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

Re: FCC regulations


Bloody right!
Time to take back what is ours.....

marc

"Given that knowledge, we hope artists will join with
other activists and work to restore radio as a public
resource for all people".

> not web related specifically, but certainly pertinent
> in how US interests will play out. (toomey rocks as
> well)
> This article can be found on the web at
> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 030113&s=toomey
> Empire of the Air
>
> by JENNY TOOMEY
>
> [from the January 13, 2003 issue]
>
> For too long, musicians have had too little voice in
> the manufacture, distribution and promotion of their
> music and too little means to extract fair support and
> compensation for their work. The Future of Music
> Coalition was formed in June 2000 as a not-for-profit
> think tank to tackle this problem, advocating new
> business models, technologies and policies that would
> advance the cause of both musicians and citizens. Much
> of the work the FMC has done in the past two years has
> focused on documenting the structures of imbalance and
> inequity that impede the development of an American
> musicians' middle class, and translating
> legislative-speak into language that musicians and
> citizens can understand. Our most challenging work,
> however, and the project of which we are most proud,
> is our analysis of the effects of radio deregulation
> on musicians and citizens since the passage of the
> 1996 Telecommunications Act.
>
> Radio is a public resource managed on citizens' behalf
> by the federal government. This was established in
> 1934 through the passage of the Communications Act,
> which created a regulatory body, the Federal
> Communications Commission, and laid the ground rules
> for the regulation of radio. The act also determined
> that the spectrum would be managed according to a
> "trusteeship" model. Broadcasters received fixed-term,
> renewable licenses that gave them exclusive use of a
> slice of the spectrum for free. In exchange, they were
> required to serve the "public interest, convenience
> and necessity." Though they laid their trust in the
> mechanics of the marketplace, legislators did not turn
> the entire spectrum over to commercial broadcasters.
> The 1934 act included some key provisions that were
> designed to foster localism and encourage diversity in
> programming.
>
> Although changes were made to limits on ownership and
> FCC regulatory control in years hence, the
> Communications Act of 1934 remained essentially intact
> until it was thoroughly overhauled in 1996 with the
> passage of the Telecommunications Act. But even before
> President Clinton signed the act into law in February
> 1996, numerous predictions were made regarding its
> effect on the radio industry:
>
>

DISCUSSION

Re: Stardust stirred with Black Coffee


Hi Jim,

Sounds kool - I am doing much the same thing presently with cut-up sounds
form 2-3 different songs or tunes. It is great fun & can come up with some
pretty good tracks in their own right...editing music for java-script works
on the net, very much a direction that some of the 'ouch those monkeys'
tunes have fallen into.

marc

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

DISCUSSION

Re: Stardust stirred with Black Coffee


Hi Jim,

As far as digital sound/Java scripted, flash etc... it is a new experience &
I am working on it all right now. So you will not get a fair example from my
other works, although there some oof similar vein conceptually but not in
function. In fact, back at the ol' furtherfield ranch we are all
collaborating by creating seperate noises and tunes and then placing them
into cubase, and adding our own next to the original, which is more
overlaying and cutting, then of course just enjoying listening to them.

This is the nearest so far but different to your concept - but enjoy anyway
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/reaching_outwards.htm

respect from marc

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

> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > Sounds kool - I am doing much the same thing presently with cut-up
sounds
> > form 2-3 different songs or tunes. It is great fun & can come up with
some
> > pretty good tracks in their own right...editing music for java-script
works
> > on the net, very much a direction that some of the 'ouch those monkeys'
> > tunes have fallen into.
>
> Yes, this is what I did tonight with http://webartery.com/temp/1.htm .
Great fun!
>
> I put them into Shockwave because you can compress and loop and code and
more or less whatever
> the hell you want to visually, concerning code, concerning audio,
concerning streaming...though
> the above is just a '1-off' that doesn't stream. I kinda like it though
and will probably do
> more work on it in audio software and also in Shockwave a la
Stardust/Black Coffee but round 9.
> http://vismu.com/vismu houses much of my Shockwave vismu (all of it there
in my own voice).
>
> What are the urls to your work in this vein, Marc?
>
> ja
>
>
>

DISCUSSION

Re: Stardust stirred with Black Coffee


Thanx Jim,

Nice to hear all those tunes together - merged, glued - ah roxanne...

marc

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

DISCUSSION

* Falling into Art by Accident ~ Jess Loseby & Tara Noid *


Falling into Art by Accident.

An interview by Tara Noid with Jess Loseby.

An intuitive and frank discussion between 'Tara Noid', Furtherfield's
psychoanalytical art critic, and 'Jess Loseby'. A Net Artist , declaring
creativity via her intimacy, humanising Net Art. (m.garrett)
http://www.furtherfield.org/i_interviews/jess_loseby/index.html

This slick Bristisher, whose main site, http://www.rssgallery.com/index.htm,
is a feast of eye candy and thoughtful composition in several media (new
media literature, images and poetry), creates work that centers around the
"cyber-domestic" aesthetic, as her CV's artistic statement puts it. "Is
there room in the global arena that is the net for the small, the domestic
and the whims of a neurotic woman?" she asks there, and those of us lucky
enough to have stumbled across her work usually answer...well, yeah. (Lewis
Lacook) see furthercritic review at furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org/crit/docs/Mating_for_Life.htm

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