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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New reviews/works on Furtherfield feb05


*New reviews/works on Furtherfield & related current Projects.

*All reviews can either be accessed via this url
http://www.furtherfield.org from the front page, or from the links under
each of the introductions below.

*Lexicon by Andy Deck.*
Graphical, interactive software system, exploring the relationship
between code, natural language & image making, composing scripts &
adding them to a an existing vocabulary. Reviewer: Alison Colman.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id1
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Media Curation Seminar at VIVID.*
Seminar: Curation, preservation & dissemination of media art. Final
seminar in the hothaus series, examines challenges of curating &
presenting media art. Reviewer: Mark R Hancock.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id4

*Random Animation Loops by Philip Wood.*
"medialounge" is a good name for Philip Wood's site, since the works are
quite relaxing; all together they form a mediasphere covering at least
the past century or so. Reviewer: Alan Sondheim.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id0

*Tales from the Desktop by Sandra Crisp.*
A nonlinear sequence of moving images based on desktop icons and
screensavers + recent media images and soundbites on global climate change.
Reviewer: JanedaPain.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id9
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Trondheim Matchmaking Festival.*
The annual Trondheim Matchmaking (TMM) festival is "an arena for
presentations of innovative ideas and artistic projects - a place where
competence and resources are maintained and developed". Reviewer: Helen
Varley Jamieson.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id3

*3 Mexico City blogs.*
A walk through three Mexico City blogs. Its members are, for the most
part, unpublished writers who started their blogs between the years 2001
and 2002. Reviewer: Ivan Monroy-Lopez.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id2

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*Other current projects events/exhibitions related to Furtherfield.*

*HTTP presents Eating Canvas by UK digital artist Jess Loseby.* A new
media installation of digital paintings on a range of canvas: fabric,
screen, paper and televisions. This warm and evocative cyber-domestic
work is a convergence of personal and political aesthetics that is
reflective and declares a conscious subjectivity. Loseby's
internationally recognised net artworks always demonstrate a keen
alertness to her's and her viewers' positioning in physical, virtual and
political space.
For more information: http://www.http.uk.net/

Artist's Private View - Tuesday 1st March 2004
7pm exhibition opening hours:
1st - 27th March 2005
Friday- Sunday: 12 noon- 5pm

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N*ew Reviews & features on Furthernoise.*

In this the first edition of 2005 we are joined by Keyop's Andrew Palmer
who gives us his verdict on Ian Yeager's new album Music for Guitar &
Computer & the new Sijis release from Pasif Perifrastic.

Alex Young casts his ear over Narrpowminded's most recent release from
Psychon and Roger Mills takes a listen to Blevin Blectum's album Look
Magic Maple and Midori Hirano's EP Poet at the Piano as well as chatting
to Midori (recorded telephone interview) about her music and living in
Tokyo.

In this months artist feature Furthernoise resident guest Mark Mclaren
interviews Paulo Raposo & Stephan Vitiello on Sirr Records compilation
and Homage to Maurice Blanchot. He also takes us through the
compilations various artist's responses to the man and his work.

Other releases to get the mutton treatment are Charles Goff III CDR COO
STICKY and the feed back improvisations of Claudio Parodi in his release
11'39 + 5'00 = 20'00.
http://www.furthernoise.org

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Furtherfield is an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of adventurous net art, networked media, artwork
for public viewing, experience and interaction.

Furtherfield creates imaginative strategies that actively communicate
ideas and issues in a range of digital & terrestrial media contexts;
featuring works online and organising global, contributory projects,
simultaneously on the Internet, the streets and public venues.
Furtherfield focuses on network related projects that explore new social
contexts that transcend the digital, or offer a subjective voice that
communicates beyond the medium. Furtherfield collaborates with artists,
programmers, writers, activists, musicians and thinkers who explore
beyond traditional remits.

We can make our own World . . .

Furtherfield.org & HTTP is now supported by Arts Council of England.

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HTTP:// Eating Canvas by Jess Loseby : 1st - 27th March 2005


*Next at HTTP://
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*Jess Loseby : Eating Canvas**

We invite you to the opening of the exhibition to view the work and to
meet the artist in person.

Artist's Private View 7pm Tuesday 1st March 2004
then open 1st - 27th March 2005, Friday- Sunday 12 -5pm

Getting to HTTP
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities

for further information contact: info@http.uk.net
tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827

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HTTP presents Eating Canvas by UK digital artist Jess Loseby*. A new
media installation of digital paintings on a range of canvas: fabric,
screen, paper and televisions.

This warm and evocative cyber domestic work is a convergence of personal
and political aesthetics that is reflective and declares a conscious
subjectivity. Loseby's internationally recognised net artworks always
demonstrate a keen alertness to her's and her viewers' positioning in
physical, virtual and political space.

In this exhibition visitors are offered another experience of these
relational dynamics. A bank of newspaper-covered TVs loop 10 video clips
of meal-times in the artist's house. Viewers are invited to interact
with the same video loops using a touch screen to display a large scale
digital painting overlayed with headlines streamed live from online news
networks.

**Artist's Statement**

"digital aesthetics can be said to position the spectator on the
threshold of the virtual and actual..." - Digital Incompossibility:
Cruising The Aesthetic Haze Of The New Media-Timothy Murray

"My work is political in nature; I sit in the relational space between
the world of family domestic politics and the national domestic politics
of a country in flux. "Eating Canvas" continues my fascination with
borderlands and 'beautiful seams' between apparently juxtaposed worlds:
domesticity and technology and the politics of home and country.

Over domestic scenes the "paintings" call live RSS feeds (Really Simple
Syndication) from freely available, online, mainstream public news
sources. These feeds are made up of headlines and abstracts of current
events. Because the feeds are streamed directly from an external news
site they are updated at least every 24 hours (but can be updated every
minute dependant on "breaking news"). Particular feeds have been chosen
to reflect UK domestic news and politics which creates an evolving and
fluid textual layer over the images of domestic politics of the home.The
feeds have been further augmented by the use of css styles to disrupt
and re-present the information, literally feeding the "paintings" as
their subjects eat.

My journey into digital art began with a laptop on the kitchen table
from which I could operate a limited artistic practice whist chasing my
eighteen-month old son around the house. Thus, the kitchen table became
my portal to digitality, a significance that not only became the hub of
my digital practice (as it is the hub of my domesticity) but the centre
of my desire to outwork my thematics - the cyber-chick - sitting
somewhere between the microwave and the modem."- Jess Loseby

Credits: This work would not have been possible without the assistance
of ACE and the open source code "feed2js" of Alan Levine (Maricopa
Community Colleges).

**About Jess Loseby**

Jess Loseby is a digital artist from the UK whose main medium is the
Internet. Her work ranges from small and intimate online installations
to large-scale digital projections and video. She has exhibited in
digital festivals and exhibitions internationally: such as Siggraph,
Split Film Festival, Pixxelpoint and FILE. Her work crosses a variety of
media and platforms: from intimate interactive installations in national
touring exhibitions such as Spectrum 2003 to creating digital sets for
the production of 'The Dadaists' at The Met Theatre in Hollywood. She is
currently the commissioned Digital artist for Babylon Gallery, Ely.

Thematically, her projects continue her fascination with borderlands and
'beautiful seams' between the ubiquitous worlds of computing and the
'real' (domestic). Loseby's unashamedly low-tech approach to new media
builds comparisons of the network and digitally (in its frustrations,
attention to triviality and repetition) as absurdly compatible to the
female domestic routine.

Jess Loseby has 3 children, 2 wheels, 1 husband and 0 time
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*Gallery URL* - http://www.http.uk.net/

Getting to HTTP
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities

for further information contact: info@http.uk.net
tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827

Press release for print (322k)
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib3/eating_canvas.pdf
Gallery website http://www.http.uk.net
Getting to HTTP http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.htm

HTTP:// is a non-profit organisation run by artists and curators of
Furtherfield.org & Dosensos
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.dosensos.org

DISCUSSION

Re: You Cannot Justify That [Was Re: RHIZOME_RAW: please do not centralize]


Yes, this sign is meant to represent an asshole as well as the singular
sigil - >0<

I can imagine you being disturbed by this image, although an enema can
create wonders for such a (w)holy practice of centralized controlling
behaviour.

marc

> I was disturbed by
> the antidisestablishmentarianism
> of that.
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please do not centralize


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OPPORTUNITY

Be a reviewer for Furtherfield.


Deadline:
Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:00

Be a reviewer for Furtherfield.

Furtherfield is always interested in collaborating with new writers who
are actively engaged in discovering and exploring 'Net Art' and 'New
Media'. We constantly receive submissions from all over the world
inviting us to feature their work on the site. And we are always trying
to get them reviewed as soon as possible, and as you can imagine we need
help in doing this, for we are a D.I.Y group.

As a reviewer you will:

* select works by Furtherfield and write about why it is relevant in a
contemporary context.
* seek new works that you think should be seen by others on Furtherfield.
* find work and review it for Furtherfield.

What type of reviews are we looking for?

We are interested in people who understand and know net art, software
art, aspects of 'new media' (if you have a better term please let us
know), social networks, live net art, psychogeography, real-time art,
live Internet tv, open source, tactical media, art blogs, activist
games, hactivism, soft groups (D.IY), relational creativity & its
variants...

We are especially interested in artists/groups who are not yet seen by
history books, and institutions, although we are happy to have reviews
of work that is already supported by institutions as well. Although we
are dedicated in maintaining a balance of representation that supports
people who need to have their creativity seen on their own terms. The
work should fit the suggestions put forward above in some way...

If you possess knowledge and enthusiasm for any of these subjects, are
able to write;-) and are interested in being part of a group that is
growing daily as an adventurous community, join the reinvention of the
creative, digitally related vista as we know it.

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