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

The Electronic Man: A Global Performance.


Renee Carmichael interviews Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico from, Art is Open Source (AOS) and the international think-tank FakePress, about their recent project The Electronic Man.

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http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/electronic-man-global-performance
"You Are Now the Electronic Man" are the words that appear before even opening the website for The Electronic Man, a project initiated by Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico of Art is Open Source (AOS) and FakePress. And by becoming part of The Electronic Man, sharing your emotions as they become linked through QR Codes and help to build the frame of The Electronic Man, you are participating in a real time global performance. We discuss AOS's ideas and intentions, regarding their activities of performance and use of technology, and methods of engagement with anthropology and biology.
This real time global performance relates to conceptual experiments in remixing reality and creating new sensual experiences with technology. The email interview took place after their recent exhibition at Furtherfield's gallery in London, REFF - REMIX THE WORLD! REINVENT REALITY! (http://tinyurl.com/66mb85e), February, March 2011, and during their current project The Electronic Man, part of the ADD Festival in Italy 2011 (http://www.addfestival.com/).
Renee graduated from Goldsmiths with a Masters in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice. Her most recent work arose from working with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) support groups to intrepret their perception of objects within the home alongside theories of discreteness and technology. She is currently interested in exploring relationships between food, data and technology.
http://www.furtherfield.org

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Video - Interview of Scott Kildall & Nathaniel Stern MADE REAL exhibition at Furtherfield.


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"Networks – social, political, physical and digital – are a defining feature of contemporary life, yet their forms and operations often go unseen and unnoticed. For this exhibition Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, artists and co-founders of Wikipedia Art take these networks as their artistic materials and play-spaces to create artworks about love, power-play and a new social reality." Furtherfield.
Ruth Catlow interviewed Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern on opening night of the MADE REAL exhibition Furtherfield Gallery, May 2011. http://vimeo.com/25509355
Credits in Video:
Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern interviewed by Ruth Catlow
Featuring - Wikipedia Art, 2009 - ongoing. Given Time, 2010. Playing Duchamp, 2010
Thanks to Michael Szpakowski, Foster Stilp, Kevin McGillivray, Ed Lancaster, Rachel Moss and Vivian Truong.
Filming by Pete Gomes (mutantfilm.com) assisted by Malgorzata Sokolowska.
Stills by Pau Ros. Edited by Olga Panadés Massanet.
Due to success & interest iin the exhibition, we have decided to keep the show up for a linger period.
MADE REAL. An exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, the founders of Wikipedia Art.
http://www.furtherfield.org/exhibition/made-real
About Furtherfield.
http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about

DISCUSSION

Network as Material: An Interview with Julian Oliver.


Network as Material: An Interview with Julian Oliver.
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http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/network-material-interview-julian-oliver
 Taina Bucher interviews Julian Oliver, the Berlin-based media artist and programmer at the Subtle Technologies festival in Toronto. Where he taught a workshop on the Network as Material. The aim of the workshop reflects Oliver’s artistic and pedagogical philosophy nicely; to not only make people aware of the hidden technical infrastructures of everyday life but also to provide people with tools to interrogate these constructed and governed public spaces.

Julian Oliver is a New Zealand born artist-inventor, teacher, writer and programmer based in Berlin. His work explores artistic game-development, virtual architecture, interface design, augmented reality, data forensics and open source development practices. In 1998 he established the art and games collective Select Parks and subsequently became a major figure within artistic game-development, creating several important works in this field, including qthoth (1998-1999), Fijuu2 (2006), levelHead (2007-2008) and the Artvertiser (2008-2011). These last two focus on augmented reality as a platform for intervention, interaction and sculptural design.

Taina Bucher is a PhD fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway in Media Studies. She works on the relation between subjectivity and software in the context of social networking platforms. During 2010 she was a visiting scholar at New York University and will be a guest researcher at the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University, Toronto spring 2011. She holds an MSc in Cultural Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include: software studies, media aesthetics, social media, attention, and visibility.
A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - art, technology & social change - claiming it with others ;)
Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the  intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

DISCUSSION

An Interview with Dmytri Kleiner, authour of The Telekommunist Manifesto.


not sure what happend but the site suddenly jolted & gave me a 502 error - thus the post is all bunched up and looks rubbish...
marc

DISCUSSION

The New Materiality.


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The New Materiality: Digital Dialogues at the Boundaries of Contemporary Craft, an exhibition that began at the Fuller Craft Museum and is currently up at the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) until June 12, follows on and extends current trends in contemporary craft. It engages not only with craft’s reinvigoration as a creative practice and discourse, but with how these have been shaped by, and also transformed, new technologies, new designs, new materials and new ideas. Wilson’s exhibition and events make discussions around Art or Craft, Art or Design, Digital or Hand-made, and Conceptual or not seem, in a word, quaint; she engages with a broad set of materialized ideas that divide and relate across the artistry of craft, the ephemera of technology, and the theoretical frames of post-conceptual art.



Review by Nathaniel Stern.
http://www.furtherfield.org/new-materiality>

Nathaniel Stern (USA / South Africa) is an experimental installation and video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and immersive environments, mixed reality art and multimedia physical theatre performances, to digital and traditional printmaking, concrete sculpture and slam poetry http://nathanielstern.com.>