Common Room

The Common Room is public space for making and viewing art together. It features free art exhibitions, events, demonstrations and activities created with and by local people in response to themed open calls. Shown alongside curated exhibitions of contemporary international work in art, technology and social change, it displays art that springs from the lives and preoccupations of our community. The Common Room hosts free activities and events for visitors to the gallery, park, and local schools.

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Second day of summer

On second day of summer, Maja Kalogera & Med-i-kids from AKC Medika in Zagreb, will gather in Finsbury Park in front of Furtherfiled Gallery. They will present Classical Sitting Squatters. They are quite a joyful bunch, they recite, chirp, sing, blink, sit still, just name it. You are invited to join them/us for a drink and meet them in 'person', on Saturday 22 June 2013, between 11am and 5pm.

Saturday 22 June 2013, 11am - 5pm

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Add Your Voice

We are collecting childhood rhymes from around the world spoken by many generations of local residents of the borough for a sound installation as part of the Cultural Olympiad Festival. Please come to Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park on Saturday 21 July, 11-3pm, to take part!

21 July 2012, 11-3pm

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Finsbury Park Radiation Walk

 Public exploratory radiation walk around Finsbury Park, measuring mobile phone radiation levels and discovering what type of radiations we are exposed to on a daily basis. As we walk, we will unravel a parallel, hidden story of the local area along with technical data and possible medical effects of the radiation.  Participants will measure radiation levels, GPS positions and marked levels on a large map of the area, creating a collaborative artwork (poster sized map of local radiation) to be made available for display as part of the exhibition after the event.  

Saturday 21 July 2012, 2-5pm

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Technologies of Attunement

Olga P Massanet and Thomas Aston have built a custom made VLF antenna to monitor ionospheric disturbances caused by solar storms. For this exhibition they invite makers and thinkers to participate in a creative sprint and come up with ideas on how to make these disturbances felt. Whether it's a device, a visualisation, a sonification, or a poem, participants will design interfaces to tune into some of the most powerful forces that permeate our world.

Wednesday 11 July 2012, 11am-5pm

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Moving Forest, Act 0: 3 Keys - The River Oracle

3 Keys - The River Oracle is a game of chance and divination in association with The Moving Forest, Act 0. It attempts to invoke the relationship between the divinatory functions of our contemporary 'influencing machines' (cybernetic systems and game theory using data-mining, data profiling and data protection) and traditional magical ones, creating new machines in the process. Using tools such as cards, dowsing, stick throwing to interpret phenomena in the landscape, historical and current, 'readings' can be cast, allowing associative action, language and thought to determine what might happen in the future, to create a path, an artwork.

Wednesday 4 July 2012, 9-11AM

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Summer Board Games and Picnic

Two weekends of picnic, talks and games with Class Wargames. On the 23rd there will be a debate around the leader of the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture, now regarded as an important icon of anti-slavery struggles; on the 30th a talk about gaming the 1791-1804 Haitian Revolution led by Richard Barbrook and Fabian Tompsett of Class Wargames. Both Saturdays will kick off with a picnic in the park and continue with an afternoon of collective playing.

Saturday 23 & 30 June 2012, 1-5pm

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Embroidered Digital Commons workshops

As part of the Being Social exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery in Spring 2012, Ele Carpenter and Emilie Giles facilitated embroidery sessions with gallery visitors who stitched a term from the Raqs Media Collective’s text ‘A Concise Lexicon of/for the Digital Commons’ (2003).

03 March - 28 April 2012 (excluding 7 April)

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Invisible Forces Events

To accompany Invisible Forces, Furtherfield presents a programme of public play, games, making and discussion led by alert and energetic artists, techies, makers and thinkers: Class Wargames, The Hexists, Dave Miller, Olga P Massanet and Thomas Cade Aston.

Throughout June and July 2012

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Embroidered Digital Commons workshops

In a series of workshops facilitated by Ele Carpenter and Emilie Giles Furtherfield invites all gallery visitors to take part in one or more Saturday morning embroidery sessions and come together to stitch a term from the Raqs Media Collective’s text ‘A Concise Lexicon of/for the Digital Commons’ (2003), chosen in relation to the specific theme of the Being Social exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery. Throughout March and April 2012.

Every Saturday 3 March - 28 April 2012, 12-3pm (excluding 7 April)

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Networking Event at Furtherfield Gallery

In February 2012 Furtherfield is opening a public gallery at McKenzie Pavilion in Finsbury Park, providing space for exhibitions, activities and events for art, technology and social change. Before we officially open we would like to invite local community groups and organisations to join us in a friendly networking event which we hope will be the first of many, leading to fruitful partnerships and collaborations.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 1-4pm

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Second day of summer

Saturday 22 June 2013, 11am - 5pm

On second day of summer, Maja Kalogera & Med-i-kids from...

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