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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.
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.
Re: Update: FBI loses terrorism case will try to safe face with "mail fraud"
Hi Steve,
Yes - I need such, for at our end in the UK there is much happening to
support Steve Kurtz. & Critical art ensemble...
marc
http://www.furtherfield.org
>This just in from Paul Cambria Jr. Steve Kurtz's Attorney.
>The FBI did not prevail upon any of the bioterrorism charges,
>or endangerment of public health. It looks like the FBI is
>grasping at straws to avoid having to say they actually made
>a mistake. Longer message under seperate cover. I can forward or
>point you at a press release if you need such.
>
>MY email is thus, my alternated is: chromazine@sbcglobal,net
>My phone is: (831)786-8643.
>
>Have Fun,
>Sends Steve Kudlak
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Yes - I need such, for at our end in the UK there is much happening to
support Steve Kurtz. & Critical art ensemble...
marc
http://www.furtherfield.org
>This just in from Paul Cambria Jr. Steve Kurtz's Attorney.
>The FBI did not prevail upon any of the bioterrorism charges,
>or endangerment of public health. It looks like the FBI is
>grasping at straws to avoid having to say they actually made
>a mistake. Longer message under seperate cover. I can forward or
>point you at a press release if you need such.
>
>MY email is thus, my alternated is: chromazine@sbcglobal,net
>My phone is: (831)786-8643.
>
>Have Fun,
>Sends Steve Kudlak
>
>
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I scream -
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to an ascii dream beyond the now
beyond the death of what we are now?
I dare you?
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FurtherNoise.org Launch Party & BBQ.
*FurtherNoise.org Launch Party & BBQ.*
Featuring live performances from Jazz Rocker's Limbo, Sawtooth and a mix
of early electro sounds in the bar by Marc Garret - Ouch Those Monkey's
*Limbo mix the approved sounds of 'Bitches Brew' *
Davis and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters with melodic improvising and
spontaneous rhythm led arrangements that make you forget your listening
to music in continual composition. Releasing their acclaimed debut album
on Astral Recordings last year the band has built up a reputation for
innovative experimenting and spectacular performances with live visual
mixing by Reuben Knutson.
'Accomplished improvisers & melody technicians, a must for fusion heads
everywhere' -
Wire Magazine
*Sawtooth launch their debut album 'Celluloid Dreams'*
With their first performance of this new work. Drawing on influences
from John Cage, Harry Parch, Pierre Henry & Miles Davis, they sculpt
sound triggering the imagination into a world where your mind becomes
the cinema. Their live shows are no less entrancing with wide
spatialized panning of sound coupled with live acoustic instruments,
including trumpet, flute, tabla & Sitar. Further Studio (
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live) will host invited international
artists to mix live online visuals to their set, including Chris Webb
from Furtherfield.org and Sim at (http://www.soy.de).
'Art house cinematic audio at it's best'- Leslie Picket
*Marc Garret (Ouch! Those Monkey's)*
Co-Founder of Furthernoise.org Marc will be playing an eclectic mix of
early eighties electro, mixed with his own brand of Electro-based, cut
up sounds. His recent album 'Double Speak' has been getting radio play
on Resonance FM, BBC radio, and is a gritty and lyrical pronouncement on
the themes of sexuality, humanity and techno-mutation.
Furthernoise.org is an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of adventurous critical music & sounds exploring
creative diversity and imaginative audio creativity. We showcase a
diverse array of artists and groups who are pushing their work further
than the traditional remit of corporate controlled cliches,
re-interpreting new terrain's that communicate via sound.
http://www.furthernoise.org
Where:-
At the Cubecinema (http://www.cubecinema.com)
Find The Cube at : Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JB
map http://www.cubecinema.com/directions.html
Date/Time: -
Sat 19th June/ from 6pm
Cost:-
Featuring live performances from Jazz Rocker's Limbo, Sawtooth and a mix
of early electro sounds in the bar by Marc Garret - Ouch Those Monkey's
*Limbo mix the approved sounds of 'Bitches Brew' *
Davis and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters with melodic improvising and
spontaneous rhythm led arrangements that make you forget your listening
to music in continual composition. Releasing their acclaimed debut album
on Astral Recordings last year the band has built up a reputation for
innovative experimenting and spectacular performances with live visual
mixing by Reuben Knutson.
'Accomplished improvisers & melody technicians, a must for fusion heads
everywhere' -
Wire Magazine
*Sawtooth launch their debut album 'Celluloid Dreams'*
With their first performance of this new work. Drawing on influences
from John Cage, Harry Parch, Pierre Henry & Miles Davis, they sculpt
sound triggering the imagination into a world where your mind becomes
the cinema. Their live shows are no less entrancing with wide
spatialized panning of sound coupled with live acoustic instruments,
including trumpet, flute, tabla & Sitar. Further Studio (
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live) will host invited international
artists to mix live online visuals to their set, including Chris Webb
from Furtherfield.org and Sim at (http://www.soy.de).
'Art house cinematic audio at it's best'- Leslie Picket
*Marc Garret (Ouch! Those Monkey's)*
Co-Founder of Furthernoise.org Marc will be playing an eclectic mix of
early eighties electro, mixed with his own brand of Electro-based, cut
up sounds. His recent album 'Double Speak' has been getting radio play
on Resonance FM, BBC radio, and is a gritty and lyrical pronouncement on
the themes of sexuality, humanity and techno-mutation.
Furthernoise.org is an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of adventurous critical music & sounds exploring
creative diversity and imaginative audio creativity. We showcase a
diverse array of artists and groups who are pushing their work further
than the traditional remit of corporate controlled cliches,
re-interpreting new terrain's that communicate via sound.
http://www.furthernoise.org
Where:-
At the Cubecinema (http://www.cubecinema.com)
Find The Cube at : Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JB
map http://www.cubecinema.com/directions.html
Date/Time: -
Sat 19th June/ from 6pm
Cost:-
Re: reality check?
Hi JIm & all,
I watched a documentary last night about Gil Scott heron, who of course
has written some excellent tunes in his time - one of them is B-Movie.
I listened to B-Movie again from my own collection, bit scratchy now -
but the lyrics are still so on ther spot today - which is of course a
very sad state of affairs. The over-pompus, pretentious send off, of
Reagan, serves more as a propaganda/promotion/distraction form the
slack, phoney war for oil and empire-making.
Gil Scott Heron's lyrics tell the story how it is - still is. You can
even replace the Reagan name with Bush, in the lyrics and unfortunately
will understand the issues that have not gone away but actually have now
got worse.
marc...
*B-Movie*
Well, the first thing I want to say is..."Mandate my ass!"
Because it seems as though we've been convinced that 26% of the
registered voters, not even 26% of the American people, but 26% of the
registered voters form a mandate - or a landslide. 21% voted for Skippy
and 3, 4% voted for somebody else who might have been running.
But, oh yeah, I remember. In this year that we have now declared the
year from Shogun to Reagan, I remember what I said about Reagan...meant
it. Acted like an actor...Hollyweird. Acted like a liberal. Acted like
General Franco when he acted like governor of California, then he acted
like a republican. Then he acted like somebody was going to vote for him
for president. And now we act like 26% of the registered voters is
actually a mandate. We're all actors in this I suppose.
What has happened is that in the last 20 years, America has changed from
a producer to a consumer. And all consumers know that when the producer
names the tune...the consumer has got to dance. That's the way it is. We
used to be a producer - very inflexible at that, and now we are
consumers and, finding it difficult to understand. Natural resources and
minerals will change your world. The Arabs used to be in the 3rd World.
They have bought the 2nd World and put a firm down payment on the 1st
one. Controlling your resources we'll control your world. This country
has been surprised by the way the world looks now. They don't know if
they want to be Matt Dillon or Bob Dylan. They don't know if they want
to be diplomats or continue the same policy - of nuclear nightmare
diplomacy. John Foster Dulles ain't nothing but the name of an airport now.
The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia. They want
to go back as far as they can - even if it's only as far as last week.
Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards. And yesterday was
the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible
moment. The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white
horse - or the man who always came to save America at the last moment -
someone always came to save America at the last moment - especially in
"B" movies. And when America found itself having a hard time facing the
future, they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was
no longer available, they settled for Ronald Reagan - and it has placed
us in a situation that we can only look at - like a "B" movie.
Come with us back to those inglorious days when heroes weren't zeros.
Before fair was square. When the cavalry came straight away and
all-American men were like Hemingway to the days of the wondrous "B"
movie. The producer underwritten by all the millionaires necessary will
be Casper "The Defensive" Weinberger - no more animated choice is
available. The director will be Attila the Haig, running around
frantically declaring himself in control and in charge. The ultimate
realization of the inmates taking over at the asylum. The screenplay
will be adapted from the book called "Voodoo Economics" by George "Papa
Doc" Bush. Music by the "Village People" the very military "Macho Man."
"Company!!!"
"Macho, macho man!"
" Two-three-four."
" He likes to be - well, you get the point."
"Huuut! Your left! Your left! Your left...right, left, right, left,
right...!"
A theme song for saber-rallying and selling wars door-to-door. Remember,
we're looking for the closest thing we can find to John Wayne. Cliches
abound like kangaroos - courtesy of some spaced out Marlin Perkins, a
Reagan contemporary. Cliches like, "itchy trigger finger" and "tall in
the saddle" and "riding off or on into the sunset." Cliches like, "Get
off of my planet by sundown!" More so than cliches like, "he died with
his boots on." Marine tough the man is. Bogart tough the man is. Cagney
tough the man is. Hollywood tough the man is. Cheap stick tough. And
Bonzo's substantial. The ultimate in synthetic selling: A Madison Avenue
masterpiece - a miracle - a cotton-candy politician...Presto! Macho!
"Macho, macho man!"
Put your orders in America. And quick as Kodak your leaders duplicate
with the accent being on the nukes - cause all of a sudden we have
fallen prey to selective amnesia - remembering what we want to remember
and forgetting what we choose to forget. All of a sudden, the man who
called for a blood bath on our college campuses is supposed to be Dudley
"God-damn" Do-Right?
"You go give them liberals hell Ronnie." That was the mandate. To the
new "Captain Bly" on the new ship of fools. It was doubtlessly based on
his chameleon performance of the past - as a liberal democrat - as the
head of the Studio Actor's Guild. When other celluloid saviors were
cringing in terror from McCarthy - Ron stood tall. It goes all the way
back from Hollywood to hillbilly. From liberal to libelous, from "Bonzo"
to Birch idol...born again. Civil rights, women's rights, gay
rights...it's all wrong. Call in the cavalry to disrupt this perception
of freedom gone wild. God damn it...first one wants freedom, then the
whole damn world wants freedom.
Nostalgia, that's what we want...the good ol' days...when we gave'em
hell. When the buck stopped somewhere and you could still buy something
with it. To a time when movies were in black and white - and so was
everything else. Even if we go back to the campaign trail, before
six-gun Ron shot off his face and developed hoof-in-mouth. Before the
free press went down before full-court press. And were reluctant to
review the menu because they knew the only thing available was - Crow.
Lon Chaney, our man of a thousand faces - no match for Ron. Doug Henning
does the make-up - special effects from Grecian Formula 16 and Crazy
Glue. Transportation furnished by the David Rockefeller of Remote
Control Company. Their slogan is, "Why wait for 1984? You can panic
now...and avoid the rush."
So much for the good news...
As Wall Street goes, so goes the nation. And here's a look at the
closing numbers - racism's up, human rights are down, peace is shaky,
war items are hot - the House claims all ties. Jobs are down, money is
scarce - and common sense is at an all-time low on heavy trading. Movies
were looking better than ever and now no one is looking because, we're
starring in a "B" movie. And we would rather had John Wayne...we would
rather had John Wayne.
"You don't need to be in no hurry.
You ain't never really got to worry.
And you don't need to check on how you feel.
Just keep repeating that none of this is real.
And if you're sensing, that something's wrong,
Well just remember, that it won't be too long
Before the director cuts the scene...yea."
"This ain't really your life,
Ain't really your life,
Ain't really ain't nothing but a movie."
[Refrain repeated about 25 times or more in an apocalyptic crescendo
with a military cadence.]
"This ain't really your life,
Ain't really your life,
Ain't really ain't nothing but a movie."
>Living in Canada, we see a lot of media from the USA. The mainstream USA
>media is currently absolutely saturated with celebration of the
>'achievement' of Ronald Reagan. I haven't seen any comment on this. To me it
>seems like macabre Orwellian propaganda under a heavy dose of hollywood? but
>then the reagan folks, with their actor-puppet president, harnessed the
>dreamtones of hollywood in the service of political propaganda. i read in
>time magazine that reagan was the greatest president of the second half of
>the twentieth century because he won the cold war and returned the usa to
>prosperity (as in 'american psycho').
>
>does this max hyperbole in the usa going on at the mo about reagan seem to
>americans as strange as it does here? mostly it seems like a chilling
>reminder that the same beasts are in power now.
>
>ja?
>
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I watched a documentary last night about Gil Scott heron, who of course
has written some excellent tunes in his time - one of them is B-Movie.
I listened to B-Movie again from my own collection, bit scratchy now -
but the lyrics are still so on ther spot today - which is of course a
very sad state of affairs. The over-pompus, pretentious send off, of
Reagan, serves more as a propaganda/promotion/distraction form the
slack, phoney war for oil and empire-making.
Gil Scott Heron's lyrics tell the story how it is - still is. You can
even replace the Reagan name with Bush, in the lyrics and unfortunately
will understand the issues that have not gone away but actually have now
got worse.
marc...
*B-Movie*
Well, the first thing I want to say is..."Mandate my ass!"
Because it seems as though we've been convinced that 26% of the
registered voters, not even 26% of the American people, but 26% of the
registered voters form a mandate - or a landslide. 21% voted for Skippy
and 3, 4% voted for somebody else who might have been running.
But, oh yeah, I remember. In this year that we have now declared the
year from Shogun to Reagan, I remember what I said about Reagan...meant
it. Acted like an actor...Hollyweird. Acted like a liberal. Acted like
General Franco when he acted like governor of California, then he acted
like a republican. Then he acted like somebody was going to vote for him
for president. And now we act like 26% of the registered voters is
actually a mandate. We're all actors in this I suppose.
What has happened is that in the last 20 years, America has changed from
a producer to a consumer. And all consumers know that when the producer
names the tune...the consumer has got to dance. That's the way it is. We
used to be a producer - very inflexible at that, and now we are
consumers and, finding it difficult to understand. Natural resources and
minerals will change your world. The Arabs used to be in the 3rd World.
They have bought the 2nd World and put a firm down payment on the 1st
one. Controlling your resources we'll control your world. This country
has been surprised by the way the world looks now. They don't know if
they want to be Matt Dillon or Bob Dylan. They don't know if they want
to be diplomats or continue the same policy - of nuclear nightmare
diplomacy. John Foster Dulles ain't nothing but the name of an airport now.
The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia. They want
to go back as far as they can - even if it's only as far as last week.
Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards. And yesterday was
the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible
moment. The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white
horse - or the man who always came to save America at the last moment -
someone always came to save America at the last moment - especially in
"B" movies. And when America found itself having a hard time facing the
future, they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was
no longer available, they settled for Ronald Reagan - and it has placed
us in a situation that we can only look at - like a "B" movie.
Come with us back to those inglorious days when heroes weren't zeros.
Before fair was square. When the cavalry came straight away and
all-American men were like Hemingway to the days of the wondrous "B"
movie. The producer underwritten by all the millionaires necessary will
be Casper "The Defensive" Weinberger - no more animated choice is
available. The director will be Attila the Haig, running around
frantically declaring himself in control and in charge. The ultimate
realization of the inmates taking over at the asylum. The screenplay
will be adapted from the book called "Voodoo Economics" by George "Papa
Doc" Bush. Music by the "Village People" the very military "Macho Man."
"Company!!!"
"Macho, macho man!"
" Two-three-four."
" He likes to be - well, you get the point."
"Huuut! Your left! Your left! Your left...right, left, right, left,
right...!"
A theme song for saber-rallying and selling wars door-to-door. Remember,
we're looking for the closest thing we can find to John Wayne. Cliches
abound like kangaroos - courtesy of some spaced out Marlin Perkins, a
Reagan contemporary. Cliches like, "itchy trigger finger" and "tall in
the saddle" and "riding off or on into the sunset." Cliches like, "Get
off of my planet by sundown!" More so than cliches like, "he died with
his boots on." Marine tough the man is. Bogart tough the man is. Cagney
tough the man is. Hollywood tough the man is. Cheap stick tough. And
Bonzo's substantial. The ultimate in synthetic selling: A Madison Avenue
masterpiece - a miracle - a cotton-candy politician...Presto! Macho!
"Macho, macho man!"
Put your orders in America. And quick as Kodak your leaders duplicate
with the accent being on the nukes - cause all of a sudden we have
fallen prey to selective amnesia - remembering what we want to remember
and forgetting what we choose to forget. All of a sudden, the man who
called for a blood bath on our college campuses is supposed to be Dudley
"God-damn" Do-Right?
"You go give them liberals hell Ronnie." That was the mandate. To the
new "Captain Bly" on the new ship of fools. It was doubtlessly based on
his chameleon performance of the past - as a liberal democrat - as the
head of the Studio Actor's Guild. When other celluloid saviors were
cringing in terror from McCarthy - Ron stood tall. It goes all the way
back from Hollywood to hillbilly. From liberal to libelous, from "Bonzo"
to Birch idol...born again. Civil rights, women's rights, gay
rights...it's all wrong. Call in the cavalry to disrupt this perception
of freedom gone wild. God damn it...first one wants freedom, then the
whole damn world wants freedom.
Nostalgia, that's what we want...the good ol' days...when we gave'em
hell. When the buck stopped somewhere and you could still buy something
with it. To a time when movies were in black and white - and so was
everything else. Even if we go back to the campaign trail, before
six-gun Ron shot off his face and developed hoof-in-mouth. Before the
free press went down before full-court press. And were reluctant to
review the menu because they knew the only thing available was - Crow.
Lon Chaney, our man of a thousand faces - no match for Ron. Doug Henning
does the make-up - special effects from Grecian Formula 16 and Crazy
Glue. Transportation furnished by the David Rockefeller of Remote
Control Company. Their slogan is, "Why wait for 1984? You can panic
now...and avoid the rush."
So much for the good news...
As Wall Street goes, so goes the nation. And here's a look at the
closing numbers - racism's up, human rights are down, peace is shaky,
war items are hot - the House claims all ties. Jobs are down, money is
scarce - and common sense is at an all-time low on heavy trading. Movies
were looking better than ever and now no one is looking because, we're
starring in a "B" movie. And we would rather had John Wayne...we would
rather had John Wayne.
"You don't need to be in no hurry.
You ain't never really got to worry.
And you don't need to check on how you feel.
Just keep repeating that none of this is real.
And if you're sensing, that something's wrong,
Well just remember, that it won't be too long
Before the director cuts the scene...yea."
"This ain't really your life,
Ain't really your life,
Ain't really ain't nothing but a movie."
[Refrain repeated about 25 times or more in an apocalyptic crescendo
with a military cadence.]
"This ain't really your life,
Ain't really your life,
Ain't really ain't nothing but a movie."
>Living in Canada, we see a lot of media from the USA. The mainstream USA
>media is currently absolutely saturated with celebration of the
>'achievement' of Ronald Reagan. I haven't seen any comment on this. To me it
>seems like macabre Orwellian propaganda under a heavy dose of hollywood? but
>then the reagan folks, with their actor-puppet president, harnessed the
>dreamtones of hollywood in the service of political propaganda. i read in
>time magazine that reagan was the greatest president of the second half of
>the twentieth century because he won the cold war and returned the usa to
>prosperity (as in 'american psycho').
>
>does this max hyperbole in the usa going on at the mo about reagan seem to
>americans as strange as it does here? mostly it seems like a chilling
>reminder that the same beasts are in power now.
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Re: Vote Respect tomorrow!
Yes - I'm there -
respect:-)
marc
>Brits - Make the Euro & GLA elections a referendum on
>Blair's criminal war - vote Respect tomorrow!
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marc
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