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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6 new works/features at furtherfield


[New Explorations & discoveries of non-singular
Net/Web creativity featured/hosted on furtherfield]

This month we have another 6 new works/features at furtherfield. Bare with
us, this mailout is a little long info-wise, definatley worth a gander...

[S.C.A.R.E.] August Highland.
[DAYS OF MY LIFE] Shirin Kouladjie
[WEST NILE VIRUS] MEDIAMIXER.
[MY IDEA OD FUN] Bruce Eves.
[Ubiquitous Identities] Claudio Parentela.
[Power and Jtwine] Interview and review with Lewis Lacook.

[Info on new work]

[S.C.A.R.E.] August Highland.
S.C.A.R.E. Subversive Clowns Against Readable Etext - The intro reads:
UNREADABLE IS UNBEATABLE!! 'When you first see our work your eyes are going
to pop out on the ends of long stems and you are going to pull your cheek
around to the front of your face'.

August Highland creates literary identities that are networked, hyper
textural poetic complexities. Their existence challenges the singular,
bypassing the notion of 'I'. August's multi-presences function like an
active bacteria, digital organisms chomping into virtual Universe. Growing
perpetually and spanning Internet portals everywhere. Punk in spirit,
S.C.A.R.E's underbelly possesses many shadows, the text's originate from
Microsoft programmer's development kits and from porn sites. Both aspects
consist of powerful corporate intentions and are mutually entwined in
dominating the Internet for profit via desire for either getting on in the
world, or getting off in the virtual (if you see what I mean). Yet this is
not August's message, it more part of the palette, a very small part of the
greater whole.(mgarrett)

[DAYS OF MY LIFE] Shirin Kouladjie
'An object gains importance when it is separated from the things around it-
a few frames of a movie take a new life of their own when they are cut from
their environment: A new thought is born'. (Shirin Kouladjie).

These archived visual diary accounts exude an intuitve and playful intimacy.
As you journey through the collection of pages, static images, moving
images, dates, times and moments; you get the sense that images are a
platform for communicating what cannot be said by words alone. The user
experiences a methodology, an 'in tune' optical awareness. The emotion and
poetic mind behind these works explores life by seeing, shining light on
other people's lives as well as her own. Viewing the external world as part
of her own inner world, relational identification. The use of Flash, sound
and other techniques are subtle and do not distract you from the subject at
hand. (mgarrett)

[MY IDEA OD FUN] Bruce Eves.
'Navigating the grey area between desire and despair, my work operates
against the principle that in this newly whiny and Victorianized Disney era,
people's delicate constitutions will tolerate nothing less than civility and
happy-talk'.(Bruce Eves)

Bruce Eves, is a 'male' with many shadows, declaring an intellegent and
conscious disdain towards our over consumptive, mediated western culture(s)
driven by its endless insipid self-conscious, protocolian schemes. His
healthy distrust of 'art for family' viewing is a refreshing non conformist
stance. Some of his best work creates a dark honest (sometimes frightening)
clarity, juxtaposing different psychological contradictions of cultures and
their underline practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that
one does not hold or possess; thus falseness. He knows that hypocrisy is
part of life but is not part of the realization of life. 'Hypocrisy is the
necessary burden of villainy' Rambler. '1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS' and 'ALL MALE
ORGY' are a perfect examples of this. (m.garrett)

[WEST NILE VIRUS] MEDIAMIXER.
An amazing journey following the 'West Nile Virus' as it starts in the Bronx
Zoo, New York, then spreads across 38 States, found in both mosquitos and
birds. [MEDIAMIXER] uses online surveillance tracking the outbreaks of the
virus, plus visual broadcasts of news reporting various incidents. The
documentation featured is awesome, hospitalized victims, a water monitering
form section and a plethora of other themes and formats including
performance. This site is a well put together, comprehensive multimedia
exploration via the Web. It will engulf you as you move further into the
flux and spectacle of paranoia. This requires various players: Quicktime,
Flash, Shockwave, Realplayer, all can be downloaded free. (m.garrett)

[Ubiquitous Identities] Claudio Parentela.
Italian artist Claudio Parentela is an illustrator, mail artist & cartoonist
and active in the international underground scene. He collaborates with
numerous zines, magazines and publishers in Italy and around the world. His
drawiings are always playful, offering a visceral intellegence with an 'Art
Brut' edge. He collaborates with various labels and bands of industrial,
noise, metal, punk music. He has illustrated stories and poems of:Vittorio
Baccelli,Lisa Massei,Alberto Rizzi,Cristiano Quadalti,Shannon Colebank,Gavin
Burrows,Gary Sneyd,Robert Smith,Michael Kriesel,Mark Sonnenfeld.

[Power and Jtwine] An interview and review with Lewis Lacook.
The splash page for his site cautions: "Be aware of your surroundings and
exercise caution when visual reflections refer to you." It's an awareness of
just how much of human perception is grounded in human predisposition. One
piece on his site, "mindgame", opens a flash animation of a seated figure
(it's one of those egg-shaped chairs, in fact, supposed to yield such
comfort in the office) superimposed against an exploding color background
that keeps declaring, looped, ad infinitem, "empty refill."

http://www.furtherfield.org/home.html - straight to the new artists page.

[note]
All contributions on furtherfield can reached by this page...
http://www.furtherfield.org/contributors.html

[what are we]
Furtherfield is an online platform for the creation, promotion, and
archiving of new work for public viewing and interaction. Furtherfield
collaborates with independent visual artists, digital/net artists, writers,
critical thinkers, musicians and noisemakers with a special focus on work
developed and produced outside the recognised institutional support
structures. We explore new and imaginative strategies for communicating
ideas and issues in a range of digital & terrestrial media contexts.

Furtherfield's activities focus on presenting works online and organising
global, contributory projects, which exist simultaneously on the Internet,
the streets and public venues.

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We Can Make Our Own World.

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World Contrasts

Our World is a Great Paradox That Turns Around in the Universe

By Eduardo Galeano
www.portoalegre2003.org
January 16, 2003

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not Chilean? The copper industry--the central roof beam of the Chilean econ=
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Our Indians were born in the American continent, not in India. Turkey=
s and corn are also American, despite the name the English language has giv=
en this bird, and the fact that corn is called "Turkish grain" [granoturco]=
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Re: Music Industry Unveils Net Sales Tracking Tag


Not to mention all the crap and boy/girl bands that they keep churniing out
that much of the 16 upward audience is bored shitless with...

marc

>he music industry blames the popularity of such
networks, including Kazaa and Grokster, where millions
of consumers swap songs for free, for the decline in
recorded music sales. Monday, the British Phonographic
Industry (BPI) reported a 3.7 percent decline in
recorded music sales in the fourth quarter of 2002,
traditionally the strongest selling period.

> Music Industry Unveils Net Sales Tracking Tag
> Mon Feb 10, 9:09 AM ET Add Technology - Reuters
> Internet Report to My Yahoo!
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> LONDON (Reuters) - A music industry trade body
> launched Monday electronic identity tags to keep tabs
> on Internet music sales in a bid to compensate
> musicians and song writers as more of their works
> become available online.
>
> The Global Release Indentifier, or GRid, is a code
> akin to the Universal Product Code (UPC) bar code
> found on a CD or cassette tape in stores.
>
>
> The aim is to track each time a record label, online
> retailer or distributor such as Microsoft's MSN or
> Italian Internet service provider Tiscali sells a song
> in the form of a Web stream or download.
>
>
> Such tracking initiatives are considered vital to an
> industry that is reeling from lost sales compounded by
> a slumping global economy and the growth in online
> music piracy.
>
>
> With the GRid initiative, resellers would be charged
> an annual fee of 150 pounds ($245.10), for which they
> can issue an identity tag to millions of songs sold
> online.
>
>
> Each track will be distributed with an individual GRid
> serial number. Like a bar code, it will be reported
> back to rights societies and collection agencies so
> that artists can be compensated for sales.
>
>
> International Federation of Phonographic Industry
> (IFPI) and Recording Industry Association of America
> (news - web sites) (RIAA) have been developing the
> standard for the past two years.
>
>
> "If this is done properly, the artists and authors of
> music will be paid adequately for the sale of their
> works online," said Paul Jessop, chief technology
> officer of the IFPI.
>
>
> He added the GRid initiative is a voluntary system,
> and that the fee would, initially at least, be covered
> by the resellers.
>
>
> Jessop cautioned that GRid is not designed, nor is it
> intended for, keeping track of songs that wind up on
> online file-sharing networks, a major source of music
> piracy.
>
>
> The music industry blames the popularity of such
> networks, including Kazaa and Grokster, where millions
> of consumers swap songs for free, for the decline in
> recorded music sales. Monday, the British Phonographic
> Industry (BPI) reported a 3.7 percent decline in
> recorded music sales in the fourth quarter of 2002,
> traditionally the strongest selling period.
>
>
> In an effort to provide consumers an alternative to
> illicit file-trading sites, the major record labels,
> including Sony Music, Warner Music, Universal Music,
> EMI and Bertelsmann, have begun selling more of their
> music online.
>
>
> But music officials have complained that
> sales-tracking systems in place at the moment need to
> be standardized so that online sales, though small at
> the moment, can be better recorded.
>
>
> "It's our ambition to evangelize this to the
> independent music labels and the new generation of
> online music distributors," Jessop said. "I would
> expect they'll be part of the second wave of
> adoptees."
>
>
> "At first sight, this looks like a really good thing,"
> said Gavin Robertson, general manager of
> MusicIndie.com, research and development and licensing
> arm of the Association of Independent Music, a trade
> body representing 700 independent music labels.
>
>
> "The industry is really in need of interoperable
> identification tags and this technology appears to
> really fill a gap," he said, adding that the
> independent labels group would consider adopting the
> GRid technology.
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