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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Death by Carriage


Death by Carriage

I lay here on my own
waiting for my leave
life and all its concur
is but a blur
echoing facades
floating
fading dimly
eyes shut slowly
conceding to life's weight
it falls like a watery shroud
unclothing me
could this naked child be so - so old ?
I can feel my vulnerable soul
is lingering
once earth bound
gagged by puppy hopes
nurtured with morbid
beliefs and security
living out ideas
on histories tired limbs
compared to the quiet shout
that time gives
I have compared myself
with too many things
hands between my legs
they are now fiddling
as the light draws nearer
I wish to receive
the god whom has caressed
all nervous energy
the cock is erect and
desires the ultimate coming
oh to feel the last pleasure
that what is my own
an essence dominates
the gap in this place
to come before I die
is my last simple wish
after all what else
what else is left ?
to dare wank at death
and enjoy thy fate
to be stuck in rhythm
shafting life's chant
to be wet and warm
and smiling
once gone
evading the stolen glory
of bastard time
to excrete all those shameful
insecurities
the last coming is here
now I must win
must embrace death
and explode out of me
life
my arms collapse
exhausted
they fail me
my heart
misses a beat
no coming
no glory
time clicks
passing me by...

http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/mgw/docs/poems_prose.htm

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Autumn Issue of Furthertxt


Autumn Issue of Furthertxt
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A-Mazing Texts!!!

Sometimes culture can be just like one of those huge mazes at country
houses:

a.. No one finds it fun except those with enough money to own it,
b.. You feel like you are somehow missing a private joke,
c.. All you do is go round in circles trying to find your way!

This summer, Furthertxt have been hard at work creating a flower bed of
activity with a beautiful new design, and, to help you find your way around,
we feature texts looking at ways of changing the culture maze.with maps and
action plans included!

Saul Albert is concerned with the critical issues surrounding cartography,
Ryan Griffis looks at the work of Damali Ayo and racial specificity on the
web, and the Critical Art Ensemble want you to sit up and pay attention to
the biogenetics that ubiquitously surround you!

Lost your way? Need guidance? Don't worry, Furthertxt is here to help!

Charlotte Frost - Furthertxt editor.

http://www.furthertxt.org

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autonomedia


Anyone tried to get onto the Automedia site lately?

It always seems never to arrive...

http://www.autonomedia.org/

marc

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