ARTISTS

Angela Ferraiolo

After searching the website for an artist I could relate for ten minutes, I stumbled across Angela Ferraiolo.
She is an interactive writer and filmmaker experimenting with text, video, and animation for the web, installation, and mobile applications. She is currently working on a new interactive movie titled "The Loop". Her digital story "Map of a Future War" was published in the Fall 2008 issue of the New River Journal. Her plays have been produced at La Mama Galleria and Expanded Arts in New York City and at the Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia, USA. She is also the author of the RPG Aidyn Chronicles and the MMORPG Earth and Beyond. Angela teaches game programming and theories of game design in the Film and Media Department of Hunter College in New York.

I think what makes Angela's work amazing is unlike a lot of artists that deal with a dream land- she deals with reality. Her pieces are about the capitalistic society we live in, the ups and downs we have, politics and the disposible society we have become. I guess she is trying to speak to society, to make people sit up and listen and to right the wrongs.

I really relate to her work because as an artist I like to expose the truths of reality. I do see how artists find a dream like state to be a better thing to base art on but not everyone can relate to it. People striken by poverty, exposed to famine and disease and fighting in wars could not relate or care about dream like works of art. She has her target audience and I am it.

http://www.angelaferraiolo.com/

BEEOFF


Beeoff is a group of artists who have been working together for a couple of years in the "new media field". The works are often seamlessly intertwined in the areas of sound, video, and software. Art in many different ways but always intended to be produced and viewed in real-time.

I really liked the groups artwork, it was surreal and a bit creepy. The piece empty copies is really wacked but for some reason I love it. It reminds me of my bush walks in the hinterland and a bit of twilight. I love experiencing new artworks, mainly because everyone has different ideas about what it really means and no one not even the artist can ever pin point the meaning of a piece of artwork all they can do is show their interpretation of it and people will get different readings from it.

http://www.beeoff.se/

http://www.furtherfield.org/display_list.php