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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.
Furtherfield's Community Blog Stream.
Since changing the Furtherfield web site, there have been so many new things added it has been hard to catch up with it all.
It is a much more open platform now. Not just that, it is obvious many have instinctively taken advantage of this in various creative ways - which is of course what it's about.
So, this is a good time to mention 'The Community Blog Stream'. http://www.furtherfield.org/blogs
A place where you can post your current ideas, thoughts, writings and images, it is then immediately seen on the front page by the community and web site visitors.
Claim it, have fun and get your noise out there:-)
Wishing all well.
marc
It is a much more open platform now. Not just that, it is obvious many have instinctively taken advantage of this in various creative ways - which is of course what it's about.
So, this is a good time to mention 'The Community Blog Stream'. http://www.furtherfield.org/blogs
A place where you can post your current ideas, thoughts, writings and images, it is then immediately seen on the front page by the community and web site visitors.
Claim it, have fun and get your noise out there:-)
Wishing all well.
marc
Station Rose Presentation & Book Launch at Furtherfield.
Dates:
Thu Feb 10, 2011 19:00 - Thu Feb 10, 2011
Location:
london,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Furtherfield is pleased to present the UK Book launch of STATION ROSE: 20 Digital Years Plus, published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg.
RSVP - Please contact ale@furtherfield.org
Station Rose, pioneers of digital culture, have produced an artist’s book which delivers a current description of the situation of media art from 1988, when the studio was founded, until 2010. Station Rose (Elisa Rose and Gary Danner) are considered to be innovators and visionaries in the field of audiovisual art, electronic music, net art and audiovisual live performance. The book features audio-visual works, performances, installations and Web 2.0 activities and linkings. Part of the book is dedicated to the media sculpture LoginCabin exhibited for three months in 2009 in the MAK in Vienna.
Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org
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Other Info:
A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;)
http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Reviews, articles, interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/features
Furtherfield Lab/Space/Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London)
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibitions
Netbehaviour - Networked Artists email list Community.
http://www.furtherfield.org/netbehaviour
RSVP - Please contact ale@furtherfield.org
Station Rose, pioneers of digital culture, have produced an artist’s book which delivers a current description of the situation of media art from 1988, when the studio was founded, until 2010. Station Rose (Elisa Rose and Gary Danner) are considered to be innovators and visionaries in the field of audiovisual art, electronic music, net art and audiovisual live performance. The book features audio-visual works, performances, installations and Web 2.0 activities and linkings. Part of the book is dedicated to the media sculpture LoginCabin exhibited for three months in 2009 in the MAK in Vienna.
Furtherfield – online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org
————>
Other Info:
A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;)
http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Reviews, articles, interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/features
Furtherfield Lab/Space/Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London)
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibitions
Netbehaviour - Networked Artists email list Community.
http://www.furtherfield.org/netbehaviour
Visit our new website & watch the new short film about Furtherfield by Pete Gomes.
Dates:
Fri Jan 28, 2011 16:56 - Mon Jan 31, 2011
Location:
london,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Our brand new media arts website provides new ways for you to visit and get involved :-)
We believe that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies.
http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield - a Short Film by Pete Gomes.
http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/furtherfield-short-film-pete-gomes
Film and video artist Pete Gomes has created a new film about the artist-led online community Furtherfield. Featuring interviews with
Furtherfield co-directors Ruth Catlow and Marc Garret as well as artists, techies, games theorists and users of Furtherfield platforms, the short film captures a dynamic networking collective working across technology, social change and art.
"The generation of artists who first encountered the internet inevitably all came from other disciplines. The desire to explore this new medium shifted them away from making products and the commercial art markets towards looking at information and organisation, influenced by an interest in systems thinking and cybernetic ideas. This short shows Furtherfield has continued those early approaches and begins a process of attempting to explain those ideas." - Pete Gomes
About Furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about
We believe that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies.
http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield - a Short Film by Pete Gomes.
http://www.furtherfield.org/projects/furtherfield-short-film-pete-gomes
Film and video artist Pete Gomes has created a new film about the artist-led online community Furtherfield. Featuring interviews with
Furtherfield co-directors Ruth Catlow and Marc Garret as well as artists, techies, games theorists and users of Furtherfield platforms, the short film captures a dynamic networking collective working across technology, social change and art.
"The generation of artists who first encountered the internet inevitably all came from other disciplines. The desire to explore this new medium shifted them away from making products and the commercial art markets towards looking at information and organisation, influenced by an interest in systems thinking and cybernetic ideas. This short shows Furtherfield has continued those early approaches and begins a process of attempting to explain those ideas." - Pete Gomes
About Furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about
Class Wargames and Tine Bech Interviewed on Resonance FM by Furtherfield 2010
Class Wargames and Tine Bech Interviewed on Resonance FM by Furtherfield 2010.
http://www.furtherfield.org/radio/24112010-class-wargames-and-tine-bech
Dr. Richard Barbrook & Fabian Tompsett. Interview by Marc Garrett.
Dr. Richard Barbrook & Fabian Tompsett talk about their collaborative group Class Wargames & their current project 'The Game of War'. Guy Debord, strategist of the Situationist International, developed the game while in exile after the May '68 Revolution, and came to regard it as his most important project. For Debord, The Game of War wasn't just a game. The Game of War is a Clausewitz simulator: a Napoleonic-era military strategy game where armies must maintain their communications structure to survive - and where victory is achieved by smashing your opponent's supply network rather than by taking their pieces. www.classwargames.net
Irini & Jonathan interview Tine Bech.
Tine Bech, a visual artist and researcher who works with interactive installations and public art. She was born in Denmark and now lives and works in London. Her practice is concerned with how we engage with our immediate environment. Projects have centred on the use of interactive electronics and location tracking technology, urban spaces and environmental elements such as gravity, water, sound and light to develop spaces where participations, play, and experiences of immersion take place. www.tinebech.com
Find other broadcasts/podcasts - downloads here:
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/radio
Furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org
Resonance 104.4 FM
http://resonancefm.com/
http://www.furtherfield.org/radio/24112010-class-wargames-and-tine-bech
Dr. Richard Barbrook & Fabian Tompsett. Interview by Marc Garrett.
Dr. Richard Barbrook & Fabian Tompsett talk about their collaborative group Class Wargames & their current project 'The Game of War'. Guy Debord, strategist of the Situationist International, developed the game while in exile after the May '68 Revolution, and came to regard it as his most important project. For Debord, The Game of War wasn't just a game. The Game of War is a Clausewitz simulator: a Napoleonic-era military strategy game where armies must maintain their communications structure to survive - and where victory is achieved by smashing your opponent's supply network rather than by taking their pieces. www.classwargames.net
Irini & Jonathan interview Tine Bech.
Tine Bech, a visual artist and researcher who works with interactive installations and public art. She was born in Denmark and now lives and works in London. Her practice is concerned with how we engage with our immediate environment. Projects have centred on the use of interactive electronics and location tracking technology, urban spaces and environmental elements such as gravity, water, sound and light to develop spaces where participations, play, and experiences of immersion take place. www.tinebech.com
Find other broadcasts/podcasts - downloads here:
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/radio
Furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org
Resonance 104.4 FM
http://resonancefm.com/
at winter equinox we burn The Sun.
Video by Marc Garrett & Ruth Calow - http://dvblog.org/?p=7385

"Here they ritually burn a copy of the evil Murdoch’s UK organ The Sun & accompany this with music both apposite and well executed.
I think this is shot very well. I don’t mean in a boring technical sense – who gives a? - but that it is utterly alive, especially those beautiful final, almost vertical, shots. There’s a delicious play here too on folkishness which treads a fine line in avoiding
being itself folksy. Further – here’s a practical demonstration of how political art doesn’t have to be dour or ploddingly earnest and indeed can summon a visceral beauty. There’s a dialogue (or, perhaps better, an argument) between this celebration of the beauty
of the world, betokened in this scene and what passes therein, and the real ugliness and anti-humanity of the paper and its contents.
Great Great Great." Michael Szpakowski - http://dvblog.org
Marc Garrett & Ruth Catlow, the movers behind the indispensable www.furtherfield.org & the www.netbehaviour.org

"Here they ritually burn a copy of the evil Murdoch’s UK organ The Sun & accompany this with music both apposite and well executed.
I think this is shot very well. I don’t mean in a boring technical sense – who gives a? - but that it is utterly alive, especially those beautiful final, almost vertical, shots. There’s a delicious play here too on folkishness which treads a fine line in avoiding
being itself folksy. Further – here’s a practical demonstration of how political art doesn’t have to be dour or ploddingly earnest and indeed can summon a visceral beauty. There’s a dialogue (or, perhaps better, an argument) between this celebration of the beauty
of the world, betokened in this scene and what passes therein, and the real ugliness and anti-humanity of the paper and its contents.
Great Great Great." Michael Szpakowski - http://dvblog.org
Marc Garrett & Ruth Catlow, the movers behind the indispensable www.furtherfield.org & the www.netbehaviour.org