5 New reviews/articles on Furtherfield

[marc]

5 New reviews/articles on Furtherfield - April 2004.

You can get to all new reviews/articles and work on the front of the site...
http://www.furtherfield.org - or view links seperately via the six 
introductory paragraphs below.

Agoraxchange - Natalie Bookchin & Jacqueline Stevens.

The stated purpose of agoraXchange is to establish ‘an online community 
for discussing and designing a massive multi-player global politics game 
challenging the violence and inequality of our present political 
system’. I was stirred up and provoked by the bold persuasive, agit-prop 
style of its ‘backstory: A Saga of Nations’, which subverts the history 
of man’s grand, evolutionary struggle towards civilisation with an 
alternative ‘herstory’ of draconian border control and the apathy of the 
masses in the face of implacable state violence. This art project takes 
Nietzsche’s critique of the ‘sober realist’s’ smugness (in the face of a 
world where things turn out to be exactly as bad as they had described), 
as a springboard for changing the law by changing the language. 
reviewer: Ruth catlow.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=93

7.7° (dance of cubes): Peter Luining.

Why does this relate to 7.7°? I found that 7.7° is the place where 
things slip, this net art not only takes you into the future, oddly 
enough, with a timeless kind of enthusiasm. It gives the feeling that 
you are one piece of an upscale physical process, working on an upper 
level of a vast network of pipes. To see it you must be part of the 
network. Reviewer: Nancy Mauro-Flude.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=89

Turning to Chomsky:-

On the morning of March 25th, I noticed the top, most popular link on 
Blogdex was one that surpassed all the rest of the links in popularity 
by five times. Wow, I thought, what's this? Noam Chomsky had released a 
new blog called Turning the Tide and everyone was talking about it. 
Chomsky seems to have resurfaced recently into pop-culture by releasing 
his timely works on 9/11 and now, in the heat of the 2004 US 
presidential elections and the quagmire called the war in Iraq, Chomsky 
is out in full force. Reviewer: Andrew Baron.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=91

What if I was a rat?: Ilona Huss Walin.

The rats are placed in a human-social construct and the artist asks us 
to watch them play out humanistic roles in a designed, made physical, 
living space. It’s a kind of real-time Big Brother scenario, with rats 
(obliviously) taking centre stage. The set is a scaled-down model, of 
Ilona’s own home; mimicking much of the contemporary family or homely 
trimmings that we are all familiar with. The rats are surrounded with 
generic, domestic western furniture that has been delicately crafted 
with an accurate sense of detail, made to scale, specifically for the 
rats starring in this parodic, networked show. Reviewer: Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=94

Stained Linen: Linda Duvall.

Linda Duvall's Stained Linen throws us into the middle of a family 
trauma: "you've got five people all crazily upset about the whole 
situation; if she had told them in the beginning, she wouldn't have all 
this happening." As we navigate through a branching sequence of 
overheard conversational snippets, the circumstances of the trauma begin 
to become clear. Sometimes the sequence we follow has occasional small 
loops, so we hear some sound-bites a second time, and they take on new 
significance in the light of the richer narrative context. Reviewer: 
David Jennings.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=90

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