[spectre] New Reviews/Interviews at Furtherfield.org July 31st 2007.

[marc garrett]

New Reviews/Interviews at Furtherfield.org July 31st 2007.
http://www.furtherfield.org


On everything by Pall Thayer.
Review by Sabine Gottfried.
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In On Everything, text has become an arbitrary combination of fragments 
passing across the screen as an infinite stream of cooking recipes, 
marketing phrases, and personal diary entries, embracing any possible 
topic that can potentially find its way into text. Images, meanwhile, 
seem similarly decomposed and fragmented. Processed by something like a 
digital shredder, they are cut into shavings and rearranged into 
colorful, collage-like compounds only vaguely reminiscent of their 
originals.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=277


Twisting Fistfuls of Time with David Rokeby Part 2.
An interview by Charlotte Frost.
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2nd part of an interview with David Rokeby, which was originally in 
conjunction with his first UK retrospective ‘Silicon Remembers Carbon’, 
FACT, Liverpool, (20th April – 10th June). David Rokeby is an 
installation artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has been creating 
interactive installations since 1982. Focussing on interactive pieces 
that directly engage the human body, or that involve artificial 
perception systems. His work has been performed / exhibited in shows 
across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=274


Review of Mediartists project by Wylie Schwartz.
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Mediartists is an interactive experiment, an exploration into the 
potential for digitial artforms to return to the meaning and purpose in 
art. The site functions as a cyber-gallery, displaying media and digital 
art, experimentation in video and photography, and pedagogical texts. In 
the ‘mediart manifesto,’ for example, creator Simon Kavanagh presents 
his position as working within a ‘decomposition movement’ concerned with 
re-introducing the power and substance of the historical avant-garde 
through e-modern technology and creative thought.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=278


Ripon by Knut Hybinette and Troy Richards.
Review by Natasha Chuk.
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Created by artists Troy Richards and Knut Hybinette “Ripon” is a series 
of installations integrating an original video game with large-scale 
digital prints that use the setting of a violent dystopic society to 
upset the conventions of gaming culture. Named after and located in 
Ripon, Wisconsin, a small town founded on the writings of the French 
Utopian writer Charles Fourier that would later become the birthplace 
for the Republican party, Ripon is meant as something more akin to 
“happenings” or events with the different iterations of the game played 
only once. Each is designed for multiple monitors and projections that 
allow up to ten people to simultaneously “play” the game. The digital 
prints depict the world of the game and surround the projections to 
flesh out the installation and provide an immersive experience.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=275


Tom Moody's BLOG.
Review by Palo fabuš.
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When it comes to questions concerning art and blogs, one has to resolve 
the distinction between blogs dealing with art and blogs being the art. 
When the editors of Artkrush #57 enlisted Tom Moody’s personal weblog in 
their art blogs selection, it was included in the former category. But 
is the latter forbidden for a blog like Moody’s, which, besides 
containing political thoughts and remarks of other artist’s work, 
contains entries of the author’s own work?
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=276


We also have new reviews and articles that will be ready for next week :-)

If you are interested in being a reviewer or have media artwork that you 
wish to have featured on Furtherfield, please contact: 
marc.garrett at furtherfield.org

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www.http.uk.net
www.visitorsstudio.org
www.nodel.org (with many others)
www.netbehaviour.org
www.furthernoise.org
(blog projects currently being mended after hack)