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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.
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.
New reviews, articles & interviews on Furtherfield - June 2004.
_*New reviews, articles & interviews on Furtherfield - June 2004.*_
You can access all new reviews, articles and interviews from our
homepage http://www.furtherfield.org - or access them separately via
introductory paragraphs below.
*Tandem Surfing the Third Wave (5) with Randall Packer,
Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology. Interview by Ryan
Griffis.*
The interview took place via email in the Spring of 2004. Ryan Griffis
asks Randall Packer about the initial formation of the US Department of
Art and Technology, how it came about, who is involved and its current
activities. The US Department of Art & Technology is an artist-led,
virtual government agency. The Department proposes and supports the
idealized definition of the role of the artist in society as one whose
reflections, ideas, aesthetics, sensibilities, and abilities can have
significant and transformative social impact on the world stage.
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id
*'Glass Rondo' by Beoff at NonTVTV - Review by Ruth Catlow.*
'Glass Rondo' was made and broadcast in 2003 by the Stockholm-based
artist collective, Beeoff, who has dedicated the last few years to
developing the software, infrastructure and arts content for NonTVTV.
NonTVTV has worked with the multicast-protocol to raise the bandwidth
and therefore the potential richness of the medium whilst preserving the
benefits of lateral production and distribution. By establishing nodes
in international public art venues it has also asserted and promoted the
medium as a valid extension of formal artistic expression.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id
You can access all new reviews, articles and interviews from our
homepage http://www.furtherfield.org - or access them separately via
introductory paragraphs below.
*Tandem Surfing the Third Wave (5) with Randall Packer,
Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology. Interview by Ryan
Griffis.*
The interview took place via email in the Spring of 2004. Ryan Griffis
asks Randall Packer about the initial formation of the US Department of
Art and Technology, how it came about, who is involved and its current
activities. The US Department of Art & Technology is an artist-led,
virtual government agency. The Department proposes and supports the
idealized definition of the role of the artist in society as one whose
reflections, ideas, aesthetics, sensibilities, and abilities can have
significant and transformative social impact on the world stage.
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id
*'Glass Rondo' by Beoff at NonTVTV - Review by Ruth Catlow.*
'Glass Rondo' was made and broadcast in 2003 by the Stockholm-based
artist collective, Beeoff, who has dedicated the last few years to
developing the software, infrastructure and arts content for NonTVTV.
NonTVTV has worked with the multicast-protocol to raise the bandwidth
and therefore the potential richness of the medium whilst preserving the
benefits of lateral production and distribution. By establishing nodes
in international public art venues it has also asserted and promoted the
medium as a valid extension of formal artistic expression.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id
New reviews, articles & interviews on Furtherfield - June 2004.
_*New reviews, articles & interviews on Furtherfield - June 2004.*_
You can access all new reviews, articles and interviews from our
homepage http://www.furtherfield.org - or access them separately via
introductory paragraphs below.
*Tandem Surfing the Third Wave (5) with Randall Packer,
Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology. Interview by Ryan
Griffis.*
The interview took place via email in the Spring of 2004. Ryan Griffis
asks Randall Packer about the initial formation of the US Department of
Art and Technology, how it came about, who is involved and its current
activities. The US Department of Art & Technology is an artist-led,
virtual government agency. The Department proposes and supports the
idealized definition of the role of the artist in society as one whose
reflections, ideas, aesthetics, sensibilities, and abilities can have
significant and transformative social impact on the world stage.
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id
*'Glass Rondo' by Beoff at NonTVTV - Review by Ruth Catlow.*
'Glass Rondo' was made and broadcast in 2003 by the Stockholm-based
artist collective, Beeoff, who has dedicated the last few years to
developing the software, infrastructure and arts content for NonTVTV.
NonTVTV has worked with the multicast-protocol to raise the bandwidth
and therefore the potential richness of the medium whilst preserving the
benefits of lateral production and distribution. By establishing nodes
in international public art venues it has also asserted and promoted the
medium as a valid extension of formal artistic expression.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id
You can access all new reviews, articles and interviews from our
homepage http://www.furtherfield.org - or access them separately via
introductory paragraphs below.
*Tandem Surfing the Third Wave (5) with Randall Packer,
Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology. Interview by Ryan
Griffis.*
The interview took place via email in the Spring of 2004. Ryan Griffis
asks Randall Packer about the initial formation of the US Department of
Art and Technology, how it came about, who is involved and its current
activities. The US Department of Art & Technology is an artist-led,
virtual government agency. The Department proposes and supports the
idealized definition of the role of the artist in society as one whose
reflections, ideas, aesthetics, sensibilities, and abilities can have
significant and transformative social impact on the world stage.
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id
*'Glass Rondo' by Beoff at NonTVTV - Review by Ruth Catlow.*
'Glass Rondo' was made and broadcast in 2003 by the Stockholm-based
artist collective, Beeoff, who has dedicated the last few years to
developing the software, infrastructure and arts content for NonTVTV.
NonTVTV has worked with the multicast-protocol to raise the bandwidth
and therefore the potential richness of the medium whilst preserving the
benefits of lateral production and distribution. By establishing nodes
in international public art venues it has also asserted and promoted the
medium as a valid extension of formal artistic expression.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id
Chinese Net protestors arrested
======================
Chinese Net protestors arrested
======================
Chinese authorities have detained a number of Internet dissidents as the
15-year anniversary of a massacre of pro-democracy activists looms.
The latest such arrestee, Liu Xiabo, had written a number of articles,
including an essay that condemned the Chinese government for using
subversion laws to prosecute and silence its online critics. He had also
launched a campaign to free cyberdissident Du Daobin, who himself had
been forced to plead guilty to subversion charges in a trial that was
savaged by various groups, including Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF-a
GILC member). Liu has since been placed under house arrest. Liu's
detention comes just after two other Internet activists, Yang Jianli and
Liu Shui, were convicted and sentenced by Chinese criminal courts on
charges that are being widely perceived as politically motivated. Many
of these individuals had participated in the pro-democracy protests at
Beijing's Tienanmen Square that the government brutally suppressed on 4
June 1989.
In addition to this wave of arrests, Chinese censors are also stepping
up restrictions on various forms of Internet activity. For example,
government agents have closed down over 8600 cybercafes over the past
three months, claiming that they provide "unhealthy information
online"-a term that apparently covers political commentary and material
critical of the country's rulers. Additionally, according to the
state-run Xinhua news agency, a government committee will be formed to
stop the flow of imported computer games that contain messages that are
deemed taboo by Chinese authorities, such as discussion of Taiwanese and
Tibetan sovereignty or the Falun Gong spiritual movement. The Chinese
government has already banned Hearts of Iron, a computer game made in
Sweden that, among other things, portrayed Tibet as an independent
nation.
For more on the Liu Xiabo case, visit the RSF website under
http://rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article466
Further details regarding the Du Daobin case are posted at
http://rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article432
See "China silences Tiananmen critics," BBC News Online, 3 June 2004 at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3772629.stm
Read "Net activist's trial unfair: watchdog," South China Morning Post,
24 May 2004 at
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid470
For more about the Yang Jianli and Liu Shui cases, click
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article388
See "China jails journalist for posting articles on Net," South China
Morning Post, 12 May 2004 at
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid098
Read "China censors online video games," BBC News Online, 1 June 2004 at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3766023.stm
See "China bans game for 'distorting history,'" Agence France Presse, 31
May 2004 at
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/31/1085855471013.html
Read Chow Chung-yan, "Special censors to root out 'unhealthy' internet
games," South China Morning Post, 25 May 2004 at
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid474
See also Jonathan Watts, "Nanny knows best," Guardian Unlimited (UK), 14
May 2004 at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1216808,00.h
tml
Chinese Net protestors arrested
======================
Chinese authorities have detained a number of Internet dissidents as the
15-year anniversary of a massacre of pro-democracy activists looms.
The latest such arrestee, Liu Xiabo, had written a number of articles,
including an essay that condemned the Chinese government for using
subversion laws to prosecute and silence its online critics. He had also
launched a campaign to free cyberdissident Du Daobin, who himself had
been forced to plead guilty to subversion charges in a trial that was
savaged by various groups, including Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF-a
GILC member). Liu has since been placed under house arrest. Liu's
detention comes just after two other Internet activists, Yang Jianli and
Liu Shui, were convicted and sentenced by Chinese criminal courts on
charges that are being widely perceived as politically motivated. Many
of these individuals had participated in the pro-democracy protests at
Beijing's Tienanmen Square that the government brutally suppressed on 4
June 1989.
In addition to this wave of arrests, Chinese censors are also stepping
up restrictions on various forms of Internet activity. For example,
government agents have closed down over 8600 cybercafes over the past
three months, claiming that they provide "unhealthy information
online"-a term that apparently covers political commentary and material
critical of the country's rulers. Additionally, according to the
state-run Xinhua news agency, a government committee will be formed to
stop the flow of imported computer games that contain messages that are
deemed taboo by Chinese authorities, such as discussion of Taiwanese and
Tibetan sovereignty or the Falun Gong spiritual movement. The Chinese
government has already banned Hearts of Iron, a computer game made in
Sweden that, among other things, portrayed Tibet as an independent
nation.
For more on the Liu Xiabo case, visit the RSF website under
http://rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article466
Further details regarding the Du Daobin case are posted at
http://rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article432
See "China silences Tiananmen critics," BBC News Online, 3 June 2004 at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3772629.stm
Read "Net activist's trial unfair: watchdog," South China Morning Post,
24 May 2004 at
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid470
For more about the Yang Jianli and Liu Shui cases, click
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article388
See "China jails journalist for posting articles on Net," South China
Morning Post, 12 May 2004 at
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid098
Read "China censors online video games," BBC News Online, 1 June 2004 at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3766023.stm
See "China bans game for 'distorting history,'" Agence France Presse, 31
May 2004 at
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/31/1085855471013.html
Read Chow Chung-yan, "Special censors to root out 'unhealthy' internet
games," South China Morning Post, 25 May 2004 at
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid474
See also Jonathan Watts, "Nanny knows best," Guardian Unlimited (UK), 14
May 2004 at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1216808,00.h
tml
Killing by Numbers
Killing by Numbers
(Ballad of the dying woman murdered by President Kill)
as the wind stretches
it yawns
across broken lands
it brushes over lost bodies
disparate and battered
blown, scattered into a state
of timeless disposability
who knows how much human body-waste
the wind has witnessed
as histories soul bleachers
educators of the singular
create yet another bombast, carnage path
for others to unwillingly adhere to
this wind
part of the nature scene
has seen
too many things
if only it could blow away all the pains,
cleanse this shabby place
of places
it blows through, above and over
not able, unable to change what is blown apart
a crumpled psyche
in a world dissected by mythology, dreams and ideals
tired inventions and pretensions of what could be
and some have been too willing to be
what they cannot be
morals come and go
yet we will never know
why we waste our time
creating each one of them
time grinds on
leaving the dead behind
to become mere memories
as life rushes ever onwards around it
the bombing has paused.......
here lies a dying woman
not just a woman
but a woman who knows the wrath of insecure masculinity
she thinks......
are we all merely
headless lost creatures?
here I lie
one leg less
and many dreams less
if only the tears
that which I churn
could fill the gap blown asunder
are we tomorrow's ghosts
laying down snares
for future lives?
dead is gone
lost is not found
end is - finish
and the wind
it blows
it moans
it stretches it's invisible limbs
across the battered land
oh surely there's hope
once we've realized, loss of hope
caught between non-reason and hope
dangling on the gropesome
x mark's the spot
mapped out, worn out
and the wind?
It still blows.....
(Ballad of the dying woman murdered by President Kill)
as the wind stretches
it yawns
across broken lands
it brushes over lost bodies
disparate and battered
blown, scattered into a state
of timeless disposability
who knows how much human body-waste
the wind has witnessed
as histories soul bleachers
educators of the singular
create yet another bombast, carnage path
for others to unwillingly adhere to
this wind
part of the nature scene
has seen
too many things
if only it could blow away all the pains,
cleanse this shabby place
of places
it blows through, above and over
not able, unable to change what is blown apart
a crumpled psyche
in a world dissected by mythology, dreams and ideals
tired inventions and pretensions of what could be
and some have been too willing to be
what they cannot be
morals come and go
yet we will never know
why we waste our time
creating each one of them
time grinds on
leaving the dead behind
to become mere memories
as life rushes ever onwards around it
the bombing has paused.......
here lies a dying woman
not just a woman
but a woman who knows the wrath of insecure masculinity
she thinks......
are we all merely
headless lost creatures?
here I lie
one leg less
and many dreams less
if only the tears
that which I churn
could fill the gap blown asunder
are we tomorrow's ghosts
laying down snares
for future lives?
dead is gone
lost is not found
end is - finish
and the wind
it blows
it moans
it stretches it's invisible limbs
across the battered land
oh surely there's hope
once we've realized, loss of hope
caught between non-reason and hope
dangling on the gropesome
x mark's the spot
mapped out, worn out
and the wind?
It still blows.....