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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.
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.
A Manifesto for Being Correct in the Arts
A Manifesto for Being Correct in the Arts
You’ve been to the correct schools and universities
You’ve been to the correct galleries & museums
You’ve been to the correct conferences & festivals
You’ve said the correct things to the correct people
You’ve supported the correct artists & correct canons
You’ve pulled rank on less correct individuals & groups
You’ve given prizes to the correct individuals & groups
You’ve chosen the correct route to boost your status
You’ve chosen the correct route to boost your power
You’re so correct you may not even know this is about you...
You’ve been to the correct schools and universities
You’ve been to the correct galleries & museums
You’ve been to the correct conferences & festivals
You’ve said the correct things to the correct people
You’ve supported the correct artists & correct canons
You’ve pulled rank on less correct individuals & groups
You’ve given prizes to the correct individuals & groups
You’ve chosen the correct route to boost your status
You’ve chosen the correct route to boost your power
You’re so correct you may not even know this is about you...
Piratbyrån and Friends at Furtherfield @F.A.T
Article by Geraldine Juarez | Piratbyrån and Friends at Furtherfield. | F.A.T.
“Internet history is a history of friendships, the history of friendships is a history of meetings “ – @monki

The place where Piratbyrån and F.A.T meet was of course in IRC and then the groups overlapped basically because of kopimi, like everything else does in the internet and AFK.
Fatties Evan, Geraldine and Magnus were last week in London hanging out in Harringay with the Piratbyrån bunch and setting up the exhibition “Piratbyrån and Friends”, that opened in Furtherfield last saturday.
The exhibition traces stories and affinities behind the swedish group of friends from which the most resilient cultural project on the planet emerged a decade ago. The gallery exhibition features a collection of archival material, t-shirts, films, comissioned artworks-networks and oddities- together with a vast and complex digital archive available in the Commons of Furtherfield and inside the Kopimi Totem, ready for you to explore and copy.
http://fffff.at/piratbyran-and-friends/
“Internet history is a history of friendships, the history of friendships is a history of meetings “ – @monki

The place where Piratbyrån and F.A.T meet was of course in IRC and then the groups overlapped basically because of kopimi, like everything else does in the internet and AFK.
Fatties Evan, Geraldine and Magnus were last week in London hanging out in Harringay with the Piratbyrån bunch and setting up the exhibition “Piratbyrån and Friends”, that opened in Furtherfield last saturday.
The exhibition traces stories and affinities behind the swedish group of friends from which the most resilient cultural project on the planet emerged a decade ago. The gallery exhibition features a collection of archival material, t-shirts, films, comissioned artworks-networks and oddities- together with a vast and complex digital archive available in the Commons of Furtherfield and inside the Kopimi Totem, ready for you to explore and copy.
http://fffff.at/piratbyran-and-friends/
Enlisting the Body: Joseph DeLappe and "Social Tactics”.
Enlisting the Body: Joseph DeLappe and "Social Tactics”.

Chris Lanier interviews new media artist Joseph DeLappe about his retrospective exhibition "Social Tactics" at the Fresno Art Museum, and his Drone Memorial project at Fresno State University.
The Fresno Art Museum, in collaboration with the Fresno State Center for Creativity and the Arts, is exhibiting "Social Tactics," a mini-retrospective of the work of Joseph DeLappe, a new media artist and director of the Digital Media Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The exhibit has been running alongside the construction of a to-scale sculptural reproduction of an MQ1 Predator Drone on the campus of Fresno State, coordinated by DeLappe and executed by students and volunteers. I had the opportunity to interview DeLappe about his work, and the way it connects to militarism, memorialization, and embodiment. His work has been an ongoing critique of games that look like war, and warfare that looks like gaming – insisting that, within the hall of mirrors that forms "simulation culture," reality still must be accounted for, and attended to.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/enlisting-body-joseph-delappe-and-social-tactics

Chris Lanier interviews new media artist Joseph DeLappe about his retrospective exhibition "Social Tactics" at the Fresno Art Museum, and his Drone Memorial project at Fresno State University.
The Fresno Art Museum, in collaboration with the Fresno State Center for Creativity and the Arts, is exhibiting "Social Tactics," a mini-retrospective of the work of Joseph DeLappe, a new media artist and director of the Digital Media Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.
The exhibit has been running alongside the construction of a to-scale sculptural reproduction of an MQ1 Predator Drone on the campus of Fresno State, coordinated by DeLappe and executed by students and volunteers. I had the opportunity to interview DeLappe about his work, and the way it connects to militarism, memorialization, and embodiment. His work has been an ongoing critique of games that look like war, and warfare that looks like gaming – insisting that, within the hall of mirrors that forms "simulation culture," reality still must be accounted for, and attended to.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/enlisting-body-joseph-delappe-and-social-tactics
The Absurdity of Art Speak, Art Worlds, and what we can learn from Big Data
The Absurdity of Art Speak, Art Worlds, and what we can learn from Big Data.

Annet Decker interviews Jonas Lund whose practice revolves around the mechanisms that constitute contemporary art production, its market & the established 'art worlds'. Using a wide variety of media, combining software-based works with performance, installation, video, photography and sculptures, he produces works that have an underlying foundation in writing code. By approaching art world systems from a programmatic point of view, the work engages through a criticality largely informed by algorithms and 'big data'.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/absurdity-art-speak-art-worlds-and-what-we-can-learn-big-data

Annet Decker interviews Jonas Lund whose practice revolves around the mechanisms that constitute contemporary art production, its market & the established 'art worlds'. Using a wide variety of media, combining software-based works with performance, installation, video, photography and sculptures, he produces works that have an underlying foundation in writing code. By approaching art world systems from a programmatic point of view, the work engages through a criticality largely informed by algorithms and 'big data'.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/absurdity-art-speak-art-worlds-and-what-we-can-learn-big-data
Review of Thomson & Craighead’s book 'Flat Earth'
Review of Thomson & Craighead’s book 'Flat Earth'.

Marc Garrett reviews Thomson & Craighead's recent book ‘Flat Earth’ edited by Sarah Cook published as part of two solo exhibitions. The first, Not even the sky at MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany from 26 October 2013 – 6 January 2014 and the second Maps DNA and Spam at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland from 18 January - 16 March 2014. The book contains a foreword by Axel Lapp, essays by Dundee Fellow Sarah Cook and DCA Director Clive Gillman as well as an interview with the artists by Steve Rushton.
"Thomson & Craighead provide parallel insights through their artwork into the protocols and technical procedures governing the functions of networks. However, human existence and human experience has a relationship with these networks and, out of millions of interactions, evolves not metaphors but fragmented symbolisms and stories. These are telling us about a networked society's gaze at its mediated self. And this is where art can play a special role in critiquing, communicating and sharing the nuances of this emerging multitude." Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/review-thomson-craighead%E2%80%99s-book-flat-earth

Marc Garrett reviews Thomson & Craighead's recent book ‘Flat Earth’ edited by Sarah Cook published as part of two solo exhibitions. The first, Not even the sky at MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany from 26 October 2013 – 6 January 2014 and the second Maps DNA and Spam at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland from 18 January - 16 March 2014. The book contains a foreword by Axel Lapp, essays by Dundee Fellow Sarah Cook and DCA Director Clive Gillman as well as an interview with the artists by Steve Rushton.
"Thomson & Craighead provide parallel insights through their artwork into the protocols and technical procedures governing the functions of networks. However, human existence and human experience has a relationship with these networks and, out of millions of interactions, evolves not metaphors but fragmented symbolisms and stories. These are telling us about a networked society's gaze at its mediated self. And this is where art can play a special role in critiquing, communicating and sharing the nuances of this emerging multitude." Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/review-thomson-craighead%E2%80%99s-book-flat-earth