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

Furtherfield 2007 online retrospective of Tale of Tales.


Furtherfield 2007 online retrospective of Tale of Tales.

www.furtherfield.org

In August 2007, Furtherfield are featuring a retrospective of the
legendary Net Art duo, Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn, launching with a
major two part interview with Maria Chatzichristodoulou (aka Maria X).
Maria visited the artists at their studios in Belgium where they
reflected upon their lives, artworks, ideas, creative histories and
their journey from Entropy8Zuper! to their current incarnation as Tale
of Tales.

Interview link here:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id(3

Tale of Tales is a games development studio, founded by Auriea Harvey
and Michael Samyn in Belgium in 2002. The purpose of Tale of Tales is to
create elegant and emotionally rich interactive entertainment, to
explicitly cater for people who are not enchanted by most contemporary
computer games, or who wish for more variety in their gameplay
experiences. To this end all of their products feature innovative forms
of interaction, engaging poetic narratives and simple controls. Tale of
Tales started life with the design of 8, an epic single player PC
adventure game inspired by the various versions of the folk tale,
Sleeping Beauty.

Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] is a PhD Candidate at the
Goldsmiths Digital Studios and Drama Department, University of London &
Sessional Lecturer at Birkbeck College FCE.

DISCUSSION

We are 2nd on Dazed and Confused :-)


Furtherfield.org is 2nd out of 50 on The Dazed and Confused, Dazed
Digital 50 page.

The total of votes we have received so far is - 2421 from around the world.

Which we are pretty shocked by and quietly pleased about.

So, if you fancy voting to get Furtherfield and the cause right up there
- to defy those lame critics, about net art and media art not being
accepted out there, use us as your weapon to put one in the eye of such
nonsense...

We will of course respect you, love you in various intimate ways
(virtually).

here is the link for voting us:
http://www.dazeddigital.com/projects/digital50/article.aspx?aU8

DISCUSSION

New Reviews/Interviews at Furtherfield.org July 31st 2007.


New Reviews/Interviews at Furtherfield.org July 31st 2007.
http://www.furtherfield.org

On everything by Pall Thayer.
Review by Sabine Gottfried.

DISCUSSION

Re: RHIZOME_RAW: holy shit: MASS MoCA - it ain't art but if it is, we're co-authors


Hi Joy,

Thanks for the extra info - I don't know if I am getting jaded or
something but for some reason I possess no empathy for both parties.

I just hope that it does not ruin things for everyone else...

marc
> I just did a quick search and post turnaround, starting w/ ken
> Johnson's Boston Globe article here:
>
> Mass MoCA: "sad, dumb, and shameful"
> http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2007/07/mass-moca-sad-d.html
>
> On 7/26/07, *marc garrett* <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
> <mailto:marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>> wrote:
>
> How did it get to this?
>
> marc
> > still trying to digest this...
> >
> >
> http://www.clancco.com/art_law/mass_moca_counterclaims_arguing_buchel_project_is.html
> >
> >
> > The most elucidating part of MASS MoCA's defense is predicated on
> > affirmative defenses that should arouse suspicion and distrust
> on the
> > part of any visual artist toward any cultural institution. Out
> of the
> > twenty-nine affirmative defenses, MASS MoCA is claiming that
> Buchel's
> > counterclaims are barred because "the materials that are the subject
> > matter of [Buchel's] Counterclaims do not contain sufficient
> original
> > expression on the part of Buchel to be protected under the [U.S.]
> > Copyright Act."
> >
> > Alternatively, MASS MoCA argues that Buchel's counterclaims are
> barred
> > because MASS MoCA is "a joint owner of any copyright in the
> Materials
> > which are the subject matter of Buchel's counterclaims."
> >
> > More alarming is MASS MoCA's argument that they are the lawful
> owners
> > of the materials which are the subject matter of this dispute, and
> > thus allowed to display them publicly.
> >
> > But this isn't the end of this wonderful yarn of fiction. MASS MoCA
> > further argues that Buchel's work is not even art, but simply a
> > compilation of materials which, if accepted by the Court, would
> not be
> > granted protection under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990
> (VARA).
> > If in fact the Court decides that VARA does apply, MASS MoCA argues
> > that any modification to the "materials" which may have happened is
> > allowed by VARA under the "conservation or placement" exception,
> > and/or that the doctrine of "fair use" would allow MASS MoCA to
> > display Buchel's project without infringing the Copyright or
> VARA Acts.
> >
> >
>
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DISCUSSION

Re: RHIZOME_RAW: WORK SOUGHT: Women Artists & Pornography


Hi Kelly,

Here are some female works that play with or touch upon notion of
pornography, whether it be about sexuality or recontextualize it on
their own terms. I hope some of these links help...

Girls who like porno
http://www.girlswholikeporno.com/

This is an excellent piece from the very same site above...
http://girlswholikeporno.com/la-bestia/

The 'la-bestia' piece was also featured on what I personally feel was a
groundbreaking Net Art show called 'D/tP disturb.the.peace [angry women'
ttp://www.d-t-p.tv/

There is also a review about the Net Art exhibition on Furtherfield by
Eliza Fernbach.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id 0

There are a few very interesting female artists who have dealt with the
subject of pornography & sexuality here also:

Neue Kraft Neues Werk

A couple of note are - Francesca da Rimini, member of VNS Matrix. Not
sure if she still but her work, ideas and writings are worth exploriing.

Some of Shu Lea Cheang's work also features pornography, especially some
of her early Net Art.

Domestic Idols by Ruth Catlow
http://www.furtherfield.org/rcatlow/domestic_idols/index.htm

Natural Rockers by Ruth Catlow
http://www.furtherfield.org/rcatlow/natural_rockers/index.htm

I know there are more...

wishiing you well.

marc

> For a book chapter on Internet art and pornography, I would
appreciate information about women Internet artists whose work addresses
and/or appropriates pornography generally or Internet pornography
particularly. Locating MALE Internet artists working with porn has been
easy and I have dozens already, thanks. Finding women Internet artists
working off the genre has been more difficult. Artists I have already
located include Rachel Baker/Trina Mould, Prema Murthy, BCCM, and a few
others. Many thanks in advance.
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