marc garrett
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Works in London United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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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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DISCUSSION

Re: yawn list


Trolls are not the issue Mark, the real question is, whether you value
something enough to fight for it, even if it is a list. Blocking emails will
not deal with the issue.

By not discussing it we are censoring ourselves, and silence is not
appropriate. Action is functional, and a positive, conscious reasoning. To
ooze forth, or exuding one's beliefs and feelings, and I mean what we really
feel, not the icing on the cake; sometimes, is a good thing to do. 'Karei'
has declared no belief via 'its' function other to lamely deconstruct every
potentially interesting thought/Idea/creative collaboration that has dared
to enter on here.

'Karei', is playing a self glorification game on ad-hoc, Pseudo 'Buddhist
'& Sufi terms, great; I hope that whoever is behind this 'freak show' is
happy with their perverse actions. What a small thing to do, so cheap and un
inspiring.

It is a great Yawn - if you haven't got your ear to the ground, now is the
time. I am one of Rhizome's list members and feel that I have contributed
enough 'personally' to have a say like yourself any anyone here, and I am
saying that people are fed up with all this crap. And it is time to define
what is healthy for the (so called) community here. It's like having a drunk
relative that keeps on imposing their stubborn ways on others but the family
keeps quiet about it, so not to rock the boat. Get rid of the bloated (time
wasting) 'shrimps' if the load is too heavy, don't start dissing the
fisher-man or woman, for they bring home the food for Rhizome to eat. (A
loaded metaphor, but I'm sure one gets the gist).

Rhizome Raw needs to be wild of course, but not controlled by aspioring
(immature) despotic individuals with emotionally questionable masculinity
issues; who think you are scum for being imaginative and sharing ideas with
others mutually. Whilst (and it is cowardly by the way) hiding behind a
mask, oh that is brave, oh that is challenging, very impressive - Not.
Myopic in fact, to borrow a well over used phrase that has been pasted like
brown-faded, out of date wall paper around here.

It is easy to play games if there is no come back - public appearance is
(sadly) a part of our 'personality' driven times; and 'karei's' personality
is about hitting on people where it hurts, cuz for some warped reason 'they'
'it' 'who cares?' get a kick out of it. The problem is, that this person or
persons are willing to ruin something that is more important than
themselves - now that is worrying. Not unusual of course, but heart
wrenching.

Democracy is a 'soundbite', not a reality; thus one has to save what we have
got now, before it is 'marshal lawed' out of our lives by the few who rely
on the complicit silence of the mob, enabling them execute their
mis-informed dysfunction on others...

Surely this list deserves better than that?

marc

> --- "t.whid" <twhid@mteww.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 02:02 PM,
> > marc.garrett wrote:
> >
> > > yawn...
> > >
> > > This list has been hijacked by ugly anti- creative
> > nihilists...
> > >
> > how? right now i'm fueling their bs by even
> > discussing it.
>
> Okay, I filter email. It's a choice. I give people a
> good deal of thought before I do it, but then...time
> is up. I don't feel the need to listen to anymore. In
> life I listen to people who I politcaly disagree with
> in order to respond to world views with some thought.
> Trolls on a email list is another thing. They have no
> content so I do not feel the need to pay attention.
>
> All this being said (and as the other half of MTAA) I
> do not think a yawn list is a good idea for Rhizome.
> Reading the NY Times today about the black list in
> Colorado underlines this feeling for me. On the other
> hand, I have no problem with a MTAA yawn list. It
> would only be the view of MTAA and we do have the
> right to say how we feel, just like trolls.
>
>
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[HaRdWaRe] by marc garrett


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The inside of people's computers may reflect the minds (personalities) of
the individuals or groups that use them. If one was to gain such
information, you would discover what political issues, products that were
paid for online, and of course what sites they visit and much more. 'What
makes the most money on the Net?'. You got it - Pornography. So welcome to
my mini [HaRdWaRe], partially (java scripted) net project; a visually,
poetic play on such questions; like 'what would it be like if someone was
looking inside my computer right now?'. Ask yourself the same question.
Welcome to the darkness, that (suppozed autonomous) secret grotto that other
people seldom see, have a look inside my computer & ask yourself, what if I
was looking inside of yours? (m.garrett)

Soundtrack by 'Ouch Those Monkeys'

http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/hardware/index.htm

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[HaRdWaRe] ~ by marc garrett


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computer right now?'. Ask yourself the same question. Welcome to the darkne=
ss, that (suppozed autonomous) secret grotto that other people seldom see, =
have a look inside my computer & ask yourself, what if I was looking inside=
of yours? (m.garrett)

Soundtrack by 'Ouch Those Monkeys'

http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/hardware/index.htm

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Copyright Trial


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BlankRussian Software Firm Innocent in Copyright Trial

By Bob Porterfield
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, December 17, 2002; 2:51 PM

SAN JOSE, Calif.

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Google the 21st century Sherlock Holmes?


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BlankBut he had a 58-foot yacht. Is Google the 21st century Sherlock Holmes?

By Mike Magee: Friday 13 December 2002, 19:53

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s interest in Mustangs, a place to park boats, and of his interest in these=
cars rather than Ferraris.
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