marc garrett
Since the beginning
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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EVENT

Sensity by Stanza reviewed by Mark Hancock


Dates:
Thu May 28, 2009 00:00 - Thu May 28, 2009

Sensity by Stanza.

Review by Mark Hancock on Furtherfield.org.

Sensity monitors the changing state of the environment and transmits it from remote sensors back to a central hub that visually represents the location. Through this observation of the location and data gathering,
Sensity brings to mind questions regarding our urban society.

It draws our attention to the ever-shifting mood of the city. This ebb and flow, viewed over a period of time, might, one imagines, bring about some kind of anthropomorphism in our relationship to the environment. In the same way that an anonymous animal, viewed over a period of time, gradually shows personal characteristics, so does a city. It becomes a barometer of all our psychic imprints on it.

'These artworks represent the movement of people, pollution in the air, the vibrations and sounds of buildings. They are in effect emergent social sculptures visualizing the emotional state of the city.' Stanza.

Other Reviews and articles on furtherfield.org
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php


EVENT

WHO ARE THE SPIES? WE ARE THE SPIES!


Dates:
Mon Apr 20, 2009 00:00 - Mon Apr 20, 2009

Franz Thalmair interviews Daphne Dragona.

'Tag ties and affective spies' is the title of an on-line-exhibition which presents a selection of Internet-based artworks that highlight different aspects of the Social Web.

The exhibition features works by Alessandro Ludovico , Christophe Bruno , Daphne Dragona, Gregory Chatonsky, Jodi, Jonathan Harris, Juan Martin Prada, Les Liens Invisibles, Paolo Cirio, Personal Cinema, Ramsay Stirling, Sep Kamvar, The erasers, and Wayne Clements.

"Tagging", "posting", "sharing", "commenting", "rating" and ... once again, the other way around: affective and opinion-driven practices of exchange seem to be essential key issues for the everyday behaviour on the so called Social Web. But, what happens with us, the users of commercially hosted platforms, when we share our experiences and comment on opinions and statements brought in by other users? Do those mechanisms of interaction have any effect on the clever systems of pre-defined templates we move in? Tag ties and affective spies is the title of an online-exhibition which presents a selection of Internet-based artworks that highlight different aspects of the Social Web. With the exhibition, hosted by the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), curator of the show Daphne Dragona asks if we are really connecting or if we are also forming the structure of the Social Web itself?


EVENT

We won't fly for art : Take the Pledge.


Dates:
Mon Apr 13, 2009 00:00 - Mon Apr 13, 2009

I will not fly for art but only if 6 other people will do the same AND replicate this pledge."

— Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow
http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart

Deadline to sign up by: 26th April 2009

More details:
We won't fly for art

We will not take an aeroplane for the sake of art. For the next 6 months
we will find other ways to visit and participate in exhibitions, fairs,
conferences, meetings, residencies. We will not fly for inspiration, nor
to appreciate, buy or sell art.

But only if 6 others will do the same AND replicate this pledge.

This pledge is designed for exponential growth so if you persuade
another 6 people to do the same, within a year you could be one of
millions of people changing the way the artworld works. So sign up,
create a replica pledge and share your own experiences, observations and
arguments towards reducing art flights. Post a link to it in the comment
box so others can find their way to it.

This is a public art experiment in the de-escalation of carbon-fuelled,
high altitude, high-velocity, global art careering. For six months we
choose to cover less physical distance, move more slowly between
destinations, to look futureward with more attention to the view from
the ground and the network, for ways to connect with others around the
world.

Who can sign up to this pledge? Any individual involved in the arts:
artist (in the broadest sense), curator, art administrator, art
appreciator, gallerist, art critic, art historian, art academic, art
technician, art security, art transporter etc. Whether you currently fly
for art 50 times a year or never, your engagement will change things by
making your position in the artworld visible and by offering an
alternative perspective. If you work with others you may need to
completely revise your schedules and budgets and lobby for the right not
to fly.

This is to light the blue touch paper of Gustave Metzger's Reduce Art
Flights campaign using the generative and viral capabilities of social
networks. We want to know more about the impact of air-flight on the
artworld (and beyond). We intuit that abstaining from air flight will
motivate and enable people (with more time, money, energy and attention)
to relate differently to their own local cultures and to connect more
imaginatively to other cultures.

Inspirations and Observations

Artwork- 'Reduce Art Flights' by Gustave Metzger, reviewed here
http://tinyurl.com/cnv44r

Sustainable Development- Social science on the environmental impact of
economic growth
'Why Politicians Dare Not Limit Economic Growth' by Tim Jackson
http://tinyurl.com/6784zw

Investigative Journalism - What can we do to stop climate change?
Heat (2006) by George Monbiot, summarised and reviewed here
http://tinyurl.com/devyax
Monbiot's Guardian blog http://tinyurl.com/dcew6o

Plane Stupid Campaign- 'bringing the aviation industry down to earth'
http://www.planestupid.com/


EVENT

The Furtherfield Newsletter...


Dates:
Fri Apr 10, 2009 00:00 - Fri Apr 10, 2009

The 23rd Furtherfield newsletter is due for release in a couple days

The newsletter comes out about once a quarter, if you are interested in receiving a copy - reply to the email address of this post.

What is inside the Furtherfield Newsletter?

The Newsletter reflects a thriving and ever changing media art culture. Consisting of networked communities linked via activities on the Internet as well as physical environments it engages many emerging national and international practitioners, imaginative minds exploring experimental practice at the intersection of art, technology and social change.

You will receive up to date information about events, projects, exhibitions, reviews, articles, interviews, learning & participation projects, peer exchange, publishing, research, residencies and workshops. Updates on what is happening from all the networked nodes/platforms making up the dynamic Furtherfield Neighbourhood.

The Neighbourhood Consists of:

Furtherfield - online media arts community.
http://www.furtherfield.org

HTTP Gallery - media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Furthernoise - electronic and networked music community.
http://www.furthernoise.org

Netbehaviour - email list community for discussion.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org

VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org

Learning & Participation - Learning with Young People, Supporting Artists' Practice, Talks & Events at HTTP Gallery, Residency Programme, Upcoming Projects
http://www.furtherfield.org/learning.php

Furtherfield on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/furtherfield


DISCUSSION

The 4th Radiator festival. Going Underground - Surveillance and Sousveillance.


Review of The 4th Radiator festival by Trampoline on Furtherfield.

The 4th Radiator festival. Going Underground - Surveillance and Sousveillance.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=338

Review by Marc Garrett.

Exploits in the Wireless City is the 4th Radiator festival and symposium to date, which lasted between 13-24 January 2009, 10 days of Exhibitions, Events, Screenings, Music, Artists' Talks and more. Marc writes about the commission for the festival 'Going Underground', enquiring how the works relate to the theme of Surveillance and Sousveillance.

In this article, you will also find reviews on work by Stanza, The Office of Community Sousveillance, Folke Kobberling & Martin Kaltwasser.

"A contemporary enactment of the Orwellian vision is now here and for real, millions of lensed spectres watch our every move around the country in the streets, as the constant drone of shopping serfs waddle around in their state imposed panopticon daze. In George Orwell's visionary novel Nineteen Eighty-Four the Thought Police could view and control citizens at any moment via a tele-screen, no one new whether they were being watched or not. Today, the UK Government is so rabid in its support of technocratic solutions to control its citizens, we are now the most watched soap opera by the powers that be on the planet. Us, who live in Britain are presently monitored by 4 million CCTV cameras, and if you happen to be living in London you are likely to be viewed on camera about 300 times a day."

http://www.furtherfield.org