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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.
Re: Re: Re: open call to make mediocre stuff
RELEASE PRESS : 5/30/03 V4
artists sitting on cinder
or physical bits
there is no will
reactive details..
it can be deadline
sponsoring mediocre stuff.
it will run
on you
online further.
a name
the stuff
at you.
ask for point
won't be able to
> RELEASE PRESS : 5/30/03 V4
>
> there is no deadline
> sponsoring mediocre stuff.
> artists will run,
> forever,
> reactive.
>
> the stuff can be sitting on cinder
> or physical bits online.
> you won't be able to put it on. a name.
> it will point at you.
> ask for further details.
>
> awarded; will be held on the record,
> or back of your black will
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>
artists sitting on cinder
or physical bits
there is no will
reactive details..
it can be deadline
sponsoring mediocre stuff.
it will run
on you
online further.
a name
the stuff
at you.
ask for point
won't be able to
> RELEASE PRESS : 5/30/03 V4
>
> there is no deadline
> sponsoring mediocre stuff.
> artists will run,
> forever,
> reactive.
>
> the stuff can be sitting on cinder
> or physical bits online.
> you won't be able to put it on. a name.
> it will point at you.
> ask for further details.
>
> awarded; will be held on the record,
> or back of your black will
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>
Re: open call to make mediocre stuff
RELEASE PRESS : 5/30/03 V2
There is no deadline and the show is sponsoring an open call to make
Existence now mediocre stuff. regular people and even Artists will run
forever. autogenerative back yard, blocks in your non-linear materials,
reactive, interactive, static, networked, The stuff can be sitting on cinder
or physical bits online from until, offline art school interns accompany the
show, so you won't be able to put it on your book flap, opening.
Press coverage will have a name, it will point at you and ask for white
glossy, turntables for further details. Mathew will be awarded; allotted
gallery space and Josephine Bosma. CV, resume, will be held on the wine or
cheese list. Reply is necessary on the faculty record, or the back of your
4X10 black business card. Spooky animated, linear Mirapaul publication will
will be served at the residencies.
There is no deadline and the show is sponsoring an open call to make
Existence now mediocre stuff. regular people and even Artists will run
forever. autogenerative back yard, blocks in your non-linear materials,
reactive, interactive, static, networked, The stuff can be sitting on cinder
or physical bits online from until, offline art school interns accompany the
show, so you won't be able to put it on your book flap, opening.
Press coverage will have a name, it will point at you and ask for white
glossy, turntables for further details. Mathew will be awarded; allotted
gallery space and Josephine Bosma. CV, resume, will be held on the wine or
cheese list. Reply is necessary on the faculty record, or the back of your
4X10 black business card. Spooky animated, linear Mirapaul publication will
will be served at the residencies.
The Spy-Tech Boom
The Spy-Tech Boom
One of the first widespread security technologies to be discussed after the
Sept. 11 attacks was face recognition software in airports. Almost
immediately after the terrorist attacks, two providers of this software -
Visionis and Viisage - started marketing their products as terror prevention
solutions.
"Their publicity stunt worked," said Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic
Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in a Nov. 2001 interview with the
Multinational Monitor. "Their stock prices doubled very quickly, and it
appeared as though different public transportation centers would adopt the
technology. In fact, Oakland International Airport has."
Since then, various other airports including Dallas, Rhode Island and Boston
and other tourist destinations including the Virginia Beach oceanfront and a
Tampa nighlife district have purchased facial recognition systems. One of
the main beneficiaries has been Pelco Inc., the world's largest maker of
video security systems.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID009
One of the first widespread security technologies to be discussed after the
Sept. 11 attacks was face recognition software in airports. Almost
immediately after the terrorist attacks, two providers of this software -
Visionis and Viisage - started marketing their products as terror prevention
solutions.
"Their publicity stunt worked," said Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic
Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in a Nov. 2001 interview with the
Multinational Monitor. "Their stock prices doubled very quickly, and it
appeared as though different public transportation centers would adopt the
technology. In fact, Oakland International Airport has."
Since then, various other airports including Dallas, Rhode Island and Boston
and other tourist destinations including the Virginia Beach oceanfront and a
Tampa nighlife district have purchased facial recognition systems. One of
the main beneficiaries has been Pelco Inc., the world's largest maker of
video security systems.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID009
bit of a pickle...
I'm in a bit of a pickle at the moment. In fact I'm in deep shit, literally.
You see I've been transmuted into a dog turd. Now this was my own decision,
I've always wanted to know what it was like to be a piece of shit and now I
know. The problem is that I have been patiently waiting to be turned back to
my original form. It was only meant to take fifteen minutes at the most and
it definitely feels as though I have been in this form for hours. Something
strange is happening; not just the predicament of being a piece of dog shit
but not having the ability to see or hear causes unrest. So I have no way of
knowing what is happening, can't see a bloody thing and my sense of smell is
of course no longer with me. Yet there are plenty of images buzzing around
in what I suppose is my consciousness, but how? I have no head to contain a
brain, are the chemical compounds which previously existed in my head now a
part of the turd I inhabit?
You see I've been transmuted into a dog turd. Now this was my own decision,
I've always wanted to know what it was like to be a piece of shit and now I
know. The problem is that I have been patiently waiting to be turned back to
my original form. It was only meant to take fifteen minutes at the most and
it definitely feels as though I have been in this form for hours. Something
strange is happening; not just the predicament of being a piece of dog shit
but not having the ability to see or hear causes unrest. So I have no way of
knowing what is happening, can't see a bloody thing and my sense of smell is
of course no longer with me. Yet there are plenty of images buzzing around
in what I suppose is my consciousness, but how? I have no head to contain a
brain, are the chemical compounds which previously existed in my head now a
part of the turd I inhabit?
extricated souls
As I received the signal of that silence it expounded a loudness so
penetrating that I began to imagine the ghosts of Slaughterhouse 5,
Nagasaki, Hiroshima and all the other killing fields where many men took it
upon themselves to make the decision to kill. My witness to all these deaths
were via the television screen, my eyes had caught the visual torment of all
the extricated souls. People that I have never met and never will. It felt
as if I had an affinity with these dead people in my own small way. I also
new what it was like to be tortured, exploited by an insecure male. I knew
that if my father had a gun and a deluded cause, he would be happy to
exterminate others at whim. He would carry any flag for the chance to wield
his wrath upon the unfortunate.
penetrating that I began to imagine the ghosts of Slaughterhouse 5,
Nagasaki, Hiroshima and all the other killing fields where many men took it
upon themselves to make the decision to kill. My witness to all these deaths
were via the television screen, my eyes had caught the visual torment of all
the extricated souls. People that I have never met and never will. It felt
as if I had an affinity with these dead people in my own small way. I also
new what it was like to be tortured, exploited by an insecure male. I knew
that if my father had a gun and a deluded cause, he would be happy to
exterminate others at whim. He would carry any flag for the chance to wield
his wrath upon the unfortunate.