'The Piano Etudes Project' A Space for Play
Inspired by the tradition of open-form musical scores, Jason Freeman has composed four different piano etudes as a collection of short musical fragments with links to connect them. In performance, the pianist must use these links to jump from fragment to fragment, creating their own unique version of the composition.
aesthetic, Code Art, generative art, interactive, real time, remix, software art, sound, web art
 Ecologies of Sustenance
This 6-year retrospective of the Feral Trade project, by artist Kate Rich, kicks off Furtherfield.org's Media Art Ecologies programme. An ecological approach pays special attention to the interrelation of technological and natural processes: beings and things, individuals and multitudes, matter and patterns.
distributed creativity, DIY, exhibition, infrastructure, media art ecologies, networked, open source, self organisation, social
 Web Cinema: Alone together with Chris Marker in Second Life
Second Life is the perfect realm for Marker to further his socially conscious antics. While newcomers to the moving image who may never have spliced a real piece of film let alone toiled at a steenbeck lay claim to being the future of "web cinema", Marker has moved on and taken the foundations of cinema experience with him into SL.
audiovisual, cinema, cyberculture, Film, media art, video
 An Artist's Guide for Editing Wikipedia
A no nonsense guide to help improve the representation of artists using Wikipedia (specifically media artists), more people who are involved in the field should learn about how Wikipedia works and get involved with editing it. This article is a brief introduction to doing so.
agency, article, distributed creativity, DIY, knowledge, media art, resource
 Sensity by Stanza
Sensity by Stanza monitors the changing state of the environment and transmits it from remote sensors back to a central hub that visually represents the location. Through this observation of the location and data gathering, Sensity brings to mind questions regarding our urban society.
aesthetic, agency, audiovisual, exhibition, geopolitical, installation, Internet Art, live, media art, net art, net.art, networked, real time, software art, sound, urban
 Feral Labelling
Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery are pleased to publish the essay Feral Labelling by Femke Snelting (part of the De Guezen collective) to accompany Kate Rich's Feral Trade Cafe exhibition at the HTTP Gallery, this summer.
distributed creativity, DIY, exhibition, infrastructure, networked, open source, self organisation, social
 Play on Meaning? - Computer games as art
Edward Picot discusses the controversies that arise when computer games meet artistic purpose. Taking us through a detailed analysis of some emblematic examples of computer games that slip into the realm of art, he unfolds the strategies, motivations and critical issues.
article, game culture, interactive, Internet Art, media art
 Art and Revolution
"Art and Revolution - Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century" by Gerald Raunig is a book that presents and contextualises artists engagement with revolutionary moments over the last one hundred and fifty years.
activism, agency, books, critical, Political, publication, social, theory