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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FURTHERNOISE RADIO ON BCFM 93.2 FM TONIGHT TUESDAY 3RD JULY.


FURTHERNOISE RADIO ON BCFM 93.2 FM TONIGHT TUESDAY 3RD JULY.
22.00-23.00 BST (+1GMT)
Repeated 11-12 pm BST Wednesday 4th July.
Online Stream - http://www.bcfm.org.uk
See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock for your own location time.

22.00-23.00 UK
17.00-18.00 NYC
23.00-24.00 Europe
6-7 am - Tokyo Wednesday 4th (Repeated 19.00- 20.00)
7-8 am - Australia Wednesday 4th (Repeated 20.00- 21.00)

Tonight's program focuses on leftfield Bristol music & noise from past
to present. We also have a live interview with art journalists & film
makers Thomas Gotz & Dieter Wulmer who are documenting the music &
acoustic ecology of Bristol for a feature on HR2 & Radio Bremen in Germany.

Using the opportunity to showcase some of Bristol's most contemporary
experimental music & sounds along side obscure tracks & remixes by
Startled Insects, More Rockers & Massive Attack, Furthernoise will be
highlighting the innovative music & art that makes Bristol's vibrant
culture sound & look like it does.

Live Visual Mix
Our regular radio VJ's Graziano, Neil, Stu, Marc Garrett & Open Mix will
again be mixing live visual montages to the stream in the online A/V
Studio VisitorsStudio.

To get visual mix & radio stream simply open separate browser windows
for each:

Radio 93.2 FM (Bristol only)
Radio stream http://www.bcfm.org.uk
Visual Streamhttp://www.visitorsstudio.org

Audio & visual mixes also available as podcasts from
http://www.furthernoise.org

DISCUSSION

New Audio/Visual Mixes on VisitorsStudio by Graziano Milano.


New Audio/Visual Mixes on VisitorsStudio by Graziano Milano.

http://blog.visitorsstudio.org/?q=node/53

Info about Visitorsstudio:
http://blog.visitorsstudio.org

An online place for real-time, multi-user mixing, collaborative
creation, many to many dialogue and networked performance and play.

Visitorsstudio is a Furtherfield.org project. Through simple and
accessible facilities, the VisitorsStudio web-based interface allows
users to upload, manipulate and collage their own audio-visual files
with others', to remix existing media. VisitorsStudio provides a
platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent
and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations
and social contexts.

Participants upload sound files and still/moving images (jpg, png, mp3,
flv, swf) to a shared database, mixing and responding to each other's
compositions in real-time. Individuals can also chat with each other and
are located in the interface by their own dancing-cursors.

VisitorsStudio Version2, incorporates new artistic tools and community
building facilities. Users are able to schedule and promote their own
networked performance programmes. These can be recorded, archived,
rated, downloaded and redistributed as screensavers to users' own desktops.

Informal, impromptu and ad hoc collaborations form the mainstay of
VisitorsStudio activities. Debates and conversations that start in
forums and mailing lists decamp to VisitorsStudio where dialogue is
extended beyond text into a rich audio-visual medium. Larger events are
also organised that can showcase artists work and/or focus on shared
human, political and global concerns. By projecting VisitorsStudio into
public spaces: community centres, cafes, bars, galleries, these events
can connect communities of people in public spaces around the world.

VisitorsStudio events and projects are devised and promoted by
individuals or groups from around the world, providing a platform for
both established media artists and first timers.

Visitors can automatically record and distribute their mixes.

Please visit the VisitorsStudio Archive to replay a selection of
sessions that were archived manually in 2004 - 05. They show a number of
ways in which VistorsStudio Version1 was used by different groups of people.

VisitorsStudio was first developed by furtherfield.org in 2003 in
parallel with furtherstudio.org a real-time, online, artists' residency
programme. The idea was to encourage audiences new to media arts to get
actively involved in the creative process by providing an easy-to-use,
experimental production space live online, which was also a playful
social space. Since this time VisitorsStudio has been collaboratively
developed by artists, programmers, critics and curators, under the
creative direction of Furtherfield.org, with significant contributions
by artists and audiences, experienced and new to networked art. This
platform continues to grow organically in response to participation and
feedback.

For more context visit here:
http://blog.visitorsstudio.org/?q

DISCUSSION

New posts on the Furtherfield Blog.


New posts on the Furtherfield Blog.
http://blog.furtherfield.org

Get ready to be upstaged - by Helen Varley Jamieson:
winter in nz is a time for lots of layers; we don't do central heating
here. it's fingerless gloves at the keyboard, hot water bottles in the
flannellette sheets, & people popping round for coffee never take their
coat off.

The key to getting through it is to keep working, which i am doing to
the extreme at the moment. next week on the 28th we are launching
UpStage V2, and celebrating this momentous event with a 2 week exhibtion
and a one day festival of online performances, 070707 (that'll be on
july 7th, geddit?).
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/137

Exploring limited spaces - by Aileen Derieg:
Since yesterday was a holiday in Austria, I rather frivolously decided
to take the day off from translating and devote my attention to some
things I had been wanting to do for two projects that I am involved
with. I especially wanted to explore the space where they intersect from
opposite directions: "social networking".

So I posted some questions and information to the relevant lists and
announced that I would be available all day via email, irc or Skype and
set off from there to start exploring the kinds of online spaces where
people are supposed to be able to connect with one another.

For one of the projects, "Street Training

DISCUSSION

Furtherfield on the Dazed and Confused Digital 50.


Still to time rate Furtherfield on the Dazed and Confused Digital 50.

www.furtherfield.org

Ivan Pope on his blog
(http://blog.ivanpope.com/awol/2007/06/vote_for_furthe.html) said "vote
for Furtherfield for all the great work they've done over the last ten
or so years, the Digital 50 itself is a good starting point to catch up
with what's been going on online recently." We agree...

So please support us out there to a larger audience beyond the usual
circles...

here is the link:
http://www.dazeddigital.com/projects/digital50/article.aspx?aU8

marc

DISCUSSION

FURTHERNOISE.ORG NEW REVIEWS & FEATURES JUNE 07


FURTHERNOISE.ORG NEW REVIEWS & FEATURES JUNE 07
Featuring a host of national and international musicians and sound artists.
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?issb

FURTHERNOISE RADIO 19TH JUNE - RADIO YOU CAN WATCH

BCFM 93.2 - Bristol, UK 10 -11 pm BST (GMT+1) alternate Tuesday nights.
Repeated 11-12 am Wednesday 20th. Online Stream - http://www.bcfm.org.uk

See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock for your own location time.

This weeks program features an exclusive interview with Anthony Pateras
& Robin Fox at their Venn Festival performance and a selection of new
and adventurous cross genre music and sound. Each program features a
live visual mix by radio Vjs Grazmaster, Stu & Open Mix. To watch the
live visual mix to the radio stream open another browser window and log
into http://www.visitorsstudio.org

Podcasts, playlists and submission details are available from the site at
http://www.furthernoise.org

REVIEWS

"Imaginary Conversations in Reverberant Rooms - Gail Priest" (review)
Imaginary Conversations in Reverberant Rooms is the first full-length
album from Sydney artist Gail Priest. Priest's background in working
with installation and as a composer of live scores for performance comes
across clearly in this recording.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID6
review by Stacey Sewell

"Horizontal Mover (Homage to Alvin Lucier) - Claudio Parodi" (review)
Taking inspiration from Alvin Luciers 1970 work I am sitting in a room
Horizontal Mover is the first of 7 ongoing works by Claudio Parodi
utilising the audio from the album 'Suoni 2005' by Tiziano Milani. In a
similar process to Lucier's work he diffuses and re-records the source
track until it completely dissipates and you are left with just acoustic
ambience.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID1
review by Roger Mills

"triMIX: Tribyrd Installation Soundtracks Deconstructed compiled by TJ
Norris" (review)
TriMIX is a CD/DVD compilation curated by photographer TJ Norris. TJ
invited sound artists from around the globe to contribute soundtracks
for his photographic expeditions. Norris explains "These original
soundtracks guided me through the process as I virtually emulated the
streets, building band spaces, by listening and looking simultaneously."
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID3
review by Derek Morton

"Tripartite Collision - Bill Thompson" (review)
Bill Thompson is a former guitarist now moving in electro-acoustic
improvisation circles, whose sound falls somewhere between Keith Rowe
and the more ambient Arcane Device. Although his early professional
career was with a number of ensembles in Austin, Texas, he moved to
Scotland in 2004 to study with Pete Stollery.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID2
review by Caleb Deupree

"Appropriate Re-Appropriations" (repeat feature)
A compilation of innovative music & sound created under Creative Commons
license. Review features Freesound artists credits and selected
submissions. An exciting special file sharing opportunity. Part
exquisite corpse, part Chinese whispers, part peer2peer ping pong.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID9
review by Roger Mills

"Cyclic Defrost Magazine" (review)
Cyclic Defrost, has been in publication in various guises since 1998.
Despite starting off as a photocopied flyer for a club night, it's now
one of the most prominent contemporary music publications in Australia
today. This article explores Cyclic Defrost and one of their recent
compilations.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID5
review by Alex Young

"Stots - Lukas Simonis" (review)
Stots begins just like that, lots of ghoulish voices, groaning and
growling, grumbling and having lots of fun bee booing into an echo
machine. It's field recordings glitch and multi levels of odd noises but
things start to come together, as lo fi drones are layered with radio
sounds, abused guitars, drills and bubbles.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID4
review by Mark Francombe

"The Fourth Night - Bernhard Wagner" (review)
Guitar and loop lovers, this one's for you. The Fourth Night explores
the merging of the instrument's manifold versatility and the unique ways
in which loops can create atmosphere and evoke moods. Wagner weaves a
dense but easy to assimilate myriad of sonic patterns that can soothe or
rouse.
http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID7
review by Bill Binkelman