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image: Jennifer Chan, Grey Matter, 2013

Exhibition - Beyond the Interface - London, 2015

Furtherfield Gallery, 25 April - 21 June 2015

Featuring: Zach Blas, Branger_Briz, Mez Breeze, Heath Bunting, Jennifer Chan, Francesca da Rimini, Genetic Moo, Nathaniel Stern

Crow_Sourcing workshops at Trinity Leeds, a set on Flickr.

Germinate! Broadcast! Trade! Track!

In conjunction with Shu Lea Cheang and Mark Amerika exhibition, Furtherfield is pleased to host Shu Lea Cheang's Seeds Underground Party.

In certain parts of the world, the vast farmlands have been colonised by genetically modified crops for our staple foods (i.e. wheat, soybeans, corns). Introduced 30 years ago, the transgenic biotechnology has since been commercialised by the patent-protected corporate sectors. Taking over the wholesale markets, the Herbicide-tolerant and pest-resistant seeds promise higher yields and profits without much ecological concerns. This year, the European Union is about to adopt a new seed policy, which favours the seed industry corporations by making all seeds subject to strict regulation. It is feared that this will hurt organic varieties and prevent seed exchange by seed farmers and savers.

Join us for a seed exchange party where packets of seeds change hands and go underground in the fields around Finsbury Park and beyond. Bring your self-harvested homegrown seeds of sorts! Sign on to trade seeds, to adopt and germinate, to broadcast and track their distribution. Share some food, drinks and seeds stories while we celebrate the harvest season together in the relaxing setting of Finsbury Park.

+ To join Seeds Underground Party, and trade and track your seeds, please register on http://seedsunderground.net

Click on TRADE and select Furtherfield, London from the "join a seeds underground party" pull down menu.

Opening Event: Seeds Underground Party - Saturday 31 August, 2-5pm Open Friday to Sunday 11-5pm Contact: [email protected] Visiting Information

This exhibition by Mark Amerika (US) and Shu Lea Cheang (US/FR) at Furtherfield Gallery marks a significant moment for contemporary art. Amerika and Cheang are both 'net native' artists. They share many of the obsessions of the growing multitude of artists who have grown up with the net since the early 1990s. They are also big "names" - internationally established artists who regularly show their work, to critical acclaim, at contemporary art galleries around the world. They have crossed over into the mainstream art world whilst maintaining a critical edge. Amerika is a media artist, novelist, and theorist of Internet and remix culture, named a "Time Magazine 100 Innovator" in their continuing series of features on the most influential artists, scientists, entertainers and philosophers into the 21st Century. Cheang is a multi-media artist who works with net-based installation, social interface and film production. She has been a member of the Paper Tiger Television collective since 1981 and BRANDON, a project exploring issues of gender fusion and techno-body, was an early web-based artwork commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum (NY) in 1998. Both artists continue to shape and be shaped by contemporary networked media art cultures of remix, glitch, social and environmental encounters. Shu Lea Cheang and Mark Amerika at Furtherfield Gallery provides a physical interface in a local setting in the heart of a North London park to the thriving, international, networked art scene.

On second day of summer, Maja Kalogera & Med-i-kids from AKC Medika in Zagreb, will gather in Finsbury Park in front of Furtherfiled Gallery. They will present Classical Sitting Squatters. They are quite a joyful bunch, they recite, chirp, sing, blink, sit still, just name it. You are invited to join them/us for a drink and meet them in 'person', on Saturday 22 June 2013, between 11am and 5pm. ABOUT THE WORK Classical Sitting Squatters (CSS) is an installation made of a dozen full-sized figures or 'sitting' sculptures. They are reciting poetry of Gertrude Stein, Dylan Thomas and Emily Dickinson, on the input of the passers-by.

About One Minute Volumes 1-6

In partnership with 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Furtherfield Gallery is pleased to host One Minute Volumes 1-6 curated by the film-maker Kerry Baldry over three consecutive weekends in January and February 2013. The programme will also be shown at 20-21 later in 2013.

One Minute Volumes 1-6 are an eclectic mix of artists moving image constrained to the time limit of one minute and includes over 80 artists at varying stages of their careers.

The artists involved range from established figures, such as Guy Sherwin and Catherine Elwes, to comparative newcomers through a multinational roster of those in between; and the methods deployed and content treated of are hugely diverse, a master class in the very short form film.

Gabrielle Schwartz writes in a recent review in Varsity, a Cambridge University publication:

'There was no way of knowing what is going to come next; only that (while it might be beautiful, it might be funny, it might be incredibly weird) either way, it would be finished in a minute’s time - and so you might as well wait and see. This element of expectation as well as the consistently thought-provoking and entertaining quality propelled me through the volume, never once resulting in boredom'.

These programmes have toured nationally and internationally including, among others: FACT in Liverpool, Artprojx Space - London, Directors Lounge - Berlin, London Underground Film Sessions - Horse Hospital, London. National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Bucharest, Plymouth Arts Centre, S1 Artspace - Sheffield, The Hull Short International Film Festival, Castlefield Gallery - Manchester, Peloton Gallery - Australia.

Sat 19 - Sun 20 January 2013: One Minute Volume 1-2 Sat 26 - Sun 27 January 2013: One Minute Volume 3-4 Sat 02 - Sun 03 February 2013: One Minute Volume 5-6

Open 12-4pm Contact: [email protected]

Focus on {crowdsourced} Noir Project by Josefina Posch: { crowdsourced } NOIR / Love Beyond Recognition is a process based work of art by Josefina Posch encompassing a sculptural installation and an Internet based live stream. The digital part of the project is developed in collaboration with artist and new media developer Mike Blackman. The creation of both parts is based upon crowdsourcing which is the practice of outsourcing tasks to a broad, loosely defined external gro

Josefina Posch - Noir - Love beyond Recognition

Seeking to investigate new modes of audience experience, {crowdsourced} Noir / Love Beyond Recognition is a process-based artwork encompassing a sculptural installation and an interactive stream across the World Wide Web. Both parts of the project are based on the notion of "crowdsourcing" and the use of public domain archives for works of art. The physical installation will be exhibited at Konstepidemin Gallery, Gothenburg (SE), with live interactive streams at Furtherfield Gallery, London. Visitors will be able to search for keywords from a database of short clips selected from the online public domain Film Noir Archive and hear them play through sourced short clips dialogues containing those words, while a live video stream connecting the two venues in London and Gothenburg will show the sculptural installation intercut by those dialogues and related video footage. A compelling cinematic experience is created. Visitors at Konstepidemin Gallery will be also able to see the live stream and hear the dialogues selected by the London-based audiences.

Saturday 08 - Saturday 15 December 2012

Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion

Open Tue-Sat 12-4pm Contact: [email protected]

More information:

www.crowdsourcednoir.org www.josefinaposch.com 

[Borders] By Mary Flanagan

Mary Flanagan travels overland and undersea in virtual worlds. Her journeys in the worlds are caught on video. Her avatar scouts the boundary lines of ‘heritage’ landscapes built by “residents”. Her walks are inspired by Thoreau, the great American writer and walker, who knew that 'all good things are wild and free'.

This [Borders] represents Chichen Itza, a Mayan archaeological site on the Yucatán Peninsula in contemporary Mexico.

[borders] uses online shared virtual places as settings for walks that examine virtual property 'ownership' and the construction of historical truth in 3D virtual worlds. In the project, I visit virtual recreations of heritage sites and walk their borderlands. In the course of these explorations, I have captured the unexpected glitches and disruptions in an otherwise seamless environment through video recording. This project has historical underpinnings: According to the 19th Century French writer Baudelaire, the flâneur is a figure who moves through the labyrinthine streets and hidden spaces of the city. The flâneur discovers both low culture, the underworld, and the high culture, fashionable world, but remains somehow disassociated. Wordsworth took to pastoral scenes in his commitment to drifting in space, using the walk as a research method. In the US, the same idea was sustained in Thoreau's insistence to stroll without a specific goal in order to encounter the spiritual possibilities inherent in a landscape.

More [Borders] and info on:

http://www.maryflanagan.com/borders

After a few months the mushrooms are grown up!

The Shredder is a project by Dominic Smith. More info on:

http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/www-world-wild-web

Laika's Dèrive by Sarah Waterson (Ben's Dèrive)

More pics and info on:

laikasderive.sarahwaterson.net

Laika's Dèrive By Sarah Waterson (BumBum Dèrive)

Laika’s Dérive invites London’s dogs and their companions to record a walk in their local area. This walk offers a chance for interspecies communication and a sharing of knowledge that results in a collaborative mapping of each dog/human’s walk.

Each dog is kitted-out with a system that automatically photographs the dog’s favourite vistas and objects on location. The photographs are selected via the sniff and interest time of the dog, and are returned to the human as a series of the dog’s favourite snaps, and displayed on this website.

Join us for Best in Show Picinic  at the culmination of the project where dogs and their collaborators can share their happy snaps and trails of discovery.

Laika’s Dérive-London is part of the Furtherfield’s WWW: World Wild Web exhibition, curated by Alessandra Scapin.

More info on:

http://laikasderive.sarahwaterson.net/

Laika's Dèrive By Sarah Waterson (Yoko & Holly Dèrive)

Sarah Waterson has invented a set of cartographic tools for dogs (and their human friends) to develop an interspecies psychogeography. Her electronic mapping system generates sniff data, routes and photographic journals supporting communication, collaboration and knowledge-sharing between companion species.

You can find more pic and info on:

http://laikasderive.sarahwaterson.net/

www.furtherfield.org

The Shredder by Dominic Smith

Disquieted by the environmental impact of constant technological upgrades, Dominic Smith works with open knowledge from the DIY mycology movement to create a system that combines the waste products from the tools and fuels of the contemporary coder. Out-of-date software manuals and coffee grounds are shredded to create a compost for fruiting oyster mushrooms to be harvested and consumed by visitors.

More info and pictures on:

www.facebook.com/Furtherfield

Crow_Sourcing By Andy Deck is a work that takes part of our latest show WWW: World Wild Web. For more info visit our website and facebook page!

www.furtherfield.org