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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DISCUSSION

The end of the beginning


The end of the beginning

The word "empire" has been on American -- or at least media -- lips for the
last year or so; and whether among its admirers on the right or those who
fear it on the left, it's a word that manages to have such a monumental
feel, such a lasting ring to it. American as the new Rome -- and those
Romans, didn't they go on forever? America as the new Brits -- and the sun
took, what, a century to settle on them? And those old Chinese imperial
dynasties -- good lord, hundreds of years sometimes.

Unfortunately, I'm no historian of the Roman Empire, but some historian out
there should remind us of the venal and the stupid emperors of ancient Rome.
I say this because my own suspicion is that our imperial age -- the age of
the younger Bush -- will prove to be a brief imperial age of stupidity.
Where are the books about the stupid empires, the ones whose strategies
proved catastrophic even to them, the ones that fell smack on their imperial
faces?

http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pidT2

DISCUSSION

explosive-head


bombed
bombing
bombs
detonate
with
impact
container-driverz
capable-of-withstanding
high-internal-pressure
container-ejects-a-spray-foam-gas-under-pressure
atomic-or-nuclear-bomb
an-explosive-device
attack-damage-destroy-with-bombs
drop-bomb-bombs
drop-bomb-bombs
drop-bomb-bombs
on-people
spherical-hell-like-those-fired from-mortars
lance-harpoon-explosive-head
manned
many-men
managing
detonate
with
impact
container-driverz
capable-of-withstanding
high-internal-pressure
container-ejects-a-spray-foam-gas-under-pressure
manic-or-bombgazmic-bomb-man
an-explosive-device
drop-man-bombs
drop-man-bombs
drop-man-bombs
on-people
man-is-hell-like-those-fired from-mortars
dance-id-explosive-head

DISCUSSION

werza-werza-werza


werza-werza-werza

authorize~power
extricate~powerless
certification===============

DISCUSSION

werza-werza-werza


werza-werza-werza

authorize~power
extricate~powerless
certification===============

DISCUSSION

Freedom now means mass murder...


Freedom now means mass murder...