marc garrett
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Works in London United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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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

Welcome to Furthertxt.org


Welcome to Furthertxt.org

A bi-monthly online con(text)ual Internet Art site featuring a front end
editorial by Charlotte Frost.

Furthertxt aims to bridge the gap between specialization and front line
experience; revealling and demystifying much of what happens on the Internet
and Networked activities.

Furthertxt provides a platform for all manner of creative texts;
contributing to the theoretical, critical, poetic and literary context for
contemporay net art and networked culture. If you have something to
contribute to such contemporary debates send in your text.

Charlotte Frost is the commissioning editor for Furthertxt and currently
writes for Furtherfield, Rhizome and Mute. She will curate the FurtherTalk
series at London venues starting Autumn 2003.

http://www.furthertxt.org/

Furthertxt.org is a sister is of http://www.furtherfield.org

DISCUSSION

Furtherfield Networking Party update


Hello,

Just a reminder to let you know that the Furtherfield Networking Party
starts at 3pm this Saturday at the Deluxe Gallery. To view the guest list
visit http:/www.furtherfield.org/networking.

We've had a great response already but know that there are people who intend
to come along but haven't let us know yet. If you are one of these people,
why not send us an email with an URL so that other guests can see what
you're up to before the event.

The event will start with short presentations by the invited speakers, each
followed by Q&A:-

Avatar Body Collision
Mac Dunlop
Kate Southworth
Tom Corby
Luci Eyers

After this (probably from about 5.30) everyone is invited to mingle
(network) with other guests and talk about creative projects that they are
involved in. If your project is digital or network based it may be an idea
to bring your own laptop if you have one. There will be some available for
you to view projects (but more will keep the process fluid) and a hub to
connect to the Internet. Also, bring your CDROMS/DVD'S just in case. If
anyone has any queries they can call us on 0208 802 2827 or 0773 633 4153

DISCUSSION

Corrections and clarifications


Corrections and clarifications

Thursday June 5, 2003

A report which was posted on our website on June 4 under the heading
"Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil" misconstrued remarks made by the US
deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, making it appear that he had said
that oil was the main reason for going to war in Iraq. He did not say that.
He said, according to the Department of Defence website, "The ... difference
between North Korea and Iraq is that we had virtually no economic options
with Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil. In the case of North
Korea, the country is teetering on the edge of economic collapse and that I
believe is a major point of leverage whereas the military picture with North
Korea is very different from that with Iraq." The sense was clearly that the
US had no economic options by means of which to achieve its objectives, not
that the economic value of the oil motivated the war. The report appeared
only on the website and has now been removed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/corrections/story/0,3604,971436,00.html

DISCUSSION

All the news that's fudged to print


All the news that's fudged to print
The New York Times sacrificed its top editor for the wrong reasons, says Ha=
rper's publisher JOHN MacARTHUR. If you think Jayson Blair was loose with t=
he facts, look at how the Times covered Iraq

By JOHN MacARTHUR
UPDATED AT 1:26 PM EDT Friday, Jun. 6, 2003

Yesterday's forced resignation of New York Times executive editor Howell Ra=
ines might lead a casual observer to conclude that the wayward reporter Jay=
son Blair (under Mr. Raines's lax supervision) had committed serial rape on=
the Grey Lady of West 43rd Street, rather than serial acts of journalistic=
fraud. In reality, this metaphoric beheading by the company's board of dir=
ectors furthers a preposterous image of victimization that covers up far mo=
re serious transgressions by the "paper of record."
Notwithstanding Mr. Blair's "crime," such a histrionic mea culpa recalls th=
e criminal who pleads to a lesser offence in order to escape prosecution fo=
r a more serious one. Whatever's driving the paper's nervous breakdown, I'm=
sure of this: The Times has lately been a perpetrator of fraud more than i=
ts victim.

Take the case of staff reporter Judith Miller, who covers the atomic bomb/c=
hemical-weapons-fear beat, and hasn't heard a scare story about Iraq that s=
he didn't believe, especially if leaked by her White House friends. On Sept=
. 8, 2002, Ms. Miller and her colleague Michael Gordon helped co-launch the=
Bush II sales campaign for Saddam-change with a front page story about uns=
uccessful Iraqi efforts to purchase 81-mm aluminum tubes, allegedly destine=
d for a revived nuclear weapons program.
Pitched to a 9/11-spooked public and a gullible, cowardly U.S. congress, th=
e aluminum tubes plant was a big component of the "weapons of mass destruct=
ion" canard, which resulted in hasty House and Senate war authorization on =
Oct. 11.

Months later, when the tubes connection was thoroughly discredited (UN weap=
ons inspectors past and present said the tubes were intended for convention=
al rocket production), the Times did not think it necessary to run a clarif=
ication. Nor was Ms. Miller disciplined for shoddy work; on the contrary, w=
hen the A-bomb threat had faded, the Bush administration astutely shifted t=
he media's focus to chemical and biological weapons -- and Ms. Miller fell =
into line with the program.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20030606/COM=
ACA/TPComment/

DISCUSSION

Blair misled us all


Blair misled us all, says widow of commando
Lianne Seymour, whose husband was killed in the war, accuses the PM of a
breach of trust
By Severin Carrell
08 June 2003
The widow of a British commando killed in the Iraq war has accused Tony
Blair of "deceiving" her husband with misleading claims about Saddam
Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

Lianne Seymour lost her husband Ian, 27, a Royal Navy communications
mechanic, in a helicopter crash in Kuwait hours after the war began. She has
been left to raise their son Beck, three, on her own.

Now, following the growing controversy over Iraq's "missing" arsenal of
chemical and biological weapons, Mrs Seymour has become convinced that the
war was unjustified.

Thousands of servicemen and women will share her growing sense of personal
betrayal, she claimed - and feel doubly suspicious about the next call to go
to war.

The "contradictions and deceiving" by Mr Blair "disables our servicemen and
women, and it must make them uneasy for future possible conflicts", she
said.

http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?storyA3461&host=3&dirb