Furtherfield.org in the press

Artists Re:thinking Games, reviewed on Gamescenes, 2010
Mathias Jansson reviews the book Artists Re:thinking Games (2010) edited by Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Corrado Morgana.

 

Zero Dollar Laptop Project, reviewed on Wired, 2010
Bruce Sterling talks about the Zero Dollar Laptop Project by Furtherfield and Access Space.

 

If not you not me exhibition at HTTP, reviewed on Digicult, 2010
Maria Chatzichristodoulou reviews If not you not me by Annie Abrahams for Digicult.

 

If not you not me exhibition at HTTP, reviewed on Fabric Magazine, 2010
Rachel Dainer-Best reviews Annie Abraham's exhibition for Fabric Magazine.

 

The “Game of War” film at the HTTP Gallery, reviewed by Stewart Home, 2009
Stewart Home reviews the event in his blog Mister Trippy, Better Living Thru Chemistry.

 

Class Wargames reviewed by Scott Lenney for Mute Magazine, 2009
Veteran gamer Scott Lenney played a match with Class Wargames at their Summer Offensive, enjoyed it thoroughly but wondered at the aim of the game.

 

Feral Trade Cafe reviewed by John Millar for Mute Magazine, 2009.
John Millar reviews Kate Rich's show at HTTP for Mute Magazine.

 

Feral Trade Cafe reviewed by Rejina Sabut for Gastrogeek, 2009
Rejina Sabut interviews the artist Kate Rich about her exhibition Feral Trade Cafe for the Gastrogeek food blog.

 

Feral trade cafe: buying a narrative with your coffee, interview by William Shaw for the RSA Arts & Ecology blog, 2009
William Shaw interviews Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow about the exhibition Feral Trade Cafe by Kate Rich for the RSA Arts & Ecology.

 

Jeremy Bailey at HTTP Gallery by Charlene K. Lau, 2008
Review of The Jeremy Bailey Show on Akimbo, one of the main online arts news sources in Canada.

 

Urban Eyes, reviewed by Marisa Olson for Rhizome News, 2006
The common phrase ‘bird’s eye view’ generally assumes that the power of birds to surveil a wide plane endows winged creatures with a greater, more perfect picture of a place, and perhaps even its people. More recently, birds have participated in surveillance infrastructures through their hosting of RFID chips.

 

Furtherfield.org, reviewed by Carine Zaayman for Artthrob, 2006
This month the project page highlights two online net art and digital art communities. One uniting characteristic of net active artists and the like, is that they are always forming groups to join and to showcase work and exchange ideas - in fact, inclusivity seems to be built into the ethos of these artists' production.

 

Interview with Andy Deck by Denise Cattani for Artkey, Teknemedia 2006
e talk with Andy Deck, that in March has presented inside the Node.London program a new project, commissioned by Tate Online and Whitney Artport.


 

Long-Distance Media Relationships, reviewed by Marisa Olson for Rhizome News, 2006
For three years, Chicago, Illinois-based artist John Kannenberg and Long Beach, California-based artist Glenn Bach have been collaborating cross-country. The two gather data, photos, sound, and other materials on their daily walks and upload them to the internet, to compare their respective residences. Next Sunday they'll take their collaboration across the pond, participating in a performative round of live file-mixing hosted at London's E:vent and organized by Furthernoise and curator Roger Mills.

 

Boredomresearch at HTTP, reviewed by Finn Smith, metamute web exclusive, 2005
Last year digital arts platform Furtherfield extended itself into meat space, opening its HTTP gallery in Finsbury Park. Finn Smith visited the space, the boredomresearch exhibition ‘theatre of restless automata’, and the resident pussy cat...




Rosalind, reviewed by Lora McPhail for Net Art Review, 2004

Rosalind, (named for geneticist Rosalind Franklin), is a dynamic [new media art] lexicon that developed from a private project called GEST@TION. The endeavor, begun in January 2004... a small network of independent collaborators who sought to ³evolve a new shared textual vocabulary for communicating what they are, what they do and the worlds they are creating.²

 


Furtherfield.org, reviewed by Jess Loseby for Mute Magazine, 2004

Furtherfield delights in its rebellion against closed doors. Whether they are institutionally, financially or culturally shut...

 

Visitors Studio, reviewed by Jean-Jacques Lecercle for Mute Magazine, 2004
Deleuze or not Deleuze - Page 136 - Summer\Autumn edition 2004.

 

Andy Deck's retrospective at Furtherfield.org, reviwed by Eduardo Navas for Net Art Review, 2004
Is there such a thing as an online retrospective? Furtherfield.org is testing the possibilities with Andy Deck's first retrospective. Here is what Furthefield proposes in their launch-release.

 

Furtherfield.org, reviewed by Vladimir Kovacevic
"The alternative to Rhizome. Free content, frequently updated and a dedicated team of people that are artists themselves"... So what about these alternatives. An interesting alternative to Rhizome seems to be the ever developing site of furtherfield. Over the last year we saw it's content and participants multiplying and multiplying. Because it's structure is more or less open source participants don't have to fear for Rhizome like situations (that is that you have to pay to get to your own content).

 

Rethinking Wargames, reviewed by Adriana Martino for Flash Art, 2004
Tra Le opere confluite nella rete di Blog.Art, Rethinking Wargames e un progetto interattivo dell'artista inglese Ruth Catlow, founatrice e direttrice insieme a Marc Garrett, del sito d'arte elettronica www.furtherfield.org che raccoglie le propste di altri artisti.

 

FurtherStudio, reviewed by Helen Varley Jamieson for Rhizome Net Art News, 2003
'The new Furtherfield site offers critical writings, live discussions, artworks, noisemakers, a 'Public Broadcast' where members upload information about their own projects, and the FurtherStudio, where we can observe the net.Artist at work. Furtherfield, in all its interactive glory, takes us further than ever into the dynamic world of digital art.'

 

Furthefield.org, reviewed by Jess Loseby for AN Magazine, 2003
'The rapidly expanding and innovative artist-led site www.furtherfield.org currently at the forefront of British Net Art embodies a proactive principle within current net art practice.'

 

Arts Council funds website condemned as top-shelf porn, by Martin Delgado for The Mail on Sunday, 2003
'Organisers say the Shooting Live Artists show, which has included images of a woman in see-through panties and a man holding his genitalia, encourages ordinary people to view their bodies in a different way. But critics say it is little more than top-shelf porn disguised as art'.

 

Putting the personal in PC or the dirty in Mac, 2003
'Why when we own our bodies from the day we are born are we more likely to know the processes of our Intel Pentium than our pancreas? Why do we want to make our computers as personal as possible, and specific only to us, and yet we don’t celebrate the specificities of our own bodies?'

 

Skin/Strip Online, reviewed by Alan Sondheim, 2003
'The Internet revolution isn't one of communications and technology alone - it touches the very social fabric of our world. Sexuality and desire are foregrounded everywhere...'

 

Skin/Strip Online, reviewed by Lewis LaCook, 2003
'Skin/Strip Online will allow the user to, instead of letting technology inscribe them, inscribe the technology, by offering a topography of international flesh to the web site.'

 

Skin/Strip Online, by Eduardo Navas for Net Art Review, 2003
'Furtherfield.org has a brand new look, so make sure to drop by to peruse all its resources. Also, skintrip their collaborative project with Completely Naked is still happening; submissions of images of your naked bodies are welcomed. While visiting the site, read articles by Alan Sondeim, Charlotte Frost and our own Net Art Reviewer Lewis LaCook.'

 

Skin/Strip Online, reviewed by Prospero Writer for Word Oyster, 2003
'You owe it to yourself to check this out. Their Flash rolling slideshow interface is cool and the submitted images are both fun and real. And maybe, just maybe, you;ll be inspired to participate. It's anonymous. I just uploaded a couple of images. You can, too.'

 

Skin/Strip Online, reviewed on Neural.it, 2003
'Skin/strip è il risultato di un esplicito invito, che circolato fra gli addetti in principio e in rete più tardi, invitava la comunità digitale ad esprimere la nuda identità del proprio corpo. L'enfasi della carne non è nuova agli spazi incorporei della rete, e questa galleria amatoriale di particolari e visioni d'insieme di pelle e organici orpelli, più o meno velati, assembla una rappresentazione sociale e culturale dei corpi stessi.'

 

Day in day out, reviewed by Garrett Lynch for Net Art Review, 2003
'The first is a project set up by the net.art collective furtherfield.org called "day in day out" principally to document the diaries of people taking part in anti-war and human rights violations protests all over the world. Notably this includes events such as Iraq and the impending war, president Mugabi being invited to France by President Jacques Chirac etc.'

 

Skin/Strip Online, reviewed on Revista Arte
'La obra “Skin/strip Online” invita a la ciudadanía a despojarse de ropa, pudor y prejuicios, para construir una galería con imágenes de cuerpos desnudos.'
Revistarte

 

Skin/Strip Online, reviewed by Charlotte L. Frost for Rhizome News, 2003
'In line with net anonymity, modesty, intrigue and perhaps encouragement, faces must be kept concealed. So from the 28th February, if you are waiting on a download, whip off your ‘geek garb’ and give (a little) something back!'

 

Jess Loseby @ furtherfield.org, reviewed on Net Art News, 2002
'Currently, you can peruse such online works as "Definition," by Mac Dunlop, a series of poetic examination of one's inner and outer identities and cultures, and "Flash Explorations," by Jess Loseby which, via text, sound, and photographs, centers around a "cyber-domestic aesthetic." Stay tuned to furtherfield.org to discover fresh net art.'

 

Jess Loseby @ furtherfield.org, reviewed by Lewis LaCook for Suite101.org
'Jess' work was brought back to me as part of a feature at furtherfield.org (http://www.furtherfield.org/home.html), a rather subversive art site (check out all the ertoic material there, especially The Feeler Twins' take on the "nature" of the erotic, wink wink) that seems a strange place for her brand of cyber-domesticity to take root.'

 

Net Art @ furtherfield.org, reviewed on Hypertext Kitchen, 2002
'features a wide array of intriguing works including Definition by Mac Dunlop, a series of poetic examination of one's inner and outer identities and cultures; and Flash Explorations by Jess Loseby, which creates a "cyber-domestic aesthetic" via text, sound, and photographs.'

 

Furtherfield.org, reviewed on Lord Litter, 2001
'Furtherfield is run and designed by artists; developing and showcasing stunning and unusual creative projects and providing links to some of the hottest creative websites on the Net." I spent some quite entertaining time checking their offering ! Damned great cultural effort on the web - I like that!'