As a taster for our upcoming exhibition New World Order
<http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/new-world-order>
*Furtherfield is proud to announce the publication of Bad Shibe - A
Sci-fi Novella*
Story by Rob Myers, illustrations by Lina Theodorou, afterword by Ruth
Catlow
<http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/bad-shibe-sci-fi-novella-rob-myers>
Bad Shibe - A Sci-fi Novella
<http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/bad-shibe-sci-fi-novella-rob-myers>
FREE TO DOWNLOAD
<http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/bad-shibe-sci-fi-novella-rob-myers>
Bad Shibe is a sci-fi novella set in a future society that may or may
not be based on a descendant of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, where it’s
as hot and as dusty as a virtual money mining rig. A trusting young
shibe called YS questions the basis of their utopia and their place
within it and feels ... bad.
The story invites us to imagine what kind of society emerges when a
system designed to verify the transfer of digital assets is combined
with a world where reputation is based on "followers" and "likes". The
story deals with the implications of a new wave of fully financialised
planetary-scale automation and the struggle to discern right from wrong
when human and machine agency merges.
Print edition offered for sale at £10 or equivalent cryptocurrency amount
(0.01BTC at time of printing but varying wildly)
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This special print edition of Bad Shibe is a prequel for the upcoming
book, Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain. It is a collaboration between
Torque and Furtherfield, connecting Furtherfield's Art Data Money
project with Torque's experimental publishing programme.
Imagined as a future-artefact of a time before the blockchain changed
the world, and a protocol by which a community of thinkers can transform
what that future might be, the publication acts as a gathering and
focusing of contemporary ideas surrounding this still somewhat mythical
technology.
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Lina Theodorou's illustrations are also featured in the exhibition New
World Order
<http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/new-world-order> at
Furtherfield Gallery 19 May - 25 June 2017 where print copies of the
book are offered for sale.
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Cheers!
Ruth
--
Co-founder Co-director
Furtherfield
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