Lift up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
An appreciation of David Daniels, the great shape-poet, who died in May 2008. one of those figures who straddles the divide between digital and pre-digital art and literature. His art is about liberation, uninhibited outpouring, spontaneity and fun. Co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange
aesthetic, drawing, language, poetic, publication, text
 Female Icons
Female Icons is a multifaceted project by the artist group known as De Geuzen. Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting, and Renee Turner are the primary members, and have been making work together under the De Geuzen identity since 1996.
activism, agency, archive, behaviour, browser art, collaboration, collective, conceptual, context, critical, curation, cyberculture, feminism, Internet Art, intervention, media art, net.art, performance, social, social games
 Pure:dyne Discussion on Netbehaviour.
Pure:dyne Discussion on the Netbehaviour list with Heather Corcoran & Aymeric Mansoux members of GOTO10 collective. pure:dyne is an operating system developed to provide media artists with a complete set of tools for realtime audio and video processing.
agency, audiovisual, Code Art, collaboration, collective, critical, dialogue, distributed creativity, DIY, free code, free software, interview, media art, open source, participation, resource, software art
 The edgy discomfort of G.H. Hovagimyan's rant work
Eliza Fernbach interviews G.H. Hovagimyan a Performance and New Media artist based in New York about his ongoing Rant series started in the 70's. In the raging shadows of punk and performance art, these works have evolved in their content while maintaining the raw energy and volume, as contemporary and challenging critiques.
activism, agency, behaviour, critical, curation, cyberculture, media art, performance, satire, social
 Grow Your Own Media Lab (The Graphic Novel)
A collection of case studies presented in comic book format explain how and why to recreate Access Space's unusual and very successful way of running a community media lab.
activism, agency, collaboration, collective, community, copyleft, creative commons, distributed creativity, DIY, free software, independent, media art, open source, publication, recycling, resource, social, software art
 The Jeremy Bailey Interview on Netbehaviour
Jeremy Bailey interviewed by Marc Garrett on the Netbehaviour list. As part of his residency & exhibition "The Jeremy Bailey Show" at HTTP Gallery. Discussing works in the exhibition, critical approaches & contemporary contexts about his art work. Also discussing 'WarMail', commissioned by HTTP/Furtherfield.org, performed with a participating audience at the HTTP Gallery at the opening night.
animation, archive, article, audiovisual, dialogue, exhibition, interview, mobile art, performance, satire, software art, video, war
 FLOSS Manuals
FLOSS Manuals won the communities award at the New Zealand Open Source Awards on Sept 24th in a ceremony in Wellington, New Zealand. Rob Myers reviews the Collaborative manuals for Free Software including the One Laptop Per Child project available online and as printed books.
agency, books, collaboration, copyleft, critical, free software