[spectre] Simon Poulter & Ellie Harrison interviewed live on Resonance FM

[marc garrett]

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Simon Poulter & Ellie Harrison interviewed live on Resonance FM 
Wednesday March 9th 2011.

Join Furtherfield on Resonance 104.4FM
Wednesday, March 9th 2011.
Time 7-8pm (UK - GMT).
Hosts: Ruth Catlow, Irini Papdimitriou & Jonathan Munro
Special Guests: Simon Poulter & Ellie Harrison

http://www.furtherfield.org/radio/090311-simon-poulter-ellie-harrison

This critically acclaimed broadcast is every Wednesday evening at 7-8pm, 
a series of hour long live interviews with people working at the edge of 
contemporary practices in art, technology & social change; discussing 
events and controversies, exhibitions, artworks and their social contexts.

Simon Poulter is a practising artist with a live folio of commissions 
and projects. Much of his work crosses over from exhibiting and creating 
projects as an individual as well as working with others. He has 
facilitated creative technology labs working with over 200 artists 
nationally and internationally through his work with PVA MediaLab 
(http://www.pva.org.uk). And has recently been working with 
architectural design teams. Was artist in residence at Metal 
(http://www.metalculture.com), in Southend - on - Sea, Essex, and 
continues to work with them and other artists working on socially 
contextual and technological projects. http://simonpoulter.co.uk

Ellie Harrison's practice emerges from her continual attempt to 
strike-a-balance between the roles of 'artist', 'activist' and
'administrator'. She uses skills and strategies drawn from each of these 
perspectives to create playful and engaging work, in-and-out of art 
world contexts, which aims to expose and challenge the systems which 
control and rule over our lives, be they political, ethical, social, 
economic,technological or infrastructural. Her work takes a variety of 
forms including performance spectacles,
interactive installations, collaborative projects, political campaigns, 
media interventions, websites and coach trips. www.ellieharrison.com

Simon will be discussing his recent paper 'Anarchy and the Big Society 
Machine'. Originally presented as a talk and paper for Goldsmiths MA 
Interactive Media (http://www.viralprojects.com/?p=165), earlier this 
year. "Anarchism in an electronic age defies definition and will always 
tend towards sets of values or ways of thinking and doing that evolve 
from tensions in the individual and collective process. We could say 
that in this respect anarchism is defined as useful tension between 
community (or state) and self. Correspondingly, any dogmatic attempts to 
discuss anarchism are simply evocations of a dynamic process, 
illuminating, infuriating and then discarded. But they are not without 
purpose or an element of progression from one place to another, that is 
to say in negotiating the behaviours of the individual and the state."

Ellie will be discussing mainly about her Trajectories project (soon to 
launch) and thesis 'How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our 
Impending Doom', as well as her position about the function of art and 
role of the artist in an age of economic and environmental crisis 
(essays 'Altermodernism: The Age of Stupid' on Furtherfield 
(http://tinyurl.com/4km5pw4) and 'How Can We Continue Making Art?'). We 
will also discuss about her new major exhibition at Watermans Arts 
Centre called 'A Brief History of Privatisation' http://tinyurl.com/5u6nq9h.

Also showcasing music and noise, providing a rolling lineup of 
experimental creative adventures for your amusement.

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