News From Where We Are

Welcome to Furtherfield's cultural podcast grounded in news from where we are. This ongoing series of podcasts are dedicated to the collaborative-imaginative fieldwork of artists, techies, and activists informing how we organise, imagine and build solidarity, good health and post-capitalist realities. Working together and supporting others to do the same. In 2021 we celebrate 25 years of radical friendship at Furtherfield. We are revisiting past and current collaborators to discuss their fascinating ideas and what they’re up to. These are critically in-tune thinkers working cross-disciplinary practices, examining various aspects of the Internet now and post-digital contexts. They are changing culture, their lives, and the lives of their communities. We are interested in unearthing an ecological economy, relational understanding, and lived lives, alongside survival strategies, critical thinking and grassroots systems of peer and individual engagement, as part of the art context. We are examining power and how lives get lived, on whose terms, living the proposition, and what it means in the 21st century. For this episode, we have three excellent interviews. Two by Filippo Florenzin with Angela Washko and Rosa Menkman, and my interview with Cornelia Sollfrank. Cornelia Sollfrank, since the mid-1990s has investigated the worldwide communication networks and transferred artistic strategies of the classical avant-gardes into the digital medium. Her special interest lies in experimenting with new models of authorship, in continuing various forms of artistic appropriation and in deconstructing myths around geniality and originality. She is currently working as an associate researcher in the project “Creating Commons.” Angela Washko is an artist who creates new forums for discussions about feminism in spaces frequently hostile toward women, femmes, and non-binary people. Washko’s practice spans interventions in mainstream media, performance art, installation, digital art, writing, video, and video games. Rosa Menkman's work focuses on noise artefacts that result from accidents in both analogue and digital media (such as glitch and encoding and feedback artefacts). The resulting artefacts of these accidents can facilitate an important insight into the otherwise obscure alchemy of standardization via resolutions. As usual, we have special guest appearances of experimental noisemakers and music, which includes: AGF (poemproducer), and other audio related surprises. Image: The Game: The Game is a feminist video game made by Angela Washko. From iinstallation, 2018 Amphitheater Gallery.

Welcome to Furtherfield's cultural podcast grounded in news from where we are. We may be experiencing all kinds of restrictions on our lives due to the pandemic, but we still have access to thriving networked cultures from around the world. And this podcast is dedicated to the collaborative-imaginative fieldwork of artists, techies, and activists informing how we organise, imagine and build solidarity, good health and post-capitalist realities. Working together and supporting others to do the same. In 2021 we celebrate 25 years of radical friendship at Furtherfield. We revisit and open up conversations with some of the fascinating and radical people with whom we have worked and collaborated through the years from the Internet to post-digital contexts. They are changing culture, their lives, and the lives of their communities. We are interested in unearthing an ecological economy, relational understanding, and lived lives, alongside survival strategies, critical thinking and grassroots systems of peer and individual engagement, as part of the art context. We are examining power and how lives get lived, on whose terms. In this episode, we are excited to bring you two excellent interviews by new media art critic and writer Filippo Lorenzin. The first with the pioneering artist Auriea Harvey about her new bodies of work - sculptures using digital processes and handwork to create physical artefacts and virtual spaces. The second interview is with artist Morehshin Allahyari about how her work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. Net art historian Josephine Bosma and artist, curator and thinker Baruch Gottlieb engage in a Post-Most talk, a playful theoretical conversation exploring the pros and cons of the use of the prefix 'post', in terms such as post-modern, post-digital etc. As always these mind-expanding conversations are interspersed with special guest appearances of the finest experimental noisemakers and music, which includes: AGF (poemproducer), the new single 'California Ideology' by Eryk Salvaggio's electro band, The Organizing Committee, and a short soundscape by ‘People Like Us’. Image: Fauna by Auriea Harvey, Sculpture, 3d printed plaster and bronze, clay, natural fossil, paint.

Welcome to Furtherfield's cultural podcast grounded in news from where we are. We may be experiencing all kinds of restrictions on our lives due to the pandemic, but we still have access to thriving networked cultures from around the world. And this podcast is dedicated to the collaborative-imaginative fieldwork of artists, techies, and activists informing how we organise, imagine and build solidarity, good health and post-capitalist realities. Working together and supporting others to do the same. In 2021 we celebrate 25 years of radical friendship at Furtherfield. We revisit and open up conversations with some of the fascinating and radical people with whom we have worked and collaborated through the years from Internet to post-digital contexts. They are changing culture, their lives, and the lives of their communities. We are interested in unearthing an ecological economy, relational understanding, and lived lives, alongside survival strategies, critical thinking and grassroots systems of peer and individual engagement, as part of the art context. We are examining power and how lives get lived, on whose terms. Filippo Florenzin is interviewing artist and independent, Mexican Curator, Doreen Rios. Founder of [ANTI]MATERIA an online platform dedicated to the research and exhibition of Latin-American Digital Art. https://anti-materia.org/ Ruth Catlow reads to us her foreword for the DisCO manifesto by Stacco Troncoso and Ann Marie Utratel. https://disco.coop/manifesto/ Marc Garrett interviews artist Kate Southworth about her work with Art, Technology and Witchcraft, an Irish/British artist living in Cornwall, UK. https://www.katesouthworth.art/painting-archive/mapping-sol We have experimental, Avant-Folk by artists Alan Sondheim & Azure Carter, from their latest, excellent album Plaguesong. https://alansondheim.bandcamp.com/album/plaguesong We also have Stewart Home, the radically inauthentic communist sex witch & fed-up author, reading snippets from his recent book edited by Home - Denizen of the Dead published by Cripplegate Books. Denizen Of The Dead: The Horrors Of Clarendon Court Published. https://bit.ly/36KGNvr And, we have other sound treats fluidly appearing in between the guests’ contributions. main image. Mapping Sol, 2019. Oil on Canvas, 100x100cm. Kate Southworth.

Welcome to Furtherfield's 2nd Community podcast - a cultural discussion grounded in news from where we are. When the lockdown hit the UK a few weeks ago due to the Covid-19 virus, we asked contributors and lurkers on Furtherfield's Netbehavour email discussion list how they were doing? We received reports from every continent and this inspired us to create this podcast. Now, others have been in touch, sharing with us their stories, reflections and contexts. This podcast is a conversation with many voices from the ground to explore how the collaborative-imaginative fieldwork of artists, techies and activists is informing how we organise, imagine and build solidarity, good health and post-capitalist realities. Working together and supporting others to do the same. This episode features an excerpt from an interview with artist Gretta Louw*, and accounts from life with the Covid-19 virus, performances and readings by Annie Abrahams, Paul Hertz, Azure Carter, Daniel Pinheiro, Jennifer Seaman Cook, and Eryk Salvaggio. Sounds noise and music from: Antye Greie (aka AGF or Poemproducer), Stuart Bowditch, Anne Clark & Martyn Bates, Song Birds (Simon Mclennan), OTM (Ouch Those Monkeys). Together we explore how people want to live in our globally-connected world now. https://www.furtherfield.org/news-from-where-we-are-the-furtherfield-podcast/ Contributors' Links Annie Abrahams https://www.bram.org/ Stuart Bowditch http://www.stuartbowditch.co.uk Azure Carter https://azurecarter.weebly.com Anne Clark, Martyn Bates https://anneclarkofficial.bandcamp.com/album/just-after-sunset Mac Dunlop https://macdunlop.bandcamp.com Antye Greie (aka AGF or Poemproducer) http://antyegreie.com Paul Hertz http://paulhertz.net Gretta Louw http://www.grettalouw.com/ Daniel Pinheiro https://daniel-pinheiro.tumblr.com Eryk Salvaggio https://www.cyberneticforests.com Song Birds (Simon Mclennan) https://solidbirdsflying.blogspot.com Jennifer Seaman Cook https://twitter.com/Histouroborus https://www.furtherfield.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Image by Gretta Louw. Untitled 1, 2. Hand embroidery on digitally printed linen, 2019. *Full interview with Gretta Louw to follow as a special feature here soon!