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Futurefarmers is an international artist collective practicing a form of cultural activism that exploits the interactive potential offered by new media and public spaces.〔http://www.strozzina.org/greenplatform/e_futurefarmers.php〕 Aligned around an “open practice of making work that is relevant to the time and space surrounding us,” they create work that explores a variety of social and environmental issues.〔http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_9_97/ai_n39989226/〕〔http://futurefarmers.com/about/〕 ==Background== In 1995, Amy Franceschini founded Futurefarmers as a means to bring together multidisciplinary artists to create new work. The name, Futurefarmers, is a play off the nomenclature of an agricultural organization established in the early 20th century, the Future Farmers of America. The same year also marked the beginning of the Futurefarmers’ artist in residence (AIR) program that offers a platform for collaboration and research. The program has hosted over 22 artists from 12 countries and forms the basis of a distributed network of artists who make up the collective. Futurefarmers‘ emphasis has been on channeling funds and technological resources from commercial design projects with such clients as MTV, NASA and Lucasfilm into self-generated works with deeper meaning. There are currently 6 members of the Futurefarmers: *Amy Franceschini *Josh On *Dan Allende *Sasha Merg *Stijn Schiffeleers *Michael Swaine 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Futurefarmers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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