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

Why Aren't We Reading Turing?


Why Aren't We Reading Turing?

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By robert jackson.

What if Turing's centenary was not just a way of recapitulating or celebrating the discoveries of his legacy, but a rare chance for unearthing some surprises within Turing's own constructions which reveal new ways of approaching the agency of computation? Robert Jackson reflects on how the humanities and the arts could reclaim the unpredictable elements of Turing's legacy which other fields seemingly ignore.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/why-arent-we-reading-turing

Robert Jackson, is currently studying an MPhil/PhD at the University of Plymouth, in the research group KURATOR/Arts and Social Technologies, Faculty of Arts and Media (formally Faculty of Technology). His thesis focuses on Algorithmic Artworks, Art Formalism and Speculative Realist Ontologies, looking at digital artworks which operate as configurable units rather than networked systems, and attain independent autonomy themselves which are capable of aesthetics, rather than any supposed primary function as communicative, rational tools.

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Add your creative voice & noise to Furtherfield's Community Blog Stream


Add your creative voice & noise to Furtherfield's Community Blog Stream

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From the "we are making art to view at home..." Blog, by Helen Varley Jamieson.

A place where you can share text, images, videos & other items of interest to an imaginative peer community.

http://www.furtherfield.org/blogs#

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Invisible Forces: Events at Furtherfield in the Park


Invisible Forces: Events at Furtherfield in the Park

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http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/activities/invisible-forces-events#

Invisible Forces Events

with Class Wargames, The Hexists, Dave Miller, Olga P Massanet and Thomas Cade Aston

All welcome

To accompany Invisible Forces exhibition (http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/invisible-forces), Furtherfield invites all gallery visitors to take part in a programme of public play, games, making and discussion led by alert and energetic artists, techies, makers and thinkers: Class Wargames, The Hexists, Dave Miller, Olga P Massanet and Thomas Aston.

Saturday 23 June 2012 - 1-5pm
Summer Board Games and Picnic with Class Wargames and Kimathi Donkor

Saturday 30 June 2012 - 1-5pm
Summer Board Games and Picnic with Class Wargames

Wednesday 04 July 2012 – 9-11am
3 Keys - The River Oracle – The Hexists

Wednesday 11 July 2012 – 11-5pm
Technologies of Attunement – Olga P Massanet and Thomas Cade Aston

Saturday 21 July 2012 – 2-5pm

Dave Miller's Finsbury Park Radiation Walk

DISCUSSION

we are making art to view at home...


we are making art to view at home...

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By Helen Varley Jamieson.

I really do wonder what the Tate Modern means when they say that their "live performance room" is "the only place you can see art made for you to view at home". Quite aside from the myriad artworks available online for people to experience - live or otherwise - have they forgotten about television, radio, and other media, digital and analogue, that has made the viewing of art possible not only at home but in all kinds of private and domestic spaces for - well, a very long time?

Instead of expressing my frustration the Tate staff's ignorance of the field they claim to lead (they describe their Live Performance Room series as "ground-breaking" and "the first artistic programme created purely for live web broadcast"), I'm going to talk about some of the other, actually ground-breaking and innovative work that you can not only view, but also participate in, from the comfort of your own home; which is actually nothing new - ground-breaking artists have been creating this kind of work for at least 15 years.

Last Saturday night, while sitting at home, I had the pleasure of participating in "Transmittance", an ongoing networked performance project by Maja Delak & Luka Prinčič - this time in collaboration with artists at the Trouble festival in Brussels. "Transmittance" combines a live audio-visual stream with an IRC chat, and invites online participants to guide the action by selecting from a range of "choices" - movements, sound, text - that are then performed by the artists to the camera.

more...
http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/helen-varley-jamieson/we-are-making-art-view-home

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Human Readable Messages_[Mezangelle 2003-2011] | Reviewed by Rob Myers.


Human Readable Messages_[Mezangelle 2003-2011] | Reviewed by Rob Myers.

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"Human Readable Messages_[Mezangelle 2003-2011]" is a book published by Traumawien containing almost a decade of Mez Breeze's "Mezangelle" writings. Mezangelle is hand-crafted text with the aesthetics of computer code or protocols. What marks Mezangelle out is how deep its use of those aesthetics go and how effectively it uses them.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/human-readable-messages#

"Mez does for code poetry as jodi and Vuk Cosic have done for ASCII Art: Turning a great, but naively executed concept into something brilliant, paving the ground for a whole generation of digital artists." (Florian Cramer).

The impact of her unique code/net.wurks [constructed via her pioneering net.language "mezangelle"] has been equated with the work of Shakespeare, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and Larry Wall.