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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DISCUSSION

Transcript of FurtherStudio Critical Forum 2 (Archive).


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FurtherStudio Critical Forum 2
13th November 2003

Transcript of Critical Forum
Transcript of Open Discussion

http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/docs/critical_forum/critical_forum2.htm

This event marked the end of Jess Loseby's online residency, during
which time she has created bob@nowhere.tv. http://www.no-where.tv/. US based
net art collector, Doron Golan chaired a critical discussion of Jess
Loseby's residency project with Blackhawk, Jim Andrews. Unfortunately T.Whid
was unable to join the forum due to problems with a firewall at work.

We are frilled that this was such a good event & would like to share
it with you. Lewis LaCook to follow next.

The Panel
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Doron Golan, Chair person - digital/net artist.
Doron Golan was born in Israel and has been living and working in New
York. Doron has worked in dv, computer animation and media. Doron's work is
concerned with aesthetics of codec and streaming media and engaged in
presentation and reproductions of events-phenomenas. Studied fine arts in
Haifa University, Israel, The Frei Academy of Den-Haag, Holland, and The
Arts Student League in NY. Doron is the founder of computer fine arts -
http://www.computerfinearts.com

Jim Andrews - digital/net artist.
Jim Andrews does http://vispo.com. He is a visual poet, essayist,
multimedia developer, and mathematician. His work explores the new media
possibilities of poetry, and seeks to synthesize the poetical with other
arts and media.

Blackhawk -- critic, theorist, consultant.
Extensive background in curatorial, mass-media manipulation,
film-making, game design, etc. Founded THE THING with Wolfgang Staehle.
Pioneered exploration of the psychodynamics of electronic communication. The
first critic to conduct virtual studio visits. Practiced guerrilla
anthropology of
Net sub-cultures. Latest work currently available at
http://bbs.thing.net/communicator.thing

Jess Loseby - Resident artist on FurtherStudio.
Jess Loseby is primarily a Flash artist, has initiated a number of
acclaimed participatory net art works and currently exhibits her work on
Furtherfield.org and Rhizome.org. During the course of the virtual residency
Jess has been sending emails to 'Bob' with html, flash and video artworks
attached. These emails take the form of love letters, hate mail and trivial
musings and are constructed from the artist's emotional take-over and
transformation of artists works archived within the furtherfield.org
website.And on her site http://www.rssgallery.com

DISCUSSION

Visit the online mixing environment at Furtherfield...


Ok - Furtherfield are now inviting to dudes play in the Visitors Studio.

You can upload files mp3's, swf, jpg's...

It is still in Beta-mode - but hey. we are exploring and enjoying the
process!

Enjoy yourself - we particularly like the latest collaborative creation by
various individuals mixing live online...

http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/visitorsstudio/

marc

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: revolting peasants


I'm writing them down this very moment...

marc

> Another might be
>
> "One Vietnam, there's only one Vietnam...."
>
> To a massed chorus of ..
>
> "You're going home... "
> By the massed voices of.. well the Middle Eastern Singers.
>
> Choreographed by Martha Graham...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> marc garrett wrote:
>
> > Hi Patrick,
> >
> > Yes, we will be there singing in our non harmonious noise ranges from
> > the in
> > situ-batoned terraces on the day. The government in the UK are very
> > nervous,
> > they obviously realise how disliked Bush and his administration is
> > over here
> > by the people. And Blair, well - the BBC have suddenly gone all quiet
> > now,
> > due to pressure by their recent 'muppet' who replaced Alastair
> > Campbell,
> > who's job is mainly to keep the bbc in line, so they do not broadcast
> > the
> > reality. And many of the widows of the soldiers who have been asked to
> > greet
> > Baby Bush say that 'their husbands died in vain'. And are going to
> > take this
> > opportunity to say so when they meet the war luvin' buffoon.
> >
> > marc
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > GW is visiting us this week and we've got nothing to wear!
> > > He's come such a long way and worked so hard to make us feel
> > included and
> > special.
> > > I have been wondering how best to welcome him and show just how much
> > we
> > support his paternalism and ...well, all encompassing single
> > mindedness and
> > visionary, evangelical drive for a new world ...order.
> > > Perhaps a sing along, a cheeky, self deprecating cockney ditty,or a
> > piece
> > of contemporary popular culture, something that best shows our ironic
> > but
> > edgy sense of humour, something from the football terraces perhaps,
> > something which references the understated nature of the visit to old
> > blighty, something which shows our gratitude and is an expression of
> > our
> > awareness that without him we simply would not be the best dressed
> > aircraft
> > carrier in the west.
> > > Just imagine it 100,000 faces beaming, arms waving , the verse which
> > comes
> > to mind is the old soccer favourite..
> > >
> > > "You're going home in a fucking am-bu-lance"
> > > +
> > > -> post: list@rhizome.org
> > > -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> > > -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
> > http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> > > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> > > -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> > > +
> > > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> > > Membership Agreement available online at
> > http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>

DISCUSSION

Re: revolting peasants


Hi Patrick,

Yes, we will be there singing in our non harmonious noise ranges from the in
situ-batoned terraces on the day. The government in the UK are very nervous,
they obviously realise how disliked Bush and his administration is over here
by the people. And Blair, well - the BBC have suddenly gone all quiet now,
due to pressure by their recent 'muppet' who replaced Alastair Campbell,
who's job is mainly to keep the bbc in line, so they do not broadcast the
reality. And many of the widows of the soldiers who have been asked to greet
Baby Bush say that 'their husbands died in vain'. And are going to take this
opportunity to say so when they meet the war luvin' buffoon.

marc

> GW is visiting us this week and we've got nothing to wear!
> He's come such a long way and worked so hard to make us feel included and
special.
> I have been wondering how best to welcome him and show just how much we
support his paternalism and ...well, all encompassing single mindedness and
visionary, evangelical drive for a new world ...order.
> Perhaps a sing along, a cheeky, self deprecating cockney ditty,or a piece
of contemporary popular culture, something that best shows our ironic but
edgy sense of humour, something from the football terraces perhaps,
something which references the understated nature of the visit to old
blighty, something which shows our gratitude and is an expression of our
awareness that without him we simply would not be the best dressed aircraft
carrier in the west.
> Just imagine it 100,000 faces beaming, arms waving , the verse which comes
to mind is the old soccer favourite..
>
> "You're going home in a fucking am-bu-lance"
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>

DISCUSSION

Ouch Those Monkeys - are Contextual...


All mp3 trax...on 1 page (enjoy)

Critical of people just making a noise, without substance, no context other
than the medium itself. Look no further, drown your freudian slips, and
leave those socially constructed post-human woes behind. And treat yourself
to a collection of OTM's audio explorations...no stylee slump here.

http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/all_trax.htm