[syndicate] New Reviews at Furtherfield.org April 2008.
james jwm-art net
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Wed Apr 23 21:22:04 CEST 2008
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On 23/4/2008, "fmadre at free.fr" <fmadre at free.fr> wrote:
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>> so what are you saying?
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>>>> New Reviews at Furtherfield.org April 2008.
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>>>> http://www.furtherfield.org
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>>>> Artwork by Willy LeMaitre & Eric Rosenzveig
>>>> Artwork Title - The Appearance Machine
>>>> Review by Natasha Chuk
>>>> Review Title - Trash Talk: A Review of The Appearance Machine by Willy
>>>> Le Maitre and Eric Rosenzveig.
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>>>> For nearly ten years, trash has been the focus of a massive project, an
>>>> audiovisual work called The Appearance Machine, by artists Willy Le
>>>> Maitre & Eric Rosenzveig. This is a project that deals firsthand with
>>>> an overabundance of material that won't go away, and about seeing the
>>>> beautiful possibilities of trash, giving the act of recycling a new
>>>> context. The result is conflicting, producing in the viewer a sense of
>>>> alienation and comfort, disbelief and wonder.
>>>> Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=303
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>>>> Artwork by Richard Wright
>>>> Artwork Title - The Internet Speaks
>>>> Review by Mark Hancock
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>>>> The Internet Speaks: contemplating the nature of images on the net and
>>>> how we read them without recourse to text and context.
>>>> There are two versions to this project. The gallery based piece that
>>>> automatically selects random images and displays them on the gallery
>>>> wall, and the Internet version that offers the viewer a next and back
>>>> button with which to scroll through and reverse the sequence so that
>>>> they can return and reconsider the images. The second, Internet-based
>>>> work allows the viewer to cheat a little bit, giving them the
>>>> opportunity to think through the sequence and rework the narrative as
>>>> it unfurls.
>>>> Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=302
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>>>> Artwork by Kate Armstrong
>>>> Artwork Title - Why Some Dolls Are Bad
>>>> Review by Eliza Fernbach
>>>> Review Title - Dolls behaving truly madly, but not really badly...
>>>> ———————————————————————>
>>>> Why Some Dolls are Bad invites the user to a collection of streamed
>>>> images culled from the Internet, which take on random editorial
>>>> positions in the frame of an original text written by Armstrong. The
>>>> result- a bespoke book for the users of Facebook, an infinite
>>>> precipitation of stirred structure. A ribald evolving commentary on our
>>>> world of Good and Bad dolls. The same page never appears twice but the
>>>> user can capture and save a favorite page. This is an intriguing
>>>> re-enactment of the experience of reading a narrative book where
>>>> particular passages haunt the imagination and are saved to our
>>>> cognitive hard drive.
>>>> Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=301
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>>>>
>>>> SwanQuake - the user manual
>>>> Artists - Igloo
>>>> Review by by Rob Myers
>>>> ———————————————————————>
>>>> SwanQuake - the user manual, is a collection of essays regarding a
>>>> major interactive virtual installation art project by igloo (Ruth
>>>> Gibson & Bruno Martelli) and their collaborators. SwanQuake is, as its
>>>> name suggests, a meeting of computer game technology and dance. It
>>>> consists of a series of interactive virtual environments built using
>>>> the Unreal Engine 3D game system and populated by characters animated
>>>> using motion capture techniques. Edited by Scott deLahunta. Essays by
>>>> Johannes Birringer, Helen Stuckey, Shiralee Saul, Bruno Martelli, Ruth
>>>> Gibson, John McCormick, Katharine Neil, Alex Jevremovic, Adam Nash,
>>>> Helen Sloan, Stephen Turk,
>>>> Marco Gillies, Harry Brenton & David Surman.
>>>> Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=300
>>>>
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>>>> Other Info:
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>>>> If you are interested in reviewing for Furtherfield or have media art
>>>> related projects, exhibitions that you wish to have featured or
>>>> reviewed, please contact: marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
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