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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DISCUSSION

Re: Three More Ways of Looking at a Blackbird


DIWO E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour Exhibition update.

For those who could not make it to the DIWO exhibition at the HTTP
Gallery, here is a link to some images of the show that finished, 1st April.
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/Diwo_exhibition2.shtml

95 - 100 individuals actively created work, participated or collaborated
in the DIWO project.

The project has already had offers to show in different venues around
the world which are presently being negotiated.

The exhibition is a distributable project which can be moved to any
space in the world. It works both online and in physical space
simultaneously. The venue is a physical interface showcasing co-selected
by artists and curators.

Details about the project/exhibition here:
Do It With Others (DIWO):
E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/exhibitions12.shtml

View list activity from all participants on the NetBehaviour here.
Official beginning - 1 February 2007 DIWO Archives by email thread:
http://www.netbehaviour.org/pipermail/netbehaviour/20070201/thread.html

DISCUSSION

New Reviews on Furtherfield April 07.


New Reviews on Furtherfield April 07.

http://www.furtherfield.org

- OPERA CALLING by Bitnik Media Collective and Sven Konig.
- Review by Maria Chatzichristodoulou, aka Maria X.
On Friday April 9 (2007) I was at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich for the
opening of the Opera Calling project. Opera Calling is an exhibition and
performance created by the Bitnik media collective and artist Sven
Konig, to be running at the Cabaret Voltaire till the 2nd of May.

"The artists describe Opera Calling as 'an intervention into the
cultural system of the Zurich Opera.

DISCUSSION

Latest Audio/Visual VisitorsStudio mixes by Graziano Milano.


Latest Audio/Visual VisitorsStudio mixes by Graziano Milano.

http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idT06
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idT03
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idT02
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idT01
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idT00
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idS98
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idS91
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idS90
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idS88
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idS87
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idS86
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/mix.pl?idS85

VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative
'many to many' dialogue, interviews, networked performance and
collaborative polemic.

Visitorsstudio is a Furtherfield.org project. Through simple and
accessible facilities, the VisitorsStudio web-based interface allows
users to upload, manipulate and collage their own audio-visual files
with others', to remix existing media. VisitorsStudio provides a
platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent
and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations
and social contexts.

Participants upload sound files and still/moving images (jpg, png, mp3,
flv, swf) to a shared database, mixing and responding to each other's
compositions in real-time. Individuals can also chat with each other and
are located in the interface by their own dancing-cursors.

VisitorsStudio Version2, incorporates new artistic tools and community
building facilities. Users are able to schedule and promote their own
networked performance programmes. These can be recorded, archived,
rated, downloaded and redistributed as screensavers to users' own
desktops.

More info at http://blog.visitorsstudio.org

DISCUSSION

Re: Fwd: Ars Publica - Curatorial Report, March 2007


Hi Barry & all,

So what do we define as 'bourgeois enterprises' regarding art now?

marc

>The paradox is... art has been a trade good since, ahhh... shortly after the
>beginning of human times. Wasn't art one of the first bourgeois enterprises
>to immerge at the end of the "dark ages"?
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>Was, like, Rembrandt an art worker for the National Gallery of Holland? And
>dude, like wasn't Durer a teacher at the university or Art College or
>something?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] On Behalf Of
>Vijay Pattisapu
>Sent: April 5, 2007 10:29 AM
>To: Marisa Olson
>Cc: rhizome
>Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: Fwd: Ars Publica - Curatorial Report, March 2007
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>"Ars Publica basically is a commentary on the paradox that while art
>constitutes another type of production to be commercialized, the
>financial situation in which most artists encounter themselves, is due
> to a sub-paradox that responds on the one hand to the irrelevant
>socio-economic value generally associated with art; and on the other
>hand with the elitist channels of art commercialization."
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>"Sub-paradox"? Eh...
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>Vijay
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>On 04/04/07, Marisa Olson <marisa@rhizome.org> wrote:
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>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>From: Ana Buigues <abuigues@wanadoo.es>
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>>http://www.plus.el-estudio.net/harte/arspublica0307.html
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>>ARS PUBLICA

DISCUSSION

Re: Let's Chat: about realtime interaction


Hi VJ Theory,

are these chats logged so that others can read the content?

marc

>VJ Theory would like to invite you to participate on the discussion/chats we are organizing.
>This is a small project to invite our contributors, mailing list and others to participate in the discussion of ideas and theories informed by practice.
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>For this project, six of our contributors moderate six chats online. Each chat last one hour and has as subject a specific theme within the area of realtime interaction. There is one in the morning (10AM/London) and another one in the evening (7PM/London), from the 4th until the 6th of April.
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>This is our first experiment in hosting a debate useful for anyone interested in the subject of realtime interaction. We asked a few of the VJ Theory project contributors to moderate conversations online in a chat room.
>You are welcome to join and contribute with your ideas to these conversations.
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>The resultant texts will be available after each chat through vjtheory.net.
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