[NetBehaviour] Four recent reviews/articles on Furtherfield.

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Four recent reviews/articles on Furtherfield.

On Art and Disobedience; Or, What Is an Intervention? By Luke Munn.
Luke Munn reviews a series of artworks that provide clues about the 
strategies of contestation and intervention available to contemporary 
artists. As Luke tells us, "Ripps, von Bismarck and Fornieles belong to 
an era of artists that may 'no longer dream of an outside', their work 
utilizing the logic of branding and media to stage interventions that 
appear more collaborative than combative, preemptively disarming 
attempts at appropriation".
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/art-and-disobedience-or-what-intervention


"A Symbol" Bill Miller at The Widget Art Gallery. By Rob Myers.
What can we learn from our encounter with an indeterminate symbol 
floating in the space of a gallery that exists only on Apple devices? 
Rob myers writes about Bill Miller's work featured at The Widget Art 
Gallery (WAG) serving art online since 2009. From July to August 2013 
the work inhabited this virtual space as Bill Miller's "A Symbol".
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/symbol-bill-miller-widget-art-gallery


Confessions of an A/V Geek: An Interview with Skip Elsheimer. By Monty 
Cantsin.
Earlier this month Elsheimer corresponded with Montgomery Cantsin--a 
fledgling archivist currently attempting to digitize 20,000 feet of 
16MM--to discuss his experiences and knowledge in this area. Some 20 
years ago, Skip Elsheimer stumbled upon a lot of 500 films which he 
managed to purchase for a mere $50. And thus A/V Geeks, his 
Raleigh-based archiving club, was born.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/confessions-av-geek


Commodify Us: Our Data Our Terms. By Marc Garrett.
Richard Stallman, the outspoken promoter for the Free Software movement 
proposes that we should all leave Facebook and either find or build our 
own alternatives. Commodify.Us provides a platform for users to regain 
control over the commercial exploitation of their personal data. Marc 
Garret discusses the importance of such alternative hacktivist 
structures for social independence.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/commodify-us-our-data-our-terms