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. more >
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CURRENT PROJECTS
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Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain, 18th October 2009 - 30th January 2010
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A Mail-Art project across physical and digital networks towards an open exhibition at HTTP Gallery. Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain is a cultural collaboration for this age age of global disruption. "Uncivilisation", the Dark Mountain Manifesto, calls for a cultural response to our current predicament. Its challenge is offered to network-minded artists, technologists, writers and activists as a provocation - to work together to re-envision the narratives and infrastructures that govern our relationships with the natural world, and how they might be unravelled and rewoven to reconfigure our place in it. As "Uncivilisation" concludes, 'The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop.'
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Rich Networking
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Is it possible to hold an international media arts conference without a single participant getting on a plane?
The Rich Networking Series in partnership with SCAN and MARCEL will convene artists, curators, technologists, musicians, thinkers and researchers in 3 geographically distant venues to share their knowledge, experience, perspectives and approaches to sustainable international collaboration and exchange. Participants and partner organisations will explore the range of existing networking activities and frameworks that are already used to stimulate exchange and collaboration between groups of people attending international conferences, fairs and networking events.
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UPCOMING PROJECTS
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The Airship Network (in development)
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Furtherfield.org is working with The Arts Catalyst and experts to develop a new blueprint for this iconic means of transport for 2012 and beyond; offering both human-scale experience and an aerial icon visible to people on the ground, inspiring contemplation about alternative slower futures for transport in the context of environmental change.
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PAST PROJECTS
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Sound Ecologies: Listening in the City, 10am-4pm 18th November 2009
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A day of presentations, participatory workshops and informal performance around themes of urban sound, networked sound, locative media and acoustic ecology - the relationship between living beings and their environment, as mediated by sound. Featuring Stanza, Peter Cusack, Marc Garrett, Ximena Alarcon and Pedro Rebelo. The event is free, and open to anyone interested, including musicians, artists, curators, technologists; ecologically inclined thinkers, makers and doers of all kinds. A partnership event convened by Katharine Norman, Department of Music, City University London and Furtherfield.org
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Feral Trade Cafe by Kate Rich: Exhibition 13 June - 2 Aug 2009
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Feral Trade Cafe, an art exhibition that is also a working cafe, opens at HTTP Gallery for 8 weeks over Summer 2009. Serving food and drink traded over social networks, Feral Trade Cafe by Kate Rich (AU) provides a convivial setting from which to contemplate broader changes to our climate and economies, where conventional supply chains (for food delivery and cultural funding) could go belly up.
The cafe will be host to a series of events, initiated by Furtherfield.org and others, examining issues related to the Feral Trade and Media Art Ecologies projects.
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content tagged 'media art ecologies' within the Furtherfield.org network
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Artworks, reviews, articles, interviews and essays by practitioners across a range of disciplines within the Furtherfield network reflect on media art ecologies across and between material, virtual and cultural domains. Hopping from action to reflection and back from the machinic to the bucolic, from life-hacking tactics to philosophical histories, coding, theory and getting organised.
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MORE ABOUT what the Furtherfield Media Art Ecologies Programme will do
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- Support and promote new work in ecological media arts through exhibitions, commissions and flightless international residencies
- Stimulate debate through "rich networking" activities and publishing reviews, interviews and discussion online
- Co-devise accessible workshops with distinct groups of people to explore and activate diverse perspectives and experience.
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Further develop the capacity for research, discovering ways to gather, synthesise and disseminate the knowledge that emerges through the programme to those beyond our immediate community
- Develop the sustainability of our artistic activities in the context of economic and ecological crisis
- Develop a participation and learning resource
For more information contact Ruth Catlow
ruth[dot]catlow[at]furtherfield[dot]org |
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