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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.
Don't just Do It Yourself (DIY) Do It With Others (DIWO)
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Don't just Do It Yourself (DIY) Do It With Others (DIWO)
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http://www.furtherfield.org/diwo_networking.php
HTTP Gallery, Sunday 7th October, 12-6pm
Unit A2 Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Road, N4 1NY
A networking day all about how artists work collaboratively with each
other and audiences in the co-production of artworks or events as a
central part of their practice. The event is open to artists, musicians,
writers, programmers, activists; thinkers and doers of all kinds.
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What Will Happen?
The event kicks off with presentations by artists Saul Albert, Ele
Carpenter, Adnan Hadzi, Emily Druiff and Lottie Childs, who work with
different models of participation and engagement. Discussion and debate
will be encouraged in response to each presentation. After refreshments
follows an audiovisual performance by Chinese digital artists 8GG, 'the
air been broken', a new commission by Folly. For the rest of the
afternoon visitors are asked to show-and-tell each other what they do.
All visitors are asked to bring some representation of their own
projects to promote and to share with other potential collaborators.
These can take the form of drawings on paper, objects, a digital
artefacts, a scientific prototype- whatever it takes. We will round off
the event with an 'open mike' session of quickfire presentations; any
visitor can present their own or other's work, offer their services and
skills to another project or make a request for help with completing
their own project.
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Please RSVP to lauren@furtherfield.org
Because of limited space we can only accommodate 40 visitors for this
event. Please book your place by emailing Lauren -
lauren@furtherfield.org- first come, first served. Projectors and
wireless access to the Internet will be provided, please let us know if
you have any other special requirements please contact us.
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When and where?
Sunday 7th October 2007, 12-6pm
HTTP Gallery
Unit A2 Arena Design Centre,
71 Ashfield Road, N4 1NY
Tel +44 20 8802 2827
Parking Facilities available also.
For maps and information about getting to HTTP
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml
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More about the presentations and performance
Who Wants To Be?:
Saul Albert from The People Speak presents 'Who Wants To Be?' The game
show where the crowd has all the answers, makes up the questions and
sets the rules. On the 9th October 'The People Speak' a London based art
collective are to conduct a radical experiment in live entertainment.
'Who Wants to Be?' mixes democratic decision-making, interactive
animation and improvisation into a dangerously spontaneous game show.
Using a computer vision voting system designed for use by hoards of
rowdy people, the audience at the Albany Theatre in Deptford will be
asked to decide how to spend a
Don't just Do It Yourself (DIY) Do It With Others (DIWO)
==========================================
http://www.furtherfield.org/diwo_networking.php
HTTP Gallery, Sunday 7th October, 12-6pm
Unit A2 Arena Design Centre, 71 Ashfield Road, N4 1NY
A networking day all about how artists work collaboratively with each
other and audiences in the co-production of artworks or events as a
central part of their practice. The event is open to artists, musicians,
writers, programmers, activists; thinkers and doers of all kinds.
------------------------------------------------------
What Will Happen?
The event kicks off with presentations by artists Saul Albert, Ele
Carpenter, Adnan Hadzi, Emily Druiff and Lottie Childs, who work with
different models of participation and engagement. Discussion and debate
will be encouraged in response to each presentation. After refreshments
follows an audiovisual performance by Chinese digital artists 8GG, 'the
air been broken', a new commission by Folly. For the rest of the
afternoon visitors are asked to show-and-tell each other what they do.
All visitors are asked to bring some representation of their own
projects to promote and to share with other potential collaborators.
These can take the form of drawings on paper, objects, a digital
artefacts, a scientific prototype- whatever it takes. We will round off
the event with an 'open mike' session of quickfire presentations; any
visitor can present their own or other's work, offer their services and
skills to another project or make a request for help with completing
their own project.
------------------------------------------------------
Please RSVP to lauren@furtherfield.org
Because of limited space we can only accommodate 40 visitors for this
event. Please book your place by emailing Lauren -
lauren@furtherfield.org- first come, first served. Projectors and
wireless access to the Internet will be provided, please let us know if
you have any other special requirements please contact us.
------------------------------------------------------
When and where?
Sunday 7th October 2007, 12-6pm
HTTP Gallery
Unit A2 Arena Design Centre,
71 Ashfield Road, N4 1NY
Tel +44 20 8802 2827
Parking Facilities available also.
For maps and information about getting to HTTP
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml
==========================================
More about the presentations and performance
Who Wants To Be?:
Saul Albert from The People Speak presents 'Who Wants To Be?' The game
show where the crowd has all the answers, makes up the questions and
sets the rules. On the 9th October 'The People Speak' a London based art
collective are to conduct a radical experiment in live entertainment.
'Who Wants to Be?' mixes democratic decision-making, interactive
animation and improvisation into a dangerously spontaneous game show.
Using a computer vision voting system designed for use by hoards of
rowdy people, the audience at the Albany Theatre in Deptford will be
asked to decide how to spend a
Re: RHIZOME_RAW: New articles, reviews of projects on Furtherfield.
Hi Michael,
I found Edward's work very intriguing and interesting regarding the
exploration of its various connections outside the work itself, it is
relational as well as metaphysical - interesting :-)
thanks
marc
>
> < Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Edward
> Picot.
> Review by Marc Garrett.>
>
> http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.phpreview_id(5
>
> Excellent! -this is a thoughtful and thorough piece of
> writing about a strange & quirky but by no means
> trivial, in fact rather wonderful, piece of work.
> Thank-you!
> michael
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
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> -> 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
>
>
I found Edward's work very intriguing and interesting regarding the
exploration of its various connections outside the work itself, it is
relational as well as metaphysical - interesting :-)
thanks
marc
>
> < Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Edward
> Picot.
> Review by Marc Garrett.>
>
> http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.phpreview_id(5
>
> Excellent! -this is a thoughtful and thorough piece of
> writing about a strange & quirky but by no means
> trivial, in fact rather wonderful, piece of work.
> Thank-you!
> michael
> +
> -> 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
>
>
New articles, reviews of projects on Furtherfield.
New articles, reviews of projects on Furtherfield.
http://www.furtherfield.org
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Edward Picot.
Review by Marc Garrett.
Edward Picot's visually playful, web art interpretation of Wallace
Stevens's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is a curious
artwork for many reasons. Once you have visited the work it lingers in
the mind and on each return it maintains a strong freshness. So what is
it in this work that compels me to re-experience its particularly
strange and magical reasoning?
It consciously acknowledges the original spirit of the text, whilst
introducing a response that at the same time attempts to deal with what
these words may mean today. This interpretation of the poem not only
gives us the opportunity to appreciate how special the original work is
by following the text, whether in order, or haphazardly, but it also
creates a moment in time that opens up a rare experience of two creative
minds as a kind of collaboration.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id(5
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Summerbranch Exhibition at TheSpace4 gallery, UK by Artists igloo.
Review by Rob Myers.
Summerbranch is a hyperreal cross-media woodland environment created by
Igloo during a residency at Artsway Gallery in the New Forest during
2005. Installed across the three rooms of TheSpace4 gallery in
Peterborough from 14th July - 9th September.
"The use of multiple media to present the virtual scene as a complement
to the recording of the real scene creates a hyperreal landscape. The
reality of this is altered, but not interrupted, in the VRs by the
motion-captured dance of moss-covered dancing female forms if you can
find them among the foliage. Layer upon layer of invocation of nature,
technology and mystery building up to produce the final effect of the
work which consists as much in what is absent as in what is present in
it. This experience of the work is hard to put into words, which for a
piece of art is a strong sign of its effectiveness."
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id(6
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_Reality Mapping: Navigating the Social-Nodes_
Article by MEZ (Maryanne Breeze).
Web 2.0 is based on a collusive tapestry of adjoining social nodes.
Social Networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Liveleak,
YouTube, Twitter and Pownce aren't prefaced on pre-set connotative
connections maintained through historicized emotional depth or satisfied
by biological drives. Friends aren't friends as we have come to know
them: there is no establishment of shared geophysical experiences, no
cathartic or chronologically defined friendship markers evident. What's
important is [inter]action and the quantity of it - the residual volume
of contact and the fact of shared connection minus a meatbody context.
Identity is constructed in these friendship pathways via the idea of
notations; of naming labels, of icon attribution, and of clustered
info-snippets streamlined through an interface designed for momentary
persona snapshots.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id(1
http://www.furtherfield.org
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Edward Picot.
Review by Marc Garrett.
Edward Picot's visually playful, web art interpretation of Wallace
Stevens's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is a curious
artwork for many reasons. Once you have visited the work it lingers in
the mind and on each return it maintains a strong freshness. So what is
it in this work that compels me to re-experience its particularly
strange and magical reasoning?
It consciously acknowledges the original spirit of the text, whilst
introducing a response that at the same time attempts to deal with what
these words may mean today. This interpretation of the poem not only
gives us the opportunity to appreciate how special the original work is
by following the text, whether in order, or haphazardly, but it also
creates a moment in time that opens up a rare experience of two creative
minds as a kind of collaboration.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id(5
----------------->
Summerbranch Exhibition at TheSpace4 gallery, UK by Artists igloo.
Review by Rob Myers.
Summerbranch is a hyperreal cross-media woodland environment created by
Igloo during a residency at Artsway Gallery in the New Forest during
2005. Installed across the three rooms of TheSpace4 gallery in
Peterborough from 14th July - 9th September.
"The use of multiple media to present the virtual scene as a complement
to the recording of the real scene creates a hyperreal landscape. The
reality of this is altered, but not interrupted, in the VRs by the
motion-captured dance of moss-covered dancing female forms if you can
find them among the foliage. Layer upon layer of invocation of nature,
technology and mystery building up to produce the final effect of the
work which consists as much in what is absent as in what is present in
it. This experience of the work is hard to put into words, which for a
piece of art is a strong sign of its effectiveness."
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id(6
----------------->
_Reality Mapping: Navigating the Social-Nodes_
Article by MEZ (Maryanne Breeze).
Web 2.0 is based on a collusive tapestry of adjoining social nodes.
Social Networks such as MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Orkut, Liveleak,
YouTube, Twitter and Pownce aren't prefaced on pre-set connotative
connections maintained through historicized emotional depth or satisfied
by biological drives. Friends aren't friends as we have come to know
them: there is no establishment of shared geophysical experiences, no
cathartic or chronologically defined friendship markers evident. What's
important is [inter]action and the quantity of it - the residual volume
of contact and the fact of shared connection minus a meatbody context.
Identity is constructed in these friendship pathways via the idea of
notations; of naming labels, of icon attribution, and of clustered
info-snippets streamlined through an interface designed for momentary
persona snapshots.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id(1
FURTHERNOISE ADVENTUROUS MUSIC & SOUND - RADIO YOU CAN WATCH !
FURTHERNOISE ADVENTUROUS MUSIC & SOUND - RADIO YOU CAN WATCH !
New A/V Portal - http://www.furthernoise.org/radio/radio13.html
Furthernoise BCFM Online VJ Mix Featuring Grazmaster & Neil Jenkins
Next Broadcast : 22.00-23.00 GMT - 25th September 2007.
Podcasts of each programme now available - Radio Menu
http://www.furthernoise.org
Playlist 11/09/07
Track Title
Artist
Label
End Of The World Evan Parker Explosion
Holzkopf
Dainty Deathy
Hash Browns
Controlled Atmosphere
Clan Analogue
In Dark Trees
Brian Eno
EG Records
Afro + Vox + Blue Noise
Dithernoise
www.dithernoise.net
Planesong
Hillary Jeffrey
www.hiljef.com
Space Marimba
Joao Pedro Oliveira
Sirr Records
Different Trains
Steve Reich & Kronos Quartet
Nonesuch
Early Life In Crying Marshall
The Fall
Eagle Records
The Crying Marshall
The Fall
Eagle Records
By
Nadja
Elevation Records
The Man In Black
Jonathan Bepler
www.jonathanbepler.com
New A/V Portal - http://www.furthernoise.org/radio/radio13.html
Furthernoise BCFM Online VJ Mix Featuring Grazmaster & Neil Jenkins
Next Broadcast : 22.00-23.00 GMT - 25th September 2007.
Podcasts of each programme now available - Radio Menu
http://www.furthernoise.org
Playlist 11/09/07
Track Title
Artist
Label
End Of The World Evan Parker Explosion
Holzkopf
Dainty Deathy
Hash Browns
Controlled Atmosphere
Clan Analogue
In Dark Trees
Brian Eno
EG Records
Afro + Vox + Blue Noise
Dithernoise
www.dithernoise.net
Planesong
Hillary Jeffrey
www.hiljef.com
Space Marimba
Joao Pedro Oliveira
Sirr Records
Different Trains
Steve Reich & Kronos Quartet
Nonesuch
Early Life In Crying Marshall
The Fall
Eagle Records
The Crying Marshall
The Fall
Eagle Records
By
Nadja
Elevation Records
The Man In Black
Jonathan Bepler
www.jonathanbepler.com
FURTHERNOISE RADIO 22.00 - 23.00 TONIGHT TUESDAY 11th SEPTEMBER.
FURTHERNOISE RADIO 22.00 - 23.00 TONIGHT TUESDAY 11th SEPTEMBER.
93.2 FM (Bristol, UK) - 22.00-23.00 pm BST (+ 1GMT)
Repeated 11-12 am BST Wednesday 12th September.
Online Radio Stream - http://www.bcfm.org.uk
See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock for your own location time.
On Tonight's programme have a great line up of new music & noise
featuring Holzkopf, Dithernoise, Controlled Atmosphere (Clan Analogue),
Joao Pedro Oliveira, (Sirr) Canadian noise merchants Nadja, The Fall,
Jonathan Bepler (Cremaster Cycle), Steve Reich and experimental
trombonist Hillary Jeffrey.
RADIO YOU CAN WATCH
As usual we will have a stunning live online visual mix by our regular
VJ's Grazmaster & Neil in the A/V platform VisitorsStudio. If your
getting the programme as a stream simply open
http://www.visitorsstudio.org in another browser window. You don't have
to register to watch the mix !
Listen again podcasts from radio menu of http://www.furthernoise.org
World Times
22.00 - 23.00 UK
17.00 - 18.00 NYC
23.00 - 24.00 Europe
6 - 7 am - Tokyo Wednesday 12th (Repeated 19.00 - 20.00)
7 - 8 am - Australia Wednesday 12th (Repeated 20.00 - 21.00)
93.2 FM (Bristol, UK) - 22.00-23.00 pm BST (+ 1GMT)
Repeated 11-12 am BST Wednesday 12th September.
Online Radio Stream - http://www.bcfm.org.uk
See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock for your own location time.
On Tonight's programme have a great line up of new music & noise
featuring Holzkopf, Dithernoise, Controlled Atmosphere (Clan Analogue),
Joao Pedro Oliveira, (Sirr) Canadian noise merchants Nadja, The Fall,
Jonathan Bepler (Cremaster Cycle), Steve Reich and experimental
trombonist Hillary Jeffrey.
RADIO YOU CAN WATCH
As usual we will have a stunning live online visual mix by our regular
VJ's Grazmaster & Neil in the A/V platform VisitorsStudio. If your
getting the programme as a stream simply open
http://www.visitorsstudio.org in another browser window. You don't have
to register to watch the mix !
Listen again podcasts from radio menu of http://www.furthernoise.org
World Times
22.00 - 23.00 UK
17.00 - 18.00 NYC
23.00 - 24.00 Europe
6 - 7 am - Tokyo Wednesday 12th (Repeated 19.00 - 20.00)
7 - 8 am - Australia Wednesday 12th (Repeated 20.00 - 21.00)