"I’m extremely happy that our p2p theoretical work has inspired actual art curators and artists such as Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow of Furtherfield. In this essay, they describe their projects in the context of p2p developments and theorizing. In our second installment we will present the actual art projects." Michel Bauwans.
No Art Ecology without “P2P” Social Ecology. By Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow: Many contemporary artists who take the networks of the digital information age as their medium, work directly with the hardware, algorithms and databases of digital networks themselves and the systems of power that engage them. Inspired by network metaphors and processes, they also craft new forms of intervention, collaboration, participation and interaction (between human and other living beings, systems and machines) in the development of the meaning and aesthetics of their work. This develops in them a sensitivity or alertness to the diverse, world-forming properties of the art-tech imaginary: material, social and political. By sharing their processes and tools with artists, and audiences alike they hack and reclaim the contexts in which culture is created. http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/no-art-ecology-without-p2p-social-ecology/2013/03/01 * Article: DIWO: Do It With Others – No Ecology without Social Ecology. By Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow – Furtherfield, 26/01/2013 (source: Remediating the Social 2012. Editor: Simon Biggs University of Edinburgh. Pages 69-74) -- ---> 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
