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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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EVENT

Next at HTTP// _____________________________________The Summer of Folk.


Dates:
Tue Jul 19, 2005 00:00 - Tue Jul 19, 2005

Next at HTTP// [House of Technologically Termed Praxis]
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\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_The Summer of Folk.

Open by appointment from 19th July to August 28th 2005

The Summer of Folk at HTTP is a re-evaluation of the conventional
exhibition experience, combining intellectual and sensual activities.
Visitors are invited to contribute to a Physical Folksonomy - to browse,
borrow and organise books and journals from ThE DiStRiBuTeD LiBrArY
whilst savouring delicious Iranian sweets and a cup of El Salvadorian
coffee supplied by Feral Trade, traded along social networks.

Visitors of all backgrounds and experiences are requested to suggest and
demonstrate their ideas for displaying, categorising and borrowing books
from the library. All contributions will be documented and made
accessible on the wiki, as well as in the gallery space for others to
observe. Please email info@http.uk.net or telephone (visit site for NO.)
to personally schedule your visit and plan your activity.

--------------- Getting to HTTP:
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities
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------------------------------------- Associated Events

The Summer of Folk also provides the context for an informal season of
associated events.

The first of these events is '48 Hour Wake' which begins at 12 midnight
Friday 22nd July ending at Midnight Sunday 24th July. The 48 Hour Wake
with David Goldenberg and guests examines how it is possible to
disengage from any mindset that one inherits before going on to develop
new ways of thinking, and from there, new ways of acting. This event
will be webcast for simultaneous viewing at East Open Internationalas
part of Making Things Better and provides the opportunity for a wide
range of persons to take part in the discussions via Voice-Over IP.

HTTP has free wireless access to the Internet so bring your laptops to
surf and study.

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ More About The Summer of Folk

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ThE DiStRiBuTeD LiBrArY
ThE DiStRiBuTeD LiBrArY provides a resource for creative research that
encourages a re-evaluation of where one stands in the world beyond the
established canons, structures, processes and mediation.

Expect to find amongst the 250 books and journals, fact, fiction and
theory surrounding Net Art, New Media, Activism, Art & Technology,
Wireless technology, Locative Media, Critical Thinking, Anarchism,
Feminism, Marxism, Cyber culture and theory, Programming, Psychology,
Complexity Theory, Pirate Broadcasting, Politics, Philosophy,
Post-modernism, Gay and Lesbian writings, Underground Film and more.

The library consists of two collections. The first is on loan from Ron
Briefel, an active Situationist, who has distributed his personal
library among a number of venues, people's private homes, community
centres, squats and galleries for public reading and lending. HTTP also
welcomes a recent collection of historic 90s DIY journals and zines from
Media Arts Projects who's recent workshops and events emphasise
skill-sharing, promoting the visibility of non-commercial uses of new
technologies, and building local networks.

The library is usually accessible between gallery exhibtions. There is
no formal system for indexing or lending this reading material. All
loans are negotiated by personal agreement. It is a resource for those
who are interested in discovering information in a random way, seeing
something that they have not yet come across, opening their minds to
different contexts and ways of thinking, accessing material that cannot
usually be accessed within their own institutions.
Media Arts Projects: http://mediaartprojects.org.uk/

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Physical Folksonomy

http://www.http.uk.net/cgi-bin/dl\_wiki.pl?PhysicalFolksonomy

Whilst recent technological developments in semantic web and folksonomy
allow digital files to be tagged to appear in more than one category at
once (with a personalised vocabulary), the books in ThE DiStRiBuTeD
LiBrArY exist in physical space. HTTP is providing an open platform to
collaborate and experiment with emerging models of knowledge sharing for
local and universal contexts and an opportunity to critique and explore
how strategies in digital environments might impact on the organisation
of data in physical and social space.

Why not create a 'Couple's Catalogue' to represent a mutual
understanding? or perhaps a group of three would create a 'Tripart
Taxonomy'- and leave the remainder as unchartered territory.

Any structural additions to the fabric of the building to accommodate a
reflection of your thinking will be considered. We hope to develop a
range of strategies of specific relevance and use for the individuals
and groups who visit HTTP. Every categorisation strategy from 'tidying
up' to the most taxing taxonomical tactic will be documented and
credited to its creator(s).

Over the Summer the HTTP crew will develop a digital archive to document
all propositions in whatever format seems most appropriate (and
possible). We welcome all offers of support and advice from outside
collaborators: technical, philosophical, catering- inexperienced and
specialist.

\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Feral Trade
http://www.feraltrade.org

Feral Trade sweets and coffee will be served throughout the Summer.
Feral Trade is an initiative to develop new trade relations along social
networks. Whilst never actually calling itself art, this project reveals
the social-context, texture and aesthetics of this venture in


DISCUSSION

New Reviews on Furtherfield.org (July 05)


*New Reviews on Furtherfield.org (July 05)*

http://www.furtherfield.org

Scream(v0.1) by Amy Alexander.
Following a theme found in several of Amy Alexander's previous works,
Scream blurs the traditional distinctions between work and play. The
effects of computers on our leisure time - and vice versa - is an
important and still relatively under explored area in the analysis of
our current social and political realities, despite the fact that "it's
hard to tell work from play anymore. We seem always to be working - even
when we're playing. Reviewer: Chris Joseph.
Direct link: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id9

Grafik Dynamo by - Kate Armstrong Michael Tippett, on Turbelance.org.
When I first encountered Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett's Grafik
Dynamo after reading a brief description on the Turbulence website, it
made me think of the concept referred to as the "Internet Hive Mind."
While I don't subscribe to this concept as such, my initial thought when
viewing Grafik Dynamo was, "is this an example of what collective
consciousness looks like?" Reviewer: Alison Coleman.
Direct links: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id2

House Gymnastics by Harrison&Ford.
Whilst discussing about boredom with each other in the upstairs hallway,
fed up with everything, wanting something different, fresh and alive.
They both realized that they had both reached a crossroads regarding the
context of their creativity. An important era was born, and out of this
meeting they busted their first moves. The Brace was conceived and
perfected that one afternoon and several experimental versions of moves
followed.
Reviewer: Joachim Desarmenien.
Direct link: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id0

Why Rock? by Annie Abrahams & Clement Charmet, at Turbulence.org.
As part of the guest curator's season at Turbulence.org, Annie Abrahams
and Clement Charmet have brought together a variety of digital artists
perhaps more well known for their visual arts than musical explorations.
Under the banner of Why Rock? The pieces presented offer an intriguing
exploration of digital music's potential. One that is more aligned to
ideas of DIY punk than what we imagine the current music scene to be.
Reviewer: Mark R. Hancock.
Direct link: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayartist.php?artist_id 5

Call 1 800 interact... by Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel.
Bringing together voice and image to build a visual mosaic of users
chosen colours, Voicemosaic allows us to hear the voices of people
dropping by and saying a few words (mostly in Portuguese, and English)
to be part of the project. Voicemosaic shows a screen that maps
participation as it arrives from several different geographical areas,
in different languages and different times, and from this something is
meant to be produced. Reviewer: Joachim Desarmenien.
Direct link:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id4

All reviews:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreviews.php
Reviewers at Furtherfield:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviewersbio.php

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: NYT review of ArtBase 101


Hi Geert,

If they are informed it helps, yes...

marc

> Actually the function or role of the critic (imho) should ideally be
> of the expert witness -- one who knows enough about the subject at
> hand to give the casual or passing user/viewer some insight into the
> background of the work and of the body of work in which the work
> finds its place....
>
> Cheers
> Geert
> http://nznl.com
>
>
> On 29-jun-2005, at 20:06, Lewis LaCook wrote:
>
>
>
>> Good discussion here, but....
>>
>>
>> What exactly IS the function of the critic? Does the
>> critic preprocess the material that will eventually be
>> written into the canon? Or does the critic sniff out
>> and discuss work that the reading public would be
>> interested in?
>>
>> I mean, wouldn't art be more effective if it actually
>> engaged users instead of requiring users to go out and
>> get a degree and read looooong boring essays on
>> curatorial practices?
>>
>> bliss
>> l
>>
>>
>> --- furtherfield <info@furtherfield.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi Lewis,
>>>
>>> surely it is not always the task of the art itself
>>> to engage people,
>>> but rather that 'may be' it is up to the people to
>>> get engaged on thier
>>> own terms when the mood takes them?
>>>
>>> marc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> If the art can't engage a casual user, what's the
>>>> point?
>>>>
>>>> bliss
>>>> l
>>>>
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: NYT review of ArtBase 101


Hi Lewis,

Well - in respect of the function of the critic. I do not think that
there is just one function or purpose, for like most things in life it's
about context...

Personally, I do not respect the traditional myth that certain curators
are any better than someone else who has not gone through the usual
established gauntlet. This kind of rhetoric echoes the same nonsense
that many are fed to believe regarding certain artists being better than
those artists who have come from outside an institutional, trad-style
place. It really should not matter - we are in the real world here, not
school...

I feel that there are potentially useful and interesting things to learn
from both sides of the fence.

As in what kind of critic that I personally admire, one who explores
outside of their own given histories, and actually finding and seeing
those who are not being respected for their work by institutional canons
yet - for that is the place where I feel the most exciting and
interesting stuff is happening, but I suppose that I would say that...

There are cool curators/artists/writers everywhere, whether trad or not.
I feel that engagement in observing whether one is being authentic, is
an issue, and reevaluating what one is thinking and how one thinks
regualarly, is essential, whoever they are - and sometimes canons can
block such imaginitive shifts. Yet, equally the challenges that certain
academics can offer to people such as myself (not academically trained)
who does not totally trust nd believe in the (traditional patriarchal)
institutionalized dialect; can always be useful and can move things on.
I do not think that anyone owns the 'essences' or 'soul' of what we are
all creatively exploring, it is all up for grabs, which is exciting.

no one owns it, no one owns it...

marc

>Good discussion here, but....
>
>
>What exactly IS the function of the critic? Does the
>critic preprocess the material that will eventually be
>written into the canon? Or does the critic sniff out
>and discuss work that the reading public would be
>interested in?
>
>I mean, wouldn't art be more effective if it actually
>engaged users instead of requiring users to go out and
>get a degree and read looooong boring essays on
>curatorial practices?
>
>bliss
>l
>
>
>--- furtherfield <info@furtherfield.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hi Lewis,
>>
>>surely it is not always the task of the art itself
>>to engage people,
>>but rather that 'may be' it is up to the people to
>>get engaged on thier
>>own terms when the mood takes them?
>>
>>marc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>If the art can't engage a casual user, what's the
>>>point?
>>>
>>>bliss
>>>l
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: NYT review of ArtBase 101


Hi Lewis,

surely it is not always the task of the art itself to engage people,
but rather that 'may be' it is up to the people to get engaged on thier
own terms when the mood takes them?

marc

>If the art can't engage a casual user, what's the
>point?
>
>bliss
>l
>
>
>
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