marc garrett
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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: The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil


That's quite interesting, I am writing a piece at the moment about what can
be seen as evil these days? And Bush actually fits pretty well in there...

marc

> 'We didn't ought to 'ave trusted 'em. I said so, Ma, didn't I? That's what
> comes of trusting 'em. I said so all along. We didn't ought to 'ave
trusted
> the buggers.
>
> But which buggers they didn't ought to have trusted Winston could not now
> remember.
>
> Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly
> speaking it had not always been the same war. For several months during
his
> childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some
of
> which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the history of the whole
> period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been
> utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made
> mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for
> example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in
> alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever
> admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along
different
> lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since
Oceania
> had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was
> merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because
his
> memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of
> partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore
> Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment
always
> represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future
agreement
> with him was impossible.
>
> 1984
> George Orwell
>
> --
> Ivan Pope
> ivan@ivanpope.com
> www.ivanpope.com
> www.tochki-inc.com
>
> "Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death"
> Hunter S. Thompson
>
>

DISCUSSION

Re: Reading the British Dossier


I agree...

it stinks...

marc

> They claim that they did their own research to verify the facts, but if
they
> did research and fully understood the facts, then why would they choose to
> copy someone else's words instead of stating in their own words? Unless
they
> don't know how to write in English. Wouldn't it be only natural for
someone
> to write something in his own words if he felt that he made enough
> contributions of his own to the ideas or to the facts?
>
> There is much to be analyzed about their gesture of plagiarizing. It shows
> that they don't really know much. Anyone who has done substantial research
> of their own would not choose to copy someone else's words. That would be
> discrediting their own research, knowledge, and understanding. It would
make
> no sense, unless: 1. they didn't do their own research, or 2. they wanted
to
> pay their respect to the original writer. In this particular case of
British
> dossier, the second possibility is void since they didn't credit the
> original writer. The first one is the only scenario that I can think of.
>
> -Dyske
>
>
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DISCUSSION

"Kill The Poor"


Kill The Poor"

Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home:

The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight

Gonna
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate's gone
Feel free again
O' life's a dream with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it's okay
So let's get dressed and dance away the night

While they:
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

The Dead Kennedy's

DISCUSSION

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11/11/97 (you'll understand if you read between the lines)

Hello, marc.garrett@furtherfield.org

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DISCUSSION

Convincing case?


Convincing case?

The United States has consistently said that it had absolute proof that Iraq
was making weapons of mass destruction, but until now it's refused to reveal
much of that information because it said it didn't want to compromise its
sources.

But now that we have a fuller picture, do the US allegations stand up to
scrutiny?

Our Science Reporter, Julian Rush, has been examining the evidence:

Compared with the 1962 Cuban missile crisis - when the photographic evidence
WAS stark and damning - the so-called Adlai Stevenson moment - Mr Powell's
surveillance pictures did not have the same impact.

He used them to try to prove a pattern: that, taken with other evidence,
Iraq has been actively deceiving the UN's inspectors. But every picture can
tell several different stories.

Experts we talked to say that one could not rule out Powell was right, but
doubt that those conclusions could be drawn from photos alone - they would
need to be corroborated by eye-witness accounts to be certain.

The US risked much by releasing the tapes: they reveal just how effective
their electronic eavesdropping is.

America's intelligence agencies were bitterly divided over what to release:
the CIA opposed to what they saw as gung-ho Pentagon hawks who jumped to
conclusions based on the flimsiest evidence.

The forthright way Colin Powell alleged a complex web to claim Iraq was
linked to al-Qaeda exposes deep and embarrassing confusions between the main
allies, Britain and America.

Mr Powell says today there is a link, a leaked British security service
document and Mr Blair both say today, there's, well, speculation.

Analysts say much of what was presented today was, in fact, old and widely
known.

What was new is open to interpretation.

It seems America's intention was to make a case based on quantity rather
than quality of evidence: a case where the whole is more than the sum of the
parts.

http://www.channel4.com/news/home/z/stories/20030205/powell.html