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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.
The 4th Radiator festival. Going Underground - Surveillance and Sousveillance.
Dates:
Tue Apr 07, 2009 00:00 - Tue Apr 07, 2009
Review of The 4th Radiator festival by Trampoline on Furtherfield.
The 4th Radiator festival. Going Underground - Surveillance and Sousveillance.
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
The 4th Radiator festival. Going Underground - Surveillance and Sousveillance.
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
RomaEuropaFAKEFactory - Report from REFF.erence at the Italian Senate
Thanks Slavatore,
It looks great. I love the spirit of it all...
It looks great. I love the spirit of it all...
Our Ada Lovelace Day ends Mar 30th.
Our Ada Lovelace Day ends Mar 30th.
Just a reminder to those who missed Ada Lovelace Day and still wishes to be a part of the project to submit your contributions. There is still time...
We have been receiving many entries in support of Ada Lovelace Day, which will be a valuable resource for all in the future.
Original call out below...
In support of Ada Lovelace Day we are inviting all women who work in media arts and net art to join the NetBehaviour email list for a week between 23rd and 30th March.
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
We would like to know about your work and that of other women who have inspired you in your own practice. So please come and squat the NetBehaviour list for a week (of course we hope you'll stick around for longer:) and share your inspirations with our friendly community of artists, academics, writers, code geeks, curators, independent thinkers,
activists and net mutualists.
Posts are welcome in any format and frequency. The following is offered as an example.
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MY NAME: Ruth Catlow
URL: http://www.furtherfield.org/display_user.php?ID=14
INSPIRED BY:
Ele Carpenter - http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ for tech inspired and facilitated participation with Open Source Embroidery, her curatorial project exploring artists practice that explores the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing.
Auriea Harvey - for her part with Entropy8Zuper in early intimate networked performances http://entropy8zuper.org/wirefire and for Endless Forest, Tale of Tales's bucolic social screensaver http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest
Mary Flanagan - for her energetic explorations as academic, educator, artist and programmer at the intersection of games, art and feminism and exploring collaborative approaches to thinking about values in http://www.valuesatplay.org/
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At the end of the week we will collate all of the posts in the thread and feature them on Furtherfield.org.
See you on Netbehaviour : ))
With all best wishes from
Ruth and the Furtherfield team
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Ada Lovelace Day -bringing women in technology to the fore http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/05/ada-lovelace-day/
sign a pledge to blog about inspirational women in tech on 24th March.
NetBehaviour is the Furtherfield.org email discussion listJoin NetBehaviour for a week between 23rd and 30th March (of course we hope you will stick around: )
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Just a reminder to those who missed Ada Lovelace Day and still wishes to be a part of the project to submit your contributions. There is still time...
We have been receiving many entries in support of Ada Lovelace Day, which will be a valuable resource for all in the future.
Original call out below...
In support of Ada Lovelace Day we are inviting all women who work in media arts and net art to join the NetBehaviour email list for a week between 23rd and 30th March.
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
We would like to know about your work and that of other women who have inspired you in your own practice. So please come and squat the NetBehaviour list for a week (of course we hope you'll stick around for longer:) and share your inspirations with our friendly community of artists, academics, writers, code geeks, curators, independent thinkers,
activists and net mutualists.
Posts are welcome in any format and frequency. The following is offered as an example.
====================
MY NAME: Ruth Catlow
URL: http://www.furtherfield.org/display_user.php?ID=14
INSPIRED BY:
Ele Carpenter - http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ for tech inspired and facilitated participation with Open Source Embroidery, her curatorial project exploring artists practice that explores the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing.
Auriea Harvey - for her part with Entropy8Zuper in early intimate networked performances http://entropy8zuper.org/wirefire and for Endless Forest, Tale of Tales's bucolic social screensaver http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest
Mary Flanagan - for her energetic explorations as academic, educator, artist and programmer at the intersection of games, art and feminism and exploring collaborative approaches to thinking about values in http://www.valuesatplay.org/
==============================
At the end of the week we will collate all of the posts in the thread and feature them on Furtherfield.org.
See you on Netbehaviour : ))
With all best wishes from
Ruth and the Furtherfield team
==========================
Ada Lovelace Day -bringing women in technology to the fore http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/05/ada-lovelace-day/
sign a pledge to blog about inspirational women in tech on 24th March.
NetBehaviour is the Furtherfield.org email discussion listJoin NetBehaviour for a week between 23rd and 30th March (of course we hope you will stick around: )
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Rhizome Celebrates Ada Lovelace Day
Hi John,
Here is the original link announced on Rhizome. It finishes on March 30th...
http://rhizome.org/announce/view/52976
Thanks for your attention...
marc
Here is the original link announced on Rhizome. It finishes on March 30th...
http://rhizome.org/announce/view/52976
Thanks for your attention...
marc