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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.
Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
Deadline:
Thu Feb 01, 2007 08:23
Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
=========================================
An E-Mail-Art project on the NetBehaviour email list culminating in an
exhibition at the HTTP Gallery in London.
Open Call for contributions from 31st January to 28th February 2007 via
NetBehaviour email list: Subscribe here http://www.netbehaviour.org/DIWO.htm
Exhibition at HTTP Gallery, London : http://www.http.uk.net
Initiated by Furtherfield.org : http://www.furtherfield.org
=========================================
The Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art exhibition aims to highlight the
already thriving imaginations of those who use social networks and
digital networks on the Internet as a form of distribution. Just like
Mail Art, E-Mail-Art bridges the divide between artists and non artists
to share a freely accessible form of distribution.
The Mail Art projects of the 60s, 70s and 80s demonstrated Fluxus
artists’ common disregard for the distinctions of ‘high’ and ‘low’ art
and a disdain for what they saw as the elitist gate-keeping of the
‘high’ art world. They often took the form of themed, ‘open calls’, in
which all submissions were exhibited and catalogued. Mail Art has always
been a useful way to bypass curatorial restrictions for those who wish
to create active and imaginative exchange on their own terms; this form
of activity usually flourishes outside of the gallery system.
This E-Mail-Art exhibition, intends to follow the spirit of past Mail
Art endeavours by asking those submitting their works to open themselves
to a shared dialogue as part of the process and medium on the
NetBehaviour mail list, as a playful platform for experimentation
together at the same time.
The theme of this E-Mail-Art project is Do It With Others (DIWO).
This project suggests that we extend the DIY ethos of some early net art
and tactical media (said to be motivated by curiosity, activism and
precision) towards a more collaborative DIWO approach. Peers connect,
communicate and collaborate, creating controversies, structures and
culture using both digital networks and shared physical environments.
You are invited to contribute and curate text, images, sound, net
movies, physical objects, installation plans etc. on the theme of DIWO,
only via the NetBehaviour email list, towards an open exhibition at the
HTTP Gallery in London that opens in March '07.
To participate in Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
please join the NetBehaviour email list:
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
=========================================
What Will Happen?
All posts to the NetBehaviour email list between 31st January and 1st
April 2007 will be considered part of the artistic and curatorial
project. In the spirit of early Mail Art Do It With Others (DIWO):
E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour is completely open. For the HTTP Gallery
contributors are be invited to propose works for networks, computers,
screens, projection, sound, print...
31st January: Contributions to Netbehaviour email list begin.
List members are invited to devise their own ordering and selection
strategies for the exhibition.
25th February 2 - 5pm GMT: Collaborative Curation Event
Open review of contributions and discussion about the exhibition. The
event will be webcast from the HTTP gallery. List contributions thus far
will take physical form as an exhibition. Discussions using IM (chat)
between Furtherfielders and other active contributors. Documented and
posted to the list.
1st March: Gallery Opening of Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at
NetBehaviour
1st March- 1st April: Continue to shape the exhibition via the email
list by contributing more work, suggesting things be taken down, put
back up, rearranged, anything!
1st May: All contributions documented in a catalogue available as a pdf
download.
=========================================
The project will also be documented in:-
-- the NetBehaviour email list archive
-- LaurenDIWO's Blog [http://blog.netbehaviour.org/?q=blog/7] maintained
by Furtherfield newcomer Lauren Wright.
=========================================
Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour a project by Ruth
Catlow, Marc Garrett and Lauren Wright for Furtherfield in collaboration
with all contributors to the NetBehaviour email list.
=========================================
An E-Mail-Art project on the NetBehaviour email list culminating in an
exhibition at the HTTP Gallery in London.
Open Call for contributions from 31st January to 28th February 2007 via
NetBehaviour email list: Subscribe here http://www.netbehaviour.org/DIWO.htm
Exhibition at HTTP Gallery, London : http://www.http.uk.net
Initiated by Furtherfield.org : http://www.furtherfield.org
=========================================
The Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art exhibition aims to highlight the
already thriving imaginations of those who use social networks and
digital networks on the Internet as a form of distribution. Just like
Mail Art, E-Mail-Art bridges the divide between artists and non artists
to share a freely accessible form of distribution.
The Mail Art projects of the 60s, 70s and 80s demonstrated Fluxus
artists’ common disregard for the distinctions of ‘high’ and ‘low’ art
and a disdain for what they saw as the elitist gate-keeping of the
‘high’ art world. They often took the form of themed, ‘open calls’, in
which all submissions were exhibited and catalogued. Mail Art has always
been a useful way to bypass curatorial restrictions for those who wish
to create active and imaginative exchange on their own terms; this form
of activity usually flourishes outside of the gallery system.
This E-Mail-Art exhibition, intends to follow the spirit of past Mail
Art endeavours by asking those submitting their works to open themselves
to a shared dialogue as part of the process and medium on the
NetBehaviour mail list, as a playful platform for experimentation
together at the same time.
The theme of this E-Mail-Art project is Do It With Others (DIWO).
This project suggests that we extend the DIY ethos of some early net art
and tactical media (said to be motivated by curiosity, activism and
precision) towards a more collaborative DIWO approach. Peers connect,
communicate and collaborate, creating controversies, structures and
culture using both digital networks and shared physical environments.
You are invited to contribute and curate text, images, sound, net
movies, physical objects, installation plans etc. on the theme of DIWO,
only via the NetBehaviour email list, towards an open exhibition at the
HTTP Gallery in London that opens in March '07.
To participate in Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
please join the NetBehaviour email list:
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
=========================================
What Will Happen?
All posts to the NetBehaviour email list between 31st January and 1st
April 2007 will be considered part of the artistic and curatorial
project. In the spirit of early Mail Art Do It With Others (DIWO):
E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour is completely open. For the HTTP Gallery
contributors are be invited to propose works for networks, computers,
screens, projection, sound, print...
31st January: Contributions to Netbehaviour email list begin.
List members are invited to devise their own ordering and selection
strategies for the exhibition.
25th February 2 - 5pm GMT: Collaborative Curation Event
Open review of contributions and discussion about the exhibition. The
event will be webcast from the HTTP gallery. List contributions thus far
will take physical form as an exhibition. Discussions using IM (chat)
between Furtherfielders and other active contributors. Documented and
posted to the list.
1st March: Gallery Opening of Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at
NetBehaviour
1st March- 1st April: Continue to shape the exhibition via the email
list by contributing more work, suggesting things be taken down, put
back up, rearranged, anything!
1st May: All contributions documented in a catalogue available as a pdf
download.
=========================================
The project will also be documented in:-
-- the NetBehaviour email list archive
-- LaurenDIWO's Blog [http://blog.netbehaviour.org/?q=blog/7] maintained
by Furtherfield newcomer Lauren Wright.
=========================================
Do It With Others (DIWO): E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour a project by Ruth
Catlow, Marc Garrett and Lauren Wright for Furtherfield in collaboration
with all contributors to the NetBehaviour email list.
Furthernoise issue January 2007
Furthernoise issue January 2007
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss`
Welcome to the new years issue of Furthernoise.org. We have loads of new
reviews & critical analysis of some of the best and most recent music
and noise including a feature interview with Toby Butler and Lewis
Gibson on their soundwalks project Memoryscape along the river Thames.
"Memoryscape with Toby Butler and Lewis Gibson" (feature)
Memoryscape are sound walks that take place at two of the most
contrasting stretches of river in London. DRIFTING begins in the
peaceful surroundings of Hampton Court Palace and DOCKERS ends up in the
rarely explored industrial landscape of the Greenwich peninsula. Mark
Mclaren interviews Toby Butler and Lewis Gibson the artists behind the
work and starts by asking how memoryscape was recorded and realised.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID0
feature by Mark McLaren
"A little Hungry - The Caution Curves" (review)
Lets cut to the chase?
This may take some time... last thing they did (The Caution Curves CD)
was really a surprise, of the cup of tea brought to you in bed variety,
nice, thoughtful, warm and sweet.
But now I know what to expect... so I shall furrow my brow deeply in a
serious music reviewer frown, grit my jaded teeth, prepare to be
disapointed and insert the disk.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID1
review by Mark Francombe
"Duae - Pablo Reche and Miguel Angel Tolosa" (review)
A collaboration between sound artists Pablo Reche (Buenos Aires) and
Ubebeot (Madrid) which explores "post-industrial landscapes and isolated
urban spaces".
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID7
review by Mark McLaren
"Hades by Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo" (review)
In Hades Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo take us on a seafaring journey to
the imaginary underworld, witnessing an old sunken boat being wrenched
from its watery grave gave them the idea to create a sonic journey
towards the shadowy depths.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID4
review by Mark McLaren
"noTnoTesnoTrhyThms by Henry Gwiazda" (review)
In the world of audio technology, 3D sound is often used as a selling
point for all manner of weird and wonderful technologies. To Henry
Gwiazda, however, the promise of "virtual audio" and placing sound in
three-dimension space offers a world of possibilities.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID9
review by Alex Young
"Sprawl London - Featuring Robert Hampson and Simon Longo" (review)
Sprawl - London Sunday 15th December Featuring Robert Hampson and Simon
Longo. Despite the bleak wet Sunday night and collective end of year
lethagy, the snug environs of London's Charterhouse Bar seemed the
perfect setting to warm the cockles with the sonic perambulations of
Simon Longo and Robert Hampson.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID5
review by Roger Mills
"The IfIf - Ollo" (review)
Described as Sydney's own 'Fun Boy 2' Alex Crowfoot and Lars Chresta aka
Ollo have created a electro downbeat tour de force in their new album
The IfIf. Released through Groovescooter in Australia and 12 Apostles in
Europe & the USA, this sparkling array of tracks veers between electro
pop, break beat dub & sonic art.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID9
review by Roger Mills
"We All Fall Down - Off The Sky & The Circular Ruins" (review)
Any collaboration between Jason Corder (Off The Sky: samples and loops)
and Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins: synths, treatments, samples)
should prove interesting, at the least. Mixing Corder's quasi-whimsical
idiosyncratic pops, clicks, glitch and beats with Kerby's darker
textural ambient landscapes yields many things, but boring is certainly
not on the radar.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID6
review by Bill Binkelman
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss`
Welcome to the new years issue of Furthernoise.org. We have loads of new
reviews & critical analysis of some of the best and most recent music
and noise including a feature interview with Toby Butler and Lewis
Gibson on their soundwalks project Memoryscape along the river Thames.
"Memoryscape with Toby Butler and Lewis Gibson" (feature)
Memoryscape are sound walks that take place at two of the most
contrasting stretches of river in London. DRIFTING begins in the
peaceful surroundings of Hampton Court Palace and DOCKERS ends up in the
rarely explored industrial landscape of the Greenwich peninsula. Mark
Mclaren interviews Toby Butler and Lewis Gibson the artists behind the
work and starts by asking how memoryscape was recorded and realised.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID0
feature by Mark McLaren
"A little Hungry - The Caution Curves" (review)
Lets cut to the chase?
This may take some time... last thing they did (The Caution Curves CD)
was really a surprise, of the cup of tea brought to you in bed variety,
nice, thoughtful, warm and sweet.
But now I know what to expect... so I shall furrow my brow deeply in a
serious music reviewer frown, grit my jaded teeth, prepare to be
disapointed and insert the disk.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID1
review by Mark Francombe
"Duae - Pablo Reche and Miguel Angel Tolosa" (review)
A collaboration between sound artists Pablo Reche (Buenos Aires) and
Ubebeot (Madrid) which explores "post-industrial landscapes and isolated
urban spaces".
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID7
review by Mark McLaren
"Hades by Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo" (review)
In Hades Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo take us on a seafaring journey to
the imaginary underworld, witnessing an old sunken boat being wrenched
from its watery grave gave them the idea to create a sonic journey
towards the shadowy depths.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID4
review by Mark McLaren
"noTnoTesnoTrhyThms by Henry Gwiazda" (review)
In the world of audio technology, 3D sound is often used as a selling
point for all manner of weird and wonderful technologies. To Henry
Gwiazda, however, the promise of "virtual audio" and placing sound in
three-dimension space offers a world of possibilities.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID9
review by Alex Young
"Sprawl London - Featuring Robert Hampson and Simon Longo" (review)
Sprawl - London Sunday 15th December Featuring Robert Hampson and Simon
Longo. Despite the bleak wet Sunday night and collective end of year
lethagy, the snug environs of London's Charterhouse Bar seemed the
perfect setting to warm the cockles with the sonic perambulations of
Simon Longo and Robert Hampson.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID5
review by Roger Mills
"The IfIf - Ollo" (review)
Described as Sydney's own 'Fun Boy 2' Alex Crowfoot and Lars Chresta aka
Ollo have created a electro downbeat tour de force in their new album
The IfIf. Released through Groovescooter in Australia and 12 Apostles in
Europe & the USA, this sparkling array of tracks veers between electro
pop, break beat dub & sonic art.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID9
review by Roger Mills
"We All Fall Down - Off The Sky & The Circular Ruins" (review)
Any collaboration between Jason Corder (Off The Sky: samples and loops)
and Anthony Paul Kerby (The Circular Ruins: synths, treatments, samples)
should prove interesting, at the least. Mixing Corder's quasi-whimsical
idiosyncratic pops, clicks, glitch and beats with Kerby's darker
textural ambient landscapes yields many things, but boring is certainly
not on the radar.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID6
review by Bill Binkelman
Article about 5+5=5 Project on NewMediaFix by Tindara Sidoti.
Article about 5+5=5 Project on NewMediaFix by Tindara Sidoti.
5 short movies by 5 film makers about 5 networked art projects exploring
critical approaches to social engagement.
5+5=5 is an experiment on the boundary of media, art and film; a
cross-pollination that uses a variety of cultural influences from cinema
and the Internet, to provide an access point to networked art and the
artists groups’ selected projects. Furtherfield have commissioned these
five short movies that feature conversations between artists, audiences
and film-makers. 5+5=5 manages to tap into the current fluidity of the
boundaries that exist, between genre and media; a space between art,
film and technology that has resulted in artists like Douglas Gordon and
Philippe Parreno releasing Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006) in
cinemas. Though interpretive, these films are more contextually
assertive than Turner Prize nominee style documentaries and betray a
more inter-disciplinary function. The movies are an example of how the
relationship between art and film can work effectively; not only do they
hook you, making you curious about the projects themselves but each one
is an engaging film.
http://newmediafix.net/daily/?p46
5 short movies by 5 film makers about 5 networked art projects exploring
critical approaches to social engagement.
5+5=5 is an experiment on the boundary of media, art and film; a
cross-pollination that uses a variety of cultural influences from cinema
and the Internet, to provide an access point to networked art and the
artists groups’ selected projects. Furtherfield have commissioned these
five short movies that feature conversations between artists, audiences
and film-makers. 5+5=5 manages to tap into the current fluidity of the
boundaries that exist, between genre and media; a space between art,
film and technology that has resulted in artists like Douglas Gordon and
Philippe Parreno releasing Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2006) in
cinemas. Though interpretive, these films are more contextually
assertive than Turner Prize nominee style documentaries and betray a
more inter-disciplinary function. The movies are an example of how the
relationship between art and film can work effectively; not only do they
hook you, making you curious about the projects themselves but each one
is an engaging film.
http://newmediafix.net/daily/?p46
LifeHacker now on StumbleUpon.
LifeHacker (marc garett) has recently joined (or infiltrated) StumbleUpon.
http://lifehacker.stumbleupon.com
http://lifehacker.stumbleupon.com
SUSPENDED SENTENCE...
SUSPENDED SENTENCE...
Read the paper - humdrum
Henley Regatta - page one
Eat die - ho hum
Page three - big bum
Giving a lunatic a loaded gun
He walks - others run
Thirty dead - no fun
Foreigners feature as figures of fun
Do something destructive chum
Sit right down - write a letter to the Sun
Say... "Bring back hangin' for everyone"
The took my advice - they brought it back
National costume was all-over-black
There were corpses in the avenues and cul-de-sacs
Piled up neatly in six-man stacks
Hanging from the traffic lights and specially made racks
They'd hang you for incontinence and fiddling your tax
Failure to hang yourself justified the axe
A deedely dee, a deedely dum
Looks like they brought back hangin' for everyone
The novelty's gone - it's hell
This place is a - death cell
The constant clang of the funeral bells
Those who aren't hanging are hanging someone else
The peoples pay - the paper sells
It's plug ugly - sub-animal yells
Death is unsightly - death smells
Swingin' Britain - don't put me on
They're gonna bring back the rope for everyone
John Cooper Clarke.
http://www.cyberspike.com/clarke/suspend.html
Read the paper - humdrum
Henley Regatta - page one
Eat die - ho hum
Page three - big bum
Giving a lunatic a loaded gun
He walks - others run
Thirty dead - no fun
Foreigners feature as figures of fun
Do something destructive chum
Sit right down - write a letter to the Sun
Say... "Bring back hangin' for everyone"
The took my advice - they brought it back
National costume was all-over-black
There were corpses in the avenues and cul-de-sacs
Piled up neatly in six-man stacks
Hanging from the traffic lights and specially made racks
They'd hang you for incontinence and fiddling your tax
Failure to hang yourself justified the axe
A deedely dee, a deedely dum
Looks like they brought back hangin' for everyone
The novelty's gone - it's hell
This place is a - death cell
The constant clang of the funeral bells
Those who aren't hanging are hanging someone else
The peoples pay - the paper sells
It's plug ugly - sub-animal yells
Death is unsightly - death smells
Swingin' Britain - don't put me on
They're gonna bring back the rope for everyone
John Cooper Clarke.
http://www.cyberspike.com/clarke/suspend.html