marc garrett
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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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Review of FutureSonic:Environment2.0 2009


Dates:
Thu Aug 27, 2009 00:00 - Thu Aug 27, 2009

This review of the 2009 FutureSonic festival by Ruth Catlow and Olga Panades looks at artists' and technologists' explorations, of participation and agency in a networked society in the context of environmental crisis. It also reflects on the partial adoption of an ecological approach in a celebration of the new techno-green-enterprise soon to become FutureEverything.

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Altermodernism: The Age of Stupid.


Dates:
Wed Aug 26, 2009 00:00 - Wed Aug 26, 2009

Article by Ellie Harrison on furtherfield.org

Ellie Harrison highlights concerns for the future of humanity and the future of art, focusing on 2 central texts: Bourriaud's Altermodern Manifesto and a faux encyclopedia entry from the future which retrospectively defines 'the Age of Stupid' released as promotional material for Franny Armstrong's film.

"Set in the year 2055, The Age of Stupid focuses on a man living alone in a world which has all but been destroyed by climate change. In an attempt to understand exactly how such a tragedy could have befallen his species and the society and culture which they created over the course of several millennia, he begins to review a series of 'archive' documentary clips from 2008. His aim is to discover how his ancestors - the one generation of people who had the power to prevent the impending disaster - could have demonstrated such disregard or contempt for the future."

"What is most terrifying about Bourriaud's Manifesto therefore, is its absolute lack of acknowledgement of the real and dangerous future that we face. Rather than speaking out and demanding the dramatic changes that are necessary, it seems to support a continuation of the status quo of the last twenty years. In his video interview on the Tate website, Bourriaud describes the purpose of the altermodern as the "cultural answer to alterglobalisation" (Bourriaud 2009a). However, rather than questioning the carbon-heavy lifestyles that a globalised world promotes he seems to complicitly buy into them, insisting that "our daily lives consist of journeys in a chaotic and teeming universe".

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Review of The Path by Tale of Tales.


Dates:
Fri Aug 21, 2009 00:00 - Fri Aug 21, 2009

In a Dark Wood.

A review of The Path by Edward Picot "a short horror-game inspired by the tale of Little Red Riding Hood" from Tale of Tales.

An independent computer games development company, based in Belgium and run by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. It was originally released in March 2009, and it represents Tale of Tales' first attempt to produce a fully commercial computer game.

"Harvey and Samyn's output has always been driven by a desire to move away from the typical subject-matter and style of modern computer games, into territory which is more poetic and ambiguous, touching on deeper themes. Before they formed Tale of Tales they worked together under the name Entropy8Zuper! and produced work such as The Godlove Museum (texts from the Bible mixed with new media animations and social commentary). The first Tale of Tales project, 8, was based on the story of the Sleeping Beauty. The second, The Endless Forest, a multi-player environment where each player controls a deer in an enchanted forest; and the third is The Graveyard, a meditation on old age and mortality, set in a cemetery, and featuring a little old lady on the point of death." Picot.

You can also read the review at The Hyperliterature Exchange web site - http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewthepath.php

This article is co-published by The Hyperliterature Exchange - http://hyperex.co.uk/ and Furtherfield.org - http://www.furtherfield.org

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Review of A Short Film About War by Thomson & Craighead.


Dates:
Wed Aug 19, 2009 00:00 - Wed Aug 19, 2009

Thou God Seest Me: Some Gathered Thoughts for A Short Film About War.

Review by Mark Cooley.

A Short Film About War is the second installment by Thomson & Craighead, in what will be a series of three "desktop documentaries." The first work in the series, "Flat Earth" establishes the context; a series of web based films constructed exclusively from media gathered from the Internet. A vast world is made smaller, more manageable, through the impossible eye that carries viewers in and out of the earth's orbit to reveal the individual voices of bloggers as lines in an elaborately staged narrative.

"You see the imagery, you know what's going on, you see what you're looking at. It's very easy when something like that is happening to project yourself there and feel a part of the battle. Like I said, your heart starts racing a little bit." - CNN interview with US-based predator drone aircraft pilot on flying air strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan from a control room in the Nevada desert.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=356

Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead are london-based artists working with video, sound and electronic networked space to create gallery and site-specific artworks and installations. They have exhibited widely from Tate Britain to The New Museum in New York, and are among the leading UK artists using communications systems and technology in their work.

Mark Cooley is an interdisciplinary artist interested in exploring the intersections of art, activism, popular culture and institutional critique in a variety of contexts. Subjects of particular interest are U.S. foreign policy, the fine art culture industry and the political economy of new technologies. Mark is currently a professor in the Department of Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University in the suburbs of Washington D.C.

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Feral Trade Café to re-open until 30th August.


Dates:
Fri Aug 14, 2009 00:00 - Fri Aug 14, 2009

Due to the positive reception and continual influx of visitors to Feral Trade Café, by Kate Rich at HTTP Gallery, we have decided to re-open the exhibition until the end of August.

We are of course very pleased that visitors have enjoyed the exhibition so much and hope, that if you missed it before, that we will now entice you to come along and savour Mexican hot chocolate, Chevre sandwiches and Montenegrin Delight, to name just a few of the delectable menu items on offer.

An art exhibition that is also a working café, Feral Trade Café serves food and drink traded over social networks, Feral Trade Café by artist Kate Rich (AU) provides a convivial setting from which to contemplate broader changes to our climate and economies, where conventional supply chains (for food delivery and cultural funding) could go belly up.

Feral Trade received an Honorary Mention in this years' Prix Ars Electronica.
http://www.aec.at/humannature/en/

About the show & other info:
http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/FeralTradeCafe/index.shtml

Photos from the Opening Event
http://www.flickr.com/photos/http_gallery/sets/72157620396961159/

Article About the show on Gastrogeek:
http://gastrogeek.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/wasted-again/

Video by William Shaw from RSA Arts & Ecology about the show:
http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/07/27/feral_trade/

Exhibition: Free entry
Days Open - Fri - Sun
Opening Times - 12 noon - 5pm
13 June - 30 August

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HTTP Gallery is based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area and is Furtherfield.org's dedicated space for media art. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices in art, technology and social change.

Furtherfield.org - www.furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery - http://www.http.uk.net are supported by Arts Council England, London.