Furtherfield Blog - Recent Posts of Interest on Media Art Practice and Culture.

Furtherfield Blog - Recent Posts of Interest on Media Art Practice and Culture.

The Furtherfield Blog is a shared space for personal reflections on Media Art practice: making it, curating it, translating it.

Here is a selection of recent Blog entries below,
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Like a flashy little sports car (reflections, part 2). By Aileen Derieg.
The first "women and tech" meeting I ever went to was a weekend workshop in Berlin that was organized by a group of university women there. I read their announcement on the first mailing list I was ever subscribed to, replied that I was interested, and got on a train to Berlin. This was a long time ago, when mailing lists were still new and the effects relatively unexpected: every time I opened my mouth, the first response was invariably a surprised, "You're from Austria, how did you get here?" At the time, however, the workshop was just what I was looking for.
Permlink - http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/195

Create/Debate. By Mark Hancock.
I was recently at an unworkshop at the Institute Of Creative Technology, DeMontfort Uni (I'm also dong my phd there, part time). Amongst the attendees were Martin Reiser, Jess Laccetti and others, including Prof Sue Thomas, mine and Jess's supervisor. We were trying to tackle the subject of transliteracy (the ability to think and work across multiple platforms, from orality to new media objects). and to understand fully what it means to do so. The above may sound like a simplified version of what we all do anyway, particularly anyone who comes to Furtherfield on a regular basis, but it has certain depths and paradigms in it, that are still under exploration and being explored: with one paper already having being published on First Mondays' website.
Permlink - http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/196

Pronouns and the power of definition. By Aileen Derieg.
Technically, a pronoun is just a placeholder, a small, seemingly unimportant word that substitutes for a noun. Sometimes, though, the power of pronouns to define what is perceived as reality can be troubling.
Permlink - http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/197

Australia says sorry. By Helen Varley Jamieson.
I'm in sydney this week with my grandmother, and this morning we got up early to watch The Apology broadcast live on TV. former prime minister of australia john howard refused for 11 years to say sorry to the indigenous people of this country, but kevin rudd has only been prime minister for 11 weeks and he's prioritised this significant act for the first day of the new parliament.
Permlink - http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/199

More Info:
This multi-blog is a place to intuitively explore media arts practice, together, as it occurs, to develop understanding and to learn, without any pressure to formulate complete arguments or to come up with answers. The blog was set up in Autumn 2006, initially as a place for informal, day to day exchange between members of the Furtherfield.org team, including editors/reviewers. The team discovered that this format suited some people more than others and are now open to new contributors. The Furtherfield blog is not intended as a platform to promote particular projects. Instead bloggers explore their own perspectives on their own terms; personal thoughts, emotional responses and critical intentions that are rarely publicly discussed elsewhere in such detail.