http://www.furtherfield.org
[Explorations & discoveries of
non-singular Net creativity]
[Sailing & White
Mice]
Two docu/info/diary/performative
pieces by 'Joseph & Donna McElroy'. 'Sailing' is JavaScript work
incorporating photographic images that change each time you click on the page.
Featuring interviews by people talking about their experience and perceptions on
life and ways of living, life in New York, working and living on the River.
'White Mice' is a JavaScript work with series of automated images. Accompanied
by a verbal-reflection about the sensory experience of the mouth, its flavours,
the kiss and the memory. Discover the performance, fun and functionality in the
works of this corporate, dynamic duo.
http://www.furtherfield.org/jfdmcelroy/sailing_mice/index.html
[One among 400,000]
A personal interactive document by 'Ruth Catlow' of the
protest that took place in London, UK on September 28th 2002 to stop the war
against Iraq. 'I am an artist but on this day I was one among 400,000 (or there
abouts) protesters. It seems more relevant these days, for me as an artist to
jump in with both feet, to be in the middle of a crowd of human beings when so
much of our experience of the world is so passive and mediated by TV and film'.
This piece uses javascripts and is accompanied by a flash soundtrack made in
collaboration with 'Ouch Those Monkeys'
http://www.furtherfield.org/rcatlow/stop/index.html
[Art or Action]
'Joy Garnett's' Bomb Project
(Reviewed by Lewis Lacook). 'To say that Joy Garnett's Bomb Project is
monumental would be an understatement. To say that it's a necessary reminder of
the power unleashed at the end of World War II, and of the power the whole world
cringed under during the Cold War--that would be more like it. And yet there's
more going on here than activism (as if that weren't enough)'.
http://www.furtherfield.org/crit/docs/bomb_project.html
[Tales from a Corporate
Crib]
Nick Fry's Literary consequences of
corporate life: anecdote, correspondence, image and documentation produced from
within the fold of a corporate working environment. 'Graham arrived when I was
back at my desk - he hit me on the head with a bacon-avocado-an-mayonaisse
baguette. It was a nervous pokey little assault - a compromise between not
hitting me too hard so as not to upset me and not disturbing the sodden limb of
lard smearing the inside of its plastic sheath'.
http://www.furtherfield.org/nfry/crib.html
Other writings by Nick Fry - http://www.furtherfield.org/nfry/index.html
[Goat Boy 2]
Many remember
'micki Tschur's' first self exploratory nature fest & her many encounters in
the Alps, and her meeting with the Goat Boy. At last, you can now visit &
experience the sequel. Does she meet the Goat Boy again? We'll see...a comic
strip that leaves you wondering whether these hot naughty encounters were real
or fantasies. We suspect they were real, what do you think? http://www.furtherfield.org/mtschur/goatboy2/index.htm
[Transubstance]
3 recent works exploring the less disenchanted states of
being. In one of her works 'Miranda Matthews' starts to locate the migrant
'soul' of myth & magic, via performance, installation & sculpture. With
'Seal Suits' I decided to locate my own seal spirit and make my own seal skin.
The 'seal suit' is made from neoprene, which is used to make wet suits. "It
feels like an extra layer of the self. The silkies are creatures of Celtic myth,
who have a hidden seal identity. The tale goes that women (and sometimes men)
would hide their seal skins in a place known only to themselves. When tired of
their ordinary existence, they would slip into their seal skins and swim off
into the oceans". http://www.furtherfield.org/mmatthews/transubstance/index.html
[WOWM.org]
'Wrapping Our Warped Minds' are visual and multimedia
artists; exploring imaginative visual-scapes that users can interact with. You
can either be the 'VJ' and change what you are seeing before your eyes, as
pixels, code and images, shift and glide like a 'virtual contemporary Joseph
Albers' on your screen. Or the 'DJ-sound mixer' changing the sound levels of the
music on each of these sound/viz- scapes'. The beauty of it is, that there is an
intimacy in the way it hangs around floating, unbothered about whether someone
is interacting or not, although participants are encouraged to create new moods
using the phasers supplied. http://www.furtherfield.org/wowm/pictures.html
[Drawing
Conclusions]
Catherine Daly has created a
poetic experiment in response to old school book exercises in perception --
without the pages, poems from the series have also been featured at xStream and
Delirium. http://www.furtherfield.org/cdaly/drawing.html
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[what are we &
do?]
Furtherfield is an online platform
for the creation, promotion, and archiving of new work for public viewing and
interaction. Furtherfield collaborates with independent visual artists,
digital/net artists, writers, critical thinkers, musicians and noisemakers with
a special focus on work developed and produced outside the recognised
institutional support structures. We explore new and imaginative strategies for
communicating ideas and issues in a range of digital & terrestrial media
contexts.
Furtherfield's activities focus on
presenting works online and organising global, contributory projects, which
exist simultaneously on the Internet, the streets and public venues. Liberating
our imaginations from specialization.