marc garrett
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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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Libre Graphics Research Unit - Co-Position meeting.


Libre Graphics Research Unit - Co-Position meeting.

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http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/libre-graphics-research-unit-co-position-meeting

Article by Antonio Roberts.

How can designers and programmers work more harmoniously? How can the tools being created better meet the needs of users? There is a need for designers to have a greater role in the production of the tools that they use, aside from just reporting bugs, requesting features or designing logos for open source projects. Antonio Roberts reports back from the Co-Position meeting of the Libre Graphics Research Unit and looks at how artists and developers are addressing these issues.

The first meeting, Networked Graphics, took place in Rotterdam from 7-10 December, 2011 and was Hosted by WORM. This second meeting, Co-Position, for which Antonio was present, took place at venues across Brussels from 22-25 February 2012. Co-Position is described by LGRU as:

"[...] an attempt to re-imagine lay-out from scratch. We will analyse the history of lay-out (from moveable type to compositing engines) in order to better understand how relations between workflow, material and media have been coded into our tools. We will look at emerging software for doing lay-out differently, but most importantly we want to sketch ideas for tools that combine elements of canvas editing, dynamic lay-out, networked lay-out, web-to-print and Print on Demand."

The meeting saw the coming together of many international artists, theorists and developers for four days of work around this subject.

Antonio Roberts is a British digital artist whose artwork focuses on the errors and glitches generated by digital technology. Many people would simply discard such artefacts but Antonio preserves these errors and displays them as art. With his roots in free culture he develops his techniques using open source and freely available software and shares his knowledge through the development of software. http://www.hellocatfood.com/profile/

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MONODROME: Art’s debt in times of crisis.


MONODROME: Art’s debt in times of crisis. Review by Veroniki Korakidou

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http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/monodrome-arts-debt-times-crisis

The final part of a trilogy which started with DESTROY ATHENS 2007 & continued with HEAVEN 2009. Drawing upon the life and work of Walter Benjamin and inspired by his book by the same title (One way Street, 1928), MONODROME was curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and X&Y (Xenia Kalpaktsoglou and Poka-Yio, co-founders of the Athens Biennale).

Athens Biennale 2011 was the third edition of this institution and was entitled "Monodrome", meaning "One way street" after the 1928 text "Eisenstrasse" by Walter Benjamin. The concept of the title is obvious; after the first Athens Biennale in 2007 prophetically entitled: "Destroy Athens", the second Biennale "Heaven" in 2009, "Monodrome" comes as a closure to this trilogy. Why Walter Benjamin? Because he was a "defeated intellectual", according to the curators. German-Jewish philosopher, an emblematic figure of 20th century thought, gave an end to his life at the french-spanish border while trying to escape the Nazis. "He was unable to overcome his personal dead-end as a subject", says Poka-Yio of X&Y and he continues: "The title of this exhibition after Benjamin’s text refers to a collective dead-end" currently at stake and it’s only possible fate: a cloud of doom. "Monodrome" aimed to provoke debate around "something that has fallen apart, but to also offer the possibility of a glimpse at something new to come".

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David Cotterrell's 'Monsters of the Id'.


David Cotterrell's 'Monsters of the Id'.

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Review by Sarah Thompson.

A review of the exhibition 'Monsters of the Id', a collection of experimental works by David Cotterrell based on his residencies as war artist in Afghanistan and at SEOS (now Rockwell Collins), makers of flight simulators. The works challenge the depiction of conflict as well as explore the unique languages of programming. Curated by Helen Sloan of SCAN, and the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/david-cotterrells-monsters-id

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David Cotterrell - is an installation artist working across varied media including video, audio, interactive media, artificial intelligence, device control and hybrid technology. His work exhibits political, social and behavioural analyses of the environments and contexts, which he and his work inhabit. http://www.cotterrell.com/

Sarah Thompson - Since 1996, has taken an active interest in art made with new media and contributed reviews to rhizome.org as Aurora Lovelock. In 2001 was included in Josephine Bosma's online Collaborative Research into Electronic Art Memes. Taught and developed web resources at the NCCA and in 2007 started a website, transjuice.org, which reviews a mixture of art online, local and national exhibitions. http://www.transjuice.org/

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Woman, Art & Technology: Interview with Sarah Cook


Woman, Art & Technology: Interview with Sarah Cook

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Woman, Art & Technology by Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, is a series of interviews that seeks to find different perspectives on the current voice of women working in art and technology. The series continues with curator Sarah Cook.

Sarah Cook is a curator and writer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and co-author with Beryl Graham of the book Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (MIT Press, 2010). She is currently a reader at the University of Sunderland where she co-founded and co-edits CRUMB, the online resource for curators of new media art, and where she teaches on the MA Curating course. Most recently she curated the Mirror Neurons exhibition that is part of the AV Festival running through till March 31, 2012, in New Castle.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/woman-art-technology-interview-sarah-cook

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Revisiting the Curious World of Art & Hacktivism.


Revisiting the Curious World of Art & Hacktivism.

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http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/revisiting-curious-world-art-hacktivism

Article by Marc Garrett

"It is not accidental that at a point in history when hierarchical power and manipulation have reached their most threatening proportions, the very concepts of hierarchy, power and manipulation come into question." Murray Bookchin. Post-scarcity and Anarchism (1968).

Revisiting the Curious World of Art & Hacktivism, is the first of a series of articles exploring how contemporary artists engaged with technology and activism are transcending established art behaviours. Crossing over into territories that reflect not only social and political contexts, but new dialogues of experiencing and understanding art. The politics of today becomes the background, the material and canvas of imaginative and critical play.

This series features early work from WANK worm, and contemporary activist art examples by moddr_, Gordan Savicic, Walter Langelaar, Paolo Cirio, Alessandro Ludovico, Julian Oliver, Danja Vasiliev, Men in Grey (M.I.G), Tiltfactor, Mary Flanagan, Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas, Amy Sara Carroll & Elle Mehrmand, Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, Heath Bunting & Kate Rich.