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By Michael Szpakowski - 26/06/17
As part of the Children of Prometheus exhibition at Furtherfield, artist Michael Szpakowski interviews US artist Alan Sondheim about his art: its digital nature, the creative process, its context, and about his artwork in the exhibition.
By Mary Paterson - 22/06/17
The Gathering Cloud by JR Carpenter is a new literary artwork that exists online and in print. Working with found images and text stored on cloud computing servers, Carpenter creates a dreamscape from which to imagine the future. Mary Paterson reviews the digital and book versions of the project.
By Kat Braybrooke - 15/06/17
What is a city that dreams of itself? In Brighton, a recent psychoegeography tour unveiled hidden machine entities, the radical wisdoms of forgotten structures, and the subversive act of walking alongside algorithms while listening for their histories.
By Dave Young - 05/06/17
Ahead of the Network Diagnostics: Manpowertop workshop on the 10th June, Dave Young and Niall Docherty write on how the world's biggest tech companies construct visions of the future in their branded promotional media and philanthropic enterprises. Is it the case that, beyond the task of the collection and sale of personal information, such companies have ambitions of governance on a greater scale? In this article, Docherty and Young look at the particular example of Internet.org and its efforts to solve a supposed ‘crisis of disconnection.’
By Berit Gilma - 05/06/17
The Disruption Network Lab’s most recent event urgently suggested the necessity for a global paradigm shift on the perception whistleblowers: from prosecuted traitors to celebrated truth-tellers. Berit Gilma reviews the contributions from a former CIA analyst, MI5 intelligence officer, human rights activist and activist performance artist.
By Alex McLean - 02/06/17
Threats to human labour from mechanisation affected millworkers of the Industrial Revolution just as AI and Deep Learning threaten the programmers of today. What can we learn from historical resistances to automation? Can we envisage a future where programming is liberated from a military-industrial imperative and dedicated to creative pursuits?
By Robert Jackson - 23/06/12
What if Turing's centenary was not just a way of recapitulating or celebrating the discoveries of his legacy, but a rare chance for unearthing some surprises within Turing's own constructions which reveal new ways of approaching the agency of computation? Robert Jackson reflects on how the humanities and the arts could reclaim the unpredictable elements of Turing's legacy which other fields seemingly ignore.
By furtherfield - 26/01/13
In this essay Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett set out to show how the collaborative networked practices of the DIWO (Do It With Others) series of Email Art and co-curation projects (since 2007) underpinned the development of a series of projects, exhibitions and interventions that formed Furtherfield's Media Art Ecologies programme (since 2009) to explore what form an ecological art might take in the network age.
By Lawrence Bird - 15/10/11
Lawrence Bird interviews Ricardo Dominguez about The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), a hand-held device to aid crossers of the Mexico-US border. A project created by the University of California at San Diego’s Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, and still evolving today. It includes input from other members of the collective: Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas, Amy Sara Carroll and Elle Mehrmand.
By Annet Dekker - 19/02/16
Annet Dekker in conversation with Russian artist Olia Lialina about her historical net art piece 'My Boyfriend Came Back From The War (MBCBFTW) created Twenty years ago, in 1996. Part of two exhibitions at HEK in Basel and MU in Eidhoven, paying hommage to MBCBFTW, a new approach to keeping history alive.
By Patrick Lichty - 30/05/13
Patrick Lichty in his essay explores the aestheticization of unmanned mobile devices more commonly known as drones. What emerges is a cultural landscape where a burgeoning remote air force polices the globe while the images generated by them elicit a perverse visual fascination amongst certain subcultures, whilst also being flown by techno-enthusiasts. What is developing is a complex set of relations that is abstracting power, interaction, and representation.
By BrettScott - 26/11/14
Brett Scott examines the politics of the Bitcoin Blockchain and whether there will be a place for equality and democracy, as the power systems already in place begin to reshape new digital economies according to their own intentions.
Exhibitions and Events
Now at Furtherfield Gallery
16 September - 12 November 2017
The exhibition and research project Are We All Addicts Now? presented by Furtherfield explores the seductive and addictive qualities of the digital.
Featuring Katriona Beales and Fiona MacDonald.
Coming soon to Central Saint Martins
Tuesday 7th November, 6.30 - 9pm
This event celebrates the publication of Are We All Addicts Now? Digital Dependence edited by Vanessa Bartlett and Henrietta Bowden-Jones and will feature presentations from many of the book’s key contributors
Part of the Are We All Addicts Now? exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery
Coming soon to Furtherfield Commons
Thursday 2nd November, 4 - 6.30pm
Join curator Vanessa Bartlett for a research workshop responding to works in the Are We All Addicts Now? exhibition. The visual matrix is a new psychosocial research technique that we are using to generate audience response to this project. Content generated during this session will inform our evaluation of the exhibition. For more information contact info [at] vanessabartlett.com
Coming soon to Furtherfield Commons
Saturday 21st October 2017, 2 - 4pm
Fiona MacDonald: Feral Practice presents a lecture, a performance, and a fungi walk. Informed by the history, art and science of human-fungal relations, these experiences explore themes of reciprocity, intuitive and nonverbal interconnection between people, psychedelic consciousness, fungal songs, shamanic journeying, and plant communication.
