in dance and performance art, that works out of Detroit, Michigan. She
is one of the few who successfully develops online publishing as a
community-building practice, and not just as an attribute of new
technologies. "Collateral Assets" started in the wake of the World Trade
Centre disaster and bespeaks the possible effectiveness of internet art
to communicate where other forms cannot. This work is high-concept and
low-tech, utilizing email, digital photography, audio, and text to
speak volumes about the political makeup of political identity.
Moreover, it is a message about war, geography, and power." As part of
the Furtherfield and Net Art Review exchange.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id0

*The Furminator by //////////fur////
Review by Pau Waelder*
"Analogue is cool, too: Artists Roman Kirschner, Tilman Reiff and Volker
Morawe have sided with the analogue in their latest project: the
furminator. When most video games are developing realistic, immersive 3D
environments, the furminator invites the player to plunge his head
inside a classic pinball machine, his nose situated right behind the
flipper fingers, only a few centimeters away from the ball. From this
first person perspective, the player feels the same immersive experience
one would get with a VR helmet, but in a fully mechatronic environment."
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id7

*Painsong by Annie Abrahams
Review by Joachim Desarmenien
*"Your mouse is hurt (not an expression but a proposition about pain).*
*Painsong opens with a simple interface, two images (red dots, freckles
?) on both sides of 15 embeded mp3 players. Below this, is a link to a
related artwork called pain. When the page loads an autostart trigger
plays all the 15 sounds at once, resulting with an incomprehensible
chaotic sound mix. The first sound heard is 'aie', as if someone was
hurt and the last sound is a voice singing "we are all alone with you".
The whole soundwork is composed of sentences, onomatopoeias, and little
songs, pronounced in french, english and dutch."
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id8

*Jules et Jim by ctgr, Jimpunk and Maya Kalogera
Review by Kate Southworth*
"This is a soft bitter work that starts off as a quirky flow of red,
green and white little pop up windows hopping about the desktop, and
ends brimming with intensity and sadness. It is a re-make of
Henri-Pierre Roche's novel Jules et Jim: an obscure story made famous
by Francois Truffaut's 1962 film adaptation. Like Truffaut's film, this
piece is tightly edited to that the first part (perhaps up to the
Script Alert) giving us a sense of the lively frivoloties of sexual and
emotional goodtimes. As the relationships between the fictional
threesome get kinda complex, Maya, Jimpunk and ctgr treat us to an
onslaught of freeze-frames, jump-cuts and terrifyingly dizzying movement."
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id6

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