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Our projects are created in the context of a thriving networked culture towards a collaborative, peer to peer philosophy and practice of art.

BLOCKCHAIN ART COMMISSION

This co-commission with NEoN Digital Arts Festival forms part of Furtherfield’s ongoing investigations into the politics of the blockchain, smart contracts, and cryptocurrency systems like Ethereum. It invites artists to imagine themselves as future media archaeologists, as recorders of our current information-based society, and as time-travelers highlighting the continued relevance of our long past. Will you dig for the digital, brush the dirt off the non-material, or excavate the internet?

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Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain

Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain is the first book of its kind, intersecting artistic, speculative, conceptual and technical engagements with the the technology heralded as “the new internet”. The book features a range of newly commissioned essays, fictions, illustration and art documentation exploring what the blockchain should and could mean for our collective futures.

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Bad Shibe - A Sci-Fi Novella By Rob Myers

Bad Shibe is a sci-fi novella by Rob Myers, set in a future society that may or may not be based on a descendant of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, where it’s as hot and as dusty as a virtual money mining rig. A trusting young shibe called YS questions the basis of their utopia and their place within it and feels ... bad.

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The Road to Budgetary Blockchain Bliss

A Live Action Role Play adventure for the Blockchain-curious of all tribes including: hackers, lawyers, activists, artists, financiers, designers, venture capitalists, developers, marketeers. MoneyLab #3 Failing Better.

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The Blockchain: Change everything forever

Announcing a new film and groundbreaking collaboration

This new film released online on 3 October 2016 by Furtherfield in collaboration with Digital Catapult broadens the current debate about the impact of emerging blockchain technologies.

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Furtherfield at Frequency Festival 2015

Art, play, action and wonder - on the streets and on digital devices. As part of Frequency Festival of Digital Culture (Lincoln 2015), Furtherfield presents The People’s Magna Carta, a contemporary remixing of the Magna Carta for the network age featuring a pop-up exhibition and two weekends of street games, live collaborative writing and drawing events, and walks.

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Sonic Tunnel

Hazar Emre Tez, will be creating a sound tunnel between Finsbury Gate and Furtherfield Gallery as an experiment in sonic way-finding. Visitors will be able to just follow the sound of birds tweeting, or babies crying.

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Museum of Contemporary Commodities

Presenting the things we buy today as the heritage of tomorrow. The Museum of Contemporary Commodities (MoCC) is neither a building nor a permanent collection of stuff – it’s an invitation. To consider every shop, online store and warehouse full of stuff as if it were a museum, and all the things in it part of our collective future heritage.

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DIWO Rehearsal Studio

The DIWO Rehearsal Studio project set out to explore infrastructures and processes to facilitate Internet based experimentation and collaboration between musicians with a variety of access needs. This report offers a case study and guidelines for musicians interested in using the Internet to create online spaces for rehearsal and live music making. It highlights the strengths and weaknesses of some tools with a focus on accessibility.

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The NetArtizens Project

During March 2015, Randall Packer, convener of The Art of Networked Practice | Online Symposium, will host a month of discourse and artistic production across 3 network channels. Using any and all available network tools- software, email, browsers, apps, devices etc. - we will discuss, remix, and engage each others’ words and works in the form of utterances, files, behaviours, codes, glitch, protocols, instructions, manifestos, games, and net theories.

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Astroturfing

Concerted public relations campaigning that creates the impression of grass-roots concern and action on a political or commercial matter.

By Ruth Catlow on 15 Jan 2007 - 1:00am

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