marc garrett
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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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DISCUSSION

Re: silly bill, syllables are for kids.


It's always great to see the small person stand well against the bigger ugly
guy.

marc

> So homonyms are now covered by the DMCA?
>
> Microsoft Takes on Teen Over Web Site
> AP
> Mon Jan 19, 8:05 AM ET
>
> VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Mike Rowe thinks it's
> funny that his catchy name for a Web site design
> company sounds a lot like Microsoft.
>
> The software giant, however, is not amused.
>
> "Since my name is Mike Rowe, I thought it would be
> funny to add 'soft' to the end of it," said Rowe, a
> 17-year-old computer geek and Grade 12 student in
> Victoria, British Columbia.
>
> Microsoft Corp. and its attorneys have demanded that
> he give up his domain name, the Vancouver Province
> newspaper reported Sunday.
>
> Rowe registered the name in August. In November, he
> received a letter from Microsoft's Canadian lawyers,
> Smart & Biggar, informing him he was committing
> copyright infringement.
>
> He was advised to transfer the name to the Redmond,
> Wash.-based corporation.
>
> "I didn't think they would get all their high-priced
> lawyers to come after me," Rowe said.
>
> He wrote back asking to be compensated for giving up
> his name. Microsoft's lawyers offered him $10 in U.S.
> funds. Then he asked for $10,000.
>
> On Thursday, he received a 25-page letter accusing him
> of trying to force Microsoft into giving him a large
> settlement.
>
> "I never even thought of getting anything out of
> them," he said, adding that he only asked for the
> $10,000 because he was "sort of mad at them for only
> offering 10 bucks."
>
> He said family and friends are backing him and a
> lawyer has offered to advise him for free.
>
> He's also keeping his sense of humor.
>
> "It's not their name. It's my name. I just think it's
> kind of funny that they'd go after a 17-year-old,"
> Rowe said.
>
> Company spokesman Jim Desler said Sunday, "Microsoft
> has been in communication with Mr. Rowe in a good
> faith effort to reach a mutually agreeable resolution.
> And we remain hopeful we can resolve this issue to
> everyone's satisfaction."
>
> ___
>
> On the web:
>
> www.mikerowesoft.com
>
> www.microsoft.com
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DISCUSSION

US military 'brutalised' journalists


US military 'brutalised' journalists

News agency demands inquiry after American forces in Iraq allegedly treated
camera crew as enemy personnel

Luke Harding in Baghdad
Tuesday January 13, 2004
The Guardian

The international news agency Reuters has made a formal complaint to the
Pentagon following the "wrongful" arrest and apparent "brutalisation" of
three of its staff this month by US troops in Iraq.
The complaint followed an incident in the town of Falluja when American
soldiers fired at two Iraqi cameramen and a driver from the agency while
they were filming the scene of a helicopter crash.

The US military initially claimed that the Reuters journalists were "enemy
personnel" who had opened fire on US troops and refused to release them for
72 hours.

Although Reuters has not commented publicly, it is understood that the
journalists were "brutalised and intimidated" by US soldiers, who put bags
over their heads, told them they would be sent to Guantanamo Bay, and
whispered: "Let's have sex."

At one point during the interrogation, according to the family of one of the
staff members, a US soldier shoved a shoe into the mouth one of the Iraqis.

The US troops, from the 82nd Airborne Division, based in Falluja, also made
the blindfolded journalists stand for hours with their arms raised and their
palms pressed against the cell wall.

"They were brutalised, terrified and humiliated for three days," one source
said. "It was pretty grim stuff. There was mental and physical abuse."

He added: "It makes you wonder what happens to ordinary Iraqis."

The US military has so far refused to apologise and has bluntly told Reuters
to "drop" its complaint. Major General Charles Swannack, the commander of
the 82nd Airborne Division, claimed that two US soldiers had provided sworn
evidence that they had come under fire. He admitted, however, that soldiers
sometimes had to make "snap judgments".

"More often than not they are right," he said.

On January 2 Reuters' Baghdad-based cameraman Salem Ureibi, Falluja stringer
Ahmed Mohammed Hussein al-Badrani and driver Sattar Jabar al-Badrani turned
up at the crash site where a US Kiowa Warrior helicopter had just been shot
down, killing one soldier.

The journalists were all wearing bulletproof jackets clearly marked "press".
They drove off after US soldiers who were securing the scene opened fire on
their Mercedes, but were arrested shortly afterwards.

The soldiers also detained a fourth Iraqi, working for the American network
NBC. No weapons were found, the US military admitted.

Last night the nephew of veteran Reuters driver and latterly cameraman Mr
Ureibi said that US troops had forced his uncle to strip naked and had
ordered him to put his shoe in his mouth.

"He protested that he was a journalist but they stuck a shoe in his mouth
anyway. They also hurt his leg. One of the soldiers told him: 'If you don't
shut up we'll fuck you.'"

He added: "His treatment was very shameful. He's very sad. He has also had
hospital treatment because of his leg."

Last August a US soldier shot dead another Reuters cameraman, Mazen Dana,
after mistaking his camera for a rocket launcher while he filmed outside a
Baghdad prison.

An internal US investigation later cleared him of wrongdoing. During the war
last April another of the agency's cameramen, Ukrainian Taras Protswuk, was
killed after a US tank fired a shell directly into his room in the Palestine
Hotel in Baghdad, from where he had been filming.

Last night Simon Walker, a spokesman at Reuters head office in London,
confirmed that the agency had made a formal complaint to the Pentagon last
Friday.

He said: "We have also complained to the US military. We have complained
about the detention [of our staff] and their treatment in detention. We hope
it will be dealt with expeditiously."

A spokeswoman for the US military's coalition press and information centre
in Baghdad hung up when the Guardian asked her to comment.

The top US military spokesman in Iraq, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, later
admitted that they had received a formal complaint and that there was an
on-going investigation into the incident.

Journalists based in Baghdad have expressed concern that the US military is
likely to treat other media employees in Iraq as targets.

DISCUSSION

Re: Feds and Adobe forbid you from scanning currency


Crazy idiots,

Yes - typical frightened, lazy corporate tactics.

I suppoze there will be more of this kind of nonsnese to come. I think that
as a protest artists could copy as much illegal software as possible and
begin a p2p network that swaps it as a protest, forming anomous
anti-corporate groups that use only software that is not bought or hired.
Thus declaring a strong consensus while creating alternative digital works
based around what can be used in a free manner, without such freedom
threatening distinctions. Disgusting people...

marc

> http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,61877,00.html
>
> The really disgusting thing about this that Adobe didn't inform their
> customers.
>
> Another reason to stick with Photoshop 7?
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DISCUSSION

Big Brother Britain, 2004


Big Brother Britain, 2004
Four million CCTV cameras watch public. UK has the highest level of
surveillance
By Maxine Frith, Social Affairs Correspondent
12 January 2004

More than four million surveillance cameras monitor our every move, making
Britain the most-watched nation in the world, research has revealed.

The number of closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras has quadrupled in the
past three years, and there is now one for every 14 people in the UK. The
increase is happening at twice the predicted rate, and it is believed that
Britain accounts for one-fifth of all CCTV cameras worldwide. Estimates
suggest that residents of a city such as London can each expect to be
captured on CCTV cameras up to 300 times a day, and much of the filming
breaches existing data guidelines.

Civil liberties groups complain that the rules governing the use of the
cameras in Britain are the most lax in the world. They say that, in contrast
to other countries, members of the public are often unaware they are being
filmed, and are usually ignorant of the relevant regulations. They also
argue that there is little evidence to support the contention that CCTV
cameras lead to a reduction in crime rates.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?storyH0364

DISCUSSION

Rolls Royce funding UK arts


I've cut and pasted a letter from Rebecca Beinart to the Tate Liverpool
regarding the call out to artists to work with Rolls Royce. She is happy for
me to circulate it to lists. If any of you do write to the Tate about this
matter please let me know. Also I'd be interested to hear of any response.
>From responses I have received I know this is an issue a lot of artists
feel
strongly about. We need to communicate this to the Tate. Ange

The Director
Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock
Liverpool
L3 4BB

20th December 2003

Re: Sponsorship by Rolls Royce

Dear Director,

As an East-Midlands based artist, I recently received an e-mail about "an
exciting opportunity for an artist to work in collaboration with Tate
Liverpool and Rolls Royce in Derby..."

I was shocked to learn that Tate Liverpool are asking artists to work "in
collaboration with" Rolls Royce. Is the Tate Liverpool unaware that Rolls
Royce is boycotted by many people, due to its status as the second biggest
defence company in the UK? Rolls Royce themselves boast of their position as
"number two military aero-engine manufacturer, powering approximately 25% of
the world's military fleet". (www.rolls-royce.com/defence)

I understand that contemporary artists, and institutions such as the Tate,
rely on corporate sponsorship. However, there must surely be a degree of
ethical choice in deciding which companies to work with. By sponsoring the
arts, companies like Rolls Royce are getting very good PR. The artists
involved would, in turn, be promoting a company that makes a huge profit
from the arms trade, and from selling military aeroplane parts to human
rights abusing regimes. Rolls Royce has provided gas turbine aero-engine
facilities to 100 armed forces, including human rights abusing regimes such
as China, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Rolls Royce provided engines to oil companies operating in Sudan, who built
a pipeline that was responsible for displacing tens of thousands of local
people. This process involved many atrocities against civilians, often
resulting in death. ('Sudan: Oil Firms Accused of Fuelling Mass Displacement
and Killing', by Victoria Brittain and Terry Macalister, The Guardian March
15, 2001)

Rolls Royce recently won a contract to continue the maintenance and
refurbishment of the Royal Navy nuclear submarine fleet. This contract,
worth up to