6 new works at furtherfield...

[furtherfield]

[New Explorations & discoveries of non-singular net creativity
featured/hosted on furtherfield]

This month we have another 6 new works featured at furtherfield.
Bare with us, this mailout is a little long info-wise, but definitley
worth a gander...

[Machinations] by Taped Rugs Artists
http://www.furtherfield.org/cgoff3/machinations/
[HaRdWaRe]by Marc Garrett
http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/hardware/
[A walk round Gilston] by Michael Szpakowski
http://www.furtherfield.org/mszpakowski/
[lovekatie.com] by Katie Bush
http://www.furtherfield.org/kbush/
[Oculart] by Oculart
http://www.furtherfield.org/oculart/
[Hypertextz] by Nungu.com
http://www.furtherfield.org/nungu/hypertextz/


[Machinations]
A collaborative effort of Taped Rugs Artists, conceived and executed during
spring and summer, 2002. It is credited not to any specific artist, but to
"Taped Rugs Productions". Collaborators C. Goff III, Buzzsaw, Josh Duringer,
Killr "Mark" Kaswan, Eric Matchett, Mikadams, and the 'Tapegerm Collective'
worked with Mp3s and tapes that were created using materials which were
improvised live, transmitted via email, and/or sent through the post. These
materials were edited and glued together in various ways to create the 28
pieces which appear on the final recording. 5 tracks featured on
furtherfield. (c.goff III)
http://www.furtherfield.org/cgoff3/machinations/

[HaRdWaRe]
The inside of people's computers may reflect the minds (personalities) of
the individuals or groups that use them. If one was to gain such
information, you would discover what political issues, products that were
paid for online, and of course what sites they visit and much more. 'What
makes the most money on the Net?'. You got it - Pornography. So welcome to
my [HaRdWaRe] net project, using images sound and Java Script; a visually,
poetic play on such questions as 'what would it be like if someone was
looking inside my computer right now?'. Ask yourself the same question, it
doesn't feel too great does it? Welcome to the darkness, that (suppozed
autonomous) secret grotto that other people seldom see, have a look inside
my computer & ask yourself, what if I was looking inside of yours?
Soundtrack by 'Ouch Those Monkeys'(m.garrett)
http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/hardware/

[Oculart]
Oculart is a playful and visionary Internet Art piece that transcends the
everyday, using Flash in a way that stuns one's expectations and emotional
reasoning. One cannot help but get lost and caught up in its seemingly never
ending mezmerization. With an accompanying soundtrack reminiscant of Holger
Czuckay's 'cannaxis', originally inspired by Stockhausen; slow hybrid,
layered soundscapes with distant voices haunting the mind. It's like hearing
the lost souls of chanting transubstiated beauty, wrapped with a sense
foreboding, shadowed with the inevitable end. Oculart is a fascinating and
surreal experience, declaring a kind of honest visceralness. Mixing dreams,
images of objects and people, with poetic text entwined within the structure
of the interactive site. A psychological and seductory epxerience that
leaves you with a feeling of elation, beauty, darkness and that awkward
bedfellow - fear. (m.garrett) http://www.furtherfield.org/oculart/

[A walk round Gilston]
Michael Szpakowski's work always slices through the plethora of data when
you least expect it, reminding us of what is important in this ever troubled
world; contrary to media opinion, it is people that matter. And yet, in this
piece there are no people present, just the simplicity of nature which seems
to oooze a human consciousness. A piano whistfully accompanies, you can hear
and almost feel the wood, the keys plinking, and the air around the music as
it is plays; it breaths. Intimate echos, spaces in between the obvious, this
is the realm that Michael consciously touches upon, the substance of
ourselves. An intimate poignant reality that is unreachable for many artists
because of a lack of depth. Drift...(m.garrett)
http://www.furtherfield.org/mszpakowski/

[lovekatie.com]
Katie Bush is an American artist who has been exploring the possiblities of
ready-made clip art in a warped, funny and satirical reevaluation of the
American Dream. In All Systems Go (www. lovekatie.com), the viewer clicks
through little animated vignettes that depict the banality of our familiar
suburban existence. The scenes in Goal (www.destroyevil.com) question the
'goals' of money, power, sex and fame, the pursuit of happiness as presented
to us by mass media propaganda. The unsubtle colors, the mass-produced clip
art and the fast, low-tech animations emphasize the cheap, throwaway culture
that Americans are nurtured on. http://www.furtherfield.org/kbush/

[Hypertextz]
Two works featured by the Nungu collective - currently based in-between
Bombay India, London England and wwwdot, nungu is a fluid digital entity, an
autonomous cultural space, an alternative media site in a constant state of
construction, deconstruction, reproduction and re-assemblage. Comprised of a
fluid collective of artists and media researchers, engaged primarily in
cultural and media orientated research, nungu views the network as a kind of
vast extension of the urban, as the material interpenetrated and reproduced
informatically, the ultimate expression of a culture drunk on data.
http://www.furtherfield.org/nungu/hypertextz/index.html

[What is Furtherfield]
Furtherfield is an online platform for the creation, promotion, and
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
ideas and issues in a range of digital & terrestrial media contexts.

Furtherfield's activities focus on presenting works online and organising
global, contributory projects, which exist simultaneously on the Internet,
the streets and public venues.

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