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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OPPORTUNITY

Furtherfield.org open for new submissions.


Deadline:
Fri May 27, 2005 07:19

*Furtherfield.org open for new submissions.*

http://www.furtherfield.org

Furtherfield is currently reviewing new works that have recently been
submitted to our web site via our Proposals page
http://www.furtherfield.org/submissions.php. We thought that it might be
a good idea to ask publically for new submissions to be sent via email
as well.

So, if you want your work to be on Furtherfield and reviewed please read
below to see if your work relates to the definitions & check the web
site to see if your work is appropriate...

What work is Furtherfield interested in?

We are interested in Net Art, Networked Art, Media Art, PsychoGeography,
Real-time Art, Media Art Conferences, Activist Games, Open Source, Soft
Groups, Database Art, Media Activism, Networked Collaborations,
Surveillance Art, Online Media & Net Exhibitions, Networked Communities,
Software Art, Wireless Projects, Street Art, Art Blogs, Tactical Media,
Generative Art, Free Software, Hactivism, networked resistance & related
works/projects...

What happens if your work is featured on Furtherfield?

If we feature your work, it will appear on the Furtherfield homepage
with a review by one of the Furtherfield team. The work will then be
publicized on a range of email lists & also promoted in Furtherfield's
Newsletter.

Your personal ID-card on Furtherfield
We will set up a personal ID-card for you on Furtherfield. This will
display a link to your CV or a biog, personal statement and URLs of
websites also displaying your work. Once your work is added to our
database, we will provide you with a Username and Password that will
allow you to update your own ID-card (independently) with any additional
information about yourself and current projects. When you update your
ID-card with new projects we will view it and put it up for review if it
is recent. Although, it is totally up to you what work, date & amount
that you add in.

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Submit/paste info about your work & yourself/group here:
(please note that if you asking us to review a documented work that it
must be accessible to other people as well as Furtherfield reviewers, on
the Internet).

Name of artist(s)/group:

Title of Work/Project:

URL:

Some key words as reference:

About the work (no more than 500 words):

Bio: (no more than 300 words):

Date of creation:

Any other info to add, like references & other reviews (optional):

send your emails to:
info@furtherfield.org

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Furtherfield is an online platform for the creation, promotion, and
criticism of adventurous digital/net art work for public viewing,
experience and interaction.

Furtherfield creates imaginative strategies that actively communicate
ideas and issues in a range of digital & terrestrial media contexts;
featuring works online and organizing global, contributory projects,
simultaneously on the Internet, the streets and public venues.
Furtherfield focuses on network related projects that explore new social
contexts that transcend the digital, or offer a subjective voice that
communicates beyond the medium. Furtherfield collaborates with artists,
programmers, writers, activists, musicians and thinkers who explore
beyond traditional remits.

Furtherfield was founded in 1997 and is a London based, non-profit
organisation. The majority of activities are self funded and are
sustained by the passion, ideas, exploration and skills of the
Furtherfield team as well as its diverse membership.

Occasional public funding facilitates a more in-depth collaboration with
programmers and artists on specific projects, usually leading to more
intuitive audience interaction and accessibility.

We can make our own World . .


DISCUSSION

VisitorsStudio


VisitorsStudio

http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/

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...

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.

VisitorsStudio is a networked application comprising of two main parts.
The User interface was designed and programmed as a series of modules,
using Flash MX. The backend is written in Perl, using a socket server
for live interaction and MySQL.

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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

30 current, fave tunes...


*30 current, fave tunes...*

Nouvelle Vague - To Drunk to Fuck (Dead Kennedy's Cover)
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk is Playing Round My House
The Kills - Love is a Deserter (Phones Mix)
Gotan Project - Quemeros Paz
Cat People - No Sense
Cabaret Voltaire - Neuron Factory
Youth Group - Some One Else's Dream
Zounds - Can't Cheat Karma
Beck -MTV Make's Me Wanna Smoke Crack
PlayGroup - Make it Happen
Slapp Happy - Apes in Capes
Sieg Uber die Sonne - I'm Not a Sound
XTC - Generals and Majors
Devo - Pink Jazz Tracers
Hate/Fuck - Mount Sims
Drinking Electricity - Breakout (Tiga Edit)
Tori Amos - Smell's Like Teen Spirit (you know)
MC 900ft Jesus - If I only had a brain
John Foxx & Louis Gordon - Drive
Tuxedomoon - Luther Blisset (John McEntire Mix)
Lydia Lunch - Heart Attack & Vine (Tom Waits Cover)
Electrelane - Bells
The Human League - I am the Law
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
HardFloor - Groupie Love
Kate Bush - Them Heavy People
The Fall - Disney's Dream Debased
The Wolfgang Press - Birdie Song
Sonic Youth - Moist Vagina
OMD - Once When I was Six

marc

DISCUSSION

Skinstrip.net - (Archive) back online...


*Skinstrip.net - (Archive) back online...*

Skin/Strip Online was a collaboration between Completely Naked and
Furtherfield.org.

The global digital community were invited to anonymously express their
naked identity using visual images of their bodies. Individual net users
participated in a collective, live event, confronting social and
cultural representations of the body within the net community, by
revealing and viewing their previously unknown corporeality via
net-based technology.

Skin/Strip Online was commissioned as an online live artistic project
for Shooting Live Artists, a partnership initiative between the Arts
Council of England, BBC, Yorkshire Media Production Agency's Studio of
the North (SON) and b.tv / The Culture Company, aiming to create a new
axis of digital activity in Britain.

Skin/Strip Online was open for contributors between March and August 2003

During that time the website received 12585 visitors
Over 1500 people uploaded a total of 2800 images to the artwork of which
400 were removed due to their overt sexual content disallowed under the
conditions of the SLA commission.

check out the archive
http://www.skinstrip.net/index_archive.htm

DISCUSSION

NETBEHAVIOUR IS BACK!!!


NETBEHAVIOUR IS BACK!!!

The NetBehaviour mailing list is now back with renewed vigour!

WE INVITE YOU TO SUBSCRIBE by visiting
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

After the recent enforced break (due to trubble at the Furtherfield
server (now fixed)) we have moved over to Mailman.

This means that we now have:
- an automatic subscribe and unsubscribe function
- the option to receive mails in a digest format
- a subject header to allow us to filter our list mails
- an automatic online archive of all mails -
http://www.netbehaviour.org/pipermail/netbehaviour/

We hope that this new, more robust software will make it easier for us
all to collaborate in creating NetBehaviour.

One of the NetBehaviour elements most missed by the Furtherfield team
has been the List Residencies. We'd like to kick these off again as soon
as possible, so volunteer yourself or another likely candidate. Lewis
Lacook and Jason Nelson have already been voted for, so if either of you
would like to kick off, don't hold back :-)

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About NetBehaviour List Residencies

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 a different kind of
authentic 'stuff' to the list- exploring more than debate alone, through
behaviour.

Brief info about Residencies: -
- Residencies last for 2 weeks
- Maximum size of image per post- 35k
- Maximum number of posts - every six hours
- Minimum nuber of posts - one a day

Any member on the list can suggest a potential resident artist.
The list members vote for a resident - it only takes 7 yes votes... but
if there are 8 votes against, the residency does not happen for that
individual/group.
Rules change and adapt according to suggestions by NetBehaviourists -
active list members:-)

Documentation of the first residency can be viewed on the Netbehaviour
website http://www.netbehaviour.org/bradbrace.html. There is still some
work to be done documenting Mez and Ivan Pope's residencies but from now
on we have a better process for doing this.
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So don't forget to subscribe or resubscribe.
Here is where you do it
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

Hope to see you there soon
the Furtherfield Crew

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NetBehaviour is an open email list community for sharing ideas, posting
events & opportunities in the area of networked distributed creativity.
Also facilitating collaborations between artists, academics, soft
groups, writers, code geeks, curators, independent thinkers,
relationalists, activists, networkers, net mutualists, new media types,
media performers, net sufi's, non nationalists.

Join in and collaborate - for we are all the medium, the context and
source of networked creativity...

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