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Charlotte Frost delves into the on and offline world of Furtherfield.org, where web surfers are encouraged and enabled to become co-producers in art making/situating via platforms such as VisitorsStudio and projects like DIWO (Do It With Others).
Furtherfield.org was set up in 1996 by artists Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow as an online resource and meeting place for globally-distributed new media artists. It was originally conceived in response to the way in which YBAs (Young British Artists) dominated the British art scene and reduced it to an elitist clique, despite a wealth of alternate artistic activities. Through Furtherfield.org, they planned instead to precipitate and promote independent online artistic production and discussion. As a predominantly web-based organisation it compared with the New York-based Rhizome and UK-based Low-Fi media art portals, but made a distinctly experimental, collaborative and open approach to networked creativity its unique signature. Garrett’s background was in street art and he was a key protagonist in early art-orientated BBS (Bulletin Board System) discussions with the likes of Heath Bunting. Catlow, meanwhile, had trained as a sculptor and began to use networked media to record audience reactions to her work in public space. They were both involved early on with Backspace, a (now defunct) physical laboratory for learning, making and discussing online creativity, where many...
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