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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.
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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I have mentioned this on here many times, but alas no change as yet - so much for being rhizomatic...
marc
marc
Furtherfield needs your old laptops for work with homeless people in London...
Dates:
Tue Dec 22, 2009 00:00 - Tue Dec 22, 2009
The Zero Dollar Laptop Project

In January 2010 the Zero Dollar Laptop Project kicks off with clients of St Mungo's charity for homeless people in London. We will be recycling hardware, breaking Windows and installing Free and Open Source Software to build media laptops and create music, graphics and video for distribution over the Internet. Participants will leave the project with street-smart technical knowledge and a wireless enabled media laptop, classier than any shiny power-book.
The Zero Dollar Laptop is a recycled computer, running Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is fast and effective- now and long into the future.
- Do you have an old, unused laptop taking up space in your home or office?
- Like to see it returned to productive life?
- If YES, then please donate your old laptop.
DONATE YOUR LAPTOP!
First email us and tell us about it. ruth[dot]catlow[at]furtherfield[dot]org
In order to become a Zero Dollar Laptop your old laptop will need:-
- a working screen
- processor-a minumum 1GHz Pentium 3, Athlon, Celeron.
- 256 (but more ideally 512) ram
- wireless card would be helpful
- We can help you to work this stuff out if you are not sure.
If you live in London or Sheffield we can arrange a pick-up or drop-off in January 2010.
If you don't live in London or Sheffield but would still like to donate your laptop to the project please mail your laptop (well padded and with all the peripherals you can spare) to:-
Zero Dollar Laptop Project,
HTTP Gallery, Furtherfield.org,
Arena Design Centre,
71 Ashfield Road,
London N4 1NY,
ENGLAND
Thanks!!
More About Zero Dollar Laptop
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The Zero Dollar Laptop project is a programme of workshops, public debates, exhibitions and networks of skills and media sharing for arts, technology and the environment.
Inspired by the Zero Dollar Laptop Manifesto http://tinyurl.com/ypklas
developed in partnership with Access Space http://www.access-space.org/
with St Mungo's charity for the homeless http://www.mungos.org/
as part of Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php
supported by funding from the Transformation Fund
Artistic Team: Jake Harries and James Wallbank (Access Space) Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (furtherfield.org)
For more information contact Ruth Catlow - ruth[dot]catlow[at]furtherfield[dot]org
About Furtherfield
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Furtherfield - online media 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
Furtherfield on Twitter - http://twitter.com/furtherfield

In January 2010 the Zero Dollar Laptop Project kicks off with clients of St Mungo's charity for homeless people in London. We will be recycling hardware, breaking Windows and installing Free and Open Source Software to build media laptops and create music, graphics and video for distribution over the Internet. Participants will leave the project with street-smart technical knowledge and a wireless enabled media laptop, classier than any shiny power-book.
The Zero Dollar Laptop is a recycled computer, running Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is fast and effective- now and long into the future.
- Do you have an old, unused laptop taking up space in your home or office?
- Like to see it returned to productive life?
- If YES, then please donate your old laptop.
DONATE YOUR LAPTOP!
First email us and tell us about it. ruth[dot]catlow[at]furtherfield[dot]org
In order to become a Zero Dollar Laptop your old laptop will need:-
- a working screen
- processor-a minumum 1GHz Pentium 3, Athlon, Celeron.
- 256 (but more ideally 512) ram
- wireless card would be helpful
- We can help you to work this stuff out if you are not sure.
If you live in London or Sheffield we can arrange a pick-up or drop-off in January 2010.
If you don't live in London or Sheffield but would still like to donate your laptop to the project please mail your laptop (well padded and with all the peripherals you can spare) to:-
Zero Dollar Laptop Project,
HTTP Gallery, Furtherfield.org,
Arena Design Centre,
71 Ashfield Road,
London N4 1NY,
ENGLAND
Thanks!!
More About Zero Dollar Laptop
-------------------------------------------------
The Zero Dollar Laptop project is a programme of workshops, public debates, exhibitions and networks of skills and media sharing for arts, technology and the environment.
Inspired by the Zero Dollar Laptop Manifesto http://tinyurl.com/ypklas
developed in partnership with Access Space http://www.access-space.org/
with St Mungo's charity for the homeless http://www.mungos.org/
as part of Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php
supported by funding from the Transformation Fund
Artistic Team: Jake Harries and James Wallbank (Access Space) Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (furtherfield.org)
For more information contact Ruth Catlow - ruth[dot]catlow[at]furtherfield[dot]org
About Furtherfield
--------------------------------------------------
Furtherfield - online media 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
Furtherfield on Twitter - http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Art Cinema Everywhere, All The Time. Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and CologneOFF V.
Dates:
Thu Dec 17, 2009 00:00 - Thu Dec 17, 2009
Angela Ferraiolo speaks to Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, founder of the Cologne Online Film Festival, CologneOFF V. Discussing the role of the Internet and how it is transforming filmmaking.

CologneOFF, a new concept in art cinema. A networked festival which includes a networked jury, networked contributions, networked screenings, and networked audiences. Now in its fifth year, CologneOFF takes place in the virtual and in the physical simultaneously, first, through the on-demand festival website, and second, through traditional screenings offered by cooperating partner festivals. In addition, each CologneOFF festival from 2006 to the present, is permanently available for on-demand viewing online.
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Furtherfield - online media 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
HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org

CologneOFF, a new concept in art cinema. A networked festival which includes a networked jury, networked contributions, networked screenings, and networked audiences. Now in its fifth year, CologneOFF takes place in the virtual and in the physical simultaneously, first, through the on-demand festival website, and second, through traditional screenings offered by cooperating partner festivals. In addition, each CologneOFF festival from 2006 to the present, is permanently available for on-demand viewing online.
-------------->
Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Furtherfield - online media 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
HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org
Open_Sailing
Dates:
Wed Dec 16, 2009 00:00 - Wed Dec 16, 2009
Open_Sailing Reviewed by Olga Panades Massanet.

Open_Sailing is a floating architecture evolving like a living organism, a laboratory for techno-social experiments - developing and testing numerous novel technologies, such as "Instinctive_Architecture", "Energy_Animal", and "Life_Cable" within an innovative nomadic ecosystem. The "Swarm_Search_Engine" is a distributed operating system that suggests a general safest location and a form for the overall structure that constantly reconfigures itself in order to provide intelligent distribution of supplies, energy and information.
"Led by a group of enthusiasts, gathered around the idea of "we don't know what will happen, but together we can invent our future and cope", the project puts forward a very ambitious, action-driven, experiment-led, way of thinking forward. After meeting with the founder of the project, Cesar Harada, Open_Sailing proved to be a much more complex enterprise than I originally thought.

Open_Sailing is a floating architecture evolving like a living organism, a laboratory for techno-social experiments - developing and testing numerous novel technologies, such as "Instinctive_Architecture", "Energy_Animal", and "Life_Cable" within an innovative nomadic ecosystem. The "Swarm_Search_Engine" is a distributed operating system that suggests a general safest location and a form for the overall structure that constantly reconfigures itself in order to provide intelligent distribution of supplies, energy and information.
"Led by a group of enthusiasts, gathered around the idea of "we don't know what will happen, but together we can invent our future and cope", the project puts forward a very ambitious, action-driven, experiment-led, way of thinking forward. After meeting with the founder of the project, Cesar Harada, Open_Sailing proved to be a much more complex enterprise than I originally thought.
Definition of 'Acadenemic' on Rosalind
Definition of 'Acadenemic' on Rosalind - add your own voice, your own definitions on your own terms...
"Acadenemic - A constant refusal by certain academics, historians to grant a truth by not including in their studies 'real histories' of other significant artists or collectives, independent groups in their publications. A cultural sickness recognised in Media Art culture." Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/rosalind/definitions.pl?id=144
The definition above is on Rosalind, an upstart media art lexicon, born in 2004, following a sheltered 9 month gestation. Originally created to give voice to those who are either ignored, not represented fairly or are misrepresented by certain academics, institutions, historians and 'official' media outlets. Even though many may be considered or seen to be actively engaged in their work to be proposing a less divided world or a more inclusive society in their critical practice, in many cases this is actually not true in respect of how they act in reality.
This project of course does not intend to resolve the issue as an absolute antidote to such forms of cultural snobbery and elitism in Media Art and related cultures. Mainly because we know that it will take years, far too long for any actual 'authentic' change to happen. This habitual form of culturalized dysfunction touches upon a taboo that is systemic and has its own risks whenever anyone tries to openly discuss it. So, just to make it clear, we are not interested in the making of stars or treading on others so to reach some shallow and misguided, place in art or social history if it means having no soul left when you get there, where ever 'there' is. We value the outsider and those who are not readily accepted, we always will. We don't close doors we open them. We do not believe that to share our culture or platforms that you need to harbour any particular ideal or need to pretend that you are more informed than you really are - we are not pretending, we are learning just like you.
We have chosen our own way in dealing with this and do not expect everyone to be the same as us, yet we do appreciate the 'real' need to find alternative routes out of this separatist cul-de-sac, the need mutually break down the various hermetically sealed and elitist frameworks that negatively hold back others from sharing and being a part of the growth in making this world better than it is now. And yes, we are not perfect but we are open in acknowledging the issue, rather than denying it. Remember, just because many are using the cache of activism to employ their agency does not mean that they are not part of the problem, we all are. Lets work together in resolving this, rather than forming childish little playground cliques, perpetuating the mannerism of mono-cultural conformity. We are not deluded with the notion that Rosalind is a proposal or mechanism that will somehow create change, it is merely a symbol of a massive blind-spot in our shared practices - asking politely, sometimes with humour that, perhaps if we took the time to understand and 'even' appreciate other people's imaginations, beyond our usual, restrictive parapets. We may get a little bit closer that place which does not only exist as a dream or utopian desires...
Feed Rosalind with your own words and definitions to express and declare what you are, what you do and the worlds you create, on your own terms. Influence and mutate her, help her to maturity. Because we all need to move beyond where we are all now...
http://www.furtherfield.org/rosalind/
This project was concieved in January 2004 For 9 months the nascent lexicon was fed with words and their definitions.
In early September 2004 we agreed a name for the lexicon- Rosalind- after Rosalind Franklin and launched it to the world to be influenced and mutated and helped to maturity by all who interact with it.
The Gest@tors were: Marc Garrett, Neil Jenkins, Ruth Catlow, Ivan Pope, Helen Varley Jamieson, Karla Ptacek, Andy Deck, Joseph & Donna Mcelroy, Alan Sondheim, Ryan Griffis, Michael Szpakowski, Patrick Lichty, Maya Kalogera, Alexandra Reill.
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood, we are truly rhizomatic ;-)
Furtherfield - online media 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
We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
"Acadenemic - A constant refusal by certain academics, historians to grant a truth by not including in their studies 'real histories' of other significant artists or collectives, independent groups in their publications. A cultural sickness recognised in Media Art culture." Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/rosalind/definitions.pl?id=144
The definition above is on Rosalind, an upstart media art lexicon, born in 2004, following a sheltered 9 month gestation. Originally created to give voice to those who are either ignored, not represented fairly or are misrepresented by certain academics, institutions, historians and 'official' media outlets. Even though many may be considered or seen to be actively engaged in their work to be proposing a less divided world or a more inclusive society in their critical practice, in many cases this is actually not true in respect of how they act in reality.
This project of course does not intend to resolve the issue as an absolute antidote to such forms of cultural snobbery and elitism in Media Art and related cultures. Mainly because we know that it will take years, far too long for any actual 'authentic' change to happen. This habitual form of culturalized dysfunction touches upon a taboo that is systemic and has its own risks whenever anyone tries to openly discuss it. So, just to make it clear, we are not interested in the making of stars or treading on others so to reach some shallow and misguided, place in art or social history if it means having no soul left when you get there, where ever 'there' is. We value the outsider and those who are not readily accepted, we always will. We don't close doors we open them. We do not believe that to share our culture or platforms that you need to harbour any particular ideal or need to pretend that you are more informed than you really are - we are not pretending, we are learning just like you.
We have chosen our own way in dealing with this and do not expect everyone to be the same as us, yet we do appreciate the 'real' need to find alternative routes out of this separatist cul-de-sac, the need mutually break down the various hermetically sealed and elitist frameworks that negatively hold back others from sharing and being a part of the growth in making this world better than it is now. And yes, we are not perfect but we are open in acknowledging the issue, rather than denying it. Remember, just because many are using the cache of activism to employ their agency does not mean that they are not part of the problem, we all are. Lets work together in resolving this, rather than forming childish little playground cliques, perpetuating the mannerism of mono-cultural conformity. We are not deluded with the notion that Rosalind is a proposal or mechanism that will somehow create change, it is merely a symbol of a massive blind-spot in our shared practices - asking politely, sometimes with humour that, perhaps if we took the time to understand and 'even' appreciate other people's imaginations, beyond our usual, restrictive parapets. We may get a little bit closer that place which does not only exist as a dream or utopian desires...
Feed Rosalind with your own words and definitions to express and declare what you are, what you do and the worlds you create, on your own terms. Influence and mutate her, help her to maturity. Because we all need to move beyond where we are all now...
http://www.furtherfield.org/rosalind/
This project was concieved in January 2004 For 9 months the nascent lexicon was fed with words and their definitions.
In early September 2004 we agreed a name for the lexicon- Rosalind- after Rosalind Franklin and launched it to the world to be influenced and mutated and helped to maturity by all who interact with it.
The Gest@tors were: Marc Garrett, Neil Jenkins, Ruth Catlow, Ivan Pope, Helen Varley Jamieson, Karla Ptacek, Andy Deck, Joseph & Donna Mcelroy, Alan Sondheim, Ryan Griffis, Michael Szpakowski, Patrick Lichty, Maya Kalogera, Alexandra Reill.
----------------->
Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood, we are truly rhizomatic ;-)
Furtherfield - online media 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
We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.