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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2012: THE DAZE DITHER D00M CRASHED


2012: THE DAZE DITHER D00M CRASHED

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Patrick Quinn && Alfredo Salazar-Caro interviewed by jonCates

Chicago is home to various musical moments. Currently, from the innovative moves of Cheif Keef and Young Chop, referred to as New Chicago, to the superniche tumblr energy of Seapunk, Chicago's music culture knows the rapid movements of reinvention. Among New Media Artists, Chicago is also known as home to a 'Chicago School of Glitch Art' as well as being 'the birthplace of Dirty New Media Art'. When all of these aspects combine online and AFK (Away From Keyboard) while referencing the histories of Chicago House parties, Industrial Culture in our post-industrial decline and Noise Art / Music in the heat of summer 2012, looking forwards to the ends of the worlds, a result is this: An Introduction to / Retrospective of Mayan New Media Art: the POST-DIRTY NEW MEDIA, APOCALYPTIC, END TIMES AWARE ART!

http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/joncates/2012-daze-dither-d00m-crashed

DISCUSSION

Review of Eva & Franco Mattes 'Anonymous, untitled, dimensions variable' show at Carroll/Fletcher Gallery


Review of Eva & Franco Mattes 'Anonymous, untitled, dimensions variable' show at Carroll/Fletcher Gallery

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http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/anonymous-untitled-dimensions-variable#

Review by Rob Myers

Anonymous, untitled, dimensions variable is the title of a show by 0100101110101101.ORG (Eva and Franco Mattes) at Carroll/Fletcher gallery in London from 13th April to 18th May 2012. Or at least it was. The title changes each day based on submissions to a blog (http://exhibitiontitlechange.tumblr.com/). The new titles have been printed out and displayed on the wall to the left as you walk in to the gallery.

You don't expect this kind of playful intersection of the virtual and the real in a gallery off of Oxford Street, across from Soho, opposite other new galleries. Carroll/Fletcher's glass-fronted welcomingly brutalist interior says "serious contemporary art space". Inhabiting such a space presents a challenge to net and digital art that must be met with careful presentation and considered curation.


DISCUSSION

Invisible Forces. Exhibition...


Invisible Forces.

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"I'm as angry as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!" - Howard Beale, Network 1976

An exhibition about why contemporary life is so difficult for so many.

Invisible Forces features the work of artist-visionaries: Kimathi Donkor, Laura Oldfield Ford, IOCOSE, Dave Miller, Edward Picot, and YoHa, with additional game events, talks and workshops with Class Wargames, The Hexists, Olga P Massanet and Thomas Cade Aston.

Our social, economic and cultural institutions are being dismantled. Control over the provision of social care, urban and rural development, education and freedom of expression, is being redistributed to private enterprise at a global level. Undeterred, the artists in this exhibition meet these challenges with clear eyes, spontaneity, experimentation and a sense of adventure. The resulting mix of installations, digital video, net art, painting and drawings deal with conspiracy, money, politics, hidden signals and frustration fatigue.

Furtherfield Gallery & Social Space, London
Opening Event: Saturday 16 June 2012, 2-5pm
Ends Saturday 11 August 2012
Open Thu-Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm
contact: info@furtherfield.org

More info at Furtherfield Gallery page:
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/invisible-forces

Invisible Forces Events:
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/activities/invisible-forces-events

Pdf Press Release here:
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery-files/Invisible-forces-press-release.pdf

DISCUSSION

Khaled Hafez – "On Presidents and Superheroes".


Khaled Hafez – "On Presidents and Superheroes".

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Michael Szpakowski writes about Khaled Hafez's work, featured in the group show 'Subversion' at Manchester’s Cornerhouse, UK. A unique exhibition of new and recent contemporary art that explores and rethinks modern Arab identity. Consisting of artworks from various artists who are united by a strong connection to the Arabic speaking world. Curated by Glaswegian Egyptian-Turkish writer Omar Kholeif.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/khaled-hafez-presidents-and-superheroes

"Like many of the artists I was looking at, I felt that collectively curators and writers associated with the politically unstable Arab world were being asked to step up and perform to an identity that the world wanted us to play. With Subversion my aim was to do just the opposite. I worked with artists who referenced this very language but who wanted to dissent, poke fun, critique and re-define themselves as artists of the imagination, and not of any specific social or political condition." Omar Kholeif.

This review is a collaboration between Furtherfield and DVBlog.
Watch Hafez's film 'On Presidents and Superheroes' on the DVBlog website
http://dvblog.org/?p=9812

Subversion at Cornerhouse.

Galleries 1, 2 & 3
Sat 14 Apr 2012 – Tue 5 Jun 2012
Mon - Closed, Tue - Sat 12:00 - 20:00, Sun 12:00 - 18:00
Artists: Akram Zaatari, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Khaled Hafez, Larissa Sansour, Marwa Arsanios, Sharif Waked, Sherif El-Azma, Tarzan and Arab, Wafaa Bilal
Curator: Omar Kholeif

http://www.cornerhouse.org/art/art-exhibitions/subversion

DISCUSSION

Lies, Lawlessness and Disbelief 2: An Attempt at Thinking Art and Capital: Unknown Unknowns


Lies, Lawlessness and Disbelief 2: An Attempt at Thinking Art and Capital: Unknown Unknowns

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By Katie McCain.

Lies, Lawlessness and Disbelief 2: An Attempt at Thinking Art and Capital: Unknown Unknowns, is the second of five essays by Canadian artist & critical thinker, Katie McCain. McCain discusses how capitalism has become on the one hand all encompassing and on the other utterly unreal. Arguing that we need to be prepared to think the impossible so that resistance is able to grow.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/lies-lawlessness-and-disbelief-2

"Unknown unknowns are intrinsic to this conceptual, contemporary capitalism, and operate as the risk that can eventually cause a system to fail. Failure emerges from the unprecedented, from the unthinkable, from the things you do not know you do not know.[1] Instead of attempting to predict these events for market gains, what would it mean to merely acknowledge the paradoxical nature of thinking the unthinkable? 'Unthinkable' operates as the other to any thought capacity, and in an attempt to access this impossible, it would be possible to access a non-knowledge, something on the edge of logic, of research, of ideas."

Katie McCain is a Canadian artist based in Berlin. She received her BFA from Concordia University and her MFA from Glasgow School of Art. Her work has been shown internationally, including shows in Montreal, Glasgow and Berlin.