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.
Pizza! The Movie & The Party, May 28, 8 pm at 3rd Ward
This exhibition opening, promises to be quite evening this coming Friday.
Regarding AOS's recent visits to different Universities in the UK, there has been an excellent response so far from the students and lecturers. So far, they have been to Southbank University, Goldsmiths, Writtle College & they are visiting University of Westminster today. There has also been interest from other Universities, education groups etc, we are trying to fit these dates & times into the schedule.
Those in London this Friday come along and say hello...
http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitions/reff-remix-world-reinvent-reality
wishing all well.
marc
REFF – Remix the world! Reinvent Reality!
A Fake Cultural Institution, an A/R drug and the reinvention of reality
Directly from Italy, Art is Open Source and FakePress present the REFF project and REFF AR Drug.
REFF, a fake cultural institution founded in 2009, is in London for the first time to launch, promote and distribute its Augmented Reality drug REFF AR.
To celebrate the event, an exhibition will open from 25 February at Furtherfield Gallery, showcasing works by artists all featured in the new REFF book: Garrett Lynch, Rebar Group and Xname.
A real-time interactive map, created for the exhibition, will describe the life of REFF all over the world: 60 authors, artists, designers, architects, hackers, journalists, activists; dozens of actions; a live and real-time stream of information collectively produced by a worldwide community of re-inventors.
The process is open: please contact us if you feel that your actions are reinventing reality and, thus, should be added to the visualization.
Visit the gallery, meet the founders of the institution, explore the new open publishing tool, encounter artworks and performances, enjoy freedom of access and expression. In other words...take the REFF AR Drug.
Art is Open Source (AOS) & Monica Biagioli on Resonance FM, this Wednesday...
http://www.furtherfield.org/radio/16022011-art-open-source-aos-monica-biagioli
Join Furtherfield on Resonance 104.4FM
Wednesday, Feb 16th 2011.
Time 7-8pm (UK - GMT).
Hosts: Marc Garrett, Irini Papdimitriou & Jonathon Munro
Special Guests: Art is Open Source (AOS) & Monica Biagioli.
This critically acclaimed broadcast is every Wednesday evening at 7-8pm, a series of hour long live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art, technology & social change; discussing events and controversies, exhibitions, artworks and their social contexts. http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/radio
>Italian artist duo Art is Open Source (AOS) discuss their latest project, REFF (RomaEuropaFakeFactory). REFF presents itself as a fake institution, designing crafted applications and invasive practices - it is an Augmented Reality Drug (AR), a book, an urban performance, a world-wide networked distribution and publishing tool. Consisting of 60 authors, artists, designers, architects, hackers, journalists and activists.
Alongside the augmented world of REFF, Furtherfield is hosting an exhibition at their gallery/lab/event space by Art is Open Source (AOS), including works by Garrett Lynch, Rebar Group and Eleonora Oreggia aka XNAME, all featured in the REFF publication. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of live performances, events and urban interventions across London and around the world. http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibitions/reff-remix-world-reinvent-reality
>Monica Biagioli is an artist, writer and academic living in London, currently in Barcelona doing research at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) talking about her project Sound Proof. A series of five exhibitions bringing together works by artists working with sound, involving commissions by artists such as Jem Finer, John Wynne, Sarah Heitlinger, and Angus Carlyle. www.monicabiagioli.com
>Also showcasing music and noise, providing a rolling lineup of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.
Cyberspace Is Our Land: 20 Digital Years Plus.

Review Rob Myers
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews/cyberspace-our-land-20-digital-years-plus
20 Digital Years Plus
Station Rose
Nurnberg 2010
ISBN 9783869841113
The Digital Art of Station Rose started in Vienna in 1988, at a time when the Web still was far beyond mainstream, when Mondo 2000 never had heard about the music genre "Techno", when future net-art-critics still mostly were university students, and when the Iron Curtain was surrounding Austria´s east, south east and north border.
Station Rose have produced an artist's book which delivers a current description of the situation of media art from 1988, when the studio was founded, until 2010. During the early days of the Internet Station Rose developed a language that could function within this ephemeral, immediate and permanently changing medium. The team coined terms and keywords such as 'Cyberspace is our Land', 'Nature is Cool', 'Digital Bohème' and made virulent artistic and social conditions discernable. The book offers not only the context in which the team was working but features audio-visual works, performances, installations and (pre)Web2.0 activities and linkings.
Station Rose & Madi Boyd on Resonance
Join us on Resonance 104.4FM
Wed 9th Feb 2010.
Time 7-8pm (UK - GMT).
Hosts: Marc Garrett, Irini Papdimitriou & Jonathon Munro
Special Guests: Elisa Rose & Gary Danner of Station Rose & Madi Boyd
Here we are again with another series of dynamic broadcasts on Resonance FM. This regular live show highlights current events, activities and controversies where contemporary art, technology and social context meet. Interviews and debate with artists, techies, thinkers and explorers are interspersed with bleeding-edge music and sound, a rolling program of experimental creative adventures for imaginative, critical engagement and amusement. http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/radio
Marc Garrett interviews Elisa Rose & Gary Danner from Station Rose about their recent publication 'STATION ROSE: 20 Digital Years Plus'. The book features audio-visual works, performances, installations and Web 2.0 activities and linkings. Part of the book is dedicated to the media sculpture LoginCabin exhibited for three months in 2009 in the MAK in Vienna. They will also discuss Station Rose's history in the field of audiovisual art, electronic music, net art and audiovisual live performance. "Station Rose had every right to claim 'cyberspace is our land.' They were there very early, they raised their antennas and put down deep roots, and they never left." - Bruce Sterling, 2010.
Irini Papdimitriou & Jonathon Munro interview Madi Boyd Madi Boyd’s work explores perception of movement and form in space.
She is fascinated by the brain, eye and imagination and interested in fusing sculpture, moving image and other technologies. She is
collaborating with neuroscientists at UCL to produce experimental arenas in which to explore the limits of human perception.
www.madiboyd.com
Don't forget:
Station Rose's presentation & book launch at Furtherfield Thurs 10th Feb.
DR. Richard Barbrook will also give an introduction.
http://www.furtherfield.org/events/station-rose-20-digital-years-plus-book-launch
Reosonance FM
http://resonancefm.com/