marc garrett
Since the beginning
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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EVENT

Review of Publication 'You Are Not A Gadget' by Jaron Lanier.


Dates:
Tue May 25, 2010 00:00 - Tue May 25, 2010

Rob Myers reviews Jaron Lanier's book 'You Are Not A Gadget'.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=392

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"Necessary reading for anyone interested in how the Web and the software we use every day are reshaping culture and the marketplace." Michiko Kakutani, New York Times.

Jaron Lanier's book 'You Are Not A Gadget' is a timely polemic, a cry of the soul in an increasingly soulless Web 2.0 world. I found reading it a frustrating and inspiring experience. For every time I wanted to throw the book at the wall in exasperation there was a time where Lanier spoke to a part of me that the cultural transition from 90s cyberpunk to 2010s cyberpreppy had optimised out.

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Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood…

We are on Twitter

http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

Join Furtherfield.org on Resonance 104.4FM - weekly Broadcasts
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org

VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative ‘many
to many’ dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html

Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org


EVENT

Stewart Home, Richard Wright - Resonance FM. Tuesday, 25th May. 9.30 - 10.30 pm


Dates:
Mon May 24, 2010 00:00 - Mon May 24, 2010

Stewart Home & Richard Wright interviewed on Resonance FM.
This Tuesday, 25th May 2010.
9.30 - 10.30 pm.

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A live, jam-packed, hour-long review of what's happening in contemporary media arts culture & social change.

Marc Garrett and Charlotte Frost will interview:

Stewart Home, art & cultural activist across a variety of media including performance, music, film, writing, installation, graphics etc. Within these practices continually reforging a passage between theory and practice, politics and art, the private and the social.

Richard Wright, visual artist who has been working in animated media for twenty years, including many early pioneering digital animated films and interactive installations. A PhD in the aesthetics of digital cinema, has published nearly forty papers, articles and book chapters.

The programme also includes various other treasures: noise-collages, soundscapes and exploratory music.

For more info & downloads of past broadcasts:
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

Live questions from the audience on the night:
http://twitter.com/furtherfield & share comments using the hashtag #frfm

Live Stream link:
http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/resonance.mp3.m3u

More info about the Guests:

Stewart Home.
Over the past 30 years has worked across a variety of media including performance, music, film, writing, installation, graphics etc. Within these practices he has attempted to continually reforge the passage between theory and practice, and overcome the divisions not only between what in the contemporary world are generally canalized cultural pursuits but also to breach other separations such as those between politics and art, the private and the social. Releasing his latest publication BLOOD RITES OF THE BOURGEOISIE on 27th May (http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/luv/bloodrites.htm).
http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/

Richard Wright.
A visual artist who has been working in animated media for twenty years including many early pioneering digital animated films and interactive installations. He holds a PhD in the aesthetics of digital cinema and has published nearly forty papers, articles and book chapters. He is also researching a book exploring the contemporary practice of animated media, the “narrativising” of new media and data visualisation as the successor to documentary.
http://www.futurenatural.net

This programme is part of 'Hyperlink: Media Art Contexts' whose principal aim is to present and promote high-quality contemporary media art work, alongside critical discussion of past, present and future media art in a contemporary art context.

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About Furtherfield.org
Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement
with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to
become active co-creators of their cultures and societies.
Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing
and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art,
technology and social change. Furtherfield.org also runs HTTP Gallery in
North London.

http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.http.uk.net/

About Resonance 104.4FM
ResonanceFM is "a laboratory for experimentation, that by virtue of its
uniqueness brings into being a new audience of listeners and creators.
All this and more, Resonance104.4fm aims to make London's airwaves
available to the widest possible range of practitioners of contemporary
art."

Resonance 104.4FM
http://www.resonancefm.com


EVENT

Entropic elasticity: Critical Glitch Artware && the demoscene.


Dates:
Mon May 24, 2010 00:00 - Mon May 24, 2010

Entropic elasticity: Critical Glitch Artware && the demoscene.

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Article by Rosa Menkman
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=391

Based on an interview with the Critical Glitch Artware Category organizers and contenders of Blockparty and Notacon 2010; jonCates, James Connolly, Eric Oja Pellegrino, Jon.Satrom, Nick Briz, Jake Elliott, Mark Beasley, Tamas kemenczy and Melissa Barron.

From April 15-18th, the Critical Glitch Artware Category (CGAC) celebrated its fourth edition within the Blockparty demoparty and this time also as part of the art and technology conference Notacon.

The program of the CGAC consisted of a screening curated by Nick Briz, performances by Jon Satrom, James Connolly & Eric Pellegrino, and DJ sets by the BAD NEW FUTURE CREW. There were also a couple of artist presentations and the official presentation of a selection of the (115!) winners within the Blockparty official prize ceremony.


DISCUSSION

Download Thomson & Craighead, Corrado Morgana - Resonance FM Interviews...


Download the 11th May interviews at Resonance FM with Thomson & Craighead, Corrado Morgana.

http://www.furtherfield.org/resonance/Furtherfield11thMay2010.mp3

Hosted by Marc Garrett, artist, writer and co-founder of furtherfield.org, reviews and interviews with art historian & writer Charlotte Frost.

For other downloads and Information:
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

This regular live show highlights current activity and controversies around contemporary practices in art and technology, discussing events, exhibitions, debates and their social contexts with all manner of player and participant. Features include lively debate and interviews with artists, techies, writers and curators, interspersed with bleeding-edge music, soundscapes and a rolling programme of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.

This programme is part of 'Hyperlink: Media Art Contexts' whose principal aim is to present and promote high-quality contemporary media art work, alongside critical discussion of past, present and future media art in a contemporary art context.

We are also on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/furtherfield

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About Furtherfield.org
Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. Furtherfield.org also runs HTTP Gallery in North London.

http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.http.uk.net/

About ResonanceFM
ResonanceFM is "a laboratory for experimentation, that by virtue of its uniqueness brings into being a new audience of listeners and creators. All this and more, Resonance104.4fm aims to make London's airwaves available to the widest possible range of practitioners of contemporary art."

Resonance 104.4FM
http://www.resonancefm.com

EVENT

Artists Re:thinking Games Book Launch.


Dates:
Mon May 17, 2010 00:00 - Mon May 17, 2010

Artists Re:thinking Games Book Launch - Thursday June 10th 2010.

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Come and celebrate with Furtherfield.org the recent publication of 'Artists Re: Thinking Games'.

This is an unmissable event for all artists/gamers with a presentation by respected game artist Dr Mary Flanagan, a guest appearance by Jeremy Bailey and a display of some of the gameart featured in the book as well as an introduction by the editors.

RSVP - contact ruth.catlow@furtherfield.org

Introductory Presentations:

Corrado Morgana - About the book.
Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett - Extra Context.
Guest Speaker - Mary Flanagan.
Guest Appearance - Jeremy Bailey.

Food and drink will be served.

At Birkbeck University of London's Cinema
43 Gordon Square
Birkbeck, University of London.
London WC1H 0PD

Time 2pm - 4.30pm
Thursday June 10th 2010.

About the book

Editors Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Corrado Morgana.

Digital games are important not only because of their cultural ubiquity or their sales figures but for what they can offer as a space for creative practice. Games are significant for what they embody; human computer interface, notions of agency, sociality, visualisation, cybernetics, representation, embodiment, activism, narrative and play. These and a whole host of other issues are significant not only to the game designer but also present in the work of the artist that thinks and rethinks games. Re-appropriated for activism, activation, commentary and critique within games and culture, artists have responded vigorously.

Over the last decade artists have taken the engines and culture of digital games as their tools and materials. In doing so their work has connected with hacker mentalities and a culture of critical mash-up, recalling Situationist practices of the 1950s and 60s and challenging and overturning expected practice.

This publication looks at how a selection of leading artists, designers and commentators have challenged the norms and expectations of both game and art worlds with both criticality and popular appeal. It explores themes adopted by the artist that thinks and rethinks games and includes essays, interviews and artists' projects from Jeremy Bailey, Ruth Catlow, Heather Corcoran, Daphne Dragona, Mary Flanagan, Mathias Fuchs, Alex Galloway, Marc Garrett, Corrado Morgana, Anne-Marie Schleiner, David Surman, Tale of Tales, Bill Viola, and Emma Westecott.

In collaboration with FACT - http://www.fact.co.uk
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.http.uk.net/

Publisher: Liverpool University Press (31 Mar 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1846312477
ISBN-13: 978-1846312472
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/1846312477