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

Investigating Asian Internet-based Art. Part 1.


Dates:
Mon Aug 10, 2009 00:00 - Mon Aug 10, 2009

Article by Darleen Principe.

An investigation on the concept of identity in Asian Internet-based art. These works are not necessarily net.art in the traditional sense, but they have two things in common - they are by Asian artists and they explore the concept of identity through digital means. Featuring artists C.J. Yeh and artist Dyske Syematsu.

"As a Furtherfield.org intern, I recently began a research project to find and investigate net.art originating from Asian countries. Coming from an Asian background myself, I thought it would be worthwhile to explore the field in hopes of making some self-reflexive connections."

Other Info:

We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

The Netbehaviour list
http://www.netbehaviour.org/


EVENT

Coming Out of One's Bubble.


Dates:
Wed Aug 05, 2009 00:00 - Wed Aug 05, 2009

An interview with Annie Abrahams and Albertine Meunier by Cyril Thomas, French art historian and art critic, who posed his questions by mail separately to each artist.

Annie Abrahams was born in Hilvarenbeek, the Netherlands. Since 1985 she lives in France. She has a doctorate in biology (University of Utrecht) and is a graduate in fine arts (Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Arnhem).

Catherine Ramus aka Albertine Meunier is a net artist and DIY artist who lives at Vitry-sur-Seine, France.

Keywords: browser art, code art, database, dialogue, d.i.y, installation, interactive, interplay, Internet Art, networked art, interview, media art, narrative, net art, networked, video, performance...

Other info - http://www.furtherfield.org


EVENT

Video | Feral trade cafe: buying a narrative with your coffee.


Dates:
Mon Jul 27, 2009 00:00 - Mon Jul 27, 2009

Video | Feral trade cafe: buying a narrative with your coffee.

by William Shaw from The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre.

"It’s interesting to see how the best media art moved on from the idea of creating networks in the virtual world, to seeing how those networks could affect the real world. Early net communities were full of idealism; how far does that ability to change the way we interact with each other spill over into the physical?"

William Shaw visits North London’s HTTP Gallery, where media artists/gallerists Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett are exhibiting the Feral Trade Cafe, implemeting artist Kate Rich’s Feral Trade network in their gallery space.

The RSA Arts and Ecology Centre is an organisation whose role is to catalyse, publicise, challenge and support artists who are responding to the unprecedented environmental challenges of our era. Using their inspirations, RSA Arts and Ecology aims to create a positive discussion about the causes and the human impact of climate change through commissioning, debate, interdisciplinary discourse and a high-profile website.


DISCUSSION

Blackness for Sale (2001) - Keith Obadike


Hi Ceci & all,

Thank you for your response I am going on holiday for a week. So will not be able to discuss any of this right now, but will read your comments when I am back :)

Wishing all well - marc

DISCUSSION

Blackness for Sale (2001) - Keith Obadike


Hi Brian & all,

Yes, Ruth Catlow & myself asked many people in fact. We posted a request to people who use the Internet world-wide, to support our pledge "we won't fly for art" http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart. We posted to various lists and Netbehaviour.org which is quite a collaborative list in its nature, was one of them. If you are interested what the other lists were, they include Nettime, Syndicate, Spectre, Nodel as well as Rhizome.

The Pledgebank is a online platform existing outside of all of media art communities. Here is a link to other pledges which were successful in getting shared representation by users of the Internet - http://www.pledgebank.com/list/succeeded - Our project on this page was successful, but only because it was networked and connected internationally. I doubt that it would of been as successful if we kept it only within the furtherfield or Netbehaviour communities, it needed to be part of larger thing to have meaning as well as survive.

We wanted to pose questions about the art world's relationship with climate change, especially in respect of our dependencies on conferences internationally and ask how we could explore this dichotomy together - is there a way out of this trap that we all seem to be caught in? Just because certain questions may be bringing about feelings of impossible resolve, it really does not mean they should not be explored or discussed. In fact, great things can come out of such shared visions and ideas, which can offer positive ways around such issues being shared and explored.

Moving onto your comment proposing that I am complaining, this 'word' in itself really does not justify or take on the true complexity of what is being discussed on here. I have a strong, personal place in my heart for Rhizome and have grown with many others through the years, up with Rhizome and its community. It did not used to be as unusual to be discussing the nature, function, ideas around what Rhizome was, as it seems now - it used to be a regular part of a shared dialogue, functioning at many different levels which was one the many special things and qualities that Rhizome shared with its community.

Having said this, I am beginning to realise how much Rhizome has 'really' changed - more than I originally had presumed. I can imagine various subscribers of Rhizome lurking in the background, saying "Deal with it, that's the way it is". In a way, I would agree with them, but I also feel that it is important to share dialogue with others on subjects that matter, and Rhizome does matter. I would go as far as saying that it is because I value Rhizome so much, that I am willing to spend a little snippet of my precious time in discussing this subject with you and others on here in the first place. I get annoyed with Rhizome, like one gets annoyed with a friend. I mean no harm but sometimes it is good to air things rather than just keep things hidden under the carpet.

Rhizome is a part of A media art culture that I have spent a lot of my time with, as an individual artist and director of furtherfield, and other nodes and projects through the years. I have, with many others invested in Rhizome, given it respect and quality time in supporting it, whether it be culturally or by giving money to keep it going. In return, Rhizome has also (in the past) been open in supporting myself and other projects that I have been connected with, which is a kind of mutual arrangement, unofficially of course. And yes, I will still remain a subscriber to Rhizome because I believe that it is extremely important to support other groups out there who are engaged in media arts as well as related creativities.

I think what has been expounded from my own corner, is a position of what one values. In no way would I want Rhizome to be just a place that is only political. Art is big enough and flexible enough as a creative endeavour to allow more than just a few specifically themed resources or behaviours in this multifarious, ever changing movement of internationally shared expressions. It is important to remember that Rhizome's spirit grew out of net art, it is still a networked environment but in contrast to other social networks, it is now more closed than before, which is a remarkable achievement itself, even though one may not necessarily agree with the reasoning behind it or be happy with the consequences.

So, because I know that the Rhizome staff will probably be in the background wishing I would just shut up, as well as other punters here. I will.

I am really hoping that, those who are bothering to read this have the vision and flexibility within themselves, in allowing space and time to contemplate where I am coming from without turning to easy assumptions, thus diverting their minds from what is really being discussed. It's complicated...

Wishing everyone well, and I am sorry for being such a pain - it is not intentional, I will try to be less passionate next time ;-)