[NetBehaviour] It's Voting Weekend: People’s Park Plinth x CultureStake at Furtherfield Gallery

Wed Aug 25 16:45:06 CEST 2021

Thanks for your reactions to our project

Edward, I'm so glad this* feels* "Furtherfieldy".

New software projects are always monstrous to build and communicate but
this one is really important to us and so reading your tinglesome words is
very heartening <3

Patrick and Alan, thanks so much for your joyous AR art history reminder. A
lot of brilliant stuff in there. Hmmm.... it's not like I had forgotten
those works but why does it feel like most of them were made in another
era, or even epoch?

And now I feel like I want to see a "mood board" of those works.

: )
Ruth

On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 3:51 PM Lichty, Patrick M <pl at voyd.com> wrote:

> This is a lovely project. When you see a project like this, one wants to
> see a foothold for themselves, not out of greed, but for the attraction of
> beauty.
> I have begun an AR histories project, but it is in the scaffolding
> process, as I agreed with Marc in a Facebook BrowserBased group discussion
> regarding that media art requires Histor(ies), which was denounced by
> certain Dutch critics as “Dangerous” not to be strictly canonical and
> top-down institutional. I am in process with 2-3 high-level academic
> chapters, with future projects in approval stages.
>
>
>
> In historical AR, look at the FULL list of artists in Manifest.AR. Also,
> go back to ATR Kyoto, and Mark Billinghurst’s group with the amazing Duff
> Hendrickson. I’m sure these names are not well known outside AR circles.
>
> Regarding Skwarek, he was a great collaborator, but my favorite image is
> Alan sondheim with Mark at Occupy.AR near Zuccotti Park.
> Never forget Tamiko Thiel, and in the current generation Marjan Moghaddam
> and Jeremy Bailey, who have all intervened in the built environment.
> Mel Chin’s Unmoored is also amazing.
>
>
>
> Alan, let’s talk about this at Winona.
>
>
>
> Hi and thank you for your wonderful response. I'm reminded of the work of
> David Harris Smith in Canada, the Hitchbot but also David Clark's
> distributed works about the international timeline and other site-specific
> AR work he's done. There were also a number of artists working with AR in
> relation to U.S. cityscape history and events, including Mark Swarek and
> Will Pappenheimer. And of course things like the Highline in NY have had AR
> works along it. I wonder if there's a network of geographies and AR
> practitioners in relation to histories etc. and I'm losing myself here!
> Again, thank you!
>
>
>
> Best, Alan
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:43 AM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Alan,
>
> Thanks for your interesting questions.
>
> This weekend was the seed of a project that could grow in all kinds of
> places and ways depending on how and by whom it is cultivated :)
>
> >Does there have to be just one plinth?
> >Given I think the AR, you might have the entire park plinthified? So that
> multiple works would be seen among everything the park has to offer?
> We are taking the whole park as a single metaphorical plinth - more for
> reasons of ease of communication to a diverse audience, than any other. But
> we could also think of it fractally as a people's park plinth full of
> people's park plinths etc.
>
> Next year we are thinking about creating all different kinds of portal
> points onto the "plinth"
>
> >So that anyone might participate, put up an artwork?
> That could also be a future direction, I can imagine that working really
> beautifully.
>
> >Not sure re voting, should non-residents have a say?
> While we agree that residents should have most say (which is why we have
> local vote weighting) It's very important to us that non-local people vote.
>
> We are still working out all the reasons why exactly this is but here are
> some of them.
>
> 1. Artists and Cultural organisations often make work that is
> context-and-community specific, but as the works in People's Park Plinth
> show, they also have a place on an international arts stage- why deny input
> from a wider audience?
>
> 2. We have many diasporic communities in Finsbury Park, and all of the
> artworks connect with specific local community groups (formed around a
> variety of cultural, sporting, and growing activities). It is exciting to
> us that local residents might share the work  and conversations with their
> families and friends in other countries. Giving them the chance to vote
> gives a little more sense of agency and connection.
>
> 3. It feels like an intrinsic good to create new ways for people to feel
> the local and global context as simultaneous and connected.
>
> >Love the decentralization!
> Woohoo!
>
>
>
> From Saturday's voting
>
> :)
>
> Ruth
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 12:13 AM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
> This is really interesting!
>
> Does there have to be just one plinth? Given I think the AR, you might
> have the entire park plinthified? So that multiple works would be seen
> among everything the park has to offer?
>
> So that anyone might participate, put up an artwork?
>
> Not sure re voting, should non-residents have a say?
>
> Love the decentralization!
>
>
>
> Best, Alan
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 4:32 AM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I hope you are all doing well!
>
> Firstly --- to any London-based or nearby people...
>
>
> *Join us for a weekend of collective decision making! & Pick the artwork
> you want to be made at scale for Finsbury Park! *
> Come to Finsbury Park on 14th & 15th August and discover 3 digital
> artworks then decide which one you think belongs in the heart of Finsbury
> Park and we’ll work with the artist to make it bigger for Autumn 2021.
> *https://www.furtherfield.org/voting-weekend-peoples-park-plinth-x-culturestake/
> <https://www.furtherfield.org/voting-weekend-peoples-park-plinth-x-culturestake/>*
>
>
>
> *All Non-Londoners* - the online vote will open on Tuesday and remain
> open till 31 August* so please do sign up for your magical voting token*
> and take part.
>
> This has been a HUGE project for us - and we are only at the beginning -
> and we'd love to hear your thoughts on the work and the project in general.
>
>
> ===========
> On a personal note.
>
> 12-5 today and tomorrow I will be at the gallery in Finsbury Park  for the
> first time in nearly 18 months due to pandemic closures.
>
> I am so excited at the prospect of seeing people in the flesh and hanging
> out in the park. We are really excited about the artworks on show and would
> really love to see any of you if you have the time and can make it.
>
>
> Also, sorry for the long silence on Netbehaviour renewal. I got ill and
> had to take a couple of weeks out, then had to give full focus to this
> project. I will get back to you to close the loop.
>
> Maybe see you later today or tomorrow.
>
> Hope so! ;)
>
> Warmly
>
> Ruth
>
>
>
>
>
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Ruth Catlow
she/her
Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts
Lab
+44 (0) 77370 02879

*I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender
balanced.

**sending thanks
<https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html>
in
advance

*Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through
exhibitions,
labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking.
furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/>

*DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 technologies
research hub

for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now.

decal.is <http://www.decal.is>

Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee

Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205.

Registered business address: Carbon Accountancy, 80-83 Long Lane, London,
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