Furtherfield Projects
Exploring shifts between virtual and physical space and human networks, Furtherfield events and projects incorporate a strong participatory element and break away from conventional approaches to contemporary art. The projects are often live, real-time, collaborative artworks, facilitating and documenting unrestrained interaction and communication between artists and audiences online. Success is measured by the technical and conceptual accessibility of projects to a wide audience who engage as individuals and groups, creatively on their own terms
 
 Furtherfield on ResonanceFm 2010
This regular live show highlights current activity and controversies around contemporary practices in art and technology, discussing events, exhibitions, debates and their social contexts with all manner of player and participant. Features include lively debate and interviews with artists, techies, writers and curators, interspersed with bleeding-edge music and a rolling programme of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.

Hosted by Marc Garrett, artist, writer and co-founder of furtherfield.org with reviews and interviews by art historian & writer Charlotte Frost and Ruth Catlow artist co-founder of the furtherfield.org.
 Media Art Ecologies 2009-12
Furtherfield.org supports experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. Many of these practices share an ecological approach - an interest in the interrelation of technological and natural processes: beings and things, individuals and multitudes, matter and patterns. They have been developing for nearly half a century, but their effects become especially compelling in the context of contemporary ecological and economic crises. They engage imaginations toward a critical view of growth economics and patterns of consumption, inspiring audiences to generate alternative visions of sustainability and prosperity through creativity and collaboration.

Through this programme of work we want to increase opportunities for art making and appreciation, critical debate, exchange and participation in emerging ecological media art practices, and the theoretical, political and social contexts they engage; to engender shared visions of other possible worlds.
 DIWO [2007]
Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art playfully developed the Do-It-Yourself ethos of early Net Art which used the early Internet as an experimental artistic medium and distribution system. DIWO highlighted an open and collaborative approach to making and appreciating art in the context of thriving contemporary communication and creativity in online social spaces. Peers connect, communicate and collaborate, creating controversies, structures and culture.

During February and March 2007, 90 people signed-up and contributed to an exhibition at HTTP Gallery through the NetBehaviour email list, observed by another 200 subscribers. Participants worked across time zones, geographical and cultural distances with digital images, audio, text, code and software; they worked to create streams of art-data, art-surveillance, instructions and proposals, and in relay to produce threads. Many also participated in the experimental networked curation of the exhibition, facilitated by webcams, chat and VOIP technology.
 Furtherfield Blog [2007- ]
The Furtherfield Blog is a shared space for personal reflections on Media Art practice: making it, curating it, translating it.

This multi-blog is a place to intuitively explore media arts practice, together, as it occurs, to develop understanding and to learn, without any pressure to formulate complete arguments or to come up with answers. The blog was set up in Autumn 2006, initially as a place for informal, day to day exchange between members of the Furtherfield.org team, including editors/reviewers. The team discovered that this format suited some people more than others and are now open to new contributors. The Furtherfield blog is not intended as a platform to promote particular projects. Instead bloggers explore their own perspectives on their own terms; personal thoughts, emotional responses and critical intentions that are rarely publicly discussed elsewhere in such detail.
 GAME/PLAY [2006-7]
Game/Play is a networked national touring exhibition focusing on the rhetorical constructs game and play. This collaboration between Q Arts, Derby and HTTP Gallery, London provides a basis for exchange and interaction between audiences, artists, curators and writers through the exhibitions and networked activity. Artists works fall under three main categories: installations, independent video games and online, networked artworks. Game/Play commissioned three new works from Mary Flanagan, Low Brow Trash and Simon Poulter.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue available at the exhibition venues. It includes twenty specially commissioned texts from respected writers in the field of critically positioned independent gaming and 'playculture'. Writers include Giles Askham, Jon Bird, Javier Candeira, Rebecca Cannon, Keiron Gillen, Martijn Hendriks, Pat Kane, Ana-Marija Koljanin, Maaike Lauwaert, Patrick Lichty, Corrado Morgana, Christiane Paul, Thomas Petersen, Andy Polaine, Jonathan Willett.<< download the full catalogue as PDF (616 KB).
 5+5=5 NetArtFilm [2006]
5 short movies by 5 film makers about 5 networked art projects exploring imaginative and critical approaches to social engagement.

5 short movies commissioned by Furtherfield about 5 UK-produced networked art projects which explore critical approaches to social engagement. These pieces offer alternative interfaces to the artworks and the every-day artistic practices of their producers. They introduce the motivations and social contexts of artists and artists' groups who are working with DIY approaches to digital technology and its culture, where medium and distribution channels merge. The movies are: Free Media by Mongrel- Film Maker, David Valentine, Polyfaith by Chris Dooks- Film Maker, Chris Dooks, 'So that we can see the conversation we have to make the work' a film about VisitorsStudio by Furtherfield- Film Maker, Michael Szpakowski, The Golden Shot (Revisited) by Simon Poulter- Film Maker, Anya Lewin and Want and Need by C6- Film Maker: C6
5+5=5 was with the support of Mejan Labs in Stockholm, Sweden - Arts Council of England and Awards for All in UK.
 House of Technologically Termed Praxis [2004-]
HTTP is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art, based near Haringey's thriving and culturally diverse Green Lanes. Working with artists from around the world HTTP provides a public venue for experimental approaches to creating and exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual space, and for online projects that explore participative and collaborative art practice. When not in use as an exhibition space the gallery is used for events, mini-conferences and performances. Artists' projects on DVD, real-time, webcast, networked-performance, software art and live art also play a role in the curatorial work of HTTP.
 VisitorsStudio [2003-]
VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, interviews, networked performance and collaborative polemic. Through simple and accessible always-on facilities, the VisitorsStudio web-based interface allows users to upload, manipulate and collage their own audio-visual files with others', to remix existing media. VisitorsStudio provides a platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations and social contexts.

Participants upload sound files and still/moving images (jpg, png, mp3, flv, swf) to a shared database, mixing and responding to each other's compositions in real-time. Individuals can also chat with each other and are located in the interface by their own dancing-cursors.

VisitorsStudio Version2, incorporates new artistic tools and community building facilities. Users are able to schedule and promote their own networked performance programmes. These can be recorded, archived, rated, downloaded and redistributed as screensavers to users' own desktops.
 FurtherStudio [2003- 4]
An exploratory, year long project, set up to create online, real-time, net art residencies with three UK-based artists:Jess Loseby Rich White and Replic**t. Each residency lasted for 3 months, during which time the artists needed not leave their studio or home environments, as the FurtherStudio web facility offered a public window on the artist's PC desktop as they worked.
Chat and critical forum facilities enabled artists, critics and audiences to discuss the work made by the artists for the project in a series of live, globally accessible interviews & critical debates.The residency programme consists of a series of open studio events in which visitors observed artists work processes and chatted with them online. Over 9 months 3 artists created a series of digital artworks and performances often with contributions (or heckling) from the online audience.
 Rosalind [2004- ]
Rosalind, is an upstart new media art lexicon, born in 2004, following a sheltered 9 month gestation during which time a small, independent, community of interest collaborated to evolve a new shared textual vocabulary for communicating what they were, what they did and the worlds they were creating... Rosalind is now hungry for the words and definitions of all new media artists who are invited to influence and mutate her, helping her to maturity.
 nonTVTV station in Realtime [2003- 4]
A channel for real-time art. nonTVTVstation invited artists to create a piece of real-time art to be distributed live, 24 hours a day, for a period of one month. Furtherfield were a node on this network.
 Dissension Convention [2004]
Coinciding with the Republican Convention in New York, over 20 international net artists and digital artists broadcast a new collaborative art-polemic with a focus on how Bush and the US Republicans negatively influence every locality around the world. This real-time multimedia protest jam was projected at RNC NODE and in local NY bars.
 Andy Deck Retrospective [2004]
Is there such a thing as an online retrospective? This is Furtherfield's first ever artist's retrospective. Andy Deck has created art software since 1990 and then moved onto the Internet in 1994 at artcontext.net and andyland.net.

Deck's work is critical of corporate culture and questions militarism. Challenges to such hierarchies can be seen frequently in much of his work. His decision to develop his work using the Linux operating system, and publishing the source code for many of his software based projects, reflects a conduct in keeping with his anti-corporate stance.
 Netbehaviour.org [2004- ]
Netbehaviour is an open email list community for sharing ideas, posting events, opportunities, facilitating collaborations in the area of artists, academics, soft groups, writers, code geeks, curators, independent thinkers, relationalists, activists, networkers, net mutualists, new media types, new media performers, net sufi's, non nationalists.
 Furthertxt.org [2003- 4]
Furthertxt.org a sister site to furtherfield.org. A a bi-monthly thematic text project, edited by digital art critic Charlotte Frost (Rhizome Net Art News and Mute) introducing contributors/papers, or entire themes relating to Internet shifts and the virtual imagination.
 Furtherfield Networking Party [2003- ]
The networking party is an informal event in which artists, thinkers, techies, entrepreneurs, transgressive types, scientists, musicians, performers, curators and critics are invited to bring along documentation of any current projects opening potential for individuals and groups to collaborate and realise each other on their own terms. The only requirement is that attendees bring some evidence of their current project or enthusiasm.
 Skin Strip Online [2003- 4]
Skin/Strip Online, a collaboration between Completely Naked and Furtherfield.org. An interactive, online, digital photography installation in which the participating audience create expressive images of their own naked bodies; displaying them next to others in the context of a live artwork on the web. Commissioned by Shooting Live Artists & BBCi, launched at Site Gallery, Sheffield.
 FurtherCritic [2003- ]
FurtherCritic, is a practical extension of the regular reviews featured on Furtherfield. Whereas Furtherfield's reviews focus on current projects and the promotion of artists' work in this ever expanding field, FurtherCritic provides a more extensive, critical, cultural overview; engaging with some of the areas discussed by media art academics but outside the context of an institutional framework. This offers a freedom to the participating writers to reflect on the subject matter on their own terms, experiment with the structures and rules of critical writing to communicate with a broad audience rather than adhere to long established institutional protocols for knowledge dissemination.FurtherCritics have been Lewis LaCook, Ryan Griffis and ]]Mez[[ (Maryanne Breeze).
 Day In Day Out (DIDO) [2000- 2]
Around the world people were invited to contribute to a collective global diary,to collaborate on building a chaotic and varied picture of our collective lives. In this precursor to blogging, diary entries were archived on the DIDO site. Furtherfield then took these and used them as raw material for exhibitions, projections and pasteup events. Venues included Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford and the File Festival in Brazil.
 Paste Ups [1998-9]
Exploring moves from the net to the street. People were invited to respond with text and/or images to advertising and the wider world via 2 furtherfield sites: Emotion in Information and Concrete Myrth Posters.
 ExpoDestructo Digital Media Conference, London, UK [1998]
Installation of Love Match with White Noise and Paste-Ups exploring moves from the net to the street.