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.
Pox: Save the People. An interview with Mary Flanagan.
Emilie Giles interviews artist Mary Flanagan about Tiltfactor's latest social game, Pox: Save the People. A new board game challenging 1-4 players to stop the spread of a deadly disease. The Tiltfactor Laboratory is a conceptual design lab that researches, designs, launches, and publishes games and interactive experiences related to technology and human values.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/pox-save-people-interview-mary-flanagan
Face-to-facebook: Disrupting Monopolism.
Reviewed by Elin Ahlberg
Elin Ahlberg reviews 'Face to facebook' by Italian artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico. It was the Final project of a series of three called 'Tha Hacking Monopolism Triology'. The 'Face to facebook' project was to steal 1 million facebook profiles and re-contextualize them on a custom made dating website (lovely-faces.com).
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/face-facebook-disrupting-monopolism
Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art
This is 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. Openness to the ideas and contributions of
others, and new ways of organising and making decisions together. This
non exhaustive collection is intended to inspire, inform and enable
people to apply peer-to-peer principles for making things and getting
organised together. We hope that all art lovers, makers, thinkers,
organisers and strategists will find something for them from this set of
imaginative, communitarian and dynamic contemporary practices.
http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art
Pox: Save the People. An interview with Mary Flanagan
Emilie Giles interviews artist Mary Flanagan about Tiltfactor's latest social game, Pox: Save the People. A new board game challenging 1-4 players to stop the spread of a deadly disease. The Tiltfactor Laboratory is a conceptual design lab that researches, designs, launches, and publishes games and interactive experiences related to technology and human values.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/pox-save-people-interview-mary-flanagan
Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art.
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. Openness to the ideas and contributions of others, and new ways of organising and making decisions together.
This non exhaustive collection is intended to inspire, inform and enable people to apply peer-to-peer principles for making things and getting organised together. We hope that all art lovers, makers, thinkers, organisers and strategists will find something for them from this set of imaginative, communitarian and dynamic contemporary practices.
Curated by Furtherfield: Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett with additional texts by Charlotte Frost and Rob Myers.
Can be found at the the Foundation for P2P Alternatives
http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art
And at ACE/Thinking Digital
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/about-us/digital-innovation-development/thinking-digital/collaboration-and-freedom/
Commissioned by Arts Council England for Thinking Digital.
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/about-us/digital-innovation-development/thinking-digital/
It will also be presented at the FLOSSIE (Women in FLOSS) conference in November 15th. London.
http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=189