Net artist, media artist, curator, writer, street artist, activist, educationalist and musician. Emerging in the late 80′s from the streets exploring creativity via agit-art tactics. Using unofficial, experimental platforms such as the streets, pirate radio such as the locally popular ‘Savage Yet Tender’ alternative broadcasting 1980′s group, net broadcasts, BBS systems, performance, intervention, events, pamphlets, warehouses and gallery spaces. In the early nineties, was co-sysop (systems operator) with Heath Bunting on Cybercafe BBS with Irational.org.
Our mission is to co-create extraordinary art that connects with contemporary audiences providing innovative, engaging and inclusive digital and physical spaces for appreciating and participating in practices in art, technology and social change. As well as finding alternative ways around already dominating hegemonies, thus claiming for ourselves and our peer networks a culturally aware and critical dialogue beyond traditional hierarchical behaviours. Influenced by situationist theory, fluxus, free and open source culture, and processes of self-education and peer learning, in an art, activist and community context.
Schoolboy Daze. Nightingale's Playground
http://www.furtherfield.org/articles/schoolboy-daze-nightingales-playground
Edward Picot reviews Andy Campbell's four-part digital mystery-story, "Nightingale's Playground", which appeared online last year. "Campbell has always been at pains not to place his text in front of his images, or beneath them or to one side, like labels on tanks at the zoo or explanatory plaques next to pictures in a gallery; instead he puts his words inside his graphical environments, sometimes hidden or partially-hidden inside them, so that we have to explore to read. It pulls us in, and it makes his work inherently immersive and interactive... His central characters are often living in a reality with two layers: the "ordinary" everyday world which is mean, dull, shoddy and constricting, but relatively safe; and an inner or underlying reality which can only be glimpsed rather than viewed as a whole, possibly because it is so dangerous and frightening - a reality which emerges fitfully via dreams, games, imaginings and doodles.
Andy Campbell is a UK writer who has been experimenting with new media fiction since the 1990s, when he started creating stories on floppy disc for the Commodore Amiga. By 2000, when I first came across him, he was working mainly in Flash and self-publishing the results on a website called "Digital Fiction". He has continued to produce one or two pieces of work per year ever since, latterly on a site called "Dreaming Methods". His output is invariably enigmatic, complex, densely-textured, dark in tone and technically highly-accomplished; and he has gradually established himself, certainly amongst his peers, as one of the leading exponents of the digital fiction form." Picot.
This article is co-published by The Hyperliterature Exchange (http://hyperex.co.uk/) and Furtherfield.org.
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FEEDBACK: SIGNAL : NOISE
Review by Pete Gomes.
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews/feedback-signal-noise
The four day event at the Showroom collated a series of practitioners, artists, theorists and historians, to examine, test and explore ideas stemming from cybernetics and information theory and more specifically the idea of feedback. The project was led by Steve Rushton, Dexter Sinister (David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey), Marina Vishmidt, Rod Dickinson and Emily Pethick. The UK edition of Signal : Noise took place between 13-16th January 2011.
Described as an 'experimental cross-disciplinary research project', Signal : Noise was a fusion of talks, lectures, performances, screenings and debates that made diverse contemporary evaluations of the legacy of cybernetics using an inter-disciplinary approach. It tackled subjects as seemingly diverse as economic theory; urbanism and the arrival of the motor car in London; game theory; linguistics; media-performance art from the 1970's; and the problematic legacies of the recent UK arts funding system on artists – all viewed using the concepts and terminologies of cybernetics and systems.
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Anxieties of Social Networking: An interview with Liz Filardi.

http://www.furtherfield.org/interviews/anxieties-social-networking-interview-liz-filardi
Liz Filardi is a New York City-based performance artist who often works in public space. She was recently awarded a Turbulence (http://turbulence.org) Commission for a networked performance piece called I’m Not Stalking You; I’m Socializing, exploring the anxieties of social networking in three modules. "Status Grabber," the first module, is a satirical online service that extends the status update phenomenon to participation over the telephone. "Black & White," the second module, is a Facebook-like website, consisting of two interlinked profiles, that tells the story behind one of the original cases of criminal stalking in America. "Facetbook," the final module, is a performance piece in which the artist compiles a series of archives of her live Facebook profile to illustrate the tension of online identity-- between the facade of a profile and the more telling story of how the profile changes over time. The interview was conducted by Taina Bucher, PhD fellow in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo, Norway. Bucher and Filardi met in Greenwich Village, New York City in May, 2010.
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Listen to or Download University for Strategic Optimism & Genetic Moo Radio interview...
At last we have the Furtherfield podcast/mp3 (download), for the interview with University for Strategic Optimism & Genetic Moo, which originally took place on Resonance FM Wednesday, Dec 8th 2010.
http://www.furtherfield.org/radio/8122010-university-strategic-optimism-and-genetic-moo
Tess Quixote and Etienne Lantier from University for Strategic Optimism (USO).
Nicola Schauerman and Tim Pickup from Genetic Moo.
University for Strategic Optimism (USO) have formed a university based on the principal of free and open education, a return of politics to the public, and the politicisation of public space. "As university buildings are boarded up their flexible and critical group physically inhabit banks and shopping outlets as public spaces for open debate; using these public areas as places for introductory lectures to their "course entitled 'Higher Education, Neo-Liberalism and the State'.
Schauerman and Pickup from Genetic Moo, have worked on a series of interactive video installations which have been presented at a number of UK venues, including the De La Warr Pavilion. One of the works, Becoming Starfish, received a John Lansdown Award for Interactive Digital Art at Eurographics 2007.
Tune in every Wednesday for our regular live show, hosted by Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow & esteemed co-hosts, Irini Papadimitriou, Jonathan Munro & Charlotte Frost; for current events, activities and controversies where contemporary art and technology meet. Interviews and debate with art workers and techies are interspersed with bleeding-edge music and a rolling programme of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.
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February's issue of Furthernoise.org
Welcome to February's issue of Furthernoise.org in which we are proud to announce the launch of our new net label release Explorations in Sound, Vol. 4, The sound of Live Performance. The release is free to download from http://www.furthernoise.org/netCD/EIS_vol4.zip
>We also have loads of new reviews and our audio player is once again stocked with new sounds from featured noise makers. Furthernoise is the sister site/community of Furtherfield.org
Enjoy !!!
Furthernoise issue February 2011
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=90