2 New Reviews on Furtherfield Feb 23rd 09.

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SwanQuake: House by igloo (Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli).
Review of the Virtual work as Exhibition/Installation by Rob Myers.

House features the penthouse apartment of the title overlooking a stormy street, the stairwell of an apartment block, the tunnels of a Tube station, and more fantastic elements such as a burnt-out tube train that leads to a portal to hell. Occasionally, ghostly female figures dance endlessly through graceful choreography trapped in time and space.

The darkly lit corridors, tunnels and rooms rendered by a first-person shooter (FPS) game engine and haunted by impersonal ghostly figures immediately call to mind the survival horror genre. There's an unsettling feel to the environment, even when the feeling of threat gives way to a sense of wonder in the underground warehouse filled with joyfully dancing figures.
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COPY-IT-RIGHT project by JonCates.
Review by Marisa Plumb.

JonCates began research on the COPY-IT-RIGHT project by Phil Morton in 2007. It Predates The Pirate Party, Free and Open Source Software, Creative Commons and/or the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. "The archive exists to organize and freely distribute Morton's new media artwork, and also to perpetuate the COPY-IT-RIGHT ideal that Morton advocated." JonCates.

"The early experimental video art scene in Chicago, and its indispensability in developing an understanding of contemporary New Media practices, is something that I learned from jonCates and that jonCates learned from Phil Morton. Well, maybe it's not quite that simple, but that is one possible set of connections that can be traced from jonCates' COPY-IT-RIGHT project."
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