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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DISCUSSION

VisitorsStudio wins the Grand Prize - netarts.org 2009


Hi Mary,

Thank you very much for your generous words, it means a lot.

wishing you well.

marc

DISCUSSION

VisitorsStudio wins the Grand Prize - netarts.org 2009


We are a hard working bunch and have been dedicated to connecting with others via creative, networked practices since 97. Shockingly, this is our first award ever. This may be because we never enter competitions, hoping that the spirit of what we do will be recognized for what it is on its own terms. Perhaps we may change this idea, especially when it feels so good to be recognized for our efforts, such an appreciation can do wonders for morale.

marc

EVENT

VisitorsStudio wins the Grand Prize - netarts.org 2009


Dates:
Mon Nov 16, 2009 00:00 - Mon Nov 16, 2009

VisitorsStudio wins the Grand Prize - netarts.org 2009

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http://netarts.org/2009/grand_prize_2009.html

Netarts.org (aka Art on the Net) run by the Art on the Net steering committee and the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts.

VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, interviews, networked performance and collaborative polemic. Through simple and accessible facilities, the VisitorsStudio web-based interface allows users to upload, manipulate and collage their own audio-visual files with others', to remix existing media. Providing a platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations and social contexts. Designed so anyone in the world can access it from a 56k modem. Participants upload sound files and still/moving images (jpg, png, mp3, flv, swf) to a shared database, mixing and responding to each other's compositions in real-time. Individuals can also chat with each other and are located in the interface by their own dancing-cursors.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org

About Furtherfield - Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Providing platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org


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November Issue of Furthernoise.org


Dates:
Sun Nov 15, 2009 00:00 - Sun Nov 15, 2009

November Issue of Furthernoise.org.

As always we have a selection of new reviews and features for your reading and listening pleasure. Included in this, is a feature article on an innovative sound work by Aboriginal composer Rod Smith, as part of an exhibition produced in response to the Australian Governments Apology to the Indigenous population.

Our audio player is again stocked with new sounds from a diverse mix of international sound artists, so sit back and enjoy the new issue of Furthernoise.org

Furthernoise issue November 2009
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=83

"Highs from Low Point" (feature)
In this post-everything age, it’s hard to hear anything shatteringly new in the experimental ambient universe, even at the most Out-there reaches of the dronosphere. Yet there's still much to be savoured in the glut of well wrought music in this vein, among which may be numbered recent highs from Nottingham's Low Point.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=311
feature by Alan Lockett

"Yapang Marruma Soundscape - Rod Smith" (feature)
On February 12th 2008 the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an apology to the 'Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history' for the 'mistreatment of those who were Stolen Generations [...] for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss [...] 'for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture. (excerpt).
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=315
feature by Roger Mills

"Arturas Bumšteinas - Uniforms" (review)
Arturas Bumšteinas is a sound and visual artist based in Lithuania. Uniforms features experimental and post-modern pieces, blended with modern electronic and glitch-based techniques.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=313
review by Alex Young

"Echoes of Syros by Dempster, Heasley & Rieman" (review)
Stuart Dempster and Tom Heasley have successfully expanded the capabilities of low brass instruments, once relegated to the back of the band. Together with keyboard player Erik Glick Rieman, they present a series of improvisations that exceed the boundaries of their previous work and highlight potential future explorations.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=312
review by Caleb Deupree

"Peaceful Protest - Sade Sade" (review)
“D” Yellow Swans called it quits April 2008. In their 9 years together, this psych/noise duo consisting of Pete Swanson and Gabriel Mindle Saloman (GMS) recorded over 50 releases, toured extensively around the World, and co-ran the Collective JYRK label/art collective. Gabriel ended up moving to Vancouver, BC to start a new label called Diadem Discogs with his wife and music collaborator Aja Rose.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=314
review by Derek Morton

"The sincerest form of derivation" (review)
Remora's Derivative is a guitar ambient album with a more aggressive edge than other drone guitar groups like Stars of the Lid or Mirror, retaining enough skronk to remove any artificial polish and give the work the immediacy of a laid-back live performance in his living room, and enough melodicism to prevent the work from becoming a noise fest.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=309
review by Caleb Deupree

Roger Mills
Editor, Furthernoise


EVENT

SOUND ECOLOGIES: LISTENING IN THE CIT


Dates:
Wed Nov 18, 2009 00:00 - Fri Nov 13, 2009

SOUND ECOLOGIES: LISTENING IN THE CITY

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10am-4pm, Wednesday 18th November 2009
Department of Music, City University London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB

A day of presentations, participatory workshops and informal performance
around themes of urban sound, networked sound, locative media and
acoustic ecology - the relationship between living beings their
environment, as mediated by sound.

More info http://www.furtherfield.org/soundecologies.php
Details of what will happen http://www.furtherfield.org/soundecologies.php#deets

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The live event is fully booked but there are still ways for you to get involved:

Check out the new commission by Chris Joseph
http://www.furtherfield.org/chris\_joseph\_soundecologies/

Upload your own sounds to the VisitorsStudio mix. If you can't be there in the flesh you can still contribute to the mix by adding your own local sound files (small 200k loops please) on an urban theme. http://visitorsstudio.org/x.html NOTE: When you upload your sounds don't forget to use the keyword 'urban' in the title or description so that we can find them

AND IF YOU JUST CAN'T WAIT....

Please get your ears tuned in and check out some great projects highlighted by Furthernoise.org

A review by Alex Young of a project that draws on the sonification of ocean current data.
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?url=page.php&ID=44&iss=50

Resonant Cities Compilation by New Media Scotland reviewed by Stacey Sewell
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?url=page.php&ID=216&iss=65

Idea of South an evolving Internet based sound map which allows you to hear and mix locational recordings from all over the southern hemisphere in a contrapuntal collage of sound. Roger Mills and Neil Jenkins
http://www.eartrumpet.org/projects.html#ideaofsouth
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SOUND ECOLOGIES: LISTENING IN THE CITY is a partnership event funded by LCACE convened by Katharine Norman, Department of Music, City University London and Furtherfield.org