[Reader-list] New reviews/articles on Furtherfield - March 2004.

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*_6 New reviews/articles on Furtherfield - March 2004._*

Furtherfield's first net art retrospective:-
An Andy Deck Retrospective: review by Marc Garrett.

A warm welcome to two new reviewers:-
Joe Keenan's 'Moment' - Joe Keenan: review by Jim Andrews.
NIESATT - Jtwine: review by Darshana Vora.

Three more insightful new reviews/articles:-
Google Hacks 'Google and Saussure' - Douwe Osinga: review by Lewis LaCook.
California Dreaming, Silicon Valley of Dreams: FurtherCritic article by 
Ryan Griffis.
no/copy/right - no-org.net.org: review/article by Garrett Lynch (Net Art 
Review).

You can get to all new reviews/articles and work on the front of the site...
http://www.furtherfield.org - or view links seperately via the six 
introductory paragraphs below.

*_Andy Deck Retrospective._*
Creating art software since 1990 and then moving onto the Internet in 
1994 Andy Deck has worked with the  Web using two main sites, 
artcontext.net and  andyland.net  as platforms to display his digital 
based  explorations. In the net art activist world there have been many 
inspiring talents who have shone through the  flickering, radiated haze 
of our computer monitors. Andy Deck is one of those individuals who, 
has  somehow succeeded in maintaining a consistent integrity in his 
work. Review by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=86

*_Google Hacks 'Google and Saussure' - Douwe Osinga._*
The content of the piece--the work's drama--is in how the user relates 
to the text-and-image sequence,  which in turn has been generated by 
her. It's a work that examines the interface betrween the user, the  
individual, and the web itself, the database, the collective, by using 
that sign system which is at all times  both achingly familiar and 
forbodingly alien: language. Review by Lewis LaCook.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=83

*_California Dreaming, Silicon Valley of Dreams._*
"Assembly line hysteria." Most of us can only conjure up situations of 
boredom, fatigue and repetitive  motion similar to typing all day in a 
cubicle, maybe. If we're well read in feminist literature, we'd be aware 
of  the historically gendered etymology of the second part of the term. 
But the phrase has a specific meaning  for factory workers, especially 
those working in the high tech manufacturing sector. FurtherCritic 
article by  Ryan Griffis.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=88

*_no/copy/right - no-org.net.org._*
An online exhibition that has just been opened by no-org.net , a "new 
Jerusalem art network envisioned as a  platform for experimental 
projects in the area of netbased and digital art and for the exchange of 
independent  information on contemporary art." Subsequent to a call for 
works on the theme of anti / counter copyright  which went out through 
most mailing lists at the start of this year for a new net.art 'space' 
completely  unknown to the community, I have been regularily checking 
the site to see how well the exhibition fared.  Review/article by 
Garrett Lynch (Net Art Review).
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=82

*_Joe Keenan's 'Moment' - Joe Keenan._*
I revisit Joe's "Moment" for various reasons, the primary one being I 
still have not seen/read it all; each time I  visit it does/says 
something I haven't seen. Also, what "Moment" does with text visually is 
sometimes a  wonder to behold, yet neither is it simply 'text as image'; 
the text is usually interesting; Joe Keenan is a  significant poet as 
well as programmer. Review by Jim Andrews.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=85

*_NIESATT - Jtwine._*
The work has an intelligence that is not pontificating to make one feel 
uncomfortable. Arresting one's  imagination with the pace of animated 
graphics, the issues that belie NIESATT-PARALLEL WORLDS  present 
themselves in short statements and sketches. And yet, the visual 
presentation and narrative  structure, which slyly glide between 
advertising, web-graphic and simulated game styles, is unique enough  to 
open the viewer to questions rather than being a dumb receptor. Review 
by Darshana Vora.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=87

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criticism and archiving of adventurous digital/net art work for public 
viewing, experience and interaction.

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