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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.
New works reviewed on Furtherfield.
-New works reviewed on Furtherfield.
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http://www.furtherfield.org
OnlyOneNativeSpeaker - socialfiction.org
Visually, OnlyOneNativeSpeaker is simple and straightforward while the
contents alternate between playful, dense, poetic and esoteric. The home
page, with a white background, teal serif text and large red headers, is
roughly divided vertically in half. The left half contains a chatty yet
informative description of OnlyOneNativeSpeaker's purpose, along with an
exhortation for participation, while the right half contains several
lists of links grouped under the headings of "Infrastructure,"
"Languages," and "Categories." "Languages" is divided into several
subcategories: "Local," "Submitted," and "Of interest." "Infrastructure"
contains links to the OONS wiki, the OONS del.icio.us page, and an OONS
yahoogroups mailinglist, along with an email link to socialfiction.org
for language submissions. Reviewer: Alsion Colman.
Black Holes - Lewis LaCook.
One of the questions that faces those of us who wish to frame and seek
answers to the question of what is Net.Art, (or at least, what it could
be) is the consideration of what part of the project is Net dependant?
Has the artist used the internet merely as the carrier for the art work,
and therefore used it as a free and worldwide form of art gallery, or is
the work intrinsically borne on the web and unable to exist in any other
form? Is the artwork using the networked environment in such a way that
its content is in part formed by the medium? Reviewer: Mark Hancock.
Low-fi exhibition including works by: Radarboy, Cavan Convery, UK Museum
of Ordure, Mauricio Arango, James Coupe, Kate Rich.
This exhibition is ambitious in its breadth of concept, content and
range of networked technologies and while Low-fi accommodates some
experimental concept- stretching in a couple of the artworks, the show
is astutely curated. By not relying on the usual protocols of
established media art history to justify its existence, it manages to
communicate to new audiences without interfering with the artwork's
meanings. The supporting information is clear and unpretentious,
introducing the work in a way that serves to demystify the technology
and places its use well in the context of the artists' intentions.
Collaborative Review: Marc Garrett & Ruth Catlow.
BramTV
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http://www.furtherfield.org
OnlyOneNativeSpeaker - socialfiction.org
Visually, OnlyOneNativeSpeaker is simple and straightforward while the
contents alternate between playful, dense, poetic and esoteric. The home
page, with a white background, teal serif text and large red headers, is
roughly divided vertically in half. The left half contains a chatty yet
informative description of OnlyOneNativeSpeaker's purpose, along with an
exhortation for participation, while the right half contains several
lists of links grouped under the headings of "Infrastructure,"
"Languages," and "Categories." "Languages" is divided into several
subcategories: "Local," "Submitted," and "Of interest." "Infrastructure"
contains links to the OONS wiki, the OONS del.icio.us page, and an OONS
yahoogroups mailinglist, along with an email link to socialfiction.org
for language submissions. Reviewer: Alsion Colman.
Black Holes - Lewis LaCook.
One of the questions that faces those of us who wish to frame and seek
answers to the question of what is Net.Art, (or at least, what it could
be) is the consideration of what part of the project is Net dependant?
Has the artist used the internet merely as the carrier for the art work,
and therefore used it as a free and worldwide form of art gallery, or is
the work intrinsically borne on the web and unable to exist in any other
form? Is the artwork using the networked environment in such a way that
its content is in part formed by the medium? Reviewer: Mark Hancock.
Low-fi exhibition including works by: Radarboy, Cavan Convery, UK Museum
of Ordure, Mauricio Arango, James Coupe, Kate Rich.
This exhibition is ambitious in its breadth of concept, content and
range of networked technologies and while Low-fi accommodates some
experimental concept- stretching in a couple of the artworks, the show
is astutely curated. By not relying on the usual protocols of
established media art history to justify its existence, it manages to
communicate to new audiences without interfering with the artwork's
meanings. The supporting information is clear and unpretentious,
introducing the work in a way that serves to demystify the technology
and places its use well in the context of the artists' intentions.
Collaborative Review: Marc Garrett & Ruth Catlow.
BramTV
Re: MELLANCOLIC TEXT
*THIS IS A WONDERFUL MELLANCOLIC TEXT WITH A CLEAR POLITICAL INTENT*
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*MARCNIK,OCTOBER 2005
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*MARCNIK,OCTOBER 2005
A randomSeed Event
A randomSeed Event
Artists' Talk and Launch of new work by boredomresearch
HTTP Gallery Sunday 9th of October 2005 - 2 to 4 pm
Vicky Isley and Paul Smith of boredomresearch will be presenting a new
randomSeed and talking about their work. With the launch of a new
randomSeed within the
Artists' Talk and Launch of new work by boredomresearch
HTTP Gallery Sunday 9th of October 2005 - 2 to 4 pm
Vicky Isley and Paul Smith of boredomresearch will be presenting a new
randomSeed and talking about their work. With the launch of a new
randomSeed within the
The Fundamentalist Shadow of George W. Bush
Dr. Bush and Mr. Hyde:
The Fundamentalist Shadow of George W. Bush
By John D. Goldhammer
A mouth that prays, a hand that kills.
- Arabian proverb
"How do you find a lion that has swallowed you?" asked Swiss
psychologist, Carl Jung, commenting on the moral dilemma posed by the
"shadow," his insightful term for the dark, hidden side of the human
psyche. The answer to Jung's questions is "you can't find or see that
lion"-not as long as you are inside the beast. And therein resides the
essential dilemma of a group's dark side or shadow: it is nearly
impossible for those caught inside a group's belief system to see their
own dark side with any clarity or objectivity. This hidden side grows
over time, regressing, becoming more and more aggressive. It's the "long
bag we drag behind us," says poet Robert Bly-where, as individuals, we
dispose of all those things that are too uncomfortable to look at. "The
long-repressed shadow of Dr. Jekyll rises up in the shape of Mr. Hyde,
deformed, an ape-like figure glimpsed against the alley wall."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00292.htm
The Fundamentalist Shadow of George W. Bush
By John D. Goldhammer
A mouth that prays, a hand that kills.
- Arabian proverb
"How do you find a lion that has swallowed you?" asked Swiss
psychologist, Carl Jung, commenting on the moral dilemma posed by the
"shadow," his insightful term for the dark, hidden side of the human
psyche. The answer to Jung's questions is "you can't find or see that
lion"-not as long as you are inside the beast. And therein resides the
essential dilemma of a group's dark side or shadow: it is nearly
impossible for those caught inside a group's belief system to see their
own dark side with any clarity or objectivity. This hidden side grows
over time, regressing, becoming more and more aggressive. It's the "long
bag we drag behind us," says poet Robert Bly-where, as individuals, we
dispose of all those things that are too uncomfortable to look at. "The
long-repressed shadow of Dr. Jekyll rises up in the shape of Mr. Hyde,
deformed, an ape-like figure glimpsed against the alley wall."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0509/S00292.htm
Low-fi gets physical at Stills
*Low-fi gets physical at Stills*
Article written about the Low-fi exhibition can viewed at Mazine -
www.mazine.ws
Written by Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow (from www.Furtherfield.org)
low-fi exhibiton at Stills, Edinburgh, UK.
Mauricio Arango, Cavan Convery, James Coupe, UK Museum of Ordure,
radarboy, Kate Rich
6th August - 1st October
Low-fi:
http://www.low-fi.org.uk/
The Stills Gallery:
http://www.stills.org/
Article written about the Low-fi exhibition can viewed at Mazine -
www.mazine.ws
Written by Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow (from www.Furtherfield.org)
low-fi exhibiton at Stills, Edinburgh, UK.
Mauricio Arango, Cavan Convery, James Coupe, UK Museum of Ordure,
radarboy, Kate Rich
6th August - 1st October
Low-fi:
http://www.low-fi.org.uk/
The Stills Gallery:
http://www.stills.org/