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: Re: Cremaster web site


Hi T.Whid,

When visiting New York last we went to the show at the Guggenheim and
enjoyed the exhibition there. But what I found interesting was that during
that time there I also was meeting various great net groups and artists
needing the cash, yet institutional support was not there at all. So one
dude gets the cash & many do not - isn't that a bit suspect?

And it does not always have to go down to how one presents their ideas it
could come from a place of democratic responsibility - so money gets more
evenly spread.

(no dis on the work tho...)

marc

> These potshots at the financing behind Barney's work are rather pathetic.
>
> Personally I'm excited that an individual coming from the world of
> art has been given the resources to create a (for art film)
> high-budget work. I see Barney as bringing the values, philosophy,
> and traditions of contemporary art to 'the big screen'. I'm excited
> that an artist is given the opportunity to compete against main
> stream film by getting a budget which, tho paltry compared to Hwood,
> is a decent independent film budget.
>
> I've said it before and I'll say it again, if there is a greater
> artist of his generation please point that person out to me. (I
> didn't want to like Barney, but remembering the '93 Whitney Biennial,
> his work is the only work in the entire show that I can vividly
> recall.)
>
> This web site is great at giving folks some clue as to the narrative
> and background of his films which can be a bit.. opaque?
>
> Personally I like his objects more than his movies which can be a bit
> long and boring. Most art video/film has a tendency to linger way to
> long on a particular shot and unfortunately Barney falls into this
> trap. I can forgive him this for two reasons, first, it seems a
> symptom of his genuine love of the images he's creating and secondly
> perhaps it's a reaction to the fast-cut aesthetic of the dominant
> media (to which I've been trained to enjoy so perhaps it's my fault I
> find it boring).
>
> But, I think the real key to Barney's work is that he's an extremely
> traditional artist, conservative in a way. I think he bemoans the
> loss of meta-narrative in our culture, that is, the place the Bible
> once held in western culture. He decided that to make art objects he
> needed to reference a meta-narrative so he created his own using the
> dominant narrative media of contemporary culture, film. So, instead
> of Jesus on the cross, we get Fion MacCumhail: The Case of the
> Entered Apprentice.
>
> The web site itself is a bit lame IMO. It could be much easier to
> navigate and there is no way to link to specific pages but that's
> flash for ya...
>
> At 1:31 AM -0700 10/20/03, Jim Andrews wrote:
> >
> >> >> He must have really creative accountant...
> >> >>
> >> >> marc
> >> >
> >> > I was wondering about that too. Maybe all the blood at
> >> > the end is to pay for it?
> >> >
> >> > ja
> >>
> >> It pays to have Barbara Gladstone as your dealer.
> >>
> >> Lee
> >
> >And a rich buyer who likes vaseline.
> >
> >ja
>
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Re: Re: Cremaster web site


He must have really creative accountant...

marc

>
> He must have a really CREATIVE web master.
>
>
>
> say CHEESE!
> AE03.
> http://www.atomicelroy.com
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Re: Re: Why doesn't Nike want to play with me?


Hi atomic,

Yes - I hope that they are getting paid by Nike for all this advertising...

May be 0100101110101101.ORG are pitching for some work.

It certainly does not seem as challenging as some of their other projects.

That's all I'm saying about the (N) company, they really do not deserve the
publicity at all.

marc

> NIKE marketing WINS!
>
> you just spent a lot of time thinking, talking, writing, about NIKE.
>
> they win.
>
> did you ever visualize the swoosh while you were doing it?
> then they REALLY won!
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> say cheese!
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FurtherStudio - Critical Forum 1 (day correction)


> Tuesday 21st October 2003
> 18.30 GMT - (that's 19.30 BST and 14.30 NY)

FurtherStudio

The theoretical and critical context for the Furtherstudio residency is
enhanced by a programme of monthly Critical Forums led by net art critics
and writers from around the world.

These live, online discussions between critics and the artist about the
artwork being made for the residency last for 40 minutes and are open to all
visitors. At the end of the events the artist critics and visitors can
relocate to the FurtherStudio chat room; an opportunity for dynamic
interchange and debate about net art, digital art.

Critical Forum Programme (Critical Forum 1)

Tuesday 21st October 2003
18.30 GMT - (that's 19.30 BST and 14.30 NY)

Jess Loseby, resident artist will be interviewed by US based Lewis Lacook,
critic and net poet whose 'special interests lie in the murky areas of
artists' programming and networked media...'

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FurtherStudio - Critical Forum 1


FurtherStudio

The theoretical and critical context for the Furtherstudio residency is
enhanced by a programme of monthly Critical Forums led by net art critics
and writers from around the world.

These live, online discussions between critics and the artist about the
artwork being made for the residency last for 40 minutes and are open to all
visitors. At the end of the events the artist critics and visitors can
relocate to the FurtherStudio chat room; an opportunity for dynamic
interchange and debate about net art, digital art.

Critical Forum Programme (Critical Forum 1)

Thursday 21st October 2003
18.30 GMT - (that's 19.30 BST and 14.30 NY)

Jess Loseby, resident artist will be interviewed by US based Lewis Lacook,
critic and net poet whose 'special interests lie in the murky areas of
artists' programming and networked media...'

http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/online/index.htm

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