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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Re: Re: Re: Re: curating the curators


I can honestly say that one of the most amazing times 'creatively' in my
life was when I used to be part of a pirate radio crew in Bristol, over 10
years ago. People used to send tapes og their sound-work, all kinds of
stuff; much of it predating Net mentality. (Sounds romantic but) It was a
true networked consciousness, a community communicating via the airwaves to
each other, families and friends and whoever else was listening. Consisting
of experimental music, noises, personal diaries, politics, soundscapes. It
was a special experience and it had real soulful value, it taught me that
there are a lot people out there wanting to declare their imaginations,
controlling the media channels on their own terms.

marc

> alternatively, a whisky tin will also do the trick :)
> http://flakey.info/antenna/waveguide/
>
> security wise, yes it's rather difficult, unless they've left
> themselves open...
> http://www.metamute.com/look/
> article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue%&NrSection&NrArtic
> leE3&ST_max=0
>
> +some useful links
> http://ecc.bristolwireless.net/index.php?section=links
>
> :) n
>
>
> On Saturday, May 17, 2003, at 07:54 am, Ivan Pope wrote:
>
> >
> >>
> >>> neil jenkins (devoid) once told me you could tap into broadband using
> >>> something like some basic cabling and a empty box of pringles.
> >>> Seeing as my connection is my biggest outgoing - that's what I'd like
> >>> to
> >>> know how to set up - preferably without getting arrested of course
> >>> (wimp)
> >>
> >> Umm, Pringles. I belive these come with a-pinch-of-salt-flavor. Are
> >> you sure
> >> this was not the snack of choice as the cabling was installed? Then
> >> again, the
> >> Captain Crunch whistle made some noise once upon a time...
> >>
> > You can make a wireless antenna out of an empty pringles can. I guess
> > you
> > can use this to pick up someone elses wireless bandwidth, if they have
> > no
> > security, and away you go. http://www.netscum.com/~clapp/wireless.html
> > Cheers, Ivan
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
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America's military 'imperial perimeter'


Middle East

America's military 'imperial perimeter'
By Marco Garrido

New bases in the Central Asian republics of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and
Tajikistan, along with its sizable military presence in Afghanistan, not
only enable the US to loom over Iran and Syria but put it right in Russia's
underbelly and at China's western frontier.

To its west, Russia is further pinched by US bases in a number of Central
and Eastern European states. Although temporarily set up to assist in the
campaign against Iraq, bases in such states as Romania, Bulgaria, and
Slovakia are likely to become more permanent, especially given their recent
inclusion in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

China finds itself likewise corralled. Looking east, it finds 47,000 US
troops in Japan and 37,000 in South Korea. If that weren't daunting enough,
it finds in Southeast Asia a security network woven out of bilateral access
agreements with the United States. Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Indonesia,
Malaysia, and the Philippines allow the US access to their ports, airfields,
repair facilities, and training grounds in return for aid, equipment, and
training. This web of access agreements, which provides for the rapid
deployment of US troops, in effect checks Chinese ambitions on Taiwan.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE17Ak01.html

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Matrix makers declare war on pirates


Cannes film festival

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Matrix makers declare war on pirates

Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent
Friday May 16, 2003
The Guardian

The Matrix Reloaded, the most eagerly awaited sequel of recent times,
premiered at the Cannes film festival yesterday amid the kind of security
that usually accompanies summits of world leaders.
With the GDP of several small countries riding on its box office success,
just getting to see it involved negotiating five levels of security, metal
detectors, electronic badge checks, bag searches and, for the unlucky few,
full body frisks.

Once inside the Palais du Cinema, more guards scanned the seats for cameras
or hidden recording equipment.

http://film.guardian.co.uk/cannes/story/0,13266,957079,00.html