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Futurefarmers
“Futurefarmers is a group of practitioners aligned through an open practice of making work that is relevant to the time and space surrounding us. Through collaboration, we explore the relationship of concept and creative process between interdisciplinary artists. Since 1995, Futurefarmers has served as a design studio producing projects for clients including Adobe, Swatch, Hewlett Packard, Levi’s, Autodesk, Nike, LucasFilm, Greenpeace, PBS, NEC and MSNBC.
Futurefarmers work across many media. We enjoy creating platforms for sociability, play and culitvating consciousness.
Futurefarmers employ a fertile approach to every project…Integral to our studio practice is ongoing research in new media technologies, renewable energy sources, and new configurations of learning. We host workshops, presents projects, seminars, and a web site that collectively question or challenge the social, political and economic systems we live in. Futurefarmers is where the energy of art production, education, curatorial practice and social interaction fuse to create a vital space and an environment of exchange.
Futurefarmers are well known as innovators within the new media art and design contexts. They have exhibited internationally at numerous galleries and museums, including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, the ZKM in Germany and at America’s most prestigious art exhibition, The Whitney Biennale. They have received numerous awards including the Webby Award and the Transmediale award among others.”
-ZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany”
Futurefarmers also runs the wholly impressive resource site Free Soil.
“Glaneurs et la glaneuse, Les” / “The Gleaners and I”
The Internet Movie Databases’s (IMDB) plot summary describes the film written and directed by Agnès Varda as:
“An intimate, picaresque inquiry into French life as lived by the country’s poor and its provident, as well as by the film’s own director, Agnès Varda. The aesthetic, political and moral point of departure for Varda are gleaners, those individuals who pick at already-reaped fields for the odd potato, the leftover turnip.”
Click here to see IMDB’s full profile on the film.
