The perception of landscape and sense of place or location has, in the last decade, undergone many changes. It is now possible to visit the Mongolian village, to look at its terrain, its panoramas and communicate with local people in real time while being on a train from Lyon to London. read more »
Channel 4’s BIG 4, a 50-foot high metal ‘4’ outside the Channel 4 Head Office, has become something of a London landmark since it was erected in 2007 for the Channel’s 25th anniversary.
Since its construction it has been customised by the Photographer Nick Knight, Turner prize winner Mark Titchner, the Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui, and most recently by Stephanie Imbeau, an Art Graduate, whose Shelter design constructed with used umbrellas was the winner of a competition run last year for Art Students and recent Graduates. read more »
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Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: a review of The Path, a "short horror game" by Tale of Tales (Michael Samyn and Auriea Harvey), based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
"The two best-known versions of the tale are by Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers - but there are numerous others. Sometimes Red Riding Hood meets not a wolf but an ogre; sometimes, when she gets to the house, she is fed various parts of a dismembered grandmother. Samyn and Harvey retain the gruesomeness, the allusions to dismemberment, and the violent sexuality which feature in many earlier versions, and the symbolism which lurks beneath the surface of Red Riding Hood in all its various manifestations comes through particularly strongly." read more »