People

The Furtherfield Crew

Current Grafters
Neighbourhood Crew
Advisory Board
Now-Sleeping Furtherfielders
Furtherfield Supporters

Current Grafters

Ruth Catlow – Co-Founder & Co-Director
Ruth is an artist, curator, 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, openness, exchange and activism. In 1997 she co-founded Furtherfield with Marc Garrett. She is responsible for Furtherfield's organisational and artistic programme development with a focus on Media Art Ecologies. She co-curates exhibitions and directs artistic, participatory and technical projects. Ruth is an internationally exhibited artist and regularly contributes to publications, books and conferences. She is Head of School at Writtle School of Design.

Aileen Derieg – Blog Editor
Born in Tucson, Arizona, USA, Aileen studied theology at the University of San Francisco and the University of Innsbruck. She lives in Linz since 1985 and works as a translator with an emphasis on contemporary art and new media. Aileen has run the Furtherfield practice blog since 2007.

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's practice. She supports a variety of Furtherfield 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's work. Her PhD thesis (Internet Art History 2.0), and related academic essays, have strongly relied upon a number of Furtherfield projects (including VisitorsStudio, 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 & Co-Director
Marc is an artist, curator, writer, activist, educator and musician. Emerging in the late 80s, early nineties using agit-art tactics from the streets, exploring creativity via unofficial, experimental art platforms such as pirate radio and digital bulletin boards (BBS). Dedicated to exploring arts and various forms of social & technological hacking. Marc hosts a weekly radio show for Furtherfield on Resonance FM and is principle editor, coordinating the team of writers in their review of contemporary media art and cultural context on the Internet. He has written and co-edited various publications on the subject of media art such as the popular Artists Re: Thinking Games. He co-curates exhibitions and residencies, is moderator for the Netbehaviour email list and oversees online marketing. Marc is currently studying his PhD at Birkbeck University on the theme of Art, Technology and Social Change.

Roger Mills – Furthernoise Director & Editor
Roger is a musician and sound artist. He is the resident curator and editor at Furthernoise for explorations in networked and digital sound. Roger coordinates the activities Furthernoise's own crew of musicians, reviewers and grafters. 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 fr multi-screen cinema at Bristol University.

Rob Myers – Co-Editor
Rob 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 he seeks out critical practice in these fields for analysis and review.

Olga Panades Massanet – Web Development Coordinator & Outreach Delivery
Olga is a media artist and researcher working as co-editor on the Furtherfield website and developing and delivering workshops for the Zero Dollar Laptop project and Furtherfield's Outreach programme. Olga is currently pursuing a practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths. Her research project looks into assemblages of sunlight, human bodies and machines. She is particularly interested on subtle modes of communication across bodies of radically different nature. She looks at the ways in which electronic circuits, computational systems, endocrine processes and neurological happenings intermingle. The tools she develops are speculations about the undercurrents of body communication.

Alessandra (Ale) Scapin – Producer & Coordinator
Ale manages and organises the production and delivery of Furtherfield Gallery exhibitions and events and the overall Furtherfield artistic programme, as well as contributing to organisational development and fundraising work. She also coordinates the administration and financial management of the organisation. She has a broad knowledge of the arts and cultural sector in London gained through recent employment at Arts Council England (in Media Arts) and through her MA in Arts Policy and Management (Curating) at Birkbeck University, London. 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 Delivery
Michael is an artist, composer and film-maker who devises and facilitates many of our Outreach projects with young people. Participants create films, games and performances that explore the tools and processes of co-co-creation in a digitally connected world.  The work engages young people, meeting them where they are in a constructive, imaginative and inclusive way. 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.

Rich White – Gallery Manager & Technician
Rich primarily works in location-specific installation using found materials. His key interests include space and architecture and its sociological implications, plus the use of simple or everyday materials and systems to produce evocative forms. He also produces photographic, book and digital media works.
He graduated with a degree in sculpture from the University of Gloucestershire in 1998 and has been exhibiting regularly ever since. He has shown extensively across the UK and mainland Europe. At Furtherfield he is responsible for supervising the gallery at weekends and supporting technical installations of exhibitions and live events.

Neighbourhood Crew

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

Thea Behrman – Fundraiser
Thea is a fundraiser, marketer, arts mentor and musician. Thea has a background in marketing within the arts, social enterprise, regeneration and commercial sectors. She has developed strategies for projects and organisations including the Folkestone Triennial and Creative Foundation arts regeneration programmes. While working at Coin Street Community Builders, Thea delivered strategies for a broad range of programmes including exhibitions and events at Oxo Tower Wharf, Gabriel's Wharf and the Coin Street Festival, as well as community activities and supporting emerging social enterprises through mentoring and training. Thea has also worked for the London Symphony Orchestra developing community marketing for the launch of the music education centre LSO St Luke's.

Pete Gomes – Outreach Delivery
Pete is a Film Director and Artist working across all forms of moving image and electronic media. The film and video works cover varied styles and genres using music, documentary, experimental, and narrative techniques. His works have been shown across Europe, India, Russia, Tasmania, Iceland, South America and USA, including: Tate Modern, Tate Britain, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, Architecture Foundation, Gimpel Fils, Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture, Stedelijk Museum, Vienna Museum of Contemporary Art, Leeds International Film Festival, Sonar and others. At Furtherfield he devises and facilitates our Outreach projects with young people.

Tom Keene – Outreach Delivery
Tom is a media artist whose work explores the power dynamics of communications technologies. His multi-disciplinary work has investigated a diverse range of technological and communications
systems such as robotics, speech and facial recognition, bacterial communication, network programming, biological-sensors and street signage. He builds, programmes and devises techniques and contraptions as means to explore how technological systems shape the social world that we live in. Often working in a participatory arts context, he collaborates with a broad range of people with all levels of technological understanding that include scientists, the homeless, historians, the elderly, ethicists, artists, engineers, refugees, teenagers outside of education, adults and children.

Neil Jenkins – Technical Director for Projects
Neil is an artist, curator and programmer who works with 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 developing the artistic programme for VisitorsStudio.

Corrado Morgana – Game Art Curator
Corrado is a researcher, media artist, curator and electronic musician. Working with HTTP Gallery he co-curated two exhibitions about game art, Zero Gamer and Game-Play, a national touring exhibition and co-edited Artists Re:thinking Games (Furtherfield, FACT, 2009). He has been involved in various projects including Node.London, and OpenCongress and has exhibited video work and performed live electronica at international venues. Corrado is currently teaching Computer Games Design at University of Wales, Newport. He is also a part-time research student at University of the Arts London, but most importantly, is an incorrigible gamer!

Vincent Van Uffelen – Web Developer
Vincent is an artist and digital craftsman who exhibited his work in the UK and abroad. He studied computer science, media studies, and cultural studies and gained thereby a sound theoretical foundation that supports now his critical research of the murky entanglement of media, computation, and matter. At present he creates devices to act in the physical domain, probes that reveal, things that meddle with communication processes, as well as objects that provoke thoughts. At Furtherfield he has been developing the new website using Drupal, a FOSS content management system.

Advisory Board

Mandy Berry, Joint Chief Executive, Golant
Mandy has wide experience of the creative and cultural industries and a track record of
initiating, developing and leading projects exploring new thinking in digital media.
At Golant, Mandy builds strategic partnerships with a wide range of businesses, public
bodies and social enterprises. She leads Golant’s public affairs and policy work regionally
and nationally and the sharing of learnings from its portfolio of near market research.
Prior to Golant, Mandy founded 01zero-one in Soho, a space for collaboration between the
converging sectors of the audiovisual and interactive digital media industries. Mandy co-led the UK National Commission for UNESCO’s work on digital media literacy from 2009 to 2011.

Rob Myers, Artist, Hacker and Writer
Rob 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 he seeks out critical practice in these fields for analysis and review.

Paul Squires, Managing Director, Perini
Paul is the Managing Director of Perini, an integrated digital business based in Oxford. It comprises of three brands, Imperica (a magazine covering new thinking in creative disciplines); Perera (an open digital creative agency); and Xpeso (an online display advertising  solution for publishers). Perini's founding principles include a commitment to openness and Open Source, an unrelenting commitment to quality, and a strong, responsible commitment to environmental protection in the company's activities.

Joscelyn Upendran – CEO, lovle & Public Project Lead Creative Commons UK
Joscelyn is a qualified solicitor with experience and interest in commercial law. Following her time in the legal profession Joscelyn moved into the academic field where she lectured at undergraduate and postgraduate level on training programmes for trainee lawyers, accountants and managers who were undertaking professional management and legal qualifications.
During her time in education Joscelyn also worked with business clients to develop and deliver bespoke training programmes and managed and delivered distance learning programmes. This interest and experience seeded the thinking behind lovle. Joscelyn’s interest in legal reuse and sharing led to her becoming involved in Creative Commons UK as the Public Project Lead. Joscelyn is passionate about discussing the use of Creative Commons copyright licences and in hearing about how people are using them to legally share, for work, learning, art & fun.

Evelyn Wilson, Senior Manager, LCACE
Evelyn is Senior Manager at LCACE (London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange) and was previously Cultural Development Manager with LCACE at Queen Mary, University of London. Her current work focuses on curating events and other activities to catalyse and support networking, collaborations or research opportunities between and across the academic research base and the arts and cultural sector.  She is a prolific events and festivals curator who is committed to the potentials of research and the arts to encourage thinking about the world in challenging and productive ways.

Lauren A Wright, Curator, Turner Contemporary
Lauren is a researcher, curator, writer, and lecturer. She recently completed a PhD at the London Consortium on spectatorship and duration in art. From 2006-2010 she was Furtherfield Assistant Director contributing to strategic planning, and organisational and artistic programme development. 2007-10 Lauren worked as a Sessional Lecturer and Academic Advisor on the MA in Arts Policy and Management at Birkbeck, University of London. She is currently working as Curator at Turner Contemporary, Margate, and remains involved in Furtherfield activities and projects in her role as advisory board co-chair.

Now-Sleeping Furtherfielders

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

Atty (Andy Forbes) – Programmer/Head Gardener
Atty was responsible for knocking the Furtherfield and Furthernoise sites into neat rows in the French ornamental style (well, actually putting everything into a database). Furtherfield reaped the benefit of this work between 2007 and 2009. 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.

Matt Catlow – Web Designer (2001-03)
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 & publicity (2006-07)
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.

Adrian Eaton – Computer Programmer & Application Developer (2004-07)
The programming for the Furtherfield website 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.

Zara Hughes – Web Admin & Technical Developer (2005-07)
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 (2004-05)
Jade created reassuring order in the sea of Furtherfield office chaos. She is now developing her skills as a web designer and digital artist.

Alessandra Marconi – Research Associate
Alessandra is a researcher, who recently completed an MA in Arts Management at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her final dissertation project investigates the development of alternative business models for the cultural sector and of new forms of collaboration between arts organisations made possible through the digitalisation of culture. As Research Associate at Furtherfield, she explored possible business development opportunities for the organisation. In Italy she is one of the founding members of Scoop, a non-profit cultural organization, which aims to promote innovation at the intersection between art and technology.

Graziano Milano – Project Developer for VisitorsStudio (2005-07)
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 was responsible for the development of a series of live events and projects within VisitorsStudio.

Giles Pender – Office & Gallery Technician
Giles tended the Furtherfield office network and was responsible for supporting technical installations of exhibitions and live events. He is yet to be beaten by the most obscure technical instruction manuals. He is happiest recycling, reusing, dismantling and cross-breeding machines and messing with the mind & matter of all computer operating systems.

Daniel Perez – Web Developer
Daniel is a Web Developers who recently graduated from Greenwich University where he completed a BEng Degree in Computer Systems & Software Engineering. Daniel joined the Furtherfield team through a FJF government scheme. He worked on the implementation and development of the new website using Drupal, a FOSS content management system.

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.

Chardine Taylor-Stone – Marketing Officer
Chardine from London via the Midlands and back again worked on building Furtherfield marketing strategy, sending press releases and working on the newsletter. Coming from a fashion background she is a costume designer and personal stylist amongst other things as well as a club promoter. She collects old soul records DJes around the UK and Europe and is currenly studying at Birkbeck University for her BA in Arts and Humanities.

Maria Yarjah – Technical Producer
Maria worked on editing several trailers, in preparation of creating Furtherfield’s very own iPhone application. From a strong film/television production background, she graduated from a BA Hons Media and Performance degree from Salford University. When the Tech Producer gloves are removed, Maria is an actress and can be found performing in theatres home and abroad.

Mary Helen Young – Fundraising
Mary Helen is an arts professional with eight years experience in event and project management.  She has held positions with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, working on projects with the Cultural Leadership Programme, La Maison Francaise, The Brubeck Institute, Quebec government office, Francophonie Festival, Alliance Francaise, the Venezuelan Embassy, National Museum of the American Indian, Japan Information and Culture Center, and the Russian Embassy. She holds a MA in Cultural Policy and Management from City University London, and a BMus Hons from Vanderbilt University. Mary Helen's MA dissertation focused on London drum circles and informal creative collaboration.

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.