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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EVENT

LIVE NETWORKED_PERFORMANCE - VisitorsStudio. 2nd September 2006.


Dates:
Sat Sep 02, 2006 00:00 - Wed Aug 30, 2006

LIVE NETWORKED_PERFORMANCE - VisitorsStudio. 2nd September 2006.
Joberg-Derby-London

Date: Saturday, 2nd September 2006.
Time: 4pm (BST)
& 5pm (SA time).

http://www.visitorsstudio.org

A live-online collaborative performance on VisitorsStudio by Nathaniel
Stern, Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow.

Followed by open laptop mixing by audiences and invited local artists at:-

- The Premises Gallery (Johannesburg)
- HTTP Gallery (London)
- Q Arts (Derby)

The Performance:
Nathaniel Stern, Marc Garrett and Ruth Catlow - will peform together for
30 minutes on the VisitorsStudio. Creating an AudioVisual mix, on the
theme of UTOPIA - in response to the discussions that has been taking
place on the Game/Play blog (http://blog.game-play.org.uk).

After the 30 minute performance:
Everyone is invited to join in and upload their own content to
networked, real-time platform, to mix and collaborate from the 3
different venues. Others who cannot make it to the venues are invited to
join in and connect from their own homes. Remember, the VisitorsStudio
has been designed to allow anyone with a 56k modem to access it from
anywhere in the world.

About Files and Software:
Get the latest flash player on your computer.
File types supported are jpg, png, mp3, flv and swf files, as long as
they are under 200k.

All are welcome :-)

More About the Venues:

HTTP Gallery (Furtherfield venue).
Gallery hours 12-5, Fri - Sun.
Unit A2, 71, Ashfield Road
London N4 1NY
+44 (0) 208 8022827
Furtherfield - http://www.furtherfield.org
HTTP Gallery - http://www.http.uk.net

The Premises at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre
Loveday Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa
+27 (0) 11 877 6859
www.onair.co.za/thepremises
thepremises@onair.co.za

Q Arts / Gallery
35 - 36 Queen Street
Derby
DE1 3DS
Tel: 01332 295 858
http://www.q-arts.co.uk

URL http://www.visitorsstudio.org
VisitorsStudio is a Furtherfield project

VisitorsStudio is included in the Game/Play networked touring exhibition.
A collaboration between Q-Arts, Derby and HTTP, London.
Please see www.game-play.org.uk for further information.

Event Organisers:
Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow, Nathaniel Stern, Prof Christo Doherty, Victor
Simao

SPONSORED BY:

Arts Council of England
Awards For All
Furtherfield.org
Q-Arts
Derby City Council
Art & Technology, Johannesburg http://atjoburg.net
Co-directed by nathaniel stern and Prof Christo Doherty
http://nathanielstern.com
Red Bull South Africa
http://onair.ca.za
the trinity session


DISCUSSION

Re: Born in Berlin


mmm...

It could be like when the Stones left their hard core fans & peers
behind, and said 'it's only rock n' roll' - just like saying 'it's time
for bed children, play time is over'... and the cash just kept rolling
in :-)

marc

>So here I am,
>born in Berlin in 1961.
>Exposed to the spirit of Joseph Bueys in 1979,
>Made a virgin in 1983,
>Fallen in love with Les Manovich in 1997,
>Broke in 2000.
>Waiting for Randall Packer at a subway in New York in 2006 and HE NEVER showed UP!!!
>Am I stupid, naive, lost and forlorn????
>Of course I am.
>Where is New Media when you need a ticket.
>Those bastards, Mark Tribe, Alex Golloway, Mark Amerika (but I still think he's cute) and The Yes Men left me here... standing alone, with a poncho and a great body underneath.
>Its too much.
>best,
>Erika de la Silvanna
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Furtherfield - http://www.furtherfield.org
HTTP - http://www.http.uk.net
Node.London - http://www.nodel.org

DISCUSSION

New Reviews/articles on Furtherfield.org (August 06).


New Reviews/articles on Furtherfield.org (August 06).

http://www.furtherfield.org

SCANZ - Article Written by Helen Varley Jamieson.
SCANZ (Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand, represented several firsts:
it was the first Polar/Solar Circuit event to be held in New Zealand,
and the first festival of its kind in this country, bringing together 25
artists from NZ and around the world for a two week collaborative
residency. SCANZ provided the context for the first faces meeting in New
Zealand, and it was also the first time a group residency had been
offered to Avatar Body Collision

DISCUSSION

Re: from a b-grade (indy?) net artist


Hi Eryk,

I cannot believe that someone as intuitive as yourself just ain't
getting the issues around this, it's much more than that - but I'm sick
of explaining - hence getting on with doing stuff, which is of course a
positive action...

marc

>I haven't read Mark's book. I am sure my name is not in it. I'm not worried. His name isn't in mine.
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HTTP - http://www.http.uk.net
Node.London - http://www.nodel.org

DISCUSSION

Vampire Fodder...


Vampire Fodder...

A vampire has lived with us through the centuries
cursing our desires for autonomy, sucking at our
potential to be what we want to be, blinding us
from being, from being, sucking our souls dry
spitting out, regurgitating our pain back at us...

we consume your bile with our weak-minded mouths
knowing that you'd feed us if we did what was needed
demanded, of a child who had to be disciplined and
taught the ways of the world, and 'you are the world',
and we, we, are its currency, wanted dead or alive

We are the nourishment of your feed, the hunted and
tasty morsel, inviting you to lick your murderous lips
we are 'finger licking good', packaged and processed
to fit the double-sized pack, double wrapped, stamped
and priced, appropriatedly stored and then ignored

left in a market, positioned in catagories like frozen
stakes, chewy and gristly, yet tasty when turned over
a spittle, roasted and seasoned, stuffed with dreams
we are deluded, lost in a world that has no truths or
solid reason - we are nothing but children suckling...
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...on hope...........................................

a poem to George Bush and similar scum - by Marc Garrett.