Hi Ana, Just wanted to get back to you regarding reviews...
Really glad you want to give it another bash :-) If you send us stuff, we can edit it - so give it a go... wishing you well. marc > Marc, I am going to make a new try. But again, the problem is my lack of language skills :( It means, I am fluent with Spanish and Swedish but my written English is not perfect :( > if you can bear with me and make small editions of my posts I am going to try to be consequent and send a few reviews each month from South America. I am going to be based in Montevideo but if I can afford it (going to live in a very poor economy no Swedish wellfare, grants, etc :( > I am going to travel to Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. > Ana > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:09 PM, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Furtherfield is looking for new Reviewers. > > Furtherfield receives regular submissions inviting us to feature and > review artworks and projects from artists, non-artists, and art groups > from all over the world. We have an excellent team of reviewers working > with us. Yet, we find ourselves overwhelmed by the amount of amazing and > challenging works exploring our (shared) cultures beyond traditional > remits more than ever now. And, as you can imagine, it is not easy > keeping up with the workload. > > AND - The (alarming) trend by particular groups, only respecting those > who reside in main cities such as London, New York or Berlin; because > they are so desperate to please an outmoded art market system of > scarcity - this only works to serve and perpetuate the hegemonies and > hierarchies of an already established, making them stronger. This is > boring and of course shallow, and it is just not good enough - we > deserve something better. With you - we want to reclaim and free up our > culture, take it back! Challenge us and challenge yourselves to break it > down! Redistribute it! Let our shared culture BREATH once more! > > "In terms of culture, what I see developing is a new transnational > culture, based on value and discourse communities, based on language, > that are neither local, nor national, nor fully cosmopolitan, but > 'trans-national'." Michel Bauwens. Founder of the Foundation for P2P > Alternatives. http://su.pr/2R2jSz > > So - we are interested in writers who understand and know about (new) > media art, P2P culture, net art, hacktivism, software art, social > networks, live networked art, live Internet tv, free and open source > software & hardware, digital recycling projects, tactical media, art > blogs, net films, mobile phone projects, self institutions, > psycho-geography, video games culture, activist games, as well as > publications, books, events, projects, unconferences, exhibitions > online/physical or both, and related conferences. And like us, if you > are passionately and critically engaged in investigating the constant > shifts and reinventions of our ever fascinating and imaginative world - > You will enjoy working with us. > > We welcome contributions from all kinds of writers – and are always > interested bi-lingual reviewers who are able to introduce/translate work > created by artists in non-English-speaking regions. We also interested > in reviewers who are writing about ‘media art and ecology’ and the > contemporary ideas coming out of this emergent genre. > > If you are interested in becoming a reviewer at Furtherfield and wish to > know more please contact marc garrett – marc.garrett [at] furtherfield.org > > Note: Please do not apply unless you are sure that you are definitely > interested. > > Become a Reviewer > http://www.furtherfield.org/get-involved/become-a-reviewer > > Features: Articles, Reviews & Interviews > http://www.furtherfield.org/features > > About Furtherfield > http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > > -- > http://www.twitter.com/caravia15852 > http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/ > http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia > http://www.scoop.it/t/gender-issues/ > http://www.scoop.it/t/literary-exiles/ > http://www.scoop.it/t/museums-and-ethics/ > http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0 > http://www.scoop.it/t/postcolonial-mind/ > > mobil/cell +4670-3213370 > > > "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. > — Leonardo da Vinci > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
