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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Can Art do Technology and Social Change?


Dates:
Sun Oct 17, 2010 00:00 - Sun Oct 17, 2010

Can Art do Technology and Social Change?

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Is it possible to develop artistic projects that not only change the way we see and use technology but also affect real social change at the same time? Ruth Catlow introduces the Zero Dollar Laptop project and proposes that this might just be possible.

By Ruth Catlow.

The Zero Dollar Laptop Workshop programme has been developed and delivered through partnership between Furtherfield and Access Space and aims to change attitudes to technology. It does this by recycling hardware, deploying Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), sharing skills and working together to create rich media content.

This project has provided a useful basis for thinking about how art might be able to create change through learning and education that relates to technology.

This question becomes especially relevant in the context of current, global economic and ecological collapse.

http://www.axisweb.org/dlForum.aspx?ESSAYID=18115


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Plutonian Striptease VI: Marc Garrett.


Dates:
Sat Oct 09, 2010 00:00 - Sat Oct 09, 2010

An interview with Marc Garrett.

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Plutonian Striptease is a series of interviews with experts, owners, users, fans and haters of social media, to map the different views on this topic, outside the existing discussions surrounding privacy.

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 HTTP Gallery in London, UK. Co-curating various contemporary Media Arts exhibitions, projects nationally and internationally. Net artist, media artist, curator, writer, street artist, activist, educationalist and musician. Dedicated in collaborating with others to create self-built artists communities on-line and off-line, focused around the fields of art, technology and social change.

More about Naked on Pluto.
http://pluto.kuri.mu

Naked on Pluto is a Massively Multiplayer Text Based Sandbox Adventure Game on Facebook. When you enter the game, you find yourself on Pluto, in a city under the rule of Elastic Versailles revision 14 (EVr14), an Artificial Intelligence functioning as an entertainment colony. It is the Las Vegas of the Solar System, a true paradise for consumers and corporations alike.

The game explores the limits and nature of social networks from within, slowly pushing the boundaries of what is tolerated by the companies that own them, carefully documenting this process as we go. Story and play are combined with an investigation on how exposed we are on social networks, and how our data are being used.

The project will be developed during a shared residency at NIMk, BALTAN Laboraties and Piksel, between June and November 2010, by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. The project is licensed Copyleft. The research and development process will be documented and can be followed on http://pluto.kuri.mu and the game can be played on http://naked-on-pluto.net (teaser only a.t.m.). Thanks to servus.at for hosting kuri.mu.


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The Investigators


Dates:
Thu Oct 07, 2010 00:00 - Thu Oct 07, 2010

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Supported by Furtherfield and the New Direction programme, Year 4 children from Southwark park primary school have been working with artist Michael Szpakowski on a 50 minute film entitled The Investigators.

The film will be shown at Shortwave Cinema, Bermondsey Square, October 7th at 5.30pm and follows the children and their teacher through their science studies for an entire school year.

Around a framework of footage shot in lesson time and on trips out is assembled other material - creative writing and artwork by the young people as well as re-enactments and discussion of the lessons.

The piece reflects the fascinating relationship between the teacher and her class as she helps them to discover and assimilate new ideas; showing the primary school classroom at its best as a supportive and magical place.

The children, prior to any formal learning, hypothesize about why things happen in the world and of how, although the premises on which these hypotheses are based may be faulty or incomplete, they are always logical. i.e. They do science naturally...

The Investigators shows how young children are not simply passive receivers of the wisdom of others, but active decoders and constructors of their own world .

Michael Szpakowski is an artist, composer & educator his music has been performed all over the UK, in Russia & the USA. Michael has exhibited work in galleries in the UK, mainland Europe & the USA. His short films have been shown throughout the world. He is also a composer & video artist for Tell Tale Hearts Theatre Company & a joint editor of the online video resource DVblog.
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/
http://dvblog.org

Furtherfield
Furtherfield 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. Furtherfield provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://furtherfield.org

Furtherfield receives regular funding from Arts Council England


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Living' by Christian Kerrigan.


Dates:
Mon Sep 27, 2010 00:00 - Mon Sep 27, 2010

Living' by Christian Kerrigan.

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Olga P Massanet reviews the work of Christian Kerrigan: 'Living'. This rather cryptic exhibition is an inspiring and very personal exploration of the blurring between nature and culture in its absolute physicality. Paying particular attention to the materiality of the creative process, his methodologies show a passion for unfolding reality in its many scales.

'Living' is the result of a six month residency at the V&A in London, by Christian Kerrigan - from January to June 2010 - and it is part of The 200 Year Continuum. The 200 Year Continuum is the title of a project by the same artist that explores the relationship between nature and technology.

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Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
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 - Networked Artists List Community.
Http://www.furtherfield.org
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Furtherfield returns to Resonance FM - Back due to popular demand :-)


Dates:
Mon Sep 27, 2010 00:00 - Mon Sep 27, 2010

Furtherfield returns to Resonance FM.

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Join us on Resonance 104.4FM
Day - Wednesday, 20th October 2010.
Time (new time) - 7-8pm.
Hosts: Marc Garrett and Irini Papdimitriou
Special Guests: Deena DeNaro, Pete Hellicar & Joel Gethin Lewis

Back due to popular demand:-)
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

This critically acclaimed broadcast returns to Resonance FM this Wednesday evening at 7pm with a series of live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art and technology; discussing events and controversies, exhibitions, artworks and their social contexts.

For this series regular host Marc Garrett is joined by Irini Papadimitriou independent curator, founder of online art sharing project Copy-Art.net and head of New Media Arts Development at Watermans Arts Centre (London).

Furtherfield will be asking listeners to get online and tweet or email their questions to interviewees, comment on the show or just notify the crew on 'happenings' to include in the new Art News segment presented by Chardine Taylor-Stone.

Marc will be interviewing:
Deena DeNaro, film-maker & creative activist about her project "Reversing the Wave" a 'Subvertisement' that brings Nokia's brand identity closer in alignment to its actions. In the style of Ad-Busters Magazine and the Yes Men it offers "Brand Identity Correction" for a corporation who has put profits above privacy and basic human rights. http://reversethewave.blogspot.com/

Irini will be interviewing:
Hellicar & Lewis - a creative partnership formed in 2009 by Joel Gethin Lewis and Pete Hellicar. The partnership was founded to blend the analogue and the digital, to make experiences and systems in the real world that create memories. Current clients include the V&A, Nike and Sony.
www.hellicarandlewis.com

In addition to Furtherfield's invited guests this series will feature interviews with many of the 30 artists showing in the exibition of DIY, hacking and open source projects, Unleashed Devices as part of NODE.London. Irini has worked with TINTART to curate the exhibition at Watermans.
http://watermans.lastexitlondon.com/exhibitions/exhibitions.aspx

We will also be highlighting various 'Do It Yourself media activities' across London from this Autumn's Node.London season of media arts http://www.nodel.org. Also showcasing music and noise, 'some' from our sister site Furthernoise.org, providing a rolling lineup of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.

http://www.furtherfield.org