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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

Losses, Before Bullets Fly


Losses, Before Bullets Fly
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

In a survey, The Sunday Independent newspaper of Ireland polled Dublin
residents about whom they feared most, Saddam Hussein or George Bush. The
result: 39 percent picked Saddam; 60 percent, Mr. Bush. Even in Britain, a
poll by The Sunday Times of London found that equal numbers called Saddam
and Mr. Bush the "greatest threat to world peace."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/opinion/07KRIS.html

DISCUSSION

Eight new 'Ouch Those Monkeys'


Eight new 'Ouch Those Monkeys'

new page > http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/section4.htm

[Nature's Trapping]
Feet dangle like weeds underground - over the edge of the bay. I can always
imagine life as hopeful. A new reality surely must exist. When eyes
penetrate the burn of the sun, squionting is the powerless child. Among
memories and present attributes, all remains still lost, I am still lost.
Skies will always remind me of how lost i am, gulls are the Mandalas of the
chaotic skies, swimjming the air teazing my eyes....

[BLK-WHITE (Burning)]
Black and white, yes I look at an image, it is -Black. Black. It was a
bloody, bloody blackNo. He was a burning bloody burning black man. A mass of
black flesh, caught in the centre of the photograph, framed with a
borderaround him stood white, yes bloody whiteborder surrounding, him - he
was the centreof the white, of the white's burning fury.

[Wife Beaterz Hate Art]
An anti-wife beater noise, with cut up rhythms and screaming vocals.
Crackling, sizzling electro grunge. 'Ego-qadicals - ego strokers sucking off
the egos. When wife beaterz fuck they punch - they hate their wives not
their mothers, they love fucking what they hate'.

[Bright Starz]
Some starz are a
dangling, they are
bright starz. Guiding
us & carrying us
across the chasm.
Exhaling a succulant
air, yes dreams sell out
there. History the
illusory descnedent -
form the external
transformed eternal
they are now
internally ours.

[Monkey Food]
[Double - quicktime]
[Give us back our Soul]
[Anything You Say]

http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys

DISCUSSION

Re: All-star Fox piracy PSA


Wouldn't it be great to bootleg it & 'cut n' paste' on top, our own ideas in
the place of their corporate delusions? Like put our own heads with masks in
disguise, informing everyone the otherside of the argument.

marc

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http://www.furthernoise.org
http://www.dido.uk.net
We Can Make Our Own World.

> Damn that Ben Affleck...
>
> All-star Fox piracy PSA heads for movie screens
> Thu Mar 6, 2:06 AM ET
>
> By Gregg Kilday
>
> LAS VEGAS (The Hollywood Reporter) --- Johnny Depp,
> who stars in the Walt Disney Co.'s upcoming "Pirates
> of the Caribbean," won't be the only one battling
> piracy onscreen this summer.
>
> Ben Affleck, James Cameron, Sean Astin, special
> effects wizard Stan Winston, composer Michael Kamen,
> the late cinematographer Conrad Hall and a legion of
> behind-the-scenes film craftsmen have lent their
> names, faces and voices to an attack on digital piracy
> in the form of a 72-second public service announcement
> produced by 20th Century Fox.
>
> Jim Gianopulos, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment,
> unveiled the antipiracy trailer Wednesday at ShoWest.
> He said that Fox, working with the MPAA, is making it
> available to theater owners nationwide.
>
> Fox has reached agreements with a number of major
> motion picture exhibitors to play the PSA in domestic
> theaters, including the Regal Entertainment Group,
> Loews Cineplex Entertainment, CineMark USA, Inc.,
> Century Cinemas, Cinemas Guzzo, Consolidated Theatres
> and Rave Review Cinemas.
>
> "A big part of what we believe is important to deal
> with this challenge -- apart from the technological
> means, which we are pursuing daily -- is education,"
> Gianopulos explained. "We need to teach this
> generation that stealing is stealing, in whatever
> form. People must be taught that the so-called
> victimless crime of downloading movies has the power
> to cost real people real jobs -- not just executives
> like me or others in this room, but hundreds of
> thousands of people who are involved in this process
> (of making and distributing movies)."
>
> To that end, the theme of the trailer is that bootleg
> videos or illegal Internet downloads of movies will
> put filmmakers -- above and below the line -- out of
> work, and could ultimately lead to fewer movies being
> produced.
>
> After the trailer was played at a seminar titled
> "Piracy: The World's Concern," National Association of
> Theatre Owners president John Fithian, who emceed the
> panel, said to the audience of exhibitors, "I
> encourage all of you to contact Fox and the MPAA, and
> play it as many times as you possibly can."
>
> At the beginning of the morning's proceedings,
> Fithian, noting that the campaign against piracy had
> become the dominant theme of the convention, said that
> "for all you theater owners in the audience, this
> issue is as important to us as it is to the studios."
>
> MPAA president and CEO Jack Valenti and Warner Bros.
> International Theatres president Millard Ochs detailed
> the economic costs that piracy has on both the
> distribution and exhibition industries, reiterating
> many of the numbers they detailed when speaking to
> international exhibitors at the convention Monday (HR
> 4/3).
>
> Wang Ziqiang, deputy director general of copyright at
> the National Copyright Administration of China, said:
> "Even though piracy still exists in China, the Chinese
> government is determined to protect the rights of all
> copyright owners, and the Chinese government is
> determined to fight piracy."
>
> He presented a short film of his own, produced by
> Chinema, which featured Chinese filmmakers --
> including "Hero" director Yimou Zhang -- speaking out
> against piracy.
>
> One other issue that was addressed in the
> question-and-answer session that followed the formal
> presentations was the number of awards screeners the
> studios distribute to voters in such groups as the
> Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (news -
> web sites) and the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.
>
> "Studios have got to rethink how they advertise
> Academy Award movies because screeners are also a part
> of how pirates get hold of our material," Valenti
> said.
>
> Gianopulos observed that his studio has successfully
> had screeners removed from eBay and that the issue of
> screeners was one that the studio was wrestling with.
> He suggested that an industrywide approach like
> registering each individual screener would be
> necessary because studios were not likely to take
> individual action lest they find themselves at a
> competitive disadvantage.
>
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: PDPal and the continual nature of digital art


Hi Ryan,

I was gonna respond to all with an in depth reply & I thought 'sod it', it's
2.30 a.m in the UK & its my making music night tonight.

But I thought it polite to leave yoou with a pic of the Duke...
http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/reality/documents/mgr/theduke.htm

best wishes - marc

http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.furthernoise.org
http://www.dido.uk.net
We Can Make Our Own World.

> hey everybody,
>
> "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing" --
> Duke Ellington
>
> well, i certainly can't argue with the Duke!
> and marc's right, i'm all talk, but i try.
> i definitely didn't mean those questions to seem
> rhetorical, well, not completely anyway. i don't have
> any "answers," and give Dyske credit for putting her
> attempts at answers up.
> but i do value keeping things more arbitrary - in
> other words whether you're going to adorno, ellington
> or l. anderson as authority, it's still using the
> rhetoric of authority and authority as rhetoric. i
> could say it's more useful to try to talk about things
> without the shield of example and precedence, but i
> don't know that i believe it possible. ellington
> usually trumps adorno in coolness though.
>
> >>What ideology would you say an Ansel Adams
> photograph of Yosemite
> represents?
>
> but this is an easy one:). Yosemite and other national
> parks benefited from adams and others like watkins.
> adams was commissioned after all by preservationists
> in Congress, after all, for many of those works. his
> compositional choices, high depth of field/focus,
> incorporation of monumental geography and man made
> structures, lack of figures in the landscape (outside
> of pueblo indians who were considered part of the
> landscape anyway, just not in the parks), all
> represented a certain version of preservationist
> ideology/politics and created a legacy of aesthetics
> based on the "sublime" as developed in earlier
> landscape art, but with a documentary slant. not to
> say that the aesthetics communicate that indefinitely,
> it is in a context. smithson's version of landscape
> obviously carries different implications no less
> ideological than aesthetic in his development of the
> sublime. anyway, i'm sure i'm showing my ignorance
> along with my education (i guess they're not mutually
> exclusive). i don't come from a dogmatic critical
> theory program, this is just what i'm interested in.
> bowling for columbine was great, and the animated
> sequences were a nice addition! i still think i liked
> roger + me more though.
> take care,
> ryan
>
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DISCUSSION

2000_gal_deaths


2000 gal deaths
2000 gal deaths ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

they've been chopped
slashed suffocated

stripped ~ burnt
cuffed and

spleaned

add your own list up

it's in kill thrill horror

visual slavery on the screen

americano not so secret dream

how many do you think that you have seen as you cream?

a passive pouting gal

it could be a trigger ~ happy
trashy cop movie

she strips
cute lamb for your slaughter
the camera watches with you
watching with you
as she strips in front of you

the killer waits
watching with you

oh yeah

I almost forgot

the obligatory
screeeeeeeeee

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that high pitch screech of terror
that which eagerly you sweat for

heart rates

pulsing, pulsing, pulsing, pulse

she slumps
onto the floor

dead, naked eyes open

you can still see the fright

Written

across her face

2001 gal deaths

that's the amount

I think I've seen

on the screen

I feel polluted
by someone else's fantasy

historic disposability

slaves on tv
material fodder
transpozed

inttttttoooooooo virtual snuff dream
and it seems

that it will continue
with a sequel
a trilogy

with perpetual ease

yes it's easy
to kill hope via the screen

marc garrett
~ make your own dreamz...

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