marc garrett
Since the beginning
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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EVENT

Videogame appropriation in contemporary art: Pac-Man.


Dates:
Thu Dec 16, 2010 00:00 - Thu Dec 16, 2010

Videogame appropriation in contemporary art: Pac-Man. By Mathias Jansson.

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In Part Four of his series on classic Videogames and their appropriation into contemporary art. Mathias Jansson explores Pac-Man, with a selection of examples of how the game has impacted artists' work and contemporary art culture.

Mathias Jansson is a Swedish art critic and Game Art researcher. He writes about New Media Art and Game Art for blogs and magazines such as Gamescenes (http://www.gamescenes.org) and DigiMag (http://www.digicult.it/digimag/). During the last year Jansson has written a series of interviews with the pioneers of Game Art and currently working on a sequel with artists, critics, curators, gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art. www.janssonswebb.se/gameart

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A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;)


http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

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

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org


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An interview with Michel Bauwens founder of Foundation for P2P Alternatives.


Dates:
Fri Dec 17, 2010 00:00 - Fri Dec 17, 2010

An interview with Michel Bauwens founder of Foundation for P2P Alternatives.

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Lawrence Bird interviews Michel Bauwens, one of the foremost thinkers on the peer-to-peer phenomenon. Belgian-born and currently resident in Chiang-Mai, Thailand, he is founder of the Foundation for P2P (Peer-to-Peer) Alternatives, and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. http://p2pfoundation.net/index.php/Main\_Page

Lawrence Bird is a designer, instructor and writer with an interest in cities and their image. He has been trained in social science-based urban design (MSc), and in the phenomenology of cinematic architecture (PhD). He's currently working on the postdoctoral project Beyond the Desert of the Real, based in Winnipeg, Canada. He also makes films, and is currently developing a hybrid film and animation project WPG\_POV. http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/architecture/

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Other Info:

A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;)

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

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

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org


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Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom Part 3.


Dates:
Thu Nov 18, 2010 00:00 - Thu Nov 18, 2010

Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom Part 3.

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Marc Da Costa interviews Johannes Grenzfurthner, founder of monochrom.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=414

The last of three interviews with Grenzfurthner, where he talks about the birth of monochrome culture and the intricacies of subversion in the era of soft control. An art-technology-philosophy group of basket weaving enthusiasts and theory do-it-yourselfers, working in all forms since 1993.

Grenzfurthner has collaborated with groups such as ubermorgen, Billboard Liberation Front, Esel and Mego (label). Grenzfurthner writes for various online/print magazines and radio stations (e.g. ORF, Telepolis, Boing Boing). Grenzfurthner has served on a number of art juries (e.g. Steirischer Herbst, Graz). He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria and is a lecturer at University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria.

Since 1993, the Monochrom members have devoted themselves to the grey zones where systems intersect: the art (market), politics, economics, pop, gaiety, vanity, good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair. The technique underlying Monochrom's work is that of being and working in the fields of Pop/avant-garde, theory/reflection, interventionism/politics, gaiety/lust/tragedy, (self-)configuration/mystification. The project Monochrom pushes into and beyond these fields is, 'networking' events, people, possibilities, material, impetus and identities." (Zdenka Badovinac, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana)

Read part 1 of this interview:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=408
Read part 2 of this interview:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=411

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Other Info:

A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;)


http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

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

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org


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Review of UpStage 101010 - A New Zealand Based Festival of Performance Art.


Dates:
Mon Nov 22, 2010 00:00 - Mon Nov 22, 2010

UpStage 101010 - A New Zealand Based Festival of Performance Art.

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Review by Ellen Pearlman.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=413

On Oct 10th 2010, the Upstage Festival of Performance Art (101010) curated by Helen Varley Jamieson, Vicki Smith, and Dan Untitled ran for approximately twenty hours, the fourth such iteration of themed dates (last year ran on 090909). 101010 showcased thirteen new cyber performances from around the world.

101010 showcased thirteen new cyber performances from Canada, USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Serbia, Australia, and New Zealand, most lasting for twenty minutes. UpStage was host to ten real world viewing nodes in Calgary, New York, Nantes, Eindhoven, Oslo, Ljubljana, Pancevo, Vietnam, Auckland, and Wellington. Individuals could also tune in from the comforts of their own homes.

Ellen Pearlman is currently a Ph.D student at the University of Calgary, Canada in Computational Media and Design with a focus on Telematics & artistic collaborations over the Syneme high speed networks. She is Artistic Adviser to the Yuanfen Gallery, the very first gallery of new media in Beijing, China and part of the Yuanfen Flow (TM), the first independent, privately owned new media research institute in China.

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Other Info:

A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;)

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

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

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org


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Videogame appropriation in contemporary art: Pong. By Mathias Jansson.


Dates:
Mon Nov 22, 2010 00:00 - Mon Nov 22, 2010

Videogame appropriation in contemporary art: Pong. By Mathias Jansson.

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Classic video games such as Pong, Tetris, Space Invaders, Pac Man and Super Mario have inspired many artists in their work, and influenced a whole generation. In a series of articles, we will look at some classic games and give examples of how they have been used in art and what impact they have made on the art scene. First out is PONG.

Mathias Jansson is a Swedish art critic and Game Art researcher. He writes about New Media Art and Game Art for blogs and magazines such as www.gamescenes.org and DigiMag (http://www.digicult.it/digimag/). During the last year Jansson has written a series of interviews, with the pioneers of Game Art and currently working on a sequel with artists, critics, curators, gallery owners operating in the field of Game Art. www.janssonswebb.se/gameart

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Other Info:

A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;)


http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

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

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org