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

Re: Pondering the social sculpture, P1


Pondering the social sculpture, P1Hi Andrew,

I'm not that sure if Liz is being that cynical, some of her points are quit=
e important, adding blood to the discourse.

Yet in repsect of that curator you mentioned - I totally agree that the ind=
ividual concerned does not realize how backward such a statement as this is=
"an artist without a gallery is nothing". It is posturing nonsense. One go=
od thing about public forums such as this, is that everyone gets questioned=
which keeps us all on our toes. We get challenged by all sorts, forcing us=
to reevaluate various assumptions. This curator person, needs to be challe=
nged publicly - for such blitherings are lazy and spoilt notions, gatekeepi=
ng antics, blocking the potential for those who are breaking out of such em=
pty regime like impositions.

Having said this, I would not even bother with people like that, there are =
so many more interesting people who are more emotionally developed who do n=
ot rely on gallery systems to justify their creative explorations. There ar=
e other ways around the wall...

marc

The moment Beuys "thingifies" creativity and exhibits it in front of a =
gaggle of curators and critics, that is the moment that he has created art.=

This seems rather cynical to me, Liza. Perhaps you are tongue-in-cheek,=
however?

I attended my first meeting of curators (I am not a curator) some month=
s ago. A prominent Canadian curator (I cannot remember his name, Jean someb=
ody-or-other from the National Gallery) said that "an artist without a gall=
ery is nothing".

There are basically two types of personal power. There's power that can=
be bestowed on one by institutions or critics or curators or publishers or=
awards committees and so on, or, in the case of other occupations, there a=
re other sources of power that can be bestowed on one. The other type of po=
wer is one's own power. Not over others but within oneself.

It seems to me that Jean what's-his-name is no friend of artists when h=
e says what he said, for it seems to me a negation of the notion that art i=
s first and foremost an expression of an individual's own power and human d=
ignity, power not over others, but power to realize what they themselves wi=
sh to realize. It is a gift to others of insight or song, intense perceptio=
n or joy, sadness or mystery...

The precondition of art is not exhibition and acknowledgement or place =
within the institutions of art. Instead, it is the moment of insight and aw=
areness, mindfulness in the full context of being alive. Doris Lessing said=
that "love is the delicate but total acknowledgement of what is." Art is a=
recognition of the shared nature of our experience and aspirations and sto=
ries, and an attempt to present these with their full significance honored =
and acknowledged.

It makes me sad to hear 'important' curators say what the curator said.=
It distances artists from the institutions. How can you work with a bozo l=
ike that who is supposed to understand art but doesn't have a clue?

ja

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Re: ART IS ILLUSTRATION


Re: RHIZOME_RAW: ART IS ILLUSTRATIONIt used to be..

Art is just a name...

a socially constructed idea that frames it all.

We can move on if we want to...

marc

on 11/16/02 7:26 PM, furtherfield at info@furtherfield.org wrote:

ART IS ILLUSTRATION

marc

ART IS THE ANTITHESIS OF ILLUSTRATION

mark

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Re: ART IS ILLUSTRATION


Re: RHIZOME_RAW: ART IS ILLUSTRATIONMove onto anywhere but here...it's obvi=
ous

marc

What exactly is NOT a socially constructed idea? All ideas are as such. A=
nd move onto where???

-m

on 11/17/02 5:20 AM, furtherfield at info@furtherfield.org wrote:

It used to be..

Art is just a name...

a socially constructed idea that frames it all.

We can move on if we want to...

marc

on 11/16/02 7:26 PM, furtherfield at info@furtherfield.org wrote:

ART IS ILLUSTRATION

marc

ART IS THE ANTITHESIS OF ILLUSTRATION

mark

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Re: Genius 2000 Conference 2002 Winners


Somehow this feels so much better than those other competitions...why is
that?

marc

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> The winners of the Genius 2000 Conference 2002 are:
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> Best Male Presenter: Joseph Franklyn McElroy
> Best Female Presenter: Tamara Lai
> Golden Palm for Lifetime Achievement: Marc Garrett
>
> Winning submissions can be seen at
www.geocities.com/genius-2000/Conf2002.html
>
> Winners will be sent the Winners' Video 2002 and judges will be sent
Judges' Video 2002 shortly.
>
> Thank you to all judges and entrants, and congratulations to the winners.
This has been one of the best conferences of the century.
>
> I'm signing off all lists to work offline until next year. My only
working email is maxnmherman@hotmail.com. I will miss the lists but this
announcement and my Ariadne auf Naxos post must do for now.
>
> I've been giving you a longing look,
>
> Max Herman
> genius2000.net
> www.geocities.com/genius-2000
>
> ++
>
> forward to other lists if desired
>
> ++
>
>
> + dancing days are here again as the summer evenings grow
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