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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.
Iraq: A necessary war?
Iraq: A necessary war?
By John Prados
Not according to U.N. monitors-or to U.S. intelligence, which has watched t=
he situation even more carefully.
For months the Bush administration treated the world to a series of lurid c=
laims about the military threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. By far the =
most expansive description of the threat was made by Secretary of State Col=
in Powell in his speech before the U.N. Security Council on February 5. In =
a presentation replete with satellite photos and artists' conceptions, Powe=
ll argued that Iraq posed an ominous and urgent threat.
But was the Iraqi threat as imminent as advertised? And how did these versi=
ons of the Iraqi menace accord with what the public had previously been tol=
d? And what about the Iraqi threat required the rush to war?
Americans in particular need to consider what it all means. Despite adminis=
tration assertions, the threat was by no means self-evident. Bush officials=
, except where it suited their interests, have discounted the findings of i=
nternational inspectors who for most of a decade monitored Iraqi weapons pr=
ograms.
And how different does the picture look if one focuses instead on the other=
authoritative source on Iraqi weapons issues-the U.S. intelligence communi=
ty, which has followed Iraqi developments at least as keenly as U.N. monito=
ring teams?
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/mj03/mj03prados.html
By John Prados
Not according to U.N. monitors-or to U.S. intelligence, which has watched t=
he situation even more carefully.
For months the Bush administration treated the world to a series of lurid c=
laims about the military threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. By far the =
most expansive description of the threat was made by Secretary of State Col=
in Powell in his speech before the U.N. Security Council on February 5. In =
a presentation replete with satellite photos and artists' conceptions, Powe=
ll argued that Iraq posed an ominous and urgent threat.
But was the Iraqi threat as imminent as advertised? And how did these versi=
ons of the Iraqi menace accord with what the public had previously been tol=
d? And what about the Iraqi threat required the rush to war?
Americans in particular need to consider what it all means. Despite adminis=
tration assertions, the threat was by no means self-evident. Bush officials=
, except where it suited their interests, have discounted the findings of i=
nternational inspectors who for most of a decade monitored Iraqi weapons pr=
ograms.
And how different does the picture look if one focuses instead on the other=
authoritative source on Iraqi weapons issues-the U.S. intelligence communi=
ty, which has followed Iraqi developments at least as keenly as U.N. monito=
ring teams?
http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/mj03/mj03prados.html
Re: Re: dream7 piece
Hi Liz,
Regarding pretentiousness - I find it quite tough to define what is these
days, not that I am saying that everything is pretentious, cuz it isn't. Yet
a lot of what I define as pretentious, is not necessarily the net art itself
but much more with the claims by some writers via their revisionist bias.
I am looking forward to the day (some hope) when 'real' global democracy
with net art comes about. Meaning that there is a lot of talk (a lot of lip
service) using quite interesting themes - the 'user mode' conference at the
Tate this weekend for instance. Yet it does not actually explore their own
theme in actuality & when one observes the function of the conference a
realization clouts one on the head that a 'theme' in this respect is merely
an excuse for an institutional 'get together'.
Thus the Tate have lost the chance to get in the real dudes who are doing it
for real and are giving a platform to the usual suspects - great! Nothing
new there...now that is pretentious.
marc
> gosh, i am such a dingbat --talking about flash, "Website Unseen"
> is one of my favorite flash projects and i am so sorry for the factual
> error of your press release. i have jonzed for years for one of those.
>
> actually, just so the world knows it, i am going to say it again:
>
> i am a huge fan of MTAA.
>
> i know you don't call yourselves flash artists but as far as flash art
> goes, i
> likes what i sees --ferociously witty yet completely unpretentious.
> real craft,
> not just academic showing-off. hard to find art like that these days.
>
> cheers,
> l i z a
>
>
> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 13:29 America/New_York, t.whid wrote:
>
> > i'll dis flash in Toto.
> >
> > Toto should not eat flash :-)
> >
> >> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 12:46 America/New_York, curt cloninger
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> To dis Flash en toto seems too tool-specific a critique.
> >>
> >> just a quick reply:
> >>
> >> NONONONONONONONONONO!
> >>
> >
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
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> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
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> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
Regarding pretentiousness - I find it quite tough to define what is these
days, not that I am saying that everything is pretentious, cuz it isn't. Yet
a lot of what I define as pretentious, is not necessarily the net art itself
but much more with the claims by some writers via their revisionist bias.
I am looking forward to the day (some hope) when 'real' global democracy
with net art comes about. Meaning that there is a lot of talk (a lot of lip
service) using quite interesting themes - the 'user mode' conference at the
Tate this weekend for instance. Yet it does not actually explore their own
theme in actuality & when one observes the function of the conference a
realization clouts one on the head that a 'theme' in this respect is merely
an excuse for an institutional 'get together'.
Thus the Tate have lost the chance to get in the real dudes who are doing it
for real and are giving a platform to the usual suspects - great! Nothing
new there...now that is pretentious.
marc
> gosh, i am such a dingbat --talking about flash, "Website Unseen"
> is one of my favorite flash projects and i am so sorry for the factual
> error of your press release. i have jonzed for years for one of those.
>
> actually, just so the world knows it, i am going to say it again:
>
> i am a huge fan of MTAA.
>
> i know you don't call yourselves flash artists but as far as flash art
> goes, i
> likes what i sees --ferociously witty yet completely unpretentious.
> real craft,
> not just academic showing-off. hard to find art like that these days.
>
> cheers,
> l i z a
>
>
> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 13:29 America/New_York, t.whid wrote:
>
> > i'll dis flash in Toto.
> >
> > Toto should not eat flash :-)
> >
> >> On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 12:46 America/New_York, curt cloninger
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> To dis Flash en toto seems too tool-specific a critique.
> >>
> >> just a quick reply:
> >>
> >> NONONONONONONONONONO!
> >>
> >
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
Who fancies being Trepanned?
Who fancies being Trepanned?
Trepanation is the practice of making a hole in the skull. It is sometimes
spelled trephination. A trepan is the instrument used for making a hole in
the skull bone. It is sometimes spelled trephine. (Sample usage: After
Jonney and Sally studied the history of trepanation and the modern
scientific facts they asked their doctor to trepan them. An electric power
trepan was used. The trepanation took only about 15 minutes in the day
surgery unit.
http://www.trepan.com/introduction/
http://www.trepan.com/
Trepanation is the practice of making a hole in the skull. It is sometimes
spelled trephination. A trepan is the instrument used for making a hole in
the skull bone. It is sometimes spelled trephine. (Sample usage: After
Jonney and Sally studied the history of trepanation and the modern
scientific facts they asked their doctor to trepan them. An electric power
trepan was used. The trepanation took only about 15 minutes in the day
surgery unit.
http://www.trepan.com/introduction/
http://www.trepan.com/
Re: Kentucky Fried Kant
This is a cute bit txt...great stuff.
and this noon, just waking, a bit
fried with human thought, I'm
golden brown and crispy, orange
with suffocation, all the rage:
marc
>
>
> To stare at a blank teal screen
> as my palm pilot arms itself
> against an insurgance of birds
>
> is to revenge the outpouring inward
> of quarks and fissures, a viscous
> human thought, in which one can
> slide one's fingers around at will,
>
> especially fighting a sliver of hangover
> over some crumbs of comfort. You
>
> must have replaced the batteries in
> the seasons, or bought an AC
> and surge protector for them, because
> they glow:
>
> and this noon, just waking, a bit
> fried with human thought, I'm
> golden brown and crispy, orange
> with suffocation, all the rage:
>
> its quite popularly corroborative.
> Overseas, soldiers shrink-wrap
> this new and familiar war, stickerprice
>
> for retail some dumb pride in
> destruction. But I don't
> feel like a liberator;
>
> my categorical imperitive isn't
> as iterative as a while loop
> nested in shifts of conditional
>
> branches. One could go white
> with stolen art. So I crack
> these shells, unscoop their
> potential into a glass
>
> of worcestshire or tabasco:
> gulp down a pungeant slide
> as trees tassle the sky, channel
>
> the wind, over these hardened graves
>
> of human thought.
>
> 2003/05/08 12:53:57
>
> =====
>
>
> NEW!!!--sondheim.exe--artware text editor for Windows
>
> http://www.lewislacook.com/alanSondheim/sondheim.exe
>
> http://www.lewislacook.com/
>
> tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.
> http://search.yahoo.com
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
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>
>
and this noon, just waking, a bit
fried with human thought, I'm
golden brown and crispy, orange
with suffocation, all the rage:
marc
>
>
> To stare at a blank teal screen
> as my palm pilot arms itself
> against an insurgance of birds
>
> is to revenge the outpouring inward
> of quarks and fissures, a viscous
> human thought, in which one can
> slide one's fingers around at will,
>
> especially fighting a sliver of hangover
> over some crumbs of comfort. You
>
> must have replaced the batteries in
> the seasons, or bought an AC
> and surge protector for them, because
> they glow:
>
> and this noon, just waking, a bit
> fried with human thought, I'm
> golden brown and crispy, orange
> with suffocation, all the rage:
>
> its quite popularly corroborative.
> Overseas, soldiers shrink-wrap
> this new and familiar war, stickerprice
>
> for retail some dumb pride in
> destruction. But I don't
> feel like a liberator;
>
> my categorical imperitive isn't
> as iterative as a while loop
> nested in shifts of conditional
>
> branches. One could go white
> with stolen art. So I crack
> these shells, unscoop their
> potential into a glass
>
> of worcestshire or tabasco:
> gulp down a pungeant slide
> as trees tassle the sky, channel
>
> the wind, over these hardened graves
>
> of human thought.
>
> 2003/05/08 12:53:57
>
> =====
>
>
> NEW!!!--sondheim.exe--artware text editor for Windows
>
> http://www.lewislacook.com/alanSondheim/sondheim.exe
>
> http://www.lewislacook.com/
>
> tubulence artist studio: http://turbulence.org/studios/lacook/index.html
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.
> http://search.yahoo.com
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>
[Ouch Those Monkeys] Darkwave electro ballads
[Ouch Those Monkeys]
7 new Darkwave electro ballads/tunes/noise/soundscapes.
Declarations for the Internet world to muse upon.
[Run Monkey Run]
As the hurt finds its way inside of me I begin to wonder how
it had got there. Hope was invented to wash our ransid tears
love was hijacked so we would wander...it goes back long ago
it goes way back.
[I Eat The World]
The world is my fuel, commodified and made easy for the
process. Society is my parent and it feeds my hunger. Like
a worm, I eat my world's resources, it manufactures my body.
I accept in submission what is and what must be.
[Cyber Sex Sensation]
To cum into the sublime engulfed by the other, that of which
is seemingly universal, blinded by the compliance. Displaced
bodies become, anti-bodies, anti-physical and anti-visceral.
[By Act of Fate]
By act of fate somehow, somewhere, sooner or later we meet.
No there is nothing mirkier or haphazard than the memory, visual
scapes planted then collected. No way of regaining such moments in
original settings.
[Souls Are Settled Within Not Seeing]
Earth's moths hit windows losing direction while souls are
settled within not seeing. Factories spread low across the land,
something to do for fellow man. Insects have homes, nests on
our homes while souls are settled within not seeing. Steeples
climb high piercing the winds supported by the blood of our fellow
man.
[We Can Fly - Acoustak]
Oh we don't need wings to fly
we can be whatever we want to be
kiss my eyes for I can now see
touch inside me for now I can see
you and I are climbing out of here
climbing out and reinventing my dear
angelic smiles block out all that fear
touch inside me for now I can see
[Happly Lies]
Never certain of which is the right one we all create too many
uncertain ones. Clouds will only hold the rain nothing else.
Humans fall through dreams cloud hitting dirt...trust your feet
not the skies happy lies.
Straight to the page>
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/section5.htm
The site>
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/index.htm
Anti War Song>
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmwar/
Also visit http://www.furthernoise.org
7 new Darkwave electro ballads/tunes/noise/soundscapes.
Declarations for the Internet world to muse upon.
[Run Monkey Run]
As the hurt finds its way inside of me I begin to wonder how
it had got there. Hope was invented to wash our ransid tears
love was hijacked so we would wander...it goes back long ago
it goes way back.
[I Eat The World]
The world is my fuel, commodified and made easy for the
process. Society is my parent and it feeds my hunger. Like
a worm, I eat my world's resources, it manufactures my body.
I accept in submission what is and what must be.
[Cyber Sex Sensation]
To cum into the sublime engulfed by the other, that of which
is seemingly universal, blinded by the compliance. Displaced
bodies become, anti-bodies, anti-physical and anti-visceral.
[By Act of Fate]
By act of fate somehow, somewhere, sooner or later we meet.
No there is nothing mirkier or haphazard than the memory, visual
scapes planted then collected. No way of regaining such moments in
original settings.
[Souls Are Settled Within Not Seeing]
Earth's moths hit windows losing direction while souls are
settled within not seeing. Factories spread low across the land,
something to do for fellow man. Insects have homes, nests on
our homes while souls are settled within not seeing. Steeples
climb high piercing the winds supported by the blood of our fellow
man.
[We Can Fly - Acoustak]
Oh we don't need wings to fly
we can be whatever we want to be
kiss my eyes for I can now see
touch inside me for now I can see
you and I are climbing out of here
climbing out and reinventing my dear
angelic smiles block out all that fear
touch inside me for now I can see
[Happly Lies]
Never certain of which is the right one we all create too many
uncertain ones. Clouds will only hold the rain nothing else.
Humans fall through dreams cloud hitting dirt...trust your feet
not the skies happy lies.
Straight to the page>
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/section5.htm
The site>
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/index.htm
Anti War Song>
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmwar/
Also visit http://www.furthernoise.org