Chris Joseph

www.furtherfield.org

Furtherfield receives regular submissions inviting us to feature and review artworks and projects from artists and artist groups from all over the world. We have an excellent team of reviewers working with us. Yet, because we are receiving more innovative and high quality artworks for review than we ever have before, it is not easy keeping up with the workload. So, we need more reviewers.

We are interested in writers who understand and know about (new) media art, net art, software art, social networks, live networked art, live Internet tv, opensource, tactical media, art blogs, net films, media art connected- self institutions, psychogeography, hacktivism, video game culture, activist games, as well as publictions/books, events, projects, exhibitions online and in physical space, and related conferences. And like us, are passionately and critically engaged in investigating the constant shifts and reinvention of the creative, digitally related vista as we know it.

We welcome contributions from all kinds of writers - and are always interested bi-lingual reviewers who are able to introduce/translate work created by artists in non-English-speaking cultures. We also want reviewers who are writing about ‘media art and ecology’ and the contemporary ideas and work coming out of this emergent genre.

If you are interested in becoming a reviewer at Furtherfield and wish to know more and how to join the crew, please contact marc garrett - marc.garrett [at] furtherfield.org

Note: Please do not apply unless you are sure that you are definitely interested.

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“Bring your own lists”

Ripped, honed, years of preparation, for that moment, when all your competitors are beaten. Yes, its the arts awards season. Booker wil beat Orange, Cannes will beat Oscars, Brat will beat Brit, brave reporters will struggle amongst the fighting to comment on frocks, and at the end, the awards speech…… Amongst the plethora questions come - how can a book be better than another, what makes a film more worthy than another; isn’t it all personal and subjective. Are creative types selling out by seeking prizes? Should art itself not be its own reward? Why mark out of ten? Why not have an award for everything, best thing this year?

Tuesday 5th August 6:30 - 8:30 LCB depot Leicester

JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
http://www.javamuseum.org

is happy to publish new interviews on JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://jip.javamuseum.org

Alexander Mouton (USA)
http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=98

Henry Gwiazda (USA)
http://jip.javamuseum.org/jipblog/?page_id=99

Edited by Caroline Bassett (University of Sussex, UK), Maren Hartmann (University of the Arts Berlin, Germany), Kate O’Riordan (University of Sussex, UK)

http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue13/

After convergence: what connects? Making this question the subject of this special issue we set out to address two questions at once. The first was: ‘Are we after convergence?’ and by this we meant to invite explorations of the exhaustion of the original convergence model. The second was: ‘What kind of convergence are we after?’ Which is to say what kind of convergence do we want?
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Adrian Mackenzie - Wirelessness as Experience of Transition

David M. Berry - A Contribution Towards A Grammar of Code

Jonathan Sterne, Jeremy Morris, Michael Brendan Baker and Ariana Moscote Freire - The Politics of Podcasting

Caroline Bassett - New Maps for Old?: The Cultural Stakes of ‘2.0′

Teodor Mitew - Repopulating the Map: Why Subjects and Things are Never Alone

Aylish Wood - Proliferating Connections and Communicating Convergence

Helen Thornham - Making games? Towards a theory of domestic videogaming

The Fibreculture Journal is affiliated with the Open Humanities Press - http://openhumanitiespress.org/

This is a version of Perry Bard’s collaborative video project, which remakes Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera with user-contributed footage. I have a couple of shots included so far.

See http://dziga.perrybard.net or my previous post for more information about the project and how to submit footage.


Update July 2008:

The project won Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category for Ars Electronica, www.aec.at/en/prix/

The project will be presented on July 27 at ISEA 2008 in Singapore www.isea2008singapore.org.

The website now lists all past presentations, the site also exists in French and Spanish, Chinese is coming and more.

The entire film is now on youtube in 7 parts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6hOfo1N_B0 (this version is the July 5 download).

Upcoming in October are screenings in Beijing Shanghai Moscow Ekatrinburg and other venues to be confirmed.

Update December 2007:

photos of the project at
- Bigger Picture Commission Screenings, Norwich, UK for Aurora Festival, 10 November 2007
- Urban Screens Conference, Manchester, UK, 11 - 14 October 2007
are up at www.flickr.com/photos/15718313@N04/2040386988