Foundland: Critical Stories. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/foundland-critical-stories
Annet Dekker interviews Foundland, a multi-disciplinary art and design practice based in Amsterdam. With backgrounds in graphic design, art and writing Foundland’s approach focuses on research based, critical responses to current issues. While moving around in advertising, printed matter, the Internet, and off line art spaces they dig up interesting stories about Disney, SpongeBob and defected soldiers. Foundland is: Ghalia Elsrakbi (Damascus, SYR) Ghalia completed a BFA in Graphic Design at Artez Hogeschool voor der Kunsten in Arnhem, followed by a Masters (design) at the Sandberg Institute. In 2009, she followed a research post-graduate at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Lauren Alexander (Cape Town, ZA) Lauren completed a BFA in Graphic Design at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. After shortly working in advertising she went on to pursue a Masters (design) at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, and thereafter an MFA at the Dutch Art Institute Arnhem (2011). Annet Dekker is an independent curator and researcher. Subjects of interest are the influence of art on technology, science and popular culture, and vice versa. Currently she is tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. Previously she worked as webcurator for SKOR (Foundation for Art and Public Domain), was programme manager at Virtueel Platform, and head of exhibitions, education and artist in residence at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. In 2009 she initiated aaaan.net with Annette Wolfsberger. They organised the Artist in Residence programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam and produced Funware, an international touring exhibition in 2010 and 2011 about fun in software (curated by Olga Goriunova). Since 2008 she is writing a PhD on strategies for documenting net art at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University, London, under supervision of Matthew Fuller. http://aaaan.net/ -- ---> A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;) Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org Furtherfield Gallery – Finsbury Park (London). http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. http://www.netbehaviour.org http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
