Muerte de tony barrera polymarchs biography
THANK YOU to everyone who voted, visited and took part in this year’s edition of the People’s Park Plinth!
In 2019, we celebrated 150 years of Finsbury Park being the ‘People’s Park’ – a place where we can all do things together. In 2020 protests across the UK saw public artworks toppled from plinths, while the pandemic left us separated and isolated.
With this in mind, we launched the People’s Park Plinth this summer, as a way to re-explore our public spaces by turning Furtherfield Gallery inside out and expanding its digital arts programme beyond our walls and into the life of Finsbury Park.
We collaborated with incredibly talented artists, curators and local park members to create 3 ‘taster’ digital public artworks that speak about the park’s heritage and local stories. In May, June, and July we showcased a different digital art experience each month.
In August, the park made its pick! We will be launching a larger commission of Based on a Tree Story this Autumn, and to continue celebrating the heritage, artistry and local voices from Finsbury Park, all the ‘taster’ artworks will be available until January 2022.
It’s time to experience the People’s Park Plinth!
If you are in Finsbury Park you can use the camera on your phone to scan the QR codes on the People’s Park Plinth (presented on the exterior of our Gallery building in the centre of the park). They are all free to access, any time, with any smartphone – but you might want to have some headphones handy too.
If you are somewhere else you can click the links on the People’s Park Plinth website to find the artworks.
It’s your park so it’s your pick!
Sign up here to get involved in choosing the artwork that most belongs in the heart of Finsbury Park next year.
Digital Artworks
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Breath Mark x Lisa Hall & Hannah Kemp-Welch Dave Young writes within the context of Localhost: RWX, a symposium and worksession at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop from 29-31 October 2015. For more information about RWX, visit the Localhost website. RWX is funded by Creative Scotland, with support from New Media Scotland, Furtherfield, and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. As smart devices shape the near future of personal computing, we – as users – are experiencing a shift in the way digital data is represented and accessed. For the last five years, Apple, Google and the other tech giants have desperately attempted to position themselves as market innovators and patent holders in the next generation of consumer tech. Over this period, we have seen more companies dropping desktop PC production in favour of novel gadgets such as smart phones, tablets, watches, fitness bands – and even contact lenses, glasses, and so on. A noticeable side-effect of this shift is that the ‘traditional’ filesystem interface, familiar to us as a visually traversable hierarchical structure of files and folders, is replaced by an app-centric interface. With its primary objective of being more user-friendly, this kind of interface limits as much as possible the tedious and touchscreen-hostile tasks of file management and directory navigation. It’s certainly worth reviewing how data should be represented in the modern Operating System – “tradition” is not enough reason to purposefully stick to an old system of files/folders, created by Xerox for their Alto/Star OS in the 1970s. That said, any radical change in the interface design of the filesystem needs to be critiqued, as it is acts as the mediator between us, our data, and our tools. It’s worth emphasising that the aforementioned Xerox system is also a metaphor – it does not necessarily offer us a truer insight into the raw data on our devices than an app would. In the case of wanting to Mexican mobile DJ collective Polymarchs is a mobile DJ collective based in Mexico City, established in 1978 by Apolinar Silva de la Barrera and his sister María. The group is recognized for its contributions to Mexico's electronic dance music scene, transitioning through various musical trends such as disco and electronic dance music over several decades. Polymarchs is known for its large-scale events, innovative sound production, and visually distinctive promotional materials, including flyers designed by Jaime Ruelas, which gained prominence during the 1980s and early 2000s. Initially performing in local neighborhoods of Mexico City, Polymarchs gained popularity in the early 1980s, eventually headlining sold-out shows. Despite the decline of disco's popularity in Mexico during the late 1980s, the group successfully adapted its musical style to resonate with younger audiences, helping it maintain relevance. As of today, Polymarchs continues to operate in the Mexico City area, with its resident DJs performing at various events and maintaining its presence in the local music scene. Polymarchs was established in the late 1970s by Apolinar Silva de la Barrera, a student of electromechanics at Mexico City's IPN with an interest in disco music and the emerging sonidero scene in Mexico City. Together with his sister Maria and siblings Elisa and Luis, Silva began hosting small parties and events in various neighborhoods. The name Polymarchs was derived from their family names: "Poly" for Apolinar, "Mar" for Maria, "Ch" for Lichi, and "S" for their surname, Silva. By 1980, Marco Antonio Silva, also known as Tony Barrera, joined the collective as a DJ, MC, and choreographer for their "show ballet." Barrera later became a recording artist, releasing several dance singles through Discos Musart in the 1990s. The group became known for its emphasis on high-
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