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.
The Treaty of Finsbury Park 2025
A future event in which a multi-species delegation negotiates a mutual agreement on behalf of all organisms in the face of an unprecedented threat.
CultureStake
A web-based voting and connection system for decentralised cultural decision-making and investment.
Now London Is A City Farm…
After the Great Food Emergency of 2020 London is re-formed as a city farm governed by multispecies assemblies. They must create a thriving food commons for its biodiverse inhabitants.
The DAOWO Open Score for Artworld Commoning
The DAOWO Open Score is an experimental framework for nurturing the artworld commons after Web3.0, at the intersection of three fields of practice: art, commoning and decentralisation engineering.
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
The Machine that Eats the Artworld for Lunch
The Artworld DAO Think Tank is a 52 hour immersive event, employing uncanny working methods, technical talk and political discussion to create pathways to collective arts production, resistance and solidarity.
DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab
DECAL mobilises research and development by leading artists, using blockchain and web 3.0 technologies. Experiment in transnational cooperative infrastructures, decentralised artforms and practices, and improved systems literacy for arts and technology spaces.
Blockchain Imaginaries
Spring Editorial 2018 – Introducing Furtherfield’s season of exploratory and critical art and blockchain essays, interviews and events.
DAOWO – The blockchain laboratory and debate series for reinventing the arts
Award winning lab series, bringing together artists, musicians, technologists, engineers, and theorists to join forces in the interrogation and production of new blockchain technologies.
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.
Time Is Speeding Up
Life seems to speed up as we get older. Gallery visitors insert themselves via webcam into an online video that updates every 3 minutes. It grows denser over time and they are reduced to flickers on the screen.
The Road to Budgetary Blockchain Bliss
A 2 hour Live Action Role Play adventure for the blockchain-curious because real cats deserve our respect just as much as lolcats
The Blockchain: Change everything forever
This film made with Pete Gomes broadens the current debate about the impact of emerging blockchain technologies.
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.
Sociality-machine
The boundaries of public and private ownership and space are shifting. Sociality-machine was a collective research artwork to learn about social life in the network age. Commissioned by Digital Learning Studios, Tate.
Changing the Image of Money
A weekend of open image play, jargon-busting discussion, hacking and hands-on-exercises, to find out how we might shape #futurefinance since Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. A Photographers Gallery Micro-residency
Art and the Blockchain
The Blockchain is the technology that underpins Bitcoin the revolutionary decentralized digital currency. This touring exhibition for Digital Catapult features artists using the Blockchain to discover how it might impact life, for better or worse.
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
The Human Face of Crytpoeconomies
An exhibition and lab series questioning how we might produce, exchange and value things differently in the age of big data and the Blockchain. With artists, activists and alternative finance specialists. As part of Furtherfield’s Art Data Money programme
The Internet is Here
How is the way we value and organise the things in our lives changed by the Internet and Google search? Drawn and digital image triptychs.
Beyond the Interface – London
Furtherfield Gallery exhibition – “The interface is the sense organ of the computer, whereby it becomes part of human culture” – Søren Bro Pold. Featuring artists: Zach Blas, Branger_Briz, Mez Breeze, Heath Bunting, Jennifer Chan, Francesca da Rimini, Genetic Moo, Nathaniel Stern
Rethinking Wargames
Participatory artwork – A new online game of 3 Player Chess to remaster conflict. Now ‘pawns join forces to defend world peace!’
Play Your Place
An open artwork and online game-building game to draw, make and play games about the future of your local community.
Digital Zoo
Furtherfield’s exhibition tour of UK Shopping Centres
Karen Blissett is Revolting
An interview for Lady Justice | New Criticals
DIWO – Do It With Others
Furtherfield’s Do It With Others campaign for artistic freedom on the net
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.
Invisible Forces – Exhibition
Furtherfield Gallery exhibition, June – August 2012, featuring: Class Wargames, Kimathi Donkor, Laura Oldfield Ford, The Hexists, IOCOSE, Dave Miller, Edward Picot, Olga P Massanet and Thomas Cade Aston, and YoHa.
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).
Huis Clos/ No Exit – by Annie Abrahams
A telematic performance with 6 performers.
WWW: World Wild Web – Exhibition
An exhibition that introduces us to the unruly life going on where technical networks meet natural webs of communication, knowledge and feral exchange. As part of Furtherfield’s Media Art Ecologies Programme.
Festival of Money
A short film by Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow. A dirty protest against the forces of neoliberalism in the incestuous worlds of ‘high’ art and mass media; featuring BBC coverage of Frieze Art Fair and The Guardian’s promotion of Charles Saatchi.
At winter equinox we burn The Sun
A short film by Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow in which they ritually burn a copy of The Sun newspaper.
We Won’t Fly For Art
An exponential growth pledge using the Pledgebank social utility. Ruth and Marc won’t fly for art for six months but only if 6 others will do the same AND replicate the pledge.
Postinternet is net.art’s undefined bastard child
A network performance from the ARPANET dialogues, as part of Readingclub 22nd October 2013
Reading Club
Reading Club is a project by Annie Abrahams and Emmanuel Guez, inspired by Brad Troemel’s Reading Group and the Department of Reading by Sönke Hallman.
Collaboration and freedom – the world of free and open source art – Collection
A collection of artworks, texts and resources about freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet. Freedom to collaborate – to use, modify and redistribute ideas, artworks, experiences, media and tools.
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…
Dissension Convention
A 5 day protest performance projected at Postmasters Gallery, New York
Visitorsstudio
Online platform for realtime audiovisual collage and remix.
