8 New Works on furtherfield...

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[Explorations & discoveries of non-singular Net creativity]


[Sailing & White Mice]
Two docu/info/diary/performative pieces by 'Joseph & Donna McElroy'.
'Sailing' is JavaScript work incorporating photographic images that change
each time you click on the page. Featuring interviews by people talking
about their experience and perceptions on life and ways of living, life in
New York, working and living on the River. 'White Mice' is a JavaScript work
with series of automated images. Accompanied by a verbal-reflection about
the sensory experience of the mouth, its flavours, the kiss and the memory.
Discover the performance, fun and functionality in the works of this
corporate, dynamic duo.
http://www.furtherfield.org/jfdmcelroy/sailing_mice/index.html

[One among 400,000]
A personal interactive document by 'Ruth Catlow' of the protest that took
place in London, UK on September 28th 2002 to stop the war against Iraq. 'I
am an artist but on this day I was one among 400,000 (or there abouts)
protesters. It seems more relevant these days, for me as an artist to jump
in with both feet, to be in the middle of a crowd of human beings when so
much of our experience of the world is so passive and mediated by TV and
film'. This piece uses javascripts and is accompanied by a flash soundtrack
made in collaboration with 'Ouch Those Monkeys'
http://www.furtherfield.org/rcatlow/stop/index.html


[Art or Action]
'Joy Garnett's' Bomb Project (Reviewed by Lewis Lacook). 'To say that Joy
Garnett's Bomb Project is monumental would be an understatement. To say that
it's a necessary reminder of the power unleashed at the end of World War II,
and of the power the whole world cringed under during the Cold War--that
would be more like it. And yet there's more going on here than activism (as
if that weren't enough)'.
http://www.furtherfield.org/crit/docs/bomb_project.html

[Tales from a Corporate Crib]
Nick Fry's Literary consequences of corporate life: anecdote,
correspondence, image and documentation produced from within the fold of a
corporate working environment. 'Graham arrived when I was back at my desk -
he hit me on the head with a bacon-avocado-an-mayonaisse baguette. It was a
nervous pokey little assault - a compromise between not hitting me too hard
so as not to upset me and not disturbing the sodden limb of lard smearing
the inside of its plastic sheath'.
http://www.furtherfield.org/nfry/crib.html
Other writings by Nick Fry - http://www.furtherfield.org/nfry/index.html

[Goat Boy 2]
Many remember 'micki Tschur's' first self exploratory nature fest & her many
encounters in the Alps, and her meeting with the Goat Boy. At last, you can
now visit & experience the sequel. Does she meet the Goat Boy again? We'll
see...a comic strip that leaves you wondering whether these hot naughty
encounters were real or fantasies. We suspect they were real, what do you
think? http://www.furtherfield.org/mtschur/goatboy2/index.htm

[Transubstance]
3 recent works exploring the less disenchanted states of being. In one of
her works 'Miranda Matthews' starts to locate the migrant 'soul' of myth &
magic, via performance, installation & sculpture. With 'Seal Suits' I
decided to locate my own seal spirit and make my own seal skin. The 'seal
suit' is made from neoprene, which is used to make wet suits. "It feels like
an extra layer of the self. The silkies are creatures of Celtic myth, who
have a hidden seal identity. The tale goes that women (and sometimes men)
would hide their seal skins in a place known only to themselves. When tired
of their ordinary existence, they would slip into their seal skins and swim
off into the oceans".
http://www.furtherfield.org/mmatthews/transubstance/index.html


[WOWM.org]
'Wrapping Our Warped Minds' are visual and multimedia artists; exploring
imaginative visual-scapes that users can interact with. You can either be
the 'VJ' and change what you are seeing before your eyes, as pixels, code
and images, shift and glide like a 'virtual contemporary Joseph Albers' on
your screen. Or the 'DJ-sound mixer' changing the sound levels of the music
on each of these sound/viz- scapes'. The beauty of it is, that there is an
intimacy in the way it hangs around floating, unbothered about whether
someone is interacting or not, although participants are encouraged to
create new moods using the phasers supplied.
http://www.furtherfield.org/wowm/pictures.html


[Drawing Conclusions]
Catherine Daly has created a poetic experiment in response to old school
book exercises in perception -- without the pages, poems from the series
have also been featured at xStream and Delirium.
http://www.furtherfield.org/cdaly/drawing.html


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archiving of new work for public viewing and interaction. Furtherfield
collaborates with independent visual artists, digital/net artists, writers,
critical thinkers, musicians and noisemakers with a special focus on work
developed and produced outside the recognised institutional support
structures. We explore new and imaginative strategies for communicating
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