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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.
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.
Underground
Hi Vijay,
I did actually write quite a bit in response to your very interesting questions regarding the "underground", but then I looked at how many responses there were to your post.
And even though I am personally really interested in sharing a discussion with you and 'others' on here in respect of the subject that you have proposed, it seems that many on here do not feel the same way - in fact, ironically it kind of answers some of your questions.
So, what I intend to do is send you my answers personally instead. This is because I know for sure that I am not wasting my time in sharing ideas with you...
wishing you well.
marc garrett
www.furtherfield.org
I did actually write quite a bit in response to your very interesting questions regarding the "underground", but then I looked at how many responses there were to your post.
And even though I am personally really interested in sharing a discussion with you and 'others' on here in respect of the subject that you have proposed, it seems that many on here do not feel the same way - in fact, ironically it kind of answers some of your questions.
So, what I intend to do is send you my answers personally instead. This is because I know for sure that I am not wasting my time in sharing ideas with you...
wishing you well.
marc garrett
www.furtherfield.org
New Reviews/Interviews at Furtherfield.org Feb 07 2008.
Dates:
Thu Feb 07, 2008 00:00 - Thu Feb 07, 2008
New Reviews/Interviews at Furtherfield.org Feb 07 2008.
http://www.furtherfield.org
Norwayweb

Artwork by Bjorn Magnhildoen
Review Title - Norwayweb and Databdoies
Review by Marc Garrett.
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Morwayweb is a Net Art project by Bjorn Magnhildoen that Scrapes tax information of over 4 million Norwegians from different databases into a real-time artwork. "Norwayweb was originally part of a series called "Protocol Performance" realised in 2007 with the support of the Norwegian Cultural Council, section for art and new technology. This work uses specific data collected from a source or sources originating from the national system's database. The information is scraped from about 4 million Norwegian tax payer's databases. As soon as you visit the web page, you automatically trigger off the action of collecting the data. On the left side of the interface figures cascade down the page before your very eyes, which gradually evolves into what Magnhildoen calls a carpet. The term carpet is a reference to the textile based craft of weaving.."
Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=295
[PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine

Review Title - You Can't Stay Here PAM!
Review/Interview by Eliza Fernbach.
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Eliza Fernbach Interviews Lee Wells from [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine. The online Video Portal, a growing Internet community collaborating with artists for exhibitions and distribution, based in New York. "Participation lies at the heart of the online video portal [PAM]. In fact the site has generated such response that the best way to communicate with the PAM founders is to find them in person. They are a visible, engaged group on the New York Art scene; Lee Wells, a curator and Artist in his own right, was introduced to Christopher Borkowski, a digital artist and IT specialist at the Guggenheim by Raphaele Shirley, whose credentials include working for Nam June Paik. Artist Aaron Miller had already been collaborating with Borkowski following on their student work at Rochester University. Conceived with Scope Art fair on the horizon, [PAM] was born in December 2005 two months after an impromptu brainstorming session at Shirley's studio."
Permlink: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=296
Exhibition - Addressable Memory

By Michael Takeo Magruder
Review By Rob Myers
Touring exhibition by Michael Takeo Magruder.
At TheSpace4 in Peterborough 22nd September - 18th November 2007, touring the UK throughout 2008.
Michael Takeo Magruder's touring exhibition 'Addressable Memory'. Technology & aesthetics of mobile phones, Internet news feeds, video screens, computer image processing & virtual reality are all turned on themselves. "Michael Takeo Magruder is portraying this landscape of digital memory with its own tools, producing portraits of its inhabitants with its own palettes. In Addressable Memory the first draft of history is allegorized as a process of combining and quantizing disparate experience and telemetry. Of mashing-up and composing. The technology and aesthetics of mobile phones, Internet news feeds, video screens, computer image processing and virtual reality are all turned on themselves. At TheSpace4 in Peterborough this show takes up all three rooms. It will be touring the UK throughout 2008."
Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=297
Other Info:
If you are interested in reviewing for Furtherfield or have media art related projects, exhibitions that you wish to have featured or reviewed, please contact: marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
What the hell are doing wasting you time when you could be port of a story that builds its own world beyond hegemonic control. Become part of an artists community that is changing things through its engaged and critical approach to media art practice - we are the medium!
Anyone can register (no cost) and build their own id cards to promote their projects - just join and then it all starts from there.
Neighbourhood & Projects who are part of Furtherfield - Get involved!
A shared space for personal reflections on media art practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield's Gallery in London.
HTTP is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art.
http://www.http.uk.net
An online place for real-time, multi-user mixing, collaborative creation,
many to many dialogue and networked performance and play.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org
The NetBehaviour list - is an open community engaged in the process of sharing
and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around
contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
The Netbehaviour Blog is the same as above but a blog version of the list.
http://netbehaviour.ning.com
Furthernoise is an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and
archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information &
interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org
And there is much more happening with artists using all these projects and platforms to expand their practice and share their networked creativity...
http://www.furtherfield.org
Norwayweb

Artwork by Bjorn Magnhildoen
Review Title - Norwayweb and Databdoies
Review by Marc Garrett.
———————————————————————>
Morwayweb is a Net Art project by Bjorn Magnhildoen that Scrapes tax information of over 4 million Norwegians from different databases into a real-time artwork. "Norwayweb was originally part of a series called "Protocol Performance" realised in 2007 with the support of the Norwegian Cultural Council, section for art and new technology. This work uses specific data collected from a source or sources originating from the national system's database. The information is scraped from about 4 million Norwegian tax payer's databases. As soon as you visit the web page, you automatically trigger off the action of collecting the data. On the left side of the interface figures cascade down the page before your very eyes, which gradually evolves into what Magnhildoen calls a carpet. The term carpet is a reference to the textile based craft of weaving.."
Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=295
[PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine

Review Title - You Can't Stay Here PAM!
Review/Interview by Eliza Fernbach.
———————————————————————>
Eliza Fernbach Interviews Lee Wells from [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine. The online Video Portal, a growing Internet community collaborating with artists for exhibitions and distribution, based in New York. "Participation lies at the heart of the online video portal [PAM]. In fact the site has generated such response that the best way to communicate with the PAM founders is to find them in person. They are a visible, engaged group on the New York Art scene; Lee Wells, a curator and Artist in his own right, was introduced to Christopher Borkowski, a digital artist and IT specialist at the Guggenheim by Raphaele Shirley, whose credentials include working for Nam June Paik. Artist Aaron Miller had already been collaborating with Borkowski following on their student work at Rochester University. Conceived with Scope Art fair on the horizon, [PAM] was born in December 2005 two months after an impromptu brainstorming session at Shirley's studio."
Permlink: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=296
Exhibition - Addressable Memory

By Michael Takeo Magruder
Review By Rob Myers
Touring exhibition by Michael Takeo Magruder.
At TheSpace4 in Peterborough 22nd September - 18th November 2007, touring the UK throughout 2008.
Michael Takeo Magruder's touring exhibition 'Addressable Memory'. Technology & aesthetics of mobile phones, Internet news feeds, video screens, computer image processing & virtual reality are all turned on themselves. "Michael Takeo Magruder is portraying this landscape of digital memory with its own tools, producing portraits of its inhabitants with its own palettes. In Addressable Memory the first draft of history is allegorized as a process of combining and quantizing disparate experience and telemetry. Of mashing-up and composing. The technology and aesthetics of mobile phones, Internet news feeds, video screens, computer image processing and virtual reality are all turned on themselves. At TheSpace4 in Peterborough this show takes up all three rooms. It will be touring the UK throughout 2008."
Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=297
Other Info:
If you are interested in reviewing for Furtherfield or have media art related projects, exhibitions that you wish to have featured or reviewed, please contact: marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
What the hell are doing wasting you time when you could be port of a story that builds its own world beyond hegemonic control. Become part of an artists community that is changing things through its engaged and critical approach to media art practice - we are the medium!
Anyone can register (no cost) and build their own id cards to promote their projects - just join and then it all starts from there.
Neighbourhood & Projects who are part of Furtherfield - Get involved!
A shared space for personal reflections on media art practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield's Gallery in London.
HTTP is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art.
http://www.http.uk.net
An online place for real-time, multi-user mixing, collaborative creation,
many to many dialogue and networked performance and play.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org
The NetBehaviour list - is an open community engaged in the process of sharing
and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around
contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
The Netbehaviour Blog is the same as above but a blog version of the list.
http://netbehaviour.ning.com
Furthernoise is an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and
archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information &
interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org
And there is much more happening with artists using all these projects and platforms to expand their practice and share their networked creativity...
Video Vortex Workshop by Furtherfield.org
Dates:
Thu Jan 17, 2008 00:00 - Thu Jan 17, 2008
Video Vortex Workshop by Furtherfield.org

http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/artefact-8526-nl.html
SWAMP Splash: about the deluge of information rising up through the grass-roots.
feb 2nd
12:00 pm and 15:00pm
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam
organisator: Institute of Network Cultures
T +31 (0)20 5951866 Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
T 020-6237101
Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow from Furtherfield.org will demo VisitorsStudio and introduce participants to its (easy-to-use) tool-set and features. Using your own files (bring jpg, mp3, swf, flv under 200k) or harvesting files from the net, you can work with others to create and distribute mixes and remixes. The day will end with a live online performance by all participants.
VisitorsStudio (Furtherfield.org 2003-) is an networked, many to many, real-time art project created and distributed live in real-time across the Internet. Participants link together at the same time and mix and remix audio-visual files. The VisitorsStudio artware is also an always-on, open, social space. As they work together, live conversations between participants (identified by their moving cursor arrows) become a part of the performance- along with comments and heckling from the audience.
Through VisitorsStudio Furtherfield.org explores the ongoing expressive and communicative processes of human beings collaborating in new ways in this context, as active agents in the production of the cultural landscape.
More information
For reservations (free) mail to: malka@nimk.nl
Participants will need: laptops with browser, wireless capability
Furtherfield website at: www.furtherfield.org
Visitorsstudio at: www.visitorsstudio.org

http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/artefact-8526-nl.html
SWAMP Splash: about the deluge of information rising up through the grass-roots.
feb 2nd
12:00 pm and 15:00pm
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
Keizersgracht 264, 1016 EV Amsterdam
organisator: Institute of Network Cultures
T +31 (0)20 5951866 Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
T 020-6237101
Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow from Furtherfield.org will demo VisitorsStudio and introduce participants to its (easy-to-use) tool-set and features. Using your own files (bring jpg, mp3, swf, flv under 200k) or harvesting files from the net, you can work with others to create and distribute mixes and remixes. The day will end with a live online performance by all participants.
VisitorsStudio (Furtherfield.org 2003-) is an networked, many to many, real-time art project created and distributed live in real-time across the Internet. Participants link together at the same time and mix and remix audio-visual files. The VisitorsStudio artware is also an always-on, open, social space. As they work together, live conversations between participants (identified by their moving cursor arrows) become a part of the performance- along with comments and heckling from the audience.
Through VisitorsStudio Furtherfield.org explores the ongoing expressive and communicative processes of human beings collaborating in new ways in this context, as active agents in the production of the cultural landscape.
More information
For reservations (free) mail to: malka@nimk.nl
Participants will need: laptops with browser, wireless capability
Furtherfield website at: www.furtherfield.org
Visitorsstudio at: www.visitorsstudio.org
Come and join us on Netbehaviour's current social networking experiment.
Dates:
Thu Jan 31, 2008 00:00 - Fri Jan 11, 2008
Come and join us on Netbehaviour's current social networking experiment.
http://netbehaviour.ning.com
Yourselves and the Netbehaviour list are invited to join the Ning social network, to share in the active experience being part of a shared network that focuses on media art and connected creativities.
We do not know what's going to happen here, remember it is an experiment - but we do know that members can upload images, links, music, movies, add forums, promote and share their projects immediately. Not only to the Netbehaviour social networking community but also to other groups and organisations and platforms from this platform.
Lets explore this together and make something dynamic and more connected :-)
NetBehaviour - is an open community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
NetBehaviour- is for networked media artists, researchers, academics, soft groups, writers, code geeks, curators, net artists, media artists, independent thinkers, activists, net sufis, non nationalists and net mutualists.
NetBehaviour - encourages individuals, small groups of mutual interest and representatives of organisations to announce and promote their own projects and events on the list along with the exchange of related concepts/ideas/information/resources.
NetBehaviour - is a place where creative minds can share contemporary ideas and concepts, without either the censorship or endorsement of a centrally imposed hierarchical canon, stunting their creative interests. All disputes are settled by all subscribers in the public forum of the email list.
We are the medium - the context - the source of networked creativity.
http://netbehaviour.ning.com
Yourselves and the Netbehaviour list are invited to join the Ning social network, to share in the active experience being part of a shared network that focuses on media art and connected creativities.
We do not know what's going to happen here, remember it is an experiment - but we do know that members can upload images, links, music, movies, add forums, promote and share their projects immediately. Not only to the Netbehaviour social networking community but also to other groups and organisations and platforms from this platform.
Lets explore this together and make something dynamic and more connected :-)
NetBehaviour - is an open community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
NetBehaviour- is for networked media artists, researchers, academics, soft groups, writers, code geeks, curators, net artists, media artists, independent thinkers, activists, net sufis, non nationalists and net mutualists.
NetBehaviour - encourages individuals, small groups of mutual interest and representatives of organisations to announce and promote their own projects and events on the list along with the exchange of related concepts/ideas/information/resources.
NetBehaviour - is a place where creative minds can share contemporary ideas and concepts, without either the censorship or endorsement of a centrally imposed hierarchical canon, stunting their creative interests. All disputes are settled by all subscribers in the public forum of the email list.
We are the medium - the context - the source of networked creativity.
FURTHERNOISE RADIO ON BCFM TONIGHT 8-9PM GMT
Dates:
Tue Dec 18, 2007 00:00 - Tue Dec 18, 2007
Location:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
FURTHERNOISE RADIO ON BCFM TONIGHT 8-9PM GMT
FURTHERNOISE RADIO ON BCFM 93.2 FM 20.00 - 21.00 GMT
TUESDAY 18th DECEMBER.
Featuring Furtherfield / Noise founders Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett in
conversation with Roger Mills, playlisting some of their own requests along with tracks from Gintas K, Ergo Phizmiz, Benzer & Wind Up Toys.
Live visuals from Grazmaster and Neil Jenkins mixing to the online
stream in http://www.visitorsstudio.org.
Open the radio stream and visuals in separate browser windows for
maximum enjoyment !
Radio Stream - http://www.bcfm.org.uk/stream.m3u
Visual Stream Log into visitorsstudio - http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/x.html
BCFM 93.2 FM (Bristol, UK)
20.00-21.00 pm BST (+ 1GMT)
Repeated 9-10 am BST Wednesday 19th December.
World Times
20.00 - 21.00 UK
15.00 - 16.00 NYC
21.00 - 22.00 Europe
Tokyo - Wednesday 19th 17.00 - 18.00.
Australia - Wednesday 19th 18.00 - 19.00.
Subscribe to podcasts of current and past programmes from the radio
menu of the site http://www.furthernoise.org
FURTHERNOISE RADIO ON BCFM 93.2 FM 20.00 - 21.00 GMT
TUESDAY 18th DECEMBER.
Featuring Furtherfield / Noise founders Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett in
conversation with Roger Mills, playlisting some of their own requests along with tracks from Gintas K, Ergo Phizmiz, Benzer & Wind Up Toys.
Live visuals from Grazmaster and Neil Jenkins mixing to the online
stream in http://www.visitorsstudio.org.
Open the radio stream and visuals in separate browser windows for
maximum enjoyment !
Radio Stream - http://www.bcfm.org.uk/stream.m3u
Visual Stream Log into visitorsstudio - http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/x.html
BCFM 93.2 FM (Bristol, UK)
20.00-21.00 pm BST (+ 1GMT)
Repeated 9-10 am BST Wednesday 19th December.
World Times
20.00 - 21.00 UK
15.00 - 16.00 NYC
21.00 - 22.00 Europe
Tokyo - Wednesday 19th 17.00 - 18.00.
Australia - Wednesday 19th 18.00 - 19.00.
Subscribe to podcasts of current and past programmes from the radio
menu of the site http://www.furthernoise.org