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.
Discussions (1712) Opportunities (15) Events (175) Jobs (2)
EVENT

Marching Rocks, Gloves & Code - Experimental electronica: new, old and somewhere in-between.


Dates:
Fri Oct 09, 2009 00:00 - Fri Oct 09, 2009

Saturday 24th October
7pm - Later. FREE

at SPACE, 129 - 131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH

SPACE and Culture Lab (Newcastle) come together to bring you an evening
of experimental electronica, featuring performances from:
Jamie Allen, Jo Kazuhiro, PixelH8, Massive Black Mountain (Will
Schrimshaw & Nick J Williams), Adam Parkinson(Rare and Glorius) and Dave
Griffiths(Slub).

DJ Reroot (Marc Garrett) from furtherfield.org provides punk, new wave, no wave, post punk and early electronica from
1976 - 1984 and Dean Baldwin's "Minibar" the smallest bar in London will open its doors for one of the last times.

Tell your enemies, friends and family- this is going to be good.


EVENT

Review of UBERMORGEN.COM - MEDIA HACKING VS. CONCEPTUAL ART.


Dates:
Sun Oct 04, 2009 00:00 - Sun Oct 04, 2009

By Rob Myers.

Review of the new glossy hardback publication 'UBERMORGEN.COM - MEDIA HACKING VS. CONCEPTUAL ART' spanning a decade of work by the dynamic duo Ubermorgen.com (Hans Bernhard and lizvlx). A comprehensive and informative study of their conceptual media hacking adventures, including images, essays and interviews by Inke Arns, Florian Cramer, Raffael Dorig, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Weibel and others. Edited by Alessandro Ludovico of Neural.it, designed by Bernhard Faiss.

The word 'Ubermorgen' means both 'the day after tomorrow' and 'the ultimate day' in German. Bernhard was previously part of the controversial media art collective Etoy. Hans Bernhard and lizvlx's collaboration began in 1999 and although Ubermorgen share etoy's strong corporate aesthetics and mischievous media savvy, the book shows that they have progressed from Etoy's ironic self-promotion into a force that successfully appropriates conditions of the traditional art world - whilst maintaining a critical edge.

"All net artists eventually find that you can't take net art into the gallery untransformed any more than you can take mail art or land art into the gallery untransformed. It's fascinating to see (and read about) the solutions Ubermorgen find to the technical problems of producing and making work that addresses their ideological and personal concerns. As well as kiosk-style installations of computers and incongruous installations of the dated information technology of overhead projectors, Ubermorgen have adopted the strategy of producing prints and paintings of the imagery of their online projects. This rises to the challenge of the gallery without compromising the work on the web and it also protects against bitrot."

Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

We are on Twitter
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 - an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org

VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html

Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org


DISCUSSION

constructive criticism


Hi Kalx,

"I just noticed that there has been a lot of attention drawn away from meaningful artistic work in favor of frivolous nonsensical corporate interest on the internet. I would like to discuss practical ways to subvert this trend."

I have been saying this for a while, and have actively been exploring other alternatives - as many know...

marc


EVENT

Furtherfield Blog - Share the Journey...


Dates:
Mon Sep 28, 2009 00:00 - Mon Sep 28, 2009

Furtherfield Blog - Recent Posts of Interest on Media Art Practice and Culture.

A shared space for personal reflections on contemporary art practice as part of life:
living it, breathing it, making it, curating it, translating it.


A selection of recent Blog entries below,
to read more visit - http://blog.furtherfield.org

Marc Garrett.
Not Always Digital But From the Same Place...

"I possess no desire for the singular and absolute approach of using my art and creative projects as a hammer to promote a technologically determined agenda. Technology is just one medium of a much larger mix of things, allowing flexible space for an eclectic expansion of today's very contemporary art related endevours. Furthermore, I am dedicated to grass roots art and the organisations that support them. The use of technology has been extremely useful in bringing about a whole new art culture that challenges traditional art controls, connecting beyond top-down imposed gate keeping remits that are only in place to serve a privileged elite. It lets the makers and critical thinkers who are genuinely engaged in art and culture at deeper levels, to break through the glass ceiling that many have experienced world-wide." http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/315

Aileen Derieg.
Overland: Crossing Borders.

"As passports are now "enhanced" for security with RFID chips and biometric photos, the conditions of inequality based on the nationality of one's passport remain at least as rigid as ever, despite the patent absurdity of that. In the small world that I live in, a substantial number of people speak multiple languages and have several different passports, and in the mid-90s I knew a number of people whose Austrian residence permits were attached to passports issued by countries that had meanwhile ceased to exist as such, which made the renewal of an expired passport extremely complicated. Opportunities to study or work somewhere else should not be dependent on something as random and arbitrary as "nationality"." http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/311

Ruth Catlow.
Overland: 36hrs Linz to Istanbul with border crossings.

"At 1 o'clock in the morning we were woken by an alarming banging on the door, and a number of men shouting in languages we didn't understand, interspersed with "passport control! polizei! open! hell-o!". Then more agitated pounding, more shouting, different voices. The train remained stationery. We played dead under our blankets. I could think of nothing else to do than wait for them to go away. Then torch lights shone in through our window and someone attempted to open the window from the outside while Aileen tried to close it again. Only when she recognised our conductor looking very flustered outside the window did we realise that we must have misunderstood his instructions and we sheepishly unlocked the door. A very irritated passport official demanded to know what we had been drinking. The conductor told us later that there were over 10 officials trying to gain entry to our cabin. We tried to explain but still have no idea what he thought we were doing." http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/301

Helen Varley Jamieson.
after 090909.

"the day began for me at 4am - no, make that 3am, with the ramadan drumming & yelling in the street to get everyone up in time for breakfast before daylight. then i dozed until my alarm went off at 4am, & got up to make coffee, check my email for last minute emergencies, & make the links to the stages live. my first 090909 HQ was my humble hostel bedroom. at 5am istanbul time everything kicked off in the 090909 foyer, where 20 online audience members plus an as-yet-unknown number at nodes in canada (surrey & calgary) & new zealand (dowse art gallery & hutt city libraries) where gathered to celebrate the start of 090909." http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/304

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More about The Furtherfield Blog:
This multi-blog is a place to intuitively explore media arts and related
practices, together, as it occurs, to develop understanding and to
learn, without any pressure to formulate conclusions, it is about
experience and process, the bits in between. Set up in Autumn 2006,
initially as a place for informal, day to day exchange between members
of the Furtherfield.org team, including editors/reviewers. We soon
discovered this format suited some people more than others and are now
open to new contributors. The blog is not intended as a platform to
promote particular projects. Instead it invites individuals to explore
their own perspectives on their own terms; personal thoughts, emotional
responses and critical intentions rarely publicly discussed elsewhere.

Other Info:

Furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org

We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

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

The Netbehaviour list
http://www.netbehaviour.org/


EVENT

Reminder of Game of War this Weekend...


Dates:
Tue Sep 22, 2009 00:00 - Tue Sep 22, 2009

Reminder of Game of War this Weekend...

Class Wargames presents
The Game of War Weekend at the HTTP Gallery.


http://www.http.uk.net/events/gameofwar/

Sat 26th September:
Participatory demonstration - Marcel Duchamp meets Blue Peter.

Sun 27th September:
World Premier of Class Wargames film - The Game of War.

The Situationist Raoul Vaneigem famously wrote "There are no more
artists since we've all become artists. Our next work of art is the
construction of a full-blooded life." - The Revolution of Everyday Life.

Debord, strategist of the Situationist International, developed the game
while in exile after the May '68 Revolution, and came to regard it as
his most important project. For Debord, The Game of War wasn’t just a
game - come and learn how to fight and win against the oppressors of the
spectacular society! Join the Class Wargames crew, Richard Barbrook,
Fabian Tompsett, Ilze Black and others, in redefining political and
contextual territories.

On Saturday the 26th, Class Wargames presents 'Marcel Duchamp meets Blue
Peter', a day of making and playing Guy Debord's The Game of War.

Sunday is the World Premier launch of the Class Wargames' film - The
Game of War. Directed by Ilze Black; script writers Richard Barbrook and
Fabian Tompsett; xenography by Alex Veness, voice over by Hayley Newman
and Alex Veness.

For more information about Class Wargames and players:
http://www.classwargames.net
http://www.classwargames.net/pages/aboutus.html

Game of War Weekend Schedule:

Marcel Duchamp meets Blue Peter.
Day 1 - 12-5pm Saturday 26th September.

12.00 meet and greet
12.15 introduction by Class Wargames
12.30 building your own game, learning to play and participatory game
playing
17.00 day is over

Film Launch of The Game of War by Class Wargames
Day 2 - Day 1 - 12-5pm Sunday 27th September.

12.00 meet and greet
12.15 View games exhibition and film
14.30 Talk by Class Wargames
15.00 Film launch of film & drinks
17.00 day is over

For more information about the event please visit HTTP Gallery website.
To take part in the game please RSVP toale[AT]furtherfield[DOT]org

Booking Essential - Contact: ale[AT]furtherfield[DOT]org

Contact:
Ale, HTTP Gallery
email: ale[AT]furtherfield[DOT]org

HTTP Gallery
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre
71 Ashfield Road
London N4 1LD
+44(0)79 8129 2734

Click here for map and location details
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml

With thanks to the Arts Council of England for their support