marc garrett
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BIO
Marc Garrett is co-director and co-founder, with artist Ruth Catlow of the Internet arts collectives and communities – Furtherfield.org, Furthernoise.org, Netbehaviour.org, also co-founder and co-curator/director of the gallery space formerly known as 'HTTP Gallery' now called the Furtherfield Gallery in London (Finsbury Park), UK. Co-curating various contemporary Media Arts exhibitions, projects nationally and internationally. Co-editor of 'Artists Re:Thinking Games' with Ruth Catlow and Corrado Morgana 2010. Hosted Furtherfield's critically acclaimed weekly broadcast on UK's Resonance FM Radio, a series of hour long live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art, technology & social change. Currently doing an Art history Phd at the University of London, Birkbeck College.

Net artist, media artist, curator, writer, street artist, activist, educationalist and musician. Emerging in the late 80′s from the streets exploring creativity via agit-art tactics. Using unofficial, experimental platforms such as the streets, pirate radio such as the locally popular ‘Savage Yet Tender’ alternative broadcasting 1980′s group, net broadcasts, BBS systems, performance, intervention, events, pamphlets, warehouses and gallery spaces. In the early nineties, was co-sysop (systems operator) with Heath Bunting on Cybercafe BBS with Irational.org.

Our mission is to co-create extraordinary art that connects with contemporary audiences providing innovative, engaging and inclusive digital and physical spaces for appreciating and participating in practices in art, technology and social change. As well as finding alternative ways around already dominating hegemonies, thus claiming for ourselves and our peer networks a culturally aware and critical dialogue beyond traditional hierarchical behaviours. Influenced by situationist theory, fluxus, free and open source culture, and processes of self-education and peer learning, in an art, activist and community context.
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EVENT

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent: An exhibition at HTTP Gallery in London by Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski.


Dates:
Fri Dec 19, 2008 00:00 - Fri Dec 19, 2008

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent:
An exhibition at HTTP Gallery in London by Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski.


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Private View 7-9pm Fri 16th January 2009
Open 16 January - 1 March 2009
Fri-Sun 12noon-5pm
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd,
London N4 1NY.
http://www.http.uk.net/

Collaboration is working together.
Can two people work together without ever having met?
Doron Golan and Michael Szpakowski demonstrates that they can...


Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent:
The exhibition takes its title from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by the philosopher of language Ludwig Wittgenstein. It explores a collaboration between two artists across geographical distance through the ineffable language of image.

Israeli video artist and filmmaker Doron Golan and British artist, composer and educator Michael Szpakowski both make digital films, which they share through websites and email lists, exploring the mystery of everyday life and of being a human in this place and time. Over the years, the two artists have developed a dialogue and friendship through the exchange of their work. Since 2005 they have collaborated to found and curate DVblog.org, a groundbreaking early platform for art films on the Internet. And yet they've never met face to face.

HTTP Gallery in North London is pleased to host the first meeting between Golan and Szpakowski and their art, in real space. Making their online collaborative process physical, the central installation has three elements: a new silent film by each of the artists with a new musical composition by Szpakowski. Bearing their shared sympathies in mind, the artists have independently determined the length and subjects of their films. As a result, the correspondences and resonances between the works are as yet unknown, and will change constantly. The collaborative installation will be accompanied by elements of their independent practices, including a new installation by Szpakowski utilising video and silver birch branches and a selection of Golan's recent videos, engaging with elements of life in the Middle East and his native Israel, to which he has returned after many years living in New York City.

For more information about the exhibition & artists:
http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/golan_szpakowski/index.shtml

Location Details:
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml

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HTTP Gallery based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. Working with artists from around the world, HTTP provides experimental approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual space, and for online projects that explore participative and collaborative art practice. Projects on DVD, real-time, webcast, software art and live art also play a role in their curatorial work.

Past Exhibitions:
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/exhibitions12.shtml

HTTP Gallery is run by furtherfield.org
http://www.furtherfield.org


EVENT

Furthernoise issue November 2008.


Dates:
Fri Nov 21, 2008 00:00 - Fri Nov 21, 2008

Furthernoise issue November 2008.

Welcome to the November issue of Furthernoise. In what has been a truly momentous year for all sorts of reasons, we are proud to finish it off with a brand new issue stacked to the gunwales with new releases and an audio player restocked with new tunes to take you through into the new year. Furthernoise is the sister site of www.furtherfield.org

Furthernoise issue November 2008
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=71

"The Birth of Primary Cinema from the Spirit of Sound - Feature Article by Frank Rothkamm" (feature) Primary Cinema remains cinema, it is not painting or staged photography. It is comprehended as a sequence of images with sound which ultimately constructs its meaning. It de-emphasizes change and reduces bright-ness and distributes events on a galactic scale, but despite its apparent emptiness it remains true cinema as the marriage of projected images and sound in space and time.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=273
feature by Frank Rothkamm

"The Gyres, Between Nowhere and Goodbye, The End of Everything" (feature)
Cathal Rodgers moonlights from his grubby guitarings with Irish doom-mongers Wreck Of The Hesperus as Wereju. Moonlight is apposite in application to Wereju, less evil more eerie twin, drawing out long rays of wild half-lit nightshade shimmer over grey evacuated fields, a sound described by the artist as "ageless drifting melancholia of an abandoned planet".
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=261
feature by Alan Lockett

"A Ritual Which is Incomprehensible (to the smile of Pauline Oliveros) - Claudio Parodi" (review) The second in an ongoing series of conceptual works by Claudio Parodi sourcing and manipulating music from Tiziano Milano's Suoni CD (2005), not so much to remix but as staple material for processing in the studio. This time as with the last, the album is dedicated to a well known sound artist, and Pauline Oliveros is the chosen one on this occasion.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=272
review by Roger Mills

"Bedside Stories - Taub" (review)
Bedside Stories is the new release by Taub, aka Me Raabenstein and Harold Nono. It is a work of haunting sonic landscapes and fragmented realities, glued together with precision and beauty. It will lull you into worlds of spacious minimal sounsdcapes and sonic cinematic journeys, which constantly resolve back to a single sound event or just quiet.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=271
review by Roger Mills

"Document 2 - Sevenhourgerm" (review)
Document 2 by Sevenhourgerm aka Matthew Atkins is a CDR including nine experimental tracks released on the Minimal Resource Manipulation label. Found sounds and noise are crafted into varying degrees of coherency, with rhythm and melody flirting at the edge of perception.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=276
review by Alex Young

"Electronic Drifting: The Music of Richard Lainhart" (review)
Many contemporary musicians take their inspiration from natural processes. Richard Lainhart's musical models come from clouds, flames and waves, whose nebulous and ever shifting formations are the catalyst for his beautiful electronic works.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=262
review by Caleb Deupree

"Imperfect Silence - Various" (review)
Imperfect Silence is a radical collaboration between artists working together purely online. Global boundaries and cultural differences make way for free jazz and diverse sonic improvisation, as Phil Hargreaves edits together the material to provide a personal narrative of Cadavre Esquis.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=275
review by Alex Young

"Italian Noise Label Dokura Serves up 3 Mini Cdrs" (review)
Dokura is an Italian noise label that releases limited edition tapes, 3 inch CDRs and the occasional vinyl lp from a variety of international artists. With 10 releases to date, the little label seems to be aiming at noise of the instrumental variety swinging closer to the lo-fi dark ambient drone.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=269
review by Derek Morton

"Lost Hilde - Stray Ghost" (review)
The releases on Highpoint Lowlife switch genres like someone channel surfing through alternative music TV. Lost Hilde adds yet another station to the programming, and an engrossing one at that. Everything begins as a smooth midnight cruise through glitched and looped synthetic sounds.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=270
review by Max Schaefer

"Sympathetic Vibration - Marcus Jones" (review)
Often, recordings exist as complete works in themselves, or as documents or mementos of a live performance. Sympathetic Vibration is one of a rapidly expanding body of works that do not fit easily into either category, blurring the boundaries between recorded materials and live event. Stacey Sewell chats to its creator, phonographer and sound designer Markus Jones.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=274
review by Stacey Sewell

Roger Mills
Editor, Furthernoise


DISCUSSION

New Reviews/Articles on Furtherfield Nov 08.


New Reviews/Articles on Furtherfield Nov 08.

www.furtherfield.org

Lift up your heads, O ye gates.
Newly co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange: an appreciation of David Daniels, the great shape-poet, who died in May 2008.

"Daniels is one of those figures who straddles the divide between digital and pre-digital art and literature... His art is about liberation, uninhibited outpouring, spontaneity and fun."

To read article, go to either:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=323
http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewdaniels.php

A page of tributes to David Daniels (entitled "Tributes to David Daniels by divers hands") is also being compiled at http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewdanielstributes.php . If you would like to add a tribute of your own (in whatever form you prefer), please send it to edward at edwardpicot.com - a small prize will be sent to the best one received before 1st March 2009.
Edward Picot's personal website - http://edwardpicot.com

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Female Icons by De Geuzen
Review by Marisa Plumb.

Female Icons is a multifaceted project by the artist group known as De Geuzen. Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting, and Renee Turner are the primary members, and have been making work together under the De Geuzen identity since 1996. Female icons includes workshops, an online archive of images and tags, a user-generated collection of photos, and other generative events that the group hosts at events and festivals.

"The ways in which history and its archives help us to define biography have changed with the availability of images and information. The Female Icons project recognizes this milieu of material as our contemporary toolbox for understanding complex and dynamic notions, such as 'the feminine'."
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=324

DISCUSSION

New Interviews/Reviews on Furtherfield Oct 08.


New Interviews/Reviews on Furtherfield Oct 08.

www.furtherfield.org

Quick info:

Pure:dyne Discussion on Netbehaviour.
Interview with Heather Corcoran and Aymeric
Mansoux conducted by Marc Garrett to discuss pure:dyne.
ttp://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=322

G.H. Hovagimyan interviewed by Eliza Fernbach.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=321

Grow Your Own Media Lab (The Graphic Novel) by Access Space.
Article by Rob Myers.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=320

The Jeremy Bailey Interview on Netbehaviour.
Interview conducted by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=319

More Info:

Pure:dyne Discussion on Netbehaviour.

Marc Garrett invited two team members of the GOTO10 collective, Heather Corcoran and Aymeric Mansoux to discuss pure:dyne on the Netbehaviour.org list.

This fascinating and dynamic discussion took place from the October 16th - 23rd Oct 08. An interview and an open discussion was joined by other list members of Netbehaviour.

pure:dyne is a GNU/Linux live distribution based on Debian. It is dedicated to live audiovisual processing and streaming, and focuses largely on the Pure Data audio synthesis system, although it also includes SuperCollider, Csound as well as live video-processing systems such as Packet Forth and Fluxus. Another aspect of pure:dyne is that it is maintained by media artists for media artists.

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G.H. Hovagimyan interviewed by Rant Interview - Eliza Fernbach

G.H. Hovagimyan a Performance and New Media artist based in New York has harnessed the power of this seething population. His ongoing Rant series started in the 70's. In the raging shadows of punk and performance art, the content of these works have evolved while maintaining the raw energy and volume of the first recorded rant.

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Grow Your Own Media Lab (The Graphic Novel) by Access Space.
Text by James Wallbank, Pictures by Michael Tesh, Design by Scott Hawkins.
Review by Rob Myers.

Access Space is an open access media lab based in Sheffield. Access Space encourages people to learn how to use hardware re-used from local companies and Free Software from the GNU project and others. This saves money and builds skills.

Since being founded in the year 2000 Access Space has thrived where many community and government schemes have failed. This has drawn attention from groups eager to understand and reproduce its success. This has led to the Arts-Council-funded study "Grow Your Own Media Lab", of which the final report is the graphic novel of the same name "Grow Your Own Media Lab (The Graphic Novel)" or GYOML for short.

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The Jeremy Bailey Interview on Netbehaviour.
Interview conducted by Marc Garrett.

Canadian artist Jeremy Bailey recently completed a five week residency at Furtherfield.org which culminated with his first UK exhibition, The Jeremy Bailey Show at HTTP Gallery, in North London (Sept 19th - Oct 19th 2008). The centrepiece of this exhibition is 'WarMail' commissioned by HTTP/Furtherfield.org and completed during his residency.

As part of the residency experience Jeremy was invited to take part in an interview on the Netbehaviour list. We discussed the works in the exhibition and the critical approaches and contemporary contexts that inspire him to create his art work. We also discussed 'WarMail' which was performed with a participating audience at the HTTP Gallery at the opening night.

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