Furtherfield, London - online only
- 21 October 2013
- McKenzie Wark
Marc Garrett is co-director and co-founder of the Internet arts collectives and communities – Furtherfield.org (networked arts community platform), Furthernoise.org (music platform & community), Netbehaviour.org (artists email list). Co-founder, co-curator/director of the gallery space formerly known as 'HTTP Gallery,' now the Furtherfield Gallery (http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery) in London, UK. Co-curating various contemporary Media Arts exhibitions, projects nationally and internationally.
The main editor for interviews, reviews and articles on Furtherfield.org. Co-editor of 'Artists Re:Thinking Games' with Ruth Catlow and Corrado Morgana 2010. Hosted Furtherfield’s critically acclaimed weekly broadcast on UK's Resonance FM Radio, a series of hour long live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art, technology & social change (http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/radio) 2010-11. Currently doing an Art history Phd at the University of London, Birkbeck College.
Dmytri Kleiner works at identifying the way social relations are
embodied in economic and communications systems, and how profit and
power is captured and maintained. He is the author of the Telekommunist
Manifesto and an active member of Telekommunisten, contributing to the
group's ongoing series of Miscommunication Technologies, including
deadSwap, Thimbl, R15N, Miscommunication Station and Octo. He can be
followed at http://dmytri.info
Aileen Derieg is a translator based in Linz, Austria, whose work
revolves mainly around contemporary art and media and theoretical
reflections on society and technology. She is actively involved in the
local independent art and culture scene in Linz, has been a member of
the Genderchangers for many years and co-organized the Eclectic Tech
Carnival 2007 in Linz.
Since November 2012 she also runs the Werkstatt am Hauptplatz/Workshop
in the Main Square, an open, unbureaucratic space for temporary use.
Website (update coming soon): http://eliot.at
Personal blog “Living with Plan B”: http://livingwithplanb.derieg.com
Werkstatt am Hauptplatz: http://werkstatt-am-hauptplatz.at
Cornelia Sollfrank is a
postmedia conceptual artist and interdisciplinary researcher and writer.
She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and fine art
at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (1987-1994). Since 1998 she
has taught at various universities and written on issues in the nexus
between media, art and politics. In 2011 Sollfrank completed her
practice-led interdisciplinary research at Dundee University (UK) and
published her PhD thesis with the title Performing the Paradoxes of Intellectual Property.
In addition to her work in the artistic and academic fields, Sollfrank
gathered experience in the private sector by working as product manager
for Philips Media for two years (1995-1996). http://www.artwarez.org/