About Furtherfield

Special Projects \| Participation and Learning \| The Crew \| Media Art Ecologies \| Contact Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. HTTP Gallery in Haringey, North London is Furtherfield.org's dedicated space for physical events and residencies. VisitorsStudio is their online space for live audiovisual media remixing. From their offices at HTTP, Furtherfield.org initiate and provide infrastructure for commissions, events, exhibitions, internships, networking, participatory projects, peer exchange, publishing, research, residencies and workshops. Learning, participation and exchange are central to Furtherfield.org's inclusive outreach work with young people. This work is developed through partnerships with visionary organisations and draws on the expertise of a diverse community of artists, musicians, technologists and educators. 2009-12 Furtherfield.org is taking media art ecologies as a focus for its artistic programme and organisational/infrastructural development. This three year programme aims to provide opportunities for art-making, critical debate, exchange and participation in emerging ecological media art practices, and the theoretical, political and social contexts they engage. Project partners include: Access Space, The Basement, Creative Partnerships, Distributed South, Drake Music, London Games Fringe, MARCEL Networks, Haringey Youth Services, Peckham Space, Science Museum. Furtherfield.org receives regular funding from the Arts Council of England For background information please download this PDF (205k) Do It With Others (DIWO): Contributary Media in the Furtherfield Neighbourhood by Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett Find more information about Furtherfield Projects here Contact Furtherfield.org

The Furtherfield Crew
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Core Crew - Current Grafters
	Ruth Catlow - Co Founder & Codirector Ruth is an artist, writer and educator. In 1996 she emptied her studio, 'gifted' her sculptures to public space and turned to the Internet as a medium of connection, exchange and activism. She now works with others in the Furtherfield.org neighbourhood to develop platforms with their own distinct artistic and social contexts. She is responsible for organisational and artistic programme development and is currently developing the Learning and Participation programme to make the tools, ideas and processes of media arts available to a wider audience. She oversees fundraising and planning, co-curates HTTP Gallery and residencies, coodinates artistic and technical projects, team-fitness and discipline.
	Corrado Morgana Corrado is a lecturer, Media artist and electronic musician. He has been involved in various projects including Node.London, OpenCongress and Critical Practice has dabbled in virtual reality research. He has exhibited video work and performed live electronica at various international venues. He's worked in a variety of digital guises from web developer to computer salesman and is a self confessed geek. He is about to embark on a videogames related PhD, but most importantly, is an incorrigible gamer!
	Charlotte Frost - Associate Context Editor For over eight years, Dr Charlotte Frost has been engaged in researching the network of historical, critical and cultural discourse representative of Furtherfield.org's practice. She supports a variety of Furtherfield.org projects in their conception, as well as producing relevant and accessible contextual material - such as writing articles, conducting interviews, and presenting on the Furtherfield.org radio show - to support and develop wider audience engagement with Furtherfield.org's work. Her PhD thesis (Internet Art History 2.0), and related academic essays, have strongly relied upon a number of Furtherfield.org projects (including The Visitors Studio, DIWO and Zero Dollar Laptop) to demonstrate an emergent, alternative realm of critical enquiry operative at the intersection of arts and technology.

	Marc Garrett - Co Founder & Codirector Marc is an artist, writer, musician, educator. Emerging in the late 80's from agit-art tactics of the streets, exploring creativity via unofficial, experimental art platforms such as pirate radio and bulletin boards, he is dedicated to arts and various forms of hacking, social & technological. At Furtherfield.org he is principle editor and coordinates the team of reviewers and editors. He is responsible for research into contemporary net art, media art and cultural context on the Internet. He co-curates HTTP Gallery and residencies and oversees marketing. He is responsible for keeping up the team's spirits by playing extreme music/sounds, asking when its lunch time and who fancies a cup of tea?

	Neil Jenkins - Technical Director for Projects Neil is an artist/programmer whose responsibilities include calming everyone's nerves in the face of techno-terror and developing networked technology as a focus point for [live] creative discourse, production and events. Neil has ongoing input into the development, design and programming of key Furtherfield projects such as Visitorsstudio and Rosalind. He also works closely with Roger Mills of Furthernoise.org developing the artistic programme for VisitorsStudio.

	Rob Myers - Co-Editor Rob Myers is an artist, hacker and writer based in Peterborough in the UK. He has been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through technology since the early 1990s. His interest in remixing, sampling and appropriation art has led to his involvement in the Free Culture movement. All his visual art is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licenses. His interest in programming and technoculture has led to his involvement with the Free Software movement. All his software is available under the GNU GPL. At Furtherfield.org he seeks out critical practice in these fields for analysis and review.

	Olga Panades Massanet - Co-editor and Workshop Facilitator Olga is a media artist and researcher working as co-editor on the Furtherfield website and as a media art tutor for the Zero Dollar Laptop project. She did her MA in Interactive Media at Goldsmiths and is now pursuing a PhD under the guidance of Graham Harwood. She tries to keep her profile as broad as possible enjoying the creative work as much as the more technical.
	Giles Pender - Technical, Network and Logistic's guru Giles is yet to be beaten by the most obscure computer instruction manuals. He is happiest dismantling and cross-breeding machines and messing with the with the mind & matter of computer operating systems. His specialities are everything. His responsibilities include pre-empting the technical needs of the Furtherfield office, computer networking and live events.

	Ale Scapin - Coordinator and Programme Manager Ale has been juggling the overall administration and running of our space and exhibitions programme with some marketing and project management work. She has a sound and broad knowledge of the arts and cultural sector in London and the UK gained in her different roles at Arts Council England (more recently as Assistant Officer, Media Arts, in the London office) and through her MA in Arts Policy and Management (Curating pathway) at Birkbeck University. Her final dissertation project looked at the relationship between media art and leading arts institutions in London (Tate, Science Museum, and The ICA in particular) and the current provision and visibility of media art in the capital.


	Michael Szpakowski - Outreach and Education Michael is an artist, composer and film-maker who devises and facilitates many of our Learning and Participation projects with young people. With dvcam in hand he finds poetry in the everyday, music in a London pavement and if called upon could find a way to inspire the imaginations of curbstones with his enthusiasm, experience and skill-sharing abilities.


Neighbourhood Crew People in the neighbourhood with specialist input into projects and sister-sites.

	Atty (Andy Forbes) - Programmer/ Head Gardener Atty has been responsible for knocking the Furtherfield site into neat rows in the French ornamental style (well, actually putting everything into a database). Hopefully this will also mean Furthernoise will be able to increase the involvement of its guest reviewers and atty has long history of involvement with digital and networked art as founder of http://www.net-art.ws, as a member of the 'net.art' hell collective and organizer of open_digi events in South London.Artist

	Roger Mills - Director and editor of Furthernoise.org Roger is a musician and sound artist. He is the resident curator and editor at Furthernoise. Furthernoise has its own crew of musicians, reviewers and grafters and Roger coordinates their activities. He has written and produced albums, designed sound for performance, dance and video. He has also contributed to locative media research projects in GPS, ultra sound and spatialised audio for multi-screen cinema at Bristol University. Visit his site at http://www.eartrumpet.org


	Charlotte Frost - Digital Critic & Editor of Furthertxt Writer Charlotte is the Editor for Furthertxt, a sister-site to Furtherfield. This online platform for text based discussion, critique and creativity continues the eternal search for the many ways of achieving great text. Charlotte is a critic and private view attendee whose other responsibilities include scoping out the digital art scene and spreading the love of Furtherfield. She is also known for freelance art marketing, selling women's clothes to suburbanites and her Virgonian organisational qualities.

Now-Sleeping Furtherfielders People who, through their grafting, have at some time and in some way contributed to Furtherfield's current condition.

	Adrian Eaton - Computer Programmer/ Application Developer The programming for the Furtherfield web site 2004-7 was developed by Adrian using PHP & MYSQL. It comprised a dynamic content management system, ensuring that curators, artists and editors were able to update content and converse through the site. It introduced a new level of interactivity for all visitors to the site through the 'Public Broadcast' and 'comments' facility.

	Matt Catlow - Web Designer 2001-3 Matt is a musician and web designer and was responsible for instigating many a Furtherfield fry-up at the local greasy spoon (we just can't give ourselves permission now!). He ensured the smooth running of all associated sites within the bosom of the Furtherfield Neighbourhood as well as designing sites for Furtherfield artists. As well as continuing to make and perform music he now delivers creative tech projects at St Mungo's Bridge Training centre.

	Stephanie Delcroix - PR and publicity Stephanie, worked with furtherfield on the PR and publicity for online and HTTP Gallery events. Developing mailing lists and working with designers on preview cards, publicity materials and press releases and generally overseeing a marked step-up in the press coverage for our activities. She has now gone on to develop the digital archive at ArtAngel.

	Zara Hughes - Web Admin and Technical developer 2005-7 Zara was web administrator and technical developer for Furtherfield. Responsible for maintaining, updating and developing web-based Furtherfield and their neighbourhood of projects. Zara could usually be found blissfully working away, purring behind her laptop along with Bela and Bobby the Furtherfield resident cats.

	Jade King- Administrator 2004-5 Jade created reassuring order in the sea of Furtherfield office chaos. She is developing her skills as a web designer and digital artist and has a great knack of sourcing gems of human and technical resource.

	MEZ [Mary-Anne Breeze] - FurtherCritic Mez is a writer and code poet; the third FurtherCritic in residence. She offers regular and informative articles about varied explorative projects & artworks featured and hosted by furtherfield. She is an international net.wurker and avataristic author of the networked "mezangelle" system. She has exhibited extensively since the early 90s and is an online journalist, co-moderator of the _arc.hive_ experimental mailing list and online curator and lecturer in Net/Codeworking. http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker

	Graziano Milano - Project Developer for VisitorsStudio Graziano Milano is an artist and creative producer with extensive experience in participatory and collaborative projects. He is involved in the production of creative social-cultural experiments and pilots through innovative use of live streaming broadcast technologies. Graziano is a recent member of Furtherfield with the responsibility for the development and management of the VisitorsStudio Network.

	U-Sun Web Admin Sysop 2005 U-Sun was the Sysop for Furtherfield and Netbehaviour. She continues to traverse the fields of performance, interactivity, and audio-visual composition. She creates instruments, objects and operations in producing opensource 3d generations and micro glitch assemblages from feedback systems.

	Chris Webb - Technical Director & Designer 2004-5 Chris, artist and website designer worked with Adrian Eaton as lead designer on the Furtherfield web site (and sister-sites) to ensure their general sparkle and usability. He tended to Furtherfield's digital gardens, landscaping selected artists, providing vital nutrients to helping plants grow, keeping an eye on the weeds, mowing the lawn and making sure that the gardening tools are given back to the neighbours. He and Adrian now run their own company - Paperheads.
	Lauren Wright - Assistant Director Lauren is a researcher, curator, writer, and lecturer. She is finishing up a PhD at the London Consortium on spectatorship and duration in art, and she is a Sessional Lecturer and Academic Advisor on the MA in Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck, University of London. At Furtherfield.org she contributes to strategic planning, and organisational and artistic programme development. As co-curator of HTTP Gallery, she oversees and coordinates the exhibition programme and all of the other fun things that happen in the gallery, and beyond with the developing off-site and touring programme.

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