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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OPPORTUNITY

Re-rooting Digital Culture - Media Art Ecologies. ISEA 2011.


Deadline:
Sun Sep 18, 2011 09:00

Location:
Istanbul, Turkey

The ideas for this in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary panel will ex­plore the re­la­tion­ship be­tween dig­i­tal cul­ture and cli­mate change, de­vel­op­ing themes adopted in grass-roots, emerg­ing and es­tab­lished prac­tices in art, de­sign, ac­tivism and sci­ence.
Chair Per­son: Ruth Cat­low
Pre­sen­ters:
Helen Var­ley Jamieson
Michel Bauwens
Paula Crutchlow
Over the last decade the aware­ness of an­thro­pogenic cli­mate change has emerged in par­al­lel with hy­per-con­nec­tive dig­i­tal net­works. In the con­text of en­vi­ron­men­tal and eco­nomic col­lapse peo­ple around the world are seek­ing al­ter­na­tive vi­sions of pros­per­ity and sus­tain­able ways of liv­ing.
While the legacy of the car­bon fu­eled In­dus­trial Rev­o­lu­tion plays it­self out, we find our­selves grap­pling with ques­tions about the fu­ture im­pli­ca­tions of fast-evolv­ing global dig­i­tal in­fra­struc­ture. By their very na­ture the new tools, net­works and be­hav­iours of pro­duc­tiv­ity, ex­change and co­op­er­a­tion be­tween hu­mans and ma­chines grow and de­velop at an ac­cel­er­ated rate. The rhetoric, aes­thet­ics, tech­nics and as­so­ci­ated eth­i­cal ques­tions of dig­i­tal cul­ture are fun­da­men­tally chang­ing so­cial re­la­tions as well as the na­ture of our ma­te­r­ial ex­is­tence.
The ideas for this in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary panel have grown out of Fur­ther­field's Media Art Ecolo­gies pro­gramme and will ex­plore the re­la­tion­ship be­tween dig­i­tal cul­ture and cli­mate change, de­vel­op­ing themes adopted in grass-roots, emerg­ing and es­tab­lished prac­tices in art, de­sign, ac­tivism and sci­ence.
Pan­elists are artists and ac­tivists whose prac­tices ad­dress the in­ter­re­la­tion of tech­no­log­i­cal and nat­ural processes: be­ings and things, in­di­vid­u­als and mul­ti­tudes, mat­ter and pat­terns. They take an eco­log­i­cal ap­proach that chal­lenges growth eco­nom­ics and techno-con­sumerism and at­tends to the na­ture of co-evolv­ing, in­ter­de­pen­dent en­ti­ties and con­di­tions; they they ac­ti­vate net­works (dig­i­tal, so­cial, phys­i­cal) to work with eco­log­i­cal themes and Free and Open processes.
Furtherfield
www.furtherfield.org


DISCUSSION

The Philosophy of Software.


The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age" by David Berry. Review by Rob Myers.

This book is a critical introduction to code and software that develops an understanding of its social and philosophical implications in the digital age. Written specifically for people interested in the subject from a non-technical background, the book provides a lively and interesting analysis of these new media forms. An ambitious book where Berry turns his attention from the social relations and ideology of software (in "Rip, Mix, Burn", 2008) to the question of what software means in itself.


http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/philosophy-software

DISCUSSION

Videogame Appropriation in Contemporary Art: Racing Games


Installation Speed. Public Space Exhibition Plattform Bohnenstrasse in Bremen September 2006. Aram Bartholl.

Mathias Jansson continues with his series on classic Videogames and their appropriation into contemporary art. This time round he explores the theme of racing games, with a selection of examples of how the game has impacted artists' work and contemporary art culture. Including the videogame that gasses its players 'Colorless, odorless and tasteless' by Eva and Franco Mattes.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/videogame-appropriation-contemporary-art-racing-games

DISCUSSION

Remixthebook: Everything, all at once.


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http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/remixthebook-everything-all-once
Mark Hancock reviews Remixthebook by artist, author Mark Amerika and co-curator and artist Rick Silva, consisting of over 25 contributing international artists, poets, and critical theorists, all of them interdisciplinary in their own practice-based research, who sample from remixthebook and manipulate the selected source material through their own artistic and theoretical filters.
"Amerika explores various precedents for the remixological concept and draws on some known practitioners from the past: amongst them, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. He explores existing ideas and welds them into his own armoury. Their ideas considered as part of his own creative practice, brought back to the 'now' with new life, in our contemporary networked culture." Hancock.
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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
Furtherfield Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibitions

EVENT

Rob Myers reviews 'A Computer in the Art Room' by Catherine Mason.


Dates:
Thu Jan 06, 2011 00:00 - Thu Jan 06, 2011

A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950-1980. By Catherine Mason.

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Review by Rob Myers.

From the 1950s to the 1980s teachers and students at British educational institutions begged or borrowed access to computing machinery and used it to make art. Catherine Mason traces this history, sets it in a broader cultural context, and makes the case for its re-evaluation.

Art Computing in the UK is no less interesting than Art Computing anywhere else but its history often seems like a carefully guarded secret. This has been alleviated by activity around the resurrected Computer Arts Society in the 2000s, notably the acquisition of CAS's archives by the V&A and the CaCHE project at Birbeck College which ran from 2002-2005. CaCHE, run by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nick Lambert and Catherine Mason, produced conferences, exhibitions, and publications including the book "A Computer In the Art Room", by Mason.

In 2002 Catherine began researching the history of British computer arts at Birkbeck, University of London with the CACHe Project (Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc.), funded by the UK's Arts & Humanities Research Council. In 2006 she produced Bits in Motion, a screening of early British computer animation, at London's National Film Theatre. She has contributed to Futures Past: Twenty Years of Arts Computing published by Intellect, 2007 and White Heat, Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980, forthcoming MIT Press, and her latest book A Computer in the Art Room: the origins of British computer arts 1950-80 published 2008.

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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

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

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org