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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Re: further question on the "rublinda" correspondance


Hi Ivan & Michael,

mmm - I believe that it is probably part of my own make up that I respect
people even they are dead. Especially the oppressed ones...for they have
fallen into the quagmire of (bourgeois) art product-making.

Easy pickings for those who wish to use their x-identities for a flag or
(suppozed) meaningful action.

I'm beginning to think that many on this list do not agree with my
misgivings of using the dead for art. Fair enough...

But if we do not question our own actions when making art, whether it be for
a cause or not, who is?

I'm not going to say much more about this subject matter now for I find it
hard to be objective about it & could get all angst ridden.

Do what thou will.....................

marc

>
> > I'm interested to know what people make then, of this
> > piece by Ivan Pope.
> > I'll lay my cards on the table -I think it's good, but
> > it seems to me a lot of the "linda/flowers" discussion
> > applies here. Does it? Is it different? How? What do
> > folk think?
> > http://www.ivanpope.com/fragile/index.html
>
> Well, I sort of missed the RubLinda discussion and have only just looked
at
> the piece following this post. Generally I tend to avoid discussions on
> ethics in art, cos I'm an existentialist anarchist at heart. I have no
> problems with the Rub Linda piece personally, quite liked it.
> I guess the supposed connection is to do with my use of images of people.
> My piece is an attempt to make some connections between the structural
> falliability of the networks and the structural falliability of our law
> based democracy.
> I don't like to make things obvious or easy or to really know what I'm on
> about, so there may be more or less to it than that.
> I certainly didn't want to make a point about 'those poor people locked up
> in Guantanamo Bay'.
> Yes, I used images of real people as part of a piece of art.
> I stole the original image and repurposed it.
> I thought the piece might draw some parallels between the process of
> 'disappearing' people as practised by various governments around the
world.
> As Joseph said 'Couldn't really get it, seems to be broken up.'
> The parts of the image reside on various crappy free servers around the
> world. I have no idea where they are. Sometimes they just break.
> I like to make work that is so laconic, so half arsed that it just falls
off
> the table.
> But, it is always serious.
> I have worked with Lockerbie crash documentation and use a lot of images
of
> serial killers and killers of other types. Check my site. Did I do
something
> wrong? There are dead people all around, I can't avoid them.
> I never made a lampshade out of a dead person's skin, but I ask this
> question: If I make a lampshade out of the skin of a person who died in
> nursing home, is that different to making a lampshade out of the skin of a
> person who was tortured and killed by a third party?
> 'Full fathom five thy father lies
> Of his bones are coral made
> These are pearls that were his eyes.
> Nothing of him that does fade,
> but does suffer a sea change
> Into something rich and strange.
> Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell,
> Hark, now I hear them, ding, dong, bell.'
>
> Cheers,
> Ivan
>
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fall of the Berlin Wall joke...


US bombardment of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities has resulted in hundreds of
civilian casualties, thousands of maimed and wounded, massive destruction of
basic social and health infrastructure and the death of journalists - but
don't worry cuz it is similar to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Oh, that's alright then...

peace=massacre - these words seem to relate more closely now.

marc

DISCUSSION

Re: further question on the "rublinda" correspondance


HI Joseph,

That's the whole point - it is supposed to broken in various places...

marc

> Couldn't really get it, seems to be broken up.
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> > I'm interested to know what people make then, of this
> > piece by Ivan Pope.
> > I'll lay my cards on the table -I think it's good, but
> > it seems to me a lot of the "linda/flowers" discussion
> > applies here. Does it? Is it different? How? What do
> > folk think?
> > http://www.ivanpope.com/fragile/index.html
> > best
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Super Artist Ambassador!


It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Artist Ambassador!

Ever feel the urge to skip mutualist trivialities and just fly to your desi=
red destination without ethical diversions?

Have you ever wanted to morph into the form of a famous and respected Ambas=
sador of the Arts?

And toss all those tedious tasks of being genuinely creative in the trash c=
an?

Well, we all have that 'Super Artist Ambassador' lying dormant within us.=

It just takes some recognition and a strong dose of nepotism to perfect it.=

Want to know what your chance is?

Take this test and find out...

1. How well can you mimic ideas?

- Very well
- Only so-so
- I'm horrible at them

2. Have you ever accidentally smiled at somebody else even though they coul=
d not further your career?

- It happens so often that it's uncanny
- Once or twice
- Never

3. Do you often get ahead of yourself?

- Yes
- No

4. Do you answer the telephone before it rings?

That's impossible!
Once or twice, but it was completely unexpected
Doesn't everybody?

5. Can you lose or gain freinds quickly?
Yes
No

correct role model rating here:-

Only so-so
It happens so often that it's uncanny
Yes
Doesn't everybody?
Yes

If you answered the last one yes - you are the 'Super Artist Ambassador'.=

DISCUSSION

What's Your Superpower?


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