New reviews, articles & interviews on Furtherfield - June 2004.

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_*New reviews, articles & interviews on Furtherfield - June 2004.*_

You can access all new reviews, articles and interviews from our 
homepage http://www.furtherfield.org - or access them separately via 
introductory paragraphs below.


*Tandem Surfing the Third Wave (5) with Randall Packer,
Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology. Interview by Ryan 
Griffis.*

The interview took place via email in the Spring of 2004. Ryan Griffis 
asks Randall Packer about the initial formation of the US Department of 
Art and Technology, how it came about, who is involved and its current 
activities. The US Department of Art & Technology is an artist-led, 
virtual government agency. The Department proposes and supports the 
idealized definition of the role of the artist in society as one whose 
reflections, ideas, aesthetics, sensibilities, and abilities can have 
significant and transformative social impact on the world stage.
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id=16

*'Glass Rondo' by Beoff at NonTVTV - Review by Ruth Catlow.*

'Glass Rondo' was made and broadcast in 2003 by the Stockholm-based 
artist collective, Beeoff, who has dedicated the last few years to 
developing the software, infrastructure and arts content for NonTVTV. 
NonTVTV has worked with the multicast-protocol to raise the bandwidth 
and therefore the potential richness of the medium whilst preserving the 
benefits of lateral production and distribution. By establishing nodes 
in international public art venues it has also asserted and promoted the 
medium as a valid extension of formal artistic expression.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=96

*The Trans-European Picnic - Review by Helen Varley Jamieson.*

The Trans-European Picnic aimed to bring artists and theorists together 
for two days of discussion, debate and creative reflection on what the 
growth of the EU means for artists, particularly those in the 
ever-shrinking non-EU Europe. The programme included a workshop, 
artists' presentations, forums, film screenings, performances, a visit 
to the Chapel of Peace, a handbook and the picnic itself.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=98

*Interview with Doron Golan - by Darshana Vora.*

Doron Golan is an artist with a well- established reputation in the net 
art community and recent recipient of a Turbulence commission. His work 
and life branches out to address the new media practice of his peers in 
a very real and personal way in his work as collector and patron of 
computerfinearts.com. This 'initiative of supporting net arts and the 
artist's community, to form a new arts publication, presentation and 
distribution platform' has helped him to understand/realise his work in 
the context of the community and the time. The following interview 
focuses on his work as an artist.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=99

*big (b)Other - Review by Ivan Monroy-L--pez.*

Looking back, at 'big (b)Other', a collaborative weblog coordinated by 
fran Ilich during February 2003 which was part of the Walker Art 
Center's "How Latitudes Become Forms" exhibition. In the about section, 
big (b)Other describes itself as "a different kind of reality show that 
bothers to attempt to explore the many 'Others' that constitute our 
globally (dis)connected world".
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=95

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