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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Music & Climate Compilation on Resonance FM


Furthernoise.org Presents Music & Climate Compilation on Resonance FM.
Monday 27th March 19.00 - 20.00 BST.

http://www.resonancefm.com

In January 2006, a unique creative opportunity was announced to the
North-East’s universities - a call for Music & sound art based on the
theme of climate change. Realising the inspirational quality of the call
and the fact that this wasn’t just a regional concern, David JC de la
Haye requested that Newcastle University opened the call out to a wider
audience, so that others may voice their concerns through their chosen
medium. And, perhaps more importantly, have their voices heard. Since
then it has become the focus of attention for many visual and audio
artists worldwide.

What this endeavour has amounted to is a compilation CD featuring the
works of 10 artists, spanning from Lithuania to Austria through the UK
to Vancouver. Themes covered take a trajectory that focuses not only on
the affects apparent in our surroundings, from the devastation of
forestry to the concern over the state of the arctic caps and also the
affects incurred upon ourselves as humans.

For all the new reviews and Climate Change Compilation feature:
http://www.furthernoise.org

DISCUSSION

Infomera cyber-wrestling challenge - Arcangel vs. Subculture.


Infomera cyber-wrestling challenge - Arcangel vs. Subculture.

The infomera cyber-wrestling challenge - arcangel vs. subculture -
London, April 1st '06
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id7

Luca Barbeni from TeKnemedia.net, talks with Antonio Mendoza
from Los Angeles (aka subculture) and Arcangel Costantini from
Mexico about their forthcoming encounter in the cyber-wrestling ring
in the Area10 Project Space in Peckham, South London, UK on April 1st '06
as part of the SUM(1,4,6) event of the NODE.London March '06 season.

http://www.nodel.org

DISCUSSION

Re: No shit!


Perhaps sometimes, we take ourselves too seriously - it was funny.

Not high art, but so what!

marc

>Take a common attitude among artists ("I HATE having to kiss the curator's ass
>just to get a show") and make it literal. Ingenious. Or, if I were to be
>perfectly honest and not sarcastic at all, the most conceptually boring thing
>I've seen just about EVER. In fact, it was so uninteresting, I can't believe
>we're having a conversation about it, even in that
>sarcastic-pomo-I'm-making-fun-of-it-by-pretending-to-like-it sort of way.
>-Alexis
>
>
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>On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, manik wrote:
>
>::Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:38:13 +0100
>::From: manik <manik@ptt.yu>
>::To: list@rhizome.org
>::Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: No shit!
>::
>::Knees!
>::Feet?!
>::No shit!
>::You are forgeten tiny clerk in big dying machine.Nothing more,or less.Without ethic,obligation,emotion,ego,id-super,consciousness,unconsciousness...
>::Cheers
>::MANIK
>::
>::
>::
>::
>::From: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] On Behalf
>::Of manik
>::Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:23 PM
>::To: list@rhizome.org
>::Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Artists Lick Curators Ass at Higher Institute
>::For Fine Arts!
>::
>::
>::
>::
>::Partick wrote:
>::Yes, as an independent curator, I think this sort of work is innovative,
>::and could signal a very pleasant shift in engaging with the subject.
>::
>::Very good!
>::
>::"It is better to die on your feet
>::than to live on your knees."
>::
>::MANIK wrote:
>::
>::
>::As an independent curator which poze you suggest to artist
>::for licking Curators Ass?On knees?
>::Or you sugest new pose to keep your motto in area of self-satisfied
>::illusion?
>::Best
>::MANIK
>::
>::Patrick wrote:
>::Absolutely!
>::
>::Maybe when I'm an artist, maybe I could lick, and then also when I
>::curate we could try different positions, anything that would be best for
>::the artist.
>::Or maybe we could play artist/curator tuchus-lick Twister.
>::
>::Interesting.
>::
>::"It is better to kiss on your feet
>::than to lick on your knees."
>::(Lovely!I can say "It is better to kill...etc).
>::
>::MANIK wrote:
>::I don't thing it's just "interesting".Whole story started with curator/artist relationship.
>::"New logic"(derivative
>::from"New World order"),as I see is based on twisted terminology which make subject
>::which make(producer)with subject which exploit(exploiter)equal and put them in funny logic;
>::producer(worker,artist...)should be in state of immanent/permanent gratitude because
>::exploiter exist to give him(producer)reason to exist(lick his ass).That describe Judith Butler's term"Verwerfung"
>::( rejected).She talk about whole class of people who existed in "grey zone",inhabitant zone and they existence is
>::imperceptible,hidden,but without them it's impossible to build Subject(one who role,master,you my friend,part of "Main Subject"-U.S.A|J.Habermas|).
>::And man who want to be out of boring/decadent idea crush have to take *position*toward two main dilemma:
>::are you asshole or tongue,are you shit or you eat shit?That way it seems like same position but it's just chimerical.
>::"Full don't understand hungry."
>::You are full one.
>::This "Kama-Sutra",with changing positions between curator and artist is decadent rich man game.Stupid,irresponsibility&
>::pathetic.Are you part of it?
>::Knees!
>::Feet?!
>::No shit!
>::I don't believe you when you say that you want to do all the best for artist.
>::Why don't you pay than for my "NEW PAGE IN ART HISTORY"in"Intelligent agent",you never ask me for permission to take my work even.
>::My offer for your text was worthy 50$for few sentences but I didn't told you that because I was curious to see your reaction.Did you react like man who love art no meter from where artist coming from?You never answer on my proposal because you don't want to work for free?
>::But my work you take for free...and you talk about position between artist and curator.Maybe you want me to publish all our correspondence?I doubt.I strongly recommended you to avoid in the future your grotesque slogan:
>::" "It is better to die on your feet
>::than to live on your knees."
>::You are tiny clerk in big dying machine.Nothing more,or less.
>::Cheers
>::MANIK
>::
>::
>::
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DISCUSSION

Re: Artists Lick Curators Ass at Higher Institute For Fine Arts!


The other thing is not to take something like this too seriously - for
it is not only curators who are a general pain in the ass (scuze the
pun) - humans are, and - yes (shock horror!) even artists.

marc

>Yes, as an independent curator, I think this sort of work is innovative,
>and could signal a very pleasant shift in engaging with the subject.
>
>Very good!
>
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Re: Artists Lick Curators Ass at Higher Institute For Fine Arts!


Not for me of course - when I say myself, I mean a friend. Also, this
would be a great project to be funded...

marc

> i was wondering if there was a way getting myself signed up as one of
> these curators...
>
> marc
>
>> fun, this field has probably a rich spectrum of professional
>> perspectives like sucking off, masturbating, etc.
>>
>> --
>> Roman
>>
>> Quoting Kristofer Paetau <kristoferpaetau@GMAIL.COM>:
>>
>>
>>
>>> SURPRISE PERFORMANCE: LICKING CURATORS ASS by Ondrej Brody & Kristofer
>>> Paetau within the experimental exhibition format "ExtraFeatures
>>> Series (1)",
>>> curated by Jan Van Woensel who invited us to do a surprise
>>> intervention in
>>> this exhibition / decor / documentary project at the Higher
>>> Institute for
>>> Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.
>>>
>>> A web documentation to view & read:
>>> http://www.paetau.com/downloads/LickingCuratorsAss/LickingCuratorsAss.html
>>>
>>>
>>> A PDF documentation (0,3 MB) to download at:
>>> http://www.paetau.com/downloads/LickingCuratorsAss/LickingCuratorsAss.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>> View the "Licking Curators Ass" Quicktime Video (2min.52sec. DSL
>>> required):
>>> http://www.paetau.com/downloads/LickingCuratorsAss/LickingCuratorsAss.mov
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