marc garrett
Since the beginning
Works in London United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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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


EAR to the [Archive] Ground – Reactivating the Unheard Avant-gardes. Case: POEX65.

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Morten Søndergaard's article explores the field of the ‘unheard avant-gardes’ (if it indeed is one field) and, drawing from the examples of ‘POEX65’ – a cross-disciplinary and POetry EXperimental event that took place during 10 hectic days in Copenhagen, December 1965 (and later to become completely unheard (of)), asks the central question: How do we define the modalities and methodologies needed to reactivate the unheard avant-gardes like POEX65?

"My claim is that there are huge lacunas in the construction of the ‘grand’ archives, as well as in the construction of our ‘collective’ knowledge, and it would be tempting - if we consider the other end of the argument that Mark Wiser makes, which indicates that we may never bridge or fill all of them (the idea would be absurd) - to claim that none of it matters. The ‘homemade’ logic being that there is not anything interesting to find, anyway – and if there were, ‘they’ (the professional and scientific networks) would certainly know about it."

The Journey Begins...

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/ear-archive-ground-%E2%80%93-reactivating-unheard-avant-gardes-case-poex65

About Søndergaard.

Since 1994: Internationally operating Media Art Curator & Art Critic; Currently invited visiting curator at ZKM. Curator of Exhibitions in US, Finland, Sweden, Russia, France, Germany, Austria and Denmark – (selected) worked with Damien Hirst (curator assistant), Sophie Calle (curator assistant), Yoko Ono, Christian Marclay, and Stelarc. Member of the Curator Board of PORT 2010 Festival of Contemporary Art in Aalborg; Senior Curator at re-new - digital Arts Festival in Copenhagen (www.re-new.org); (2007-10) member of the research group “Augmented Reality and Contemporary Art” at McGill University, Canada; (2004-10) Chairman of the advisory committee, Kulturnet Danmark (Culture Net Denmark), Copenhagen; (2004-06) Member of the Curator Board at Splintermind, Stockholm, Sweden.

Publications (selected): Get Real: Art + Real time + Theory + History + Practice (New York: George Braziller Publishers, 2005), (with Peter Weibel) MAGNET – The Visual Systems of Thorbjørn Lausten (Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2008), and (with Mogens Jacobsen) RE_ACTION – The Digital Archive Experience (Aalborg: Aalborg University Press, 2009). Upcoming publication (in Danish): Space Punctures – Show-Bix and the Media Conscious Practice of Per Højholt (spring 2011).

DISCUSSION

Echoes of the Past & Future: Gridworks by A Bill Miller.


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Mark Hancock investigates the video works of AB Miller. His nationally and internationally exhibited works include his acclaimed Gridworks Project, which comprises abstract ASCII drawings, ink drawings, animated GIFs, and video elements. "We exist within a built environment that is constantly mediated by the grid. Grids organize space through coordinate mapping and patterns of development. Grids compress, redisplay, and reorder information. Grids are an enforcement system imposed upon both nature and culture."

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/echoes-past-future-gridworks-bill-miller

DISCUSSION

Art is always somewhere else: Interview with OPA.


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Darko Aleksovski interviews OPA (Slobodanka Stevceska and Denis Saraginovski). OPA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression) is an artistic collaboration, based in Macedonia, whose focus is researching the social, cultural and everyday issues, as well as the ways of looking, thinking and behaving of a certain community in the shifting social and political conditions.

Their project entitled “Bollocks” is a complex and yet very simple interactive installation, made out of a video/image projection in a room in which only one viewer at a time is allowed to see it. The project was first shown at the Authorial Through The Appearance 3 exhibition in Veles, Macedonia (2009). Then it was modified in a second version entitled as “Bollocks for Everybody” for the Small Gallery in Skopje, Macedonia. After that the project was shown at the fifth edition of the AKTO- Festival for Contemporary Arts (2010) where it was awarded with the annual Dragisa Nanevski Award for interdisciplinary achievments. The project was also shown in Studio Golo Brdo, Rovinjsko Selo, Croatia (2011).

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/art-always-somewhere-else-interview-opa

EVENT

Being Social


Dates:
Sat Feb 25, 2012 13:00 - Sat Apr 28, 2012

Location:
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Being Social is the opening exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery in Finsbury Park in North London. Furtherfield has established an international reputation as London's first gallery for networked media art since 2004. With this exciting move to a more public space Furtherfield invites artists and techies - amateurs, professionals, celebrated stars and private enthusiasts - to engage with local and global, everyday and epic themes in a process of imaginative exchange.

This exhibition brings together artworks by emerging and internationally acclaimed artists: Annie Abrahams, Karen Blissett, Ele Carpenter, Emilie Giles, moddr_ , Liz Sterry and Thomson and Craighead.

Since the mid-90s computers have changed our way of being together. First the Internet then mobile networks have grown as cultural spaces for interaction - wild and banal, bureaucratic and controlling - producing new ways of 'being social'. Visitors are invited to view art installations, software art, networked performances and to get involved with creative activities to explore how our lives - personal and political - are being shaped by digital technologies.

Details About Exhibition:
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/being-social

Furtherfield Gallery & Social Space:
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery

About Furtherfield:
http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about

Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997


DISCUSSION

What is happening to rhizome?


Hi Zoe,

I thought it best to mention a couple of things regarding the current conversation.

>Netbehavior and nettime has a fantastically active community –
>but they don't also run a website, a blog, and year round programming like Rhizome does.

At this point, it's important to let people know that Netbehaviour (itself) like Rhizome, has an extended set of different commmunities on line and off-line. The Netbehaviour list is run by Furtherfield www.furtherfield.org which is a large, international arts collective, and Furtherfield also has a gallery in London http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery - not only that, we all share have different communities connected to this ever expansive and dynamic media art releated community such as www.furthernoise.org and www.visitorsstudio.org and the list goes on...

wishing you well.

marc garrett