Radical Friends – Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts
Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) offer unique tools for translocal peers to encode rules, relations and values into their joint ventures. This book is a compendium of fierce thinking about radical care and connectivity beyond established systems of centralised control in the arts and wider financial networks.
Radical Friends. DAO Summit for Decentralisation of Power and Resources in the Artworld
The Radical Friends Symposium discusses the value of and presents pathways to peer-produced decentralised digital infrastructures for art, culture and society.
Decentralisation and Commoning the Arts
How we can reclaim art from the logic of markets and commmodification using the redecentralised Internet? Image credit: Constallations Methodologie by Annie Abrahams, Pascale Barret & Alix Desaubliaux
Blockchain Imaginaries
Spring Editorial 2018 – Introducing Furtherfield’s season of exploratory and critical art and blockchain essays, interviews and events.
Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain
The first book of its kind, intersecting artistic, speculative, conceptual and technical engagements with the the technology heralded as “the new internet”.
Bad Shibe – A Sci-Fi Novella
Bad Shibe is a sci-fi novella by Rob Myers set in a future society that may or may not be based on a descendant of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, where it’s as hot and as dusty as a virtual money mining rig.
Pawnshop – the Greek Reality Board Game
What is the relationship between state corruption and economic collapse in Greece? Lina Theodorou, artist and creator of the board game ‘Pawnshop- Days of Mistrust’, talks with Ruth Catlow about Grexit, Brexit and crisis in Europe.
Situating the Digital Commons
A conversation with Tim Waterman about the negotiation of the commons: the landscape commons and across digital networks. Part of Furtherfield’s Reading the Commons programme
Karen Blissett is Revolting
An interview for Lady Justice | New Criticals
We Won’t Fly For Art – Essay
An essay about a 2009 net art intervention to activate the rhetoric of Gustav Metzger’s earlier protest work Reduce Art Flights (2007), in the context of the collapsing natural environment and financial markets.
Drawing as a Collective Activity – Essay
An essay about experimental teaching and peer-learning that centres around a weekly open drawing class run as part of the Art and Design degrees at Writtle School of Design.
DIWO: Do It With Others – No Ecology without Social Ecology- Essay
This essay by Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett explores what form ecological art might take in the network age, and shows how DIWO (Do It With Others) practices underpinned Furtherfield’s Media Art Ecologies programme (since 2009).
A context map of VisitorsStudio
VisitorsStudio is a Media Art project, in that it is ‘art through and with electronic digital media… a hybrid of…
