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.
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DISCUSSION

Stanza: Abuse of the Public Domain AT HTTP Gallery.


HTTP Press Release.

Stanza:
Abuse of the Public Domain.

Private View Thursday 8th December 7-9pm
9th December 2005- 23rd January 2006

HTTP presents Abuse of the Public Domain, the first solo show of
networked media art by Stanza.
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib8/exhibitions8.htm

This exhibition features two large video projections, which use live
real-time data from CCTV cameras sited in two cities, London and New
York. Security tracking data is Stanza's chosen medium for these
process-led artworks.

You are my subject uses data from a single fixed camera in New York,
focusing on subjects as they pass below it. Authenticity [Trying to
imagine the world from everyone elses

DISCUSSION

NetBehavior List Residencies


NetBehavior List Residencies
(An ongoing in-house project built by users of this list)

This is an in-house, networked artist/curator/writer residency built by
users of the NetBehaviour list lasting for 2 weeks where a
practicioner's work is seen, as part of the list experience, adding
different kind of authentic stuff to the list- exploring more than
debate alone, through behaviour.

http://www.netbehaviour.org/residencies.htm*

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DISCUSSION

RECENT VISITORSSTUDIO NEWS AND ARCHIVES


RECENT VISITORSSTUDIO NEWS AND ARCHIVES
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VisitorsStudio
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/
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Don't miss the new archives of Live A/V net performances within the
VisitorsStudio organised by Furthernoise.org (www.furthernoise.org),

A/V net performance- Session (1) September 2005

Chris Vine(USA) -
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/furthernoise/chrisvine.html

Mark Francombe(Norway) -
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/furthernoise/markfrancombe.html

A/V net performance- Session (2) October 2005

2TOMS (France) - http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/furthernoise/2toms.html
John Kannenberg(USA)-
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/furthernoise/johnkannenberg.html

VisitorsStudio is currently featured as part of Ricochet, an exhibition
at Stills Gallery, Edinburgh from 16th October - 18th December 2005.
Also including work by Henna Nadeem, Leena Nammari, Chris Dooks, Pamela So.
RICOCHET: http://www.stills.org/

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MORE ABOUT VISITORSSTUDIO
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The VisitorsStudio is a live multi-user online arena for production,
display and discussion of audiovisual, screen based work. Visitors
experiment and respond to each others' dancing-cursors and chat, while
uploading, mixing and exhibiting their own compositions - still images,
mp3 audio and flash animations.

The audio visual mix is always live, all visitors see the mix change and
develop in real-time as they and others interact - a unique way of
communicating across perceptual, social, geographical and linguistic
divides on their own terms.

The studio has also been used as an interview and performance space with
Furtherfield's sister site furthernoise.org for sonic artists and
musicians including Jodi Rose [Australia], MikroKnytes [USA] and Scott
Taylor, Mr Mutton_deluxe [UK]. Furtherfield's recent retrospective of
net.artist Andy Deck [USA] also culminated with a live interview and
performance using VisitorsStudio.

Already, many artists and media-labs in the UK, USA, Australia, Balkans
and Brazil have worked with VisitorsStudio as a global platform for live
audio-visual jamming events including Autolabs Tactical Week:end
(Brazil) and furtherfield's collaborative response to the Republican
National Congress, 'Dissension Convention' featuring over 20
internationally located artists and broadcast live at Postmasters
Gallery [NY].
http://www.furtherfield.org/dissensionconvention/

Collaboratively developed by artists, programmers, critics and curators,
with significant contributions by audiences new to net art, and members
of online art and technology forums, this platform has grown organically
in response to their participation. Additions and enhancements to its
functionality, usability and communication are made to accommodate and
extend the artistic aspirations of its users.

And yes, it is open for anyone to experiment with - if there is a group
who wish to meet online let us know...

info@furtherfield.org

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VisitorsStudio is a Furtherfield project:
concept, programming and design - Neil Jenkins
concept, and project organisation, co-ordination - Marc Garret & Ruth Catlow
design and user manual - Chris Webb

TECHNICS
Requires live internet connection and web browser with Flash Plugin [v6+].
The studio is also available as a Mac/PC standalone application.
DSL or faster connection preferred, although the studio is accessible
over 56k modem connection.
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Other links of interest that have used the Studio:

Link to the Empyre list with Marc Garrett discussing the dynamics of
VisitorStudio.
https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/mailman/htdig/empyre/2005-March/msg00040.html

A live, multimedia, online interview between Andy Deck and Furtherfield
took place in the VisitorsStudio on 11.08.04.
http://www.furtherfield.org/adeck/topframe.htm

MULTI-av - 10/9/04 - Cross Continental Audio Video Jam with Mikroknytes
(USA), Sawtooth (UK) and Darren Zeising aka Stalker (Australia).
Using the Internet and a special web based computer application called
Visitors Studio, live digital video and audio was mixed from all three
continents and projected on the wall.
http://www.techclub-dc.com/techclub_multi-av.html

DissentionConvention - Coincided with the Republican Convention in New
York, over 20 international net artists and digital artists broadcasted
a new collaborative art-polemic with a focus on how Bush and the US
Republicans negatively influence every locality around the world. An
edited archive of the 30 hours performance created during this unique event.
http://www.furtherfield.org/dissensionconvention/

The Visitors Studio, also linked from www.Soy.de with various projects
attached:
http://www.soy.de/main/index.php?varLogFile=VisitorsStudio

VSBlog - Screen moments from the VisitorsStudio by Chris Webb
http://www.furtherfield.org/cwebb/screenmoments/

Scarcelight / Mikroknytes Visitors Studio Interview
This session was played out in real-time from Alabama in the US as label
manager / musician Chris Jeely discusses Scarcelight philosophy whilst
Mikroknytes Derek Morton and John Coursey serve up an audio visual
collage of new material.
http://www.furtherstudio.org/studiomanual/interview.html

DISCUSSION

Do you want to be a reviewer for Futherfield?


Do you want to be a reviewer for Futherfield?
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Furtherfield constantly receives submissions from artists and groups
from all over the world inviting us to feature their projects. As a
reviewer you will be asked to select from these works and contribute to
the context of what is being created and write about why it is relevant.
You will also have the option of seeking out and writing about other
works that you personally think should be seen on Furtherfield.

We are interested in working with people who understand and know net
art, network art, software art, new media (if you have a better term
please let us know), social networks, live net art, live Internet tv,
open source, tactical media, art blogs, net films, media art connected-
self institutions, psychogeography, activist games, media art related
exhibitions online and in spaces, and related conferences. We are
seeking writers from all backgrounds and experience; the main
requirement being an enthusiasm for this broad area of creative
exploration and an ability to write and communicate clearly.

Do you have an enthusiasm for any of these subjects? Are you interested
in being part of a explorative group, that is growing daily as an
adventurous community in its own right? If, like us, you are
passionately and critically engaged in investigating the shifts and
reinvention of the digital vista welcome aboard...

To find out more about becoming a Furtherfield reviewer please
email:info@furtherfield.org
http://www.furtherfield.org

DISCUSSION

Private companies own human gene patents


Private companies own human gene patents

Kate Ravilious
Friday October 14, 2005
The Guardian

Nearly a fifth of all human genes have been patented - the majority by
private biotechnology companies, according to a survey of patent records
published today.

The extent to which companies claim ownership of human genes has raised
alarm among researchers and led to warnings that by asserting commercial
rights over crucial genes, companies risk stifling research into
diseases such as breast cancer, diabetes and obesity.

Legal cases triggered by disputes over who owns specific genes and how
access to working on them is restricted are also likely in future, the
scientists warn.

Kyle Jensen and Fiona Murray at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
calculated the proportion of human genes that had been patented by
comparing the genetic sequences claimed in US patents to genes listed in
the National Centre for Biotechnology Information gene database. They
were surprised to find so many had already been patented. "The stories
that we hear in the media only concern a very small number of human
genes," said Dr Murray. "But it turns out that a high number have been
patented, including some of the more obscure ones."

Writing in the journal Science today, the researchers report that nearly
20% of the human genome, or 4,382 of the known 23, 688 human genes, have
been patented, with over half owned by private companies. Around 63% of
the patents are assigned to private firms, with one firm, Incyte
Pharmaceuticals/Incyte Genomics, having intellectual property rights
covering 2,000 human genes.

more...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1591991,00.html?gusrc=rss