Four recent reviews/articles on Furtherfield. On Art and Disobedience; Or, What Is an Intervention? By Luke Munn. Luke Munn reviews a series of artworks that provide clues about the strategies of contestation and intervention available to contemporary artists. As Luke tells us, "Ripps, von Bismarck and Fornieles belong to an era of artists that may 'no longer dream of an outside', their work utilizing the logic of branding and media to stage interventions that appear more collaborative than combative, preemptively disarming attempts at appropriation". http://www.furtherfield.org/features/art-and-disobedience-or-what-intervention
"A Symbol" Bill Miller at The Widget Art Gallery. By Rob Myers. What can we learn from our encounter with an indeterminate symbol floating in the space of a gallery that exists only on Apple devices? Rob myers writes about Bill Miller's work featured at The Widget Art Gallery (WAG) serving art online since 2009. From July to August 2013 the work inhabited this virtual space as Bill Miller's "A Symbol". http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/symbol-bill-miller-widget-art-gallery Confessions of an A/V Geek: An Interview with Skip Elsheimer. By Monty Cantsin. Earlier this month Elsheimer corresponded with Montgomery Cantsin--a fledgling archivist currently attempting to digitize 20,000 feet of 16MM--to discuss his experiences and knowledge in this area. Some 20 years ago, Skip Elsheimer stumbled upon a lot of 500 films which he managed to purchase for a mere $50. And thus A/V Geeks, his Raleigh-based archiving club, was born. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/confessions-av-geek Commodify Us: Our Data Our Terms. By Marc Garrett. Richard Stallman, the outspoken promoter for the Free Software movement proposes that we should all leave Facebook and either find or build our own alternatives. Commodify.Us provides a platform for users to regain control over the commercial exploitation of their personal data. Marc Garret discusses the importance of such alternative hacktivist structures for social independence. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/commodify-us-our-data-our-terms _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
