marc garrett
Since the beginning
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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Live here - FurtherStudio...now


Hi everyone...

If you fancy meeting online for a chat on our beta-version today (casual).
In about erm - 3 minutes time, you are very welome.

An online studio where you can view artists working from their desktops...

Just click on the link that says 'Live here'
http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/

See you there...marc

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CORPWATCH


WHAT'S NEW ON CORPWATCH
Holding Corporations Accountable
<< http://www.corpwatch.org >>

WHAT'S NEW ON CORPWATCH
Holding Corporations Accountable
<< http://www.corpwatch.org >>
September 9, 2003

WTO
Will Agriculture Derail the WTO?
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid

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"Homeland Insecurity"


Dear EmailNation Subscriber,

Many Americans are holding a day of remembrance to mark the second
anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Emotions were
heightened on the eve of the anniversary by the broadcasting of a new
videotape appearing to show Osama Bin Laden alive and praising those who
carried out the attacks.

Meanwhile President Bush and John Ashcroft are touring the country
assuring Americans that they are making every effort to protect our
safety. But, as David Corn points out in a recent Nation magazine report,
they're not telling the truth.

In fact, crucial areas of homeland security--ports, chemical plants,
emergency response, biodefense--are not getting adequate attention or
funding. Two years after the nation's vulnerability was exposed, at the
price of more than 3,000 lives, every effort is demonstrably NOT being
made.

For more, see Corn's "Homeland Insecurity"
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 030922&s=corn

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Autumn Issue of Furthertxt


Autumn Issue of Furthertxt
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A-Mazing Texts!!!

Sometimes culture can be just like one of those huge mazes at country
houses:

a.. No one finds it fun except those with enough money to own it,
b.. You feel like you are somehow missing a private joke,
c.. All you do is go round in circles trying to find your way!

This summer, Furthertxt have been hard at work creating a flower bed of
activity with a beautiful new design, and, to help you find your way around,
we feature texts looking at ways of changing the culture maze.with maps and
action plans included!

Saul Albert is concerned with the critical issues surrounding cartography,
Ryan Griffis looks at the work of Damali Ayo and racial specificity on the
web, and the Critical Art Ensemble want you to sit up and pay attention to
the biogenetics that ubiquitously surround you!

Lost your way? Need guidance? Don't worry, Furthertxt is here to help!

Charlotte Frost - Furthertxt editor.

http://www.furthertxt.org