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

hacked again...


Dates:
Sat Jan 01, 2005 00:00 - Tue Nov 30, 2004

hacked again...

hi everyone,

This is marc garrett from furtherfield.org - well it looks like after all the hard work that he have spent getting the server back into action again, updating it making it (supposedly) vulnerable was a waste of time...

Once again, the server has been hacked. This time we feel that it is a deliberate action to attack us or someone else on the server.

If anyone wishes to contact me regarding furtherfield things...

or with related information regarding other servers that have been hacked as well, like irational.org & southspace.org (who are now back online again), or who might have some idea of who it is, actively trying stop all of us, on the server from continuing our creative and progressive net art functions. We would be most grateful.

wishing you all the best...

marc garrett

my temporary email is:
a8theist@yahoo.co.uk


DISCUSSION

Re: image-blog


Yes, I remember this - it was quite a while ago in fact. About 4 years
ago probably...

Setting up a forum restricted to images alone is worth trying out,
furtherfield actually did manage create such a format and it was the
'Visitorstudio', remember the dissention convention project? it was perl
scripted and you could have swf, jpg and mp3 files, all mixed live
together (currently being rebuilt).

Will have allok at this and play:-)

marc

> who's visual?
>
> a while ago, marc garret and i tried having a conversation in
> drawings. but the technical part got in the way. but recently
> spurred on by the show of urgency at rhizome to get manik's images in
> on the discussion, i came up with this...
>
> to make it all easier, added an image-blog to the plasma site (URL in
> the sig below). the idea is like a conversation, rather than a bunch
> of monologues. you just respond with another language, visual instead
> of words. the images can be swiped or scanned or whatever. can we
> reply in the language of images, or just display them?
>
> unlike the artist from columbia who wanted to know about copyright
> laws, i am only living near columbia university. a comparatively
> cushy american city where we are required by law to do something
> mildly disreputable at least once a week.
>
>
> this isn't about probing or testing or questioning the laws, it's just
> a conversation. it ain't about propriety. it's about your responses,
> and i just don't care where they derive from or how you arrive at them.
>
> so give it a shot.

DISCUSSION

Furthernoise is back...


*New at Furthernoise.org*

*Furthernoise is back* after a quiet few months and a hacked server with
a new
edition of international eclectic sonic art, music and noise.

Features include Visitors Studio Multi A/V performance at Sonic Circuits
Festival, Washington DC, Clan Analogue artists - Koshowko, Random Acts of
Elevator Music & Winduptoys live in Melbourne as well as Sawtooth, Agents of
Impurity, & SONIC ART.CO.UK. We also have a top new selection of MP3's
including tracks from Blevin Blectum, Nathan Swifte, Lacunae & Midori
Hirano.

Guest reviewers are Sijis Records mainstay mutton_deluxe, Roland from Poland
and writer & poet Alyson Hallett who reviews Andrew Choates radio play
OEPigs
in Blankets

DISCUSSION

Models for Collective Servers


*Models for Collective Servers*
*Are you being served?*

12 noon Sunday 28th November at HTTP/ Furtherfield

In the wake of the FBI seizure of Indymedia Uk's commercial servers,
Irational.Org, Furtherfield and Ivan Pope are hosting a workshop to look
at models for 'collective servers'.

We wish to ask a series of questions regarding security, legal
responsibility, autonomy, collectivism and the 'terms of engagement'
between users and administrators of these data 'homes'.

With a reinvigorated notion of the 'Commons' through online information
systems we propose to discuss pragmatic policy and constitution in
relation to servers and their communities and arrive at some workable
models that satisfy the geeks and the non-techies, the artists and the
activists.

*Schedule*

Existing models
- Ivan Pope proposes model of a 'server collective' and discusses
Furtherfield hosting.
- Heath Bunting presents irational.org and sparror.cubecinema.com
- Rachel Baker will present some off-the-shelf commercial solutions.
- Simon Worthington presents OpenMute

Lunch- food and drink provided

The Collective Server
Contribute to planning the specifications of 'the collective server'.
Draw on your experiences and your requirements.
Share your resources.

Places are limited
To book a place please contact: info@furtherfield.org

Time : 12 noon Sunday 28 November
Place : Furtherfield @ HTTP
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre
71 Ashfield Rd
London
N4 1NY

http://www.furtherfield.org/collectiveservers

Nod to Artservers Unlimited http://asu.sil.at/

Food and drink provided and supported by the Arts Council of England.

http://www.ivanpope.com/
http://www.furtherfield.org/
http://www.irational.org/
http://www.sparror.cubecinema.com/
http://www.openmute.org/
http://www.http.uk.net/

DISCUSSION

furtherfield hacked


furtherfield hacked
++++++++++++++++++++

Just sending a message to all those wondering about what has suddenly happened to furtherfield.org

We have been hacked and it may take about a week to sort our end out...

It is not just Furtherfield who have been hacked, Ivan pope, alan sondheim, completely naked, devoid & many others are victim of this extremely (soulless) attack against our creative freedoms...

the server is being rebuilt.

Will get back to those who are concerned/interested, with other details soon...

Could those who have links with other list inform other them as well, so that they know what has happened - thank you in advance...

marc garrett

http://www.furtherfield.org