On the subject of installation in the new media ecology (see Tate Gallery post) I found the FurtherField studio interesting. The FurtherField studio website describes itself as: …an exploratory, year long project, set up to create online, real-time, net art residencies with three UK-based artists. Each residency lasts for 3 months, during which time the
FL@33 have a site work called Bzzzpeek, which has sound bites of animals and automobiles in over 17 languages. This project focuses on the pronunciation and comparison of these sounds by presenting them side by side as each language expresses them differently.
Tales of the Future Past is a website, created by David Szondy, of magazine covers from mainly the 1970s detailing sci-fi visions of the future. A new section, Future Robots, shows some great pics of dorky robots. So, whatever we come up with now will look just a ridiculous in the future. If not already.