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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DISCUSSION

What?


Hi,

>But hey, we use to think about the web being a controlled space that needed disruption in order not to become tv.

I think that you've got a point here, although I really advocate people spreading their wings a bit outside of the comfort zones of relying on certain avenues to support creative needs - expand and mix it up a bit. We've been here for a while also www.furtherfield.org - trying to make it work somehow, but we need some of you to help out there. It does go both ways...

marc


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Open Source Embroidery: Craft and Code at HTTP Gallery


Dates:
Fri May 16, 2008 00:00 - Wed May 07, 2008

Open Source Embroidery: Craft and Code at HTTP Gallery
An exhibition facilitated by Ele Carpenter


Preview Friday 16th May 6-9pm
17th May - 15th June 2008
Open Fridays to Sunday 12-5pm
http://www.http.uk.net

This exhibition explores the connections between the collaborative characteristics of needlework, craft and Open Source software. This project has brought together embroiderers, patch-workers, knitters, artists and computer programmers, to share their practice and make new work.

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The centre-piece of the exhibition at HTTP Gallery is the HTML Patchwork developed in response to the popularity of quilting in Sheffield, the result of a participatory project initiated by Ele Carpenter in partnership with Access Space. The patchwork is built on open principles of collective production and skill-share where each person contributes a part to the whole. The final work is a collectively stitched patchwork quilt of HTML web-safe colours with embroidered codes, and a wiki website, where the makers of each patch identify themselves and write about their sewing process. Each patch is personalised by the sewer, often including embroidered web addresses.

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telinit Ø: time for bed, Lisa Wallbank, 2007
Knitted Blog (detail), Suzanne Hardy, 2006-

In an interview with Jess Lacetti, Ele Carpenter said about the project: "The same arguments about Open Source vs Free Software can be applied to embroidery. The needlework crafts also have to negotiate the principles of 'freedom' to create, modify and distribute, within the cultural and economic constraints of capitalism. The Open Source Embroidery project simply attempts to provide a social and practical way of discussing the issues and trying out the practice. Free Software, Open Source, amateur and professional embroiderers and programmers are welcome to contribute to the project."

The project was developed by Ele Carpenter when working as an artist in residence at Access Space in Sheffield and Isis Arts in Newcastle upon Tyne. Access Space is an open access media lab using recycled computers and open source software. Anyone can drop in and use the lab to develop their creative projects.

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Hexart GDlib Script Error, digital print on canvas, James Wallbank, 2007
Weaving network cable in progress, Paul Grimmer, 2007

The exhibition at HTTP Gallery in Harringay, North London, includes works by 11 artists and makers alongside the collectively made HTML Patchwork quilt and wiki. Other works in the exhibition include Susanne Hardy’s Knit-a-Blog, a collective knitting project made by contributors from across the UK and USA, Iain Clarke’s PHP Embroidery, which explores the open source PHP programming language as a form of self-generating weaving, as well as artworks by Paul Grimmer, Tricia Grindrod, Jake Harries & Keith o’Faoláin, John Keenan, Trevor Pitt, Clare Ruddock, James Wallbank, and Lisa Wallbank.

The HTML Patchwork has been created by people at: Access Space, Art through Textiles, The Patchwork Garden, The Fat Quarters, Stocksbridge Knit n Chat, Totley Quilters, Isis Arts, and the Banff New Media Institute at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada.

Further info:

www.http.uk.net
www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk
www.eleweekend.blogspot.com
www.access-space.org

Contact:

Lauren Wright, HTTP Gallery
laurenATfurtherfieldDOTorg

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

HTTP Gallery is Furtherfield.org’s dedicated space for exhibiting networked media art. Furtherfield.org is a not-for-profit, artist-led organisation. Based in North London, we provide an online and physical platform for creating, exhibiting, commissioning, and discussing networked media arts.


EVENT

New Reviews at Furtherfield.org April 2008.


Dates:
Wed Apr 23, 2008 00:00 - Wed Apr 23, 2008

New Reviews at Furtherfield.org April 2008.

http://www.furtherfield.org

Artwork by Willy LeMaitre & Eric Rosenzveig
Artwork Title - The Appearance Machine
Review by Natasha Chuk
Review Title - Trash Talk: A Review of The Appearance Machine by Willy Le Maitre and Eric Rosenzveig.
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For nearly ten years, trash has been the focus of a massive project, an audiovisual work called The Appearance Machine, by artists Willy Le Maitre & Eric Rosenzveig. This is a project that deals firsthand with an overabundance of material that won't go away, and about seeing the beautiful possibilities of trash, giving the act of recycling a new context. The result is conflicting, producing in the viewer a sense of alienation and comfort, disbelief and wonder.
Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=303

Artwork by Richard Wright
Artwork Title - The Internet Speaks
Review by Mark Hancock
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The Internet Speaks: contemplating the nature of images on the net and how we read them without recourse to text and context.
There are two versions to this project. The gallery based piece that automatically selects random images and displays them on the gallery wall, and the Internet version that offers the viewer a next and back button with which to scroll through and reverse the sequence so that they can return and reconsider the images. The second, Internet-based work allows the viewer to cheat a little bit, giving them the opportunity to think through the sequence and rework the narrative as it unfurls.
Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=302

Artwork by Kate Armstrong
Artwork Title - Why Some Dolls Are Bad
Review by Eliza Fernbach
Review Title - Dolls behaving truly madly, but not really badly...
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Why Some Dolls are Bad invites the user to a collection of streamed images culled from the Internet, which take on random editorial positions in the frame of an original text written by Armstrong. The result- a bespoke book for the users of Facebook, an infinite precipitation of stirred structure. A ribald evolving commentary on our world of Good and Bad dolls. The same page never appears twice but the user can capture and save a favorite page. This is an intriguing re-enactment of the experience of reading a narrative book where particular passages haunt the imagination and are saved to our cognitive hard drive.
Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=301

SwanQuake - the user manual
Artists - Igloo
Review by by Rob Myers
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SwanQuake - the user manual, is a collection of essays regarding a major interactive virtual installation art project by igloo (Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli) and their collaborators. SwanQuake is, as its name suggests, a meeting of computer game technology and dance. It consists of a series of interactive virtual environments built using the Unreal Engine 3D game system and populated by characters animated using motion capture techniques. Edited by Scott deLahunta. Essays by Johannes Birringer, Helen Stuckey, Shiralee Saul, Bruno Martelli, Ruth Gibson, John McCormick, Katharine Neil, Alex Jevremovic, Adam Nash, Helen Sloan, Stephen Turk,
Marco Gillies, Harry Brenton & David Surman.
Permlink:http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=300

Other Info:

If you are interested in reviewing for Furtherfield or have media art related projects, exhibitions that you wish to have featured or reviewed, please contact: marc.garrett@furtherfield.org

Anyone can register to furtherfield or connected platforms - just join and then it all starts from there.

Our Shared Neighbourhood & Projects - Get involved!

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

Furtherfield's Gallery in London.
HTTP is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art.
http://www.http.uk.net

An online place for real-time, multi-user mixing, collaborative creation,
many to many dialogue and networked performance and play.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org

The NetBehaviour list - is an open 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

Furthernoise is 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

more info about projects:
http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherprojects.php


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Networking Event and Residency Closing Party at HTTP Gallery.


Dates:
Tue Apr 15, 2008 00:00 - Tue Apr 15, 2008

Networking Event and Residency Closing Party at HTTP Gallery.

Configurations: Technology and Textiles Networking Afternoon
25 April, 3.30 - 6pm, HTTP Gallery (Booking essential)
http://www.http.uk.net/residencies/residency1.shtml#events

You are invited to share ideas, discuss and develop future working around art work that investigates the relationship between new technology, traditional making techniques and transformative political actions.

Beth Egenhoefer Anna Dumitriu, Ele Carpenter, Nicola Naismith and Rachel will present their work using diverse approaches to the making of work using new technology alongside textiles, followed by a "Long Table Discussion".

The "Long Table Discussion" is an experimental public forum developed by performance artist Lois Weaver. It is a hybrid performance, installation and round table discussion designed to facilitate informal conversations on serious topics encouraging everyone to contribute. Previous "Long Table Discussions" include conversations on Women and Prisons, Human Rights and Performance and Manufacturing Bodies.

This event is free however advanced booking is necessary. To book places please email Aaron, visibility@furtherfield.org

The event will be followed by a party 6pm - 9pm (all welcome): -
to celebrate the close of Rachel Beth Egenhoefer's residency at Furtherfield/HTTP Gallery and providing an opportunity to discuss her work and experiences during the residency.

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer's residency and Configurations is part of Distributed South an initiative co-curated by SCAN and Space Media. The residency and event is funded by the Arts Council England, University of Wales, University of Brighton, Lighthouse Brighton with support from Furtherfield.org, Textile Futures Research Group (TFRG) and University of the Arts London.

71, Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Click here for map and location details
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml

Distributed South www.distributedsouth.org.uk

Speakers
www.rachelbeth.net
www.elecarpenter.org.uk
www.nicolanaismith.co.uk
www.annadumitriu.co.uk


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SwanQuake - the user manual.


Dates:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 00:00 - Fri Mar 28, 2008

Article on Furtherfield www.furtherfield.org about the book by Rob Myers.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=300

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This new book SwanQuake - the user manual presents a diverse collection of insightful essays inspired by igloo's new game-engine based art installation SwanQuake http://www.swanquake.com/. Rob Myers.

SwanQuake - the user manual.

Edited by: Scott deLahunta
Essays by: Johannes Birringer, Helen Stuckey, Shiralee Saul,
Bruno Martelli, Ruth Gibson, John McCormick, Katharine Neil,
Alex Jevremovic, Adam Nash, Helen Sloan, Stephen Turk,
Marco Gillies, Harry Brenton & David Surman.
Published by: Liquid Press / i-DAT, 2007
ISBN: 9781841021720