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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Edward Picot.
Review by Marc Garrett.

Edward Picot's visually playful, web art interpretation of Wallace
Stevens's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is a curious
artwork for many reasons. Once you have visited the work it lingers in
the mind and on each return it maintains a strong freshness. So what is
it in this work that compels me to re-experience its particularly
strange and magical reasoning?

It consciously acknowledges the original spirit of the text, whilst
introducing a response that at the same time attempts to deal with what
these words may mean today. This interpretation of the poem not only
gives us the opportunity to appreciate how special the original work is
by following the text, whether in order, or haphazardly, but it also
creates a moment in time that opens up a rare experience of two creative
minds as a kind of collaboration.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id(5

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Summerbranch Exhibition at TheSpace4 gallery, UK by Artists igloo.
Review by Rob Myers.

Summerbranch is a hyperreal cross-media woodland environment created by
Igloo during a residency at Artsway Gallery in the New Forest during
2005. Installed across the three rooms of TheSpace4 gallery in
Peterborough from 14th July - 9th September.

"The use of multiple media to present the virtual scene as a complement
to the recording of the real scene creates a hyperreal landscape. The
reality of this is altered, but not interrupted, in the VRs by the
motion-captured dance of moss-covered dancing female forms if you can
find them among the foliage. Layer upon layer of invocation of nature,
technology and mystery building up to produce the final effect of the
work which consists as much in what is absent as in what is present in
it. This experience of the work is hard to put into words, which for a
piece of art is a strong sign of its effectiveness."
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id(6

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_Reality Mapping: Navigating the Social-Nodes_
Article by MEZ (Maryanne Breeze).

Web 2.0 is based on a collusive tapestry of adjoining social nodes.
Social Networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Liveleak,
YouTube, Twitter and Pownce aren't prefaced on pre-set connotative
connections maintained through historicized emotional depth or satisfied
by biological drives. Friends aren't friends as we have come to know
them: there is no establishment of shared geophysical experiences, no
cathartic or chronologically defined friendship markers evident. What's
important is [inter]action and the quantity of it - the residual volume
of contact and the fact of shared connection minus a meatbody context.
Identity is constructed in these friendship pathways via the idea of
notations; of naming labels, of icon attribution, and of clustered
info-snippets streamlined through an interface designed for momentary
persona snapshots.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id(1