New Reviews on Furtherfield August 31st 2008.
Review of FILE SAO PAULO 2008 Festival
by Giles Askham.
Meditation for Avatars
Work by Ute Hoerner and Mathias Antlfinger.
Review by Les Loncharich
WORLDWIDEWEGG by Jaygo Bloom
Review by Ashley Wong
Ovu and Aphrodite at Mobilefest
Review by Paulo Hartmann.
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Review of FILE SAO PAULO 2008 Festival by Giles Askham.
FILE Sao Paulo, Electronic Language International Festival, which took
place in Brazil this August is subtitled Two Thousand and Eight Million
Pixels. A heading that references the vast resolutions made possible by
the 4K digital projection systems that were used to show cinematic work
at the festival this year, and forming one of the main themes of the
show. Other categories set up in an impressively produced catalogue that
accompanied the show included; installations, game art, media art and
performance. Works under these categories were exhibited alongside
games, and the projects of commercial exhibitors to produce an
energetic, rag-tag collection; that was constantly bursting out of the
curatorial confines that these groupings defined.
Featuring:
Memories - Anaisa Franco
Full Body Games - Jonah Warren and Steven Sanborn
Levelhead - Julian Oliver
The Scalable City - Sheldon Brown
L.A.S.E.R[/i] Tag - Graffiti Research Lab
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=315
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Review of Meditation for Avatars by Les Loncharich
Work by Ute Hoerner and Mathias Antlfinger.
The project Meditation for Avatars by Ute Hoerner and Mathias
Antlfinger, enlists personal computers to make spiritual projections.
Participants in this project donate processing time on personal
computers; the computers process mantras and send them through the
Internet. A mantra is a repeated chanted sound that is used to focus
one's concentration during meditation. Personal computers are used
because if there is one thing computers are good at, it's undeviating
repetition. The goal of the project, which the creators describe as an
"artistic experiment", is to raise the spiritual consciousness of those
donating processor time...
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=313
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Review by Ashley Wong
WORLDWIDEWEGG by Jaygo Bloom
The World Wide Wegg is a quirky project that utilizes the frenetic
activities of chickens to create a rather unusual breakfast experience.
It is a simple gesture that enlivens interactions between a world of
chickens and the stark white walls of a contemporary art space. Eggs,
toast and disco are everything you need to get the day started. From the
daily activities of egg-laying in the Gorgie City Farm in Edinburgh to a
mechanical toaster at the Centre of Contemporary Arts in Glasglow, the
World Wide Wegg relays the biological production of the rural to the
commonplace production of toast in the urban. Through the vast
communication portal known as the Internet, each egg layed in realtime
at the farm triggers a toaster to produce a piece of toast for visitors
at the gallery. An upbeat iTunes playlist controlled by the chickens is
used to help jump start the day.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=312
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Ovu and Aphrodite at Mobilefest
Review by Paulo Hartmann.
Featured:
Norene Leddy
Bauer Kathryn
Mobilefest has always had this wide angle view for mobile and wireless
technologies, but to our surprise examples, where the cellphone or a
hand-held device is not obvious, caught the attention and the affection
of the visitors.
With a tran-sdisplinary approach we have been asking this question - How
can mobile technology contribute to democracy, culture, art, ecology,
peace, education, health and the third sector? Two projects have
definitely answered these questions in most aspects, causing a frenesi
in terms of visitor's acceptance and multi-interest: Ovu and The
Aphrodite Project.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=314
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