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

On Amorphous Politics. New article by Patrick Lichty


On Amorphous Politics. New article by Patrick Lichty.

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Patrick Lichty's article explores, since the turn of the millennium shifts toward new forms of sociopolitical dissent. These include strategies such as cellular forms or resistance including asymmetrical warfare like global insurgencies, the use of social media. Examples would be Twitter and Facebook in their ability to lens dissent for actions in Syria, Egypt and Tunisia, Wikileaks and its ability to mirror, and politics that use anarchistic forms of collective action such as the Occupy Movement. Although Patrick's focus is more concerned with the Occupy Movement, what is evident is what he calls an amorphous politics of dissent. Amorphous is defined as "without shape", and can be applied to most of the mise en scenes listed above.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/amorphous-politics-patrick-lichty

EVENT

Moving Forest - How Can A Forest Move? AKA the Castle


Dates:
Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:00 - Mon Dec 12, 2011

Location:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Moving Forest - How Can A Forest Move? AKA the Castle | @ Furtherfield & SPACE MediaLab

All events are free but space is limited.
Booking essential. Please RSVP to now@movingforest.net

EVENTS

Friday 9 December 2011, 11-4pm. Furtherfield Gallery
Isaac Marrero-Guillamón – The Militant City

Saturday 10 December 2011, 11-4pm. Furtherfield Gallery
Rachel Baker and Kayle Brandon – The Witches and 3-Keys

Monday 12 December 2011, 6-9pm. Furtherfield at SPACE MediaLab

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination presents:

TREE THOUGHTS: Strategies of artivisme and permaculture, a taster

Date: Friday 09, Saturday 10 and Monday 12 December 2011
Venue: Furtherfield Gallery and SPACE MediaLab

Strategy workshops: How Can A Forest Move?
Part of Moving Forest London2012 development workshops

MORE ABOUT THESE EVENTS

Isaac Marrero-Guillamón – The Militant City

Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ
Friday 9 December 2011, 11-4pm

The Olympic mega-event is akin to Rancière’s ‘order of the police’. It regulates what is visible and invisible, sayable and unsayable, thinkable and unthinkable; it distributes individuals and groups in positions of ruler or ruled." Join Isaac Marrero-Guillamón, researcher for The Militant City, in a discussion and workshop on exploring the role of art in relation to the Olympics, its legal architecture, and its elevation to a 'state of exception'. Bring projects, ideas, stories and prepare for battle over the control of language, sign, transmission and public space.
Rachel Baker and Kayle Brandon – The Witches and 3-Keys

Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ

Saturday 10 December 2011, 11-4pm

Rachel Baker and Kayle Brandon jointly lead this day of prophecy, prediction and mobilization strategies for mapping the Moving Forest onto the London Olympics; tuning in the camouflaged branches to the contemporary mood of economic chaos and revolt.

Rachel Baker - Witches, Prophecy and Prediction
The story of Macbeth began with a witches' prophecy and ended in murder and revolt. Did the witches predict a future already seen or did they merely plant some well-placed psychological seeds to trigger a self-fulfilling prophecy? In doing so, were they able to influence reality? What prior information did they need to have? Is it the magical, spectral appearance of the witch that lends the prophecy its power, or their insertion into everyday life?

Kayle Brandon- 3-Keys
The three witches' prophecy and their tools and techniques of divination are deployed to make a card game called The 3-Keys. Illuminating insurgent mobilisation strategies, the game will map the key relational powers within the Olympic game, matching/twinning them with the essential Macbeth elemental and physical conditions. Discussion will surround further oracle, divination tools and techniques that enable one's actions to be fated or influenced by these processes.

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination presents:
TREE THOUGHTS: Strategies of artivisme and permaculture, a taster

Furtherfield at SPACE MediaLab
129—131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH, 020 8525 4330
Monday 12 December 2011, 6-9pm

This workshop is a taster to methodologies that merge ecological design models of Permaculture with forms of creative resistance. Permaculture mimics the patterns of living systems and applies them to human designs, these whole system thinking tools will be applied to strategies for developing creative actions. The workshop is suitable for artists and activists of all sorts and with any kind of experience and aims to give a feel of how it might be to "think like a forest".


DISCUSSION

Image essay on 'Training for a Better World'.


Image essay on 'Training for a Better World'.

By Michael Szpakowski.

"On 28th October 2011 I travelled to Sète in the South of France to see and to review Annie Abrahams' show Training for a Better World. About half way through the evening I started both photographing and sketching as aides-memoire for my reviews but I soon began to enjoy the feeling of responding to the work for its own sake and I began to think about about presenting the drawings and photographs (plus some drawings made from the photos two days later, as well as a couple of manipulated photos) as a kind of photo-essay/derivative work."

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/image-essay-training-better-world

EVENT

Moving Forest 500 Slogans workshop at Victoria & Albert Museum


Dates:
Fri Dec 02, 2011 18:00 - Sun Dec 04, 2011

Location:
Cromwell Road, London , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Furtherfield presents Moving Forest 500 Slogans workshop at Victoria & Albert Museum.
Read, recite, sing, shout, scream, murmur, memorize and burn the slogans and plot the 500 slogans as the main thread through the 5 acts of MOVING FOREST.
Join AKA the Castle for up to 5 slogan workshop sessions, December 2nd-4th at the V&A, as part of Moving Forest London 2012 initiative.
The Moving Forest 500 slogans workshop brings together writers, artists, performers, theatre practitioners, soundists, noisers, singers (of all genres), scholars and folks to decipher the 500 slogans written by Dr Matthew Fuller alongside Graham Harwood's 12 hour rendering of the final 12 minutes of Kurosawa's film version of Macbeth, Spider Web Castle.
Moving Forest is a 12 hour, five act, visual, sonic, digital, electronic and urban performance collectively realized by AKA the Castle, a temporal performance troupe bringing together visual artists, writers, soundists, silk threaders, codedecoders, macromikro, boombox mass, mobile agents, wifi fielders and urbanites. 12 hours of sonic, coded action map an imaginary Castle and camouflage forest revolt onto a given modern day metropolis.
We welcome public participation in Moving Forest 500 slogans workshops.
By participating, you join AKA the Castle's collective reading and planning towards staging Moving Forest 12 hour performance in London summer 2012.
Please sign up below to take part in one or more workshop sessions.
Friday 02 December, 6-9pm
Saturday 03 December, 11-1pm
Saturday 03 December, 2-4:30pm
Sunday 04 December, 11-1pm
Sunday 04 December, 2-4:30pm
All workshops will take place in Seminar Room 1, Sackler Centre, V&A.
To sign up to one or more sessions please write to now@movingforest.net
or select your session on the 500 slogans wiki
http://scrying.org/doku.php?id=500slogans
Free workshop admission.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Seminar Room 1, Sackler Centre
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Additional workshop activity at SPACE as part of Moving Forest London 2012 initiative
More info: http://spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/events-projects/moving-forest-pd-pure-data-workshop
More information about Moving Forest:
http://www.movingforest.net
http://movingforest.net/html/slogans.html
http://www.furtherfield.org
The partners for Moving Forest London workshop development are MA Interactive Media & Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London, Furtherfield, SPACE, Digital Programmes,V&A.


DISCUSSION

For Occupy Wall Street


perhaps Rhizome could offer solidarity with those protesting by organizing an art project around the subject ;-)

marc