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

New Feature and Reviews on Furthernoise


New Feature and Reviews on Furthernoise

New to Furthernoise this month is the editor

DISCUSSION

FurtherStudio live online this week


FurtherStudio live online this week

http://www.furtherstudio.org
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You are invited to join Rich White online to contribute scripts to his
project create /remove, watch his PC desktop and chat with him as he works
:-

Tonight, Monday 16th Feb 20:00 - 21:00 GMT
Tuesday 18th Feb 14:00 - 15.00 GMT
Friday 20th Feb 07.00- 08.00 GMT

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Look forward to seeing you there.

cheers
the Furtherfield team

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

DISCUSSION

Furtherfield at London Dorkbot - Wednesday 11th February, 2004, 7.30pm.


Furtherfield at London Dorkbot
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Wednesday 11th February, 2004, 7.30pm.
entrance: free

For Furtherfield

DISCUSSION

FurtherStudio live online this week


FurtherStudio live online this week

http://www.furtherstudio.org
+++++++++++++++++++++

You are invited to join Rich White online to contribute scripts to his
project create /remove, watch his PC desktop and chat with him as he works
:-

Tomorrow night - Tuesday 10th February 2004, 20:00 - 21.00 GMT
& Friday 13th February 2004 07.00- 08.00 GMT

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For a taster of work already produced during this residency:-

create:butterfly effect
http://www.furtherstudio.org/~richwhite/create/butterfly/butterfly.htm
an interactive flash work in progress derived from script submitted by Chris
Webb

remove:collection 010
http://www.furtherstudio.org/~richwhite/remove/collection010/collection010.h
tm
censored classics

For more information about create/remove
http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/docs/artists.html

Look forward to seeing you there.

the Furtherfield team

http://www.furtherfield.org

DISCUSSION

Re: Question?


Hi Rachel,

I would answer this but very ill at the moment, just got back from being in
hospital, Gastritus & Kidney problems...not much fun.

So i'll have to refrain from getting into an argument here - time for sleep.

marc

>
> I also wouldn't characterize those who aren't interested in
> participating as being subject to nationalist preferences or
> gate-keeping. Seems a cynical evaluation of a group of (chiefly) highly
> intelligent, net-savvy, international, free-thinking people, and it's
> not exactly an inviting or inclusive mode of address towards your
> potential peers. -- Rachel
>
> On Feb 6, 2004, at 8:57 AM, Matthew Mascotte wrote:
>
>>
>> Liza-
>>
>> No doubt, that is the most articulate and savvy
>> networking strategy i've seen in a long while...
>>
>>
>> respects,
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>> On Thursday, February 05, 2004, at 05:12PM, liza sabater
>> <liza@culturekitchen.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, February 5, 2004, at 03:52 PM, marc garrett wrote:
>>>
>>>> Question?
>>>>
>>>> So as the mapping of Internet creativity continues are the more
>>>> independent
>>>> groups going to be ignored due to nationalist preferences and
>>>> institutional
>>>> gate-keeping?
>>>>
>>>> If this is the case how do we change this?
>>>>
>>>> marc
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Marc,
>>>
>>> I say, make your organization less browser dependent and, in that same
>>> vein, more interactive outside of the browser. Meaning, WAP, RSS, PDA
>>> friendly. Make it easy for people to trackback, ping, linkback (or
>>> whatever it is you want to call it) your content. Make it easy for
>>> others to create a web of context around your site. Will it create
>>> more
>>> hassles like comment-spam? Absolutely, that may well be the case. But
>>> the internet is not just about content, it's about people and the only
>>> way you're going to get people to commit to your message is by
>>> engaging
>>> them in a dialogue. And just getting them into your site is not
>>> enough.
>>>
>>> The web browser does not scale. With an aggregator, I can scan more
>>> than 300 sites on a daily basis. Back in the old days, I could view
>>> most of the web on a week (1995). You've just gotta make it easier for
>>> people to get to furtherfield. I mean, I rarely go to Rhizome's front
>>> door --because I have no incentive to do so. On the other hand, with
>>> Rhizome Raw, even if it does not have the activity of its hey-day it
>>> is
>>> still the most interesting thing Rhizome has to offer because it is
>>> Rhizome's social space. If I could have it on my aggregator, it would
>>> make me even happier.
>>>
>>> Furtherfield is a fabulous site with a lot of interesting stuff to
>>> look
>>> at --but I have to go to your front door to know what's new. I'm sorry
>>> but the ease of looking at more than 300 sites in under an hour will
>>> kick out any non-syndicated sites from my "Must See" list. And, no,
>>> RSS
>>> is not just a geek thing. MyYahoo! just introduced an RSS module to
>>> their services. They made email ubiquitous, I am sure that they'll do
>>> the same with RSS.
>>>
>>> So the moral of the story is: Make it easy for your potential audience
>>> to get to your content in as many ways as possible. I mean, your site
>>> is supported by the BBC. Make sure you check their web-dev process. I
>>> read their specs were floating somewhere on Kazaa.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> l i z a
>>> =========================
>>> www.culturekitchen.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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