activism

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.

contesting/contexting SPORT 2016: Interview with Zeljko Blace

Josephine Bosma interviews Zeljko Blace on his involvement in the exhibition and program 'contesting/contexting SPORT 2016' and discusses how it contests the field of SPORT through critical art and activist practices.

Pawnshop - the Greek Reality Board Game

What is the relationship between state corruption and economic collapse in Greece? Lina Theodorou, artist and creator of the board game 'Pawnshop', talks with Furtherfield’s Ruth Catlow about Grexit, Brexit, and crisis in Europe.

Networking the Unseen

Networking the Unseen is the first exhibition of its kind to focus on the intersection of indigenous cultures and zeitgeist digital practices in art, bringing together concepts and experiences of remoteness and marginalised cultures, with art-making in contemporary society.

Featuring Gretta Louw, Lily Hibberd, Brook Andrew, Curtis Taylor, Jenny Fraser, Sharon Nampijinpa Anderson and the Warnayaka Art Centre.

The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies

The Human Face of Cryptoeconomies steps beyond dry, incomprehensible analysis of finance structures and data control to present artworks that reveal how we might produce, exchange and value things differently together in the age of the blockchain. 

Part of Furtherfield's Art Data Money programme.

Beyond the Interface - London

The interface is the boundary across which information is exchanged, causing a transformation in one or both sides of that boundary. The artists in this exhibition, critical practitioners in art and technology, lift the veil on contemporary interfaces; setting out alternative routes, aesthetic visions and disruptive behaviours.

The exhibition introduces a new work and slit-scanner hack workshops by Nathaniel Stern to be created as part of a residency.

Visions of a techno-leviathan: The politics of the Bitcoin blockchain

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.

We Won't Fly For Art

An artist’s network is one of their most valuable assest and maintaining it requires  traveling to events and exhibitions. The challenge is find away to balance the needs of the planet with the practical needs of an artist’s life.