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

Thought Police =


Thought Police = reinvented history
Thought Police = two tier system
Thought Police = gatekeeping
Thought Police = academia
Thought Police = seperatism
Thought Police = denial
Thought Police = linear
Thought Police = insitutional
Thought Police = posturing
Thought Police = control
Thought Police = specialization
Thought Police = bourgeois
Thought Police = non collectivity
Thought Police = ego centred
Thought Police = old boy network
Thought Police = old girl network
Thought Police = non mutualist
Thought Police = wall building
Thought Police = throne making
Thought Police = non relational
Thought Police = privatization
Thought Police = neo liberalism
Thought Police = westernization
Thought Police = colonization

DISCUSSION

Heroic peroid =


Heroic peroid = reinvented history
Heroic peroid = two teir system
Heroic peroid = gatekeeping
Heroic peroid = academia
Heroic peroid = seperatism
Heroic peroid = denial
Heroic peroid = linear
Heroic peroid = insitutional
Heroic peroid = posturing
Heroic peroid = control
Heroic peroid = specialization
Heroic peroid = bourgeois
Heroic peroid = non collectivity
Heroic peroid = ego centred
Heroic peroid = old boy network
Heroic peroid = old girl network
Heroic peroid = non mutualist
Heroic peroid = wall building
Heroic peroid = throne making
Heroic peroid = non relational
Heroic peroid = privatization
Heroic peroid = neo liberalism
Heroic peroid = westernization
Heroic peroid = colonization

DISCUSSION

Re: Chalking Outside Rhizome...


Hi Charlotte,

Glad you turned up, I was getting hungry...where are those Krispy Kremes?

marc

> I feel it is important to point out that Charlotte will also be in New
York
> from 20th -27th, she will be the one too busy eating Krispy Kremes to
notice
> any chalking........
>
> Charlotte
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]On Behalf Of
> marc.garrett
> Sent: 17 April 2003 20:10
> To: Dyske Suematsu; list@rhizome.org
> Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Chalking Outside Rhizome...
>
>
> Yes, of course...
>
> May be I should bring a (special street) portable food trolly with as
well,
> and various coffee nuts...
>
> Will do Dyske...
>
> Do you reside in NY?
>
> marc
>
>
> > > No probz - for those who are unhappy about the date of 25th regarding
> > > chalking and would rather sit down for a chat over a coffee and cream
> bun
> > > instead - I should mention that we are in NY from the 20th - 27th
> > > of April.
> > >
> > > We are keen in making constructive contacts to 'fill' the chasm
between
> > > creative types...
> >
> > Marc,
> >
> > Keep me posted. I'm not a big fan of doing anything physical, but I like
> > coffee and cream bun and such.
> >
> > Dyske
> >
> >
> > + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
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> >
>
>
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DISCUSSION

Re: Chalking Outside Rhizome...


Yes, of course...

May be I should bring a (special street) portable food trolly with as well,
and various coffee nuts...

Will do Dyske...

Do you reside in NY?

marc

> > No probz - for those who are unhappy about the date of 25th regarding
> > chalking and would rather sit down for a chat over a coffee and cream
bun
> > instead - I should mention that we are in NY from the 20th - 27th
> > of April.
> >
> > We are keen in making constructive contacts to 'fill' the chasm between
> > creative types...
>
> Marc,
>
> Keep me posted. I'm not a big fan of doing anything physical, but I like
> coffee and cream bun and such.
>
> Dyske
>
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
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>

DISCUSSION

Re: Mouchette - special event this Sunday at Postmasters


He's good at retort...

marc ;-)

>
> > I'm sure we could debate it till the cows come home. I mean, even if we
> > accept that the site is 'about' 'sexuality' and a '13 year old' 'girl',
we
> > can still debate it.
>
> You can debate any fact for as long as you like, this is the basis of
almost
> all philosophies and the subject of all political discussions, it is how
> people get caught up in "causes and crusades." Nor is this standpoint one
of
> "objectivity." "Debate" is just an argument of subjectivities. Debate does
> not change what is fact and what is fiction, no matter how post modern you
> want to be about it. There IS such a thing as truth. In this case:
> Mouchette.org is about a 13 year old girl who invites people to play
sexual
> games with her and talks about committing suicide. That's the truth. The
> interpretation I have is that it sends an irresponsible message. Some
people
> feel that art has a right to do whatever art wants to do in order to
"shock
> people," I don't, and that is my "opinion."
>
>
> > You are just to dogmatic. What is not to be denied? That the character
of
> > Mouchette is 'a disgusting male fantasy'. Is it the fantasy that is
> > disgusting? Or the content of the fantasy? Or the fact that it is male?
On
> > what basis is it male? Why are things not to be denied?
> > I DENY IT.
>
> I'm not surprised, denial is very convenient- It seems to be one of the
> greatest human survival mechanisms ever invented. All of these questions
are
> irrelevant to what has been said. Do you want me to start preaching about
> why fantasizing about 13 year old girls is an irresponsible thing to
> encourage? Do you want me to titillate you further with more stories of
> girls who have been subject to sexual abuse whose suffering was even more
> prolonged as a result of this invented culture of "invitational
> molestation"? Or would all these things be irrelevant since there is "no
> such thing as truth?" So clearly there is no such thing as this suffering,

> no such thing as a social acceptance of child molestation, no, not at all,
> we're all very good and proper human beings who always "do the right
thing."
> Or we can just say "oh well, kids get raped, why not have fun with it?"
> because all Ivan Popes believe in an innate subjectivity. Oh, but I'm
> appealing to emotion now, aren't I? And apparently emotions should be
> completely avoided because fascists had "emotions" too....
>
>
> > I'd also like to point out that even if the Mouchette site was about a
13
> > year old girl when it was launched, it must now be about a 20 year old
> > woman.
>
> The site is about a fictional character who is perpetually 13, perpetually
> inviting sexual encounters, and perpetually contemplating suicide. Perhaps
> you should familiarize yourself with the work before talking about how
> "wrong" I am about it and trying to assert how "right" you are.
>
>
> > Well, we're all sentient beings. If you give us almost anything that is
> > totally preposterous we will jump in to discuss it, for a nanosecond at
> > least.
>
> "We" who? Is there more than one Ivan Pope? Are you a collective? I guess
if
> you are a collective I should double-check my entire hypothesis since the
> larger the number of people who agree, the more right they are. All right,
> so now I see that my view that Mouchette is about a 13 year old girl and
has
> a strong sexual tone is "preposterous." Good work guys!
>
>
> > Anyway, it's not just me that doesn't agree with you sentiments. I don't
> > think anyone on Rhizome agreed with you, or thought you even had made
any
> > sort of argument.
>
> It is good that the elections were held which made you rhizome
spokesperson,
> unfortunately I seemed to have missed election day. Anyway, this point is
> irrelevant and I don't care enough to research it. I don't even recall
that
> my intention was to start an "argument." I simply stated the truth. My
> statements are simply correct, and are above interpretation. The site is
> about a 13 year old girl who invites you to think of her sexually. The
> ramifications of this position are something which can be discussed- maybe
> you think that its fine to have sex with 13 year old girls. And since
denial
> is the most pervasive of all human defense mechanisms, I don't subscribe
to
> your belief that "the more people that believe it, the more true it is."
> Reality doesn't care about democracy.
>
>
> > That said, I'm sure we all respect your right to strike
> > such a position.
>
> How endearing of all Ivan Popes to speak again on behalf of the rhizome
> community. Let me let you in something, I am not writing for your sake, or
> for the sake of "you all." As if it matters who "respects my rights" to
> "take a position" on this list. What would you do if you didn't "respect"
> that "right"? Nothing, you could do nothing. [Except argue who is "right"
> and who is "wrong" or "deny" everything and then pretend that it is
> "constructive."]
>
>
> > Sentiment is a strange and dangerous word.
>
> Yes perhaps I used it incorrectly, though "The emotional import of a
passage
> as distinct from its form of expression" comes very close to what I am
> talking about in mouchette.
>
> -e.
>
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