Book Launch - Thursday June 10th 2010
Come and celebrate with Furtherfield.org the recent publication of 'Artists Re: Thinking Games'.
This is an unmissable event for all artists/gamers with a presentation by respected game artist Dr Mary Flanagan, a guest appearance by Jeremy Bailey and a display of some of the gameart featured in the book as well as an introduction by the editors.
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Collaboration, Digital, Internet Art, Media Art
activism, aesthetic, audiovisual, Collaboration, Digital, Internet Art, Media Art, net art
Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies.
Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.
Creative Engagement, Cross-boundary engagement, Digital, Imaginal, Physical, Systemic Learning, transdisciplinary, Transdisciplinary facilitation
Maggie Buxton
Maggie Buxton has been working around the globe for seventeen years as facilitator, consultant, researcher and lecturer. This includes leading culturally diverse projects in grass roots communities as well as large political institutions in Europe. Her expertise is in facilitating culture change, cross-boundary engagement, systemic learning and innovation.
Maggie has also been coaching professionals in project management, strategic development and creative engagement methods for a number of years. She has also designed and facilitated large scale transdisciplinary workshops in Singapore, Brussels (Luminous Green: Foam, Brussels) and Beijing (Asia-Europe Foundation).
Most recently, through her collaboration with Foam (www.fo.am) she has moved into designing and producing transdisciplinary development activities that exist in the entangled spaces between education, creative arts, technology, alternate reality games, science fiction, spirituality and enterprise. This work was sponsored by The Guild of Reality Integrators and Generators(G.R.I.G) via the European Commission Culture 2000 programme.
Maggie has an Msc in Organisational Development and currently lectures part-time in the School of Business at Manukau Institute of Technology while continuing her consulting career and nefarious creative projects.
Her current areas of interest are: transformative learning, consciousness shift, education for sustainability, active citizenship, parallel realities and portals. http://un-fiction.blogspot.com/
architecture, Art, Design, Digital, installation, interactive, music
In Scenocosme the artists, Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt use interactive art, music and architecture in order to create evolutionary and interactive artwork. With multiple forms of expression, they invite the spectator to be in the centre of musical or choreographic collective performances.