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

Join Furtherfield.org on Resonance 104.4FM - 9.30 - 10.30 pm, Tuesday 6th April 2010.


Dates:
Sun Apr 04, 2010 00:00 - Sun Apr 04, 2010

Join Furtherfield.org on Resonance 104.4FM - 9.30 - 10.30 pm, Tuesday 6th April 2010.

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

Marc Garrett and Charlotte Frost will be interviewing:

Danja Vasiliev - Artist in Residence at Furtherfield.org's HTTP Gallery. London - UK.

James Wallbank and Steve Withington from Access Space, UK's first 'Free Media Lab'.

Other features include a music collaboration from 1975, with Laurie Anderson & Alan Sondheim- violin & mandolin. And other
treasures, noise-collages, soundscapes and exploratory music including a selection from www.furthernoise.org.

More information about featured guests:

Danja Vasiliev - Russian born computer artist currently living between Berlin and Rotterdam. Working with diverse methods, technologies and
materials Danja ridicules the contemporary affection for digital life and questions the global tendency for cyborgination. More info about his
residency here - http://www.http.uk.net/residencies/danja.shtml

Access Space - In continuous operation since 2000, the longest running open access Internet participation project in the UK.
Access Space says that its longevity and effectiveness are due to its innovative, sustainable model, which combines Free, Open Source Software and locally recycled computers with the collective intelligence of a skill-sharing community. http://www.access-space.org

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 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


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Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the V&A. Review by Rob Myers.


Dates:
Thu Apr 01, 2010 00:00 - Thu Apr 01, 2010

Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the V&A. Review by Rob Myers.

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Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) brings the state of the art in art computing to a venerable cultural institution. Everything from the posters and banners around town to the hoardings on the entrance to the gallery containing the show makes it clear that Decode is a serious cultural event. It's a spectacle, a dark space alongside the well-lit galleries of the V&A, drawing you in with points of light and distant sounds. The crowds are reassuring for the popularity of art computing yet disconcerting for the experience of the art at times. The show is divided into three sections. Generative art, data visualisation, and interactive multimedia (or, as the catalogue puts it - Code, Network and Interactivity).

Decode: Digital Design Sensations
The Victoria and Albert museum, London
8 December 2009 - 11 April 2010

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

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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

We are on Resonance FM Radio
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

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

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


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SMartCAMP: The Arts on the Social Web.


Dates:
Tue Mar 30, 2010 00:00 - Tue Mar 30, 2010

SMartCAMP: The Arts on the Social Web.

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Review by Angela Ferraiolo.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=385

Angela Ferraiolo finds a variety of interesting methods, behaviours, strategies and stories on her visit to 'SMartCAMP' or social media art camp. A 2 day conference that took place on March 5th and 6th 2010. Part of New York's Art Week, at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York, a slightly unusual kind of place in that it's a hotel with its own production company. The first conference of its kind focusing on the social web as it relates to the arts.

The aim was to examine how various social media tools are being utilized by artists and arts organizations to communicate with audiences, build vibrant and loyal communities on an international scale, and continue to spread enthusiasm for the arts. "There's no denying that these social communication channels are quickly becoming a vital part of every organization's outreach strategy, and savvy artists and arts orgs are taking note."

Matt Semler, who is also the director of The LAB Gallery, became interested in the ways Roger Smith marketers Adam Wallace and Brian Simpson were using platforms like Facebook and Twitter to build an online community. According to Semler, his curiosity "ultimately led to more questions than answers and we found ourselves wanting to bring the leaders in the social media (SM) art world together to talk about their process, goals and best practices. Once we came up with the name SMartCAMP we were pretty much off and running." Conference organizer Julia Kaganskiy of New York's Arts, Culture, and 'Technology Meet Up' curated SMartCAMP's program and a former actor, Danika Druttman, handled communications for the event.

Furtherfield.org - 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

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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

We are on Resonance FM Radio
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

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

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


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Danja Vasiliev - Artist in Residence at Furtherfield's HTTP Gallery. London - UK.


Dates:
Tue Mar 23, 2010 00:00 - Tue Mar 23, 2010

Danja Vasiliev - Artist in Residence at Furtherfield's HTTP Gallery. London - UK.

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Danja http://k0a1a.net/ has been in residence here since March 1st and leaves on 9 April 2010.

Russian born computer artist currently living between Berlin and Rotterdam. Working with diverse methods, technologies and materials Danja ridicules the contemporary affection for digital life and questions the global tendency for cyborgination.

During his Residency at HTTP, Furtherfield.org's Gallery and lab space. Danja will is working on his 'Netless' project - http://k0a1a.net/netless/. Netless is an attempt to create a new network, alternative to the internet. More precisely - networks within existing city infrastructures, possibly interconnected into a larger network alike the internet. Netless is not dependent on specialized data carriers such as cables or regulated radio channels. In fact, there is no permanent connection between all of its hosts (peers) at all - it is net-less.

For information about Danja's work and residency at HTTP, visit here:
http://www.http.uk.net/residencies/danja.shtml

Danja Vasiliev will also be discussing his work, on furtherfield's new series of radio broadcasts on Tuesday April 6th 9.30pm - 10.30pm.
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

Also - here is a link to furtherfield's first broadcast (mp3 download):
http://tinyurl.com/yhtn346

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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

We are on Resonance FM Radio
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.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

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

Marc Garrett interviews Chris Dooks


Dates:
Mon Mar 22, 2010 00:00 - Mon Mar 22, 2010

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Marc Garrett interviews Chris Dooks.

A 'Polymath' exploring various creative avenues, making his art using different media. Whether it be directing arts-based TV documentaries, explorative psychogeographical projects, design, composing and making music or audio visual installations.

This interview reveals various levels and approaches by Chris Dooks. An inquistive and playful mind is at work here, engaged in exploring across different forms of personal agency, as well as redefining his practice in relation to the world he exists in, and the people he comes across in connection to various projects. His art is not a singular activity. Meaning, he does not rest in one particular art genre or movement. Instead, we are asked to acknowledge a personal enquiry formed from different engagements and choice of mediums, which happen to meet his creative intentions and questions at the time. We are all relational beings and Chris Dooks is a clear example of how this can work in an artistic context.

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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

We are on Resonance FM Radio
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.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

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