marc garrett
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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: Re: One Day Left


mmmm...

Now you're talking...

marc

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> > a my proposal to the main problem which is lack of true community.
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> > !!!the members of rhizome should elect the board.!!!
> > this would really make the members feel like they have a real say in
> > how the org is run.
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> Now that I like!
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The Exxon Valdez of foreign policies


The Exxon Valdez of foreign policies

This administration has the Exxon Valdez of foreign policies. For our
leaders, the lights have gone on in Africa only because of oil. (See the
following piece from Le Monde Diplomatique.) They're bringing "democracy" to
Iraq at least in significant part for oil and, if and when an American
occupying army makes it there, it won't be leaving soon largely for reasons
of oil. (See Michael Rennart's piece in today's International Herald
Tribune.) But "oil" is a complicated three letter word. It stands in for a
multitude of sins and dreams, including an urge to control future economic
and military competitors from China and Japan to Europe.

In our distinctly over-determined world, there are undoubtedly other reasons
for the focus on Iraq -- like an imperial urge to provide an object lesson
to all potential rogue, or even uppity, states out there, and an urge to
remake the Middle East in our own image (a bit of a shape-shifting concept
these days).

http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid07

DISCUSSION

A Daisy For Peace


A Daisy For Peace
Posted by Lakshmi on January 16, 2003 @ 3:24PM

A powerul new ad put out by the Internet advocacy group MoveOn.org will hit
televisions in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Boston and eight other U.S. cities. The 30-second spot (Real Media
Required), titled Daisy 2, reworks former Democratic President Lyndon
Johnson's controversial election ad.

It shows a young girl picking petals off a daisy and culminates in a
mushroom cloud. As the ad rolls through footage of burning oil wells and
crowds of angry Arabs, the narrators voice says, "War with Iraq. Maybe it
will end quickly. Maybe not. Maybe it will spread. Maybe extremists will
take over countries with nuclear weapons." The final message: Let the
Inspections Work.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/01/000245.html

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: One Day Left


OK

> the administrative & executive staff are being paid
> while the creatives (the people generating rhizomes content) are not.

So what kind of system do you think should be put in place to pay artists
featured or cloned (their work that is not them) , say if the Lawyers fees
were scrapped?

marc

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> to restate :
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> i am not against mark or alex or other rhizome staff being paid,
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> i am not against paying $5,
> (the amount is trivial.
> i personally would charge & be comfortable paying 3 times that amount.)
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> what i am objecting to, is a pattern
> that is unfortunately quite common :
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> the administrative & executive staff are being paid
> while the creatives (the people generating rhizomes content) are not.
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> as long as this basic inequity exists,
> i will not be paying anything for rhizome.
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> the situation is unfair.
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DISCUSSION

Target: Martin Luther King


Target: Martin Luther King

By Richard Goldstein, Village Voice
January 17, 2003

We never talked about assassination," says William Pepper, who worked with
King during the last year of his life. Though black activists were being
murdered in growing numbers, King's colleagues didn't connect the dots. "We
never put together what had happened in Vietnam, Cuba, and the Congo [where
CIA-supported assassination plots succeeded, except in Castro's case]. We
couldn't apply that to us. It's a lament of mine that we were not more
aware."

By 1978, Pepper was in a very different place. He'd become an attorney
representing the man convicted of killing King, James Earl Ray. Ray always
claimed he'd been framed, and the King family came to believe him. With
their approval, Pepper fought for a retrial, but the state of Tennessee
successfully blocked the proceeding, and in 1998 Ray died, still protesting
his innocence. A year later, Pepper was back in court pursuing the only
option left: a civil suit. The jury concurred with his case, and their
verdict cited "government agencies" as "parties to this conspiracy." The
Justice Department launched an investigation in 2000 but found no basis for
the jury's judgment. The official explanation remains what it was at Ray's
conviction: that he acted alone.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID903