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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.
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.
Furtherfield on Resonance FM Tonight.
Dates:
Wed Nov 24, 2010 00:00 - Wed Nov 24, 2010
Join us on Resonance 104.4FM

Wednesday, Nov 24th 2010.
Time 7-8pm (UK - GMT).
Hosts: Marc Garrett, Irini Papdimitriou & Jonathon Munro
Special Guests: Dr. Richard Barbrook & Fabian Tompsett, Tine Bech
Info & downloads of past broadcasts (scroll down page):
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php
Live Resonance FM broadcast:
http://resonancefm.com
This critically acclaimed broadcast is every Wednesday evening at 7-8pm, a series of hour long live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art, technology & social change; discussing events and controversies, exhibitions, artworks and their social contexts.
Until Mid-December, regular host Marc Garrett is joined by Irini Papadimitriou & Jonathon Munro.
Marc will be interviewing:
Dr. Richard Barbrook & Fabian Tompsett, will be discussing about their collaborative group Class Wargames & their current project 'The Game of War'. Guy Debord, strategist of the Situationist International, developed the game while in exile after the May '68 Revolution, and came to regard it as his most important project. For Debord, The Game of War wasn't just a game. The Game of War is a Clausewitz simulator: a Napoleonic-era military strategy game where armies must maintain their communications structure to survive - and where victory is achieved by smashing your opponent's supply network rather than by taking their pieces. http://www.classwargames.net
Irini & Jonathan will be interviewing:
Tine Bech, a visual artist and researcher who works with interactive installations and public art. She was born in Denmark and now lives and works in London.
Her practice is concerned with how we engage with our immediate environment. Projects have centred on the use of interactive electronics and location tracking technology, urban spaces and environmental elements such as gravity, water, sound and light to develop spaces where participations, play, and experiences of immersion take place. http://www.tinebech.com/
Also showcasing music and noise, providing a rolling lineup of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://resonancefm.com

Wednesday, Nov 24th 2010.
Time 7-8pm (UK - GMT).
Hosts: Marc Garrett, Irini Papdimitriou & Jonathon Munro
Special Guests: Dr. Richard Barbrook & Fabian Tompsett, Tine Bech
Info & downloads of past broadcasts (scroll down page):
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php
Live Resonance FM broadcast:
http://resonancefm.com
This critically acclaimed broadcast is every Wednesday evening at 7-8pm, a series of hour long live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art, technology & social change; discussing events and controversies, exhibitions, artworks and their social contexts.
Until Mid-December, regular host Marc Garrett is joined by Irini Papadimitriou & Jonathon Munro.
Marc will be interviewing:
Dr. Richard Barbrook & Fabian Tompsett, will be discussing about their collaborative group Class Wargames & their current project 'The Game of War'. Guy Debord, strategist of the Situationist International, developed the game while in exile after the May '68 Revolution, and came to regard it as his most important project. For Debord, The Game of War wasn't just a game. The Game of War is a Clausewitz simulator: a Napoleonic-era military strategy game where armies must maintain their communications structure to survive - and where victory is achieved by smashing your opponent's supply network rather than by taking their pieces. http://www.classwargames.net
Irini & Jonathan will be interviewing:
Tine Bech, a visual artist and researcher who works with interactive installations and public art. She was born in Denmark and now lives and works in London.
Her practice is concerned with how we engage with our immediate environment. Projects have centred on the use of interactive electronics and location tracking technology, urban spaces and environmental elements such as gravity, water, sound and light to develop spaces where participations, play, and experiences of immersion take place. http://www.tinebech.com/
Also showcasing music and noise, providing a rolling lineup of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://resonancefm.com
Rob Myers reviews Form+Code In Design, Art and Architecture.
Dates:
Fri Nov 26, 2010 00:00 - Fri Nov 26, 2010
Form+Code In Design, Art and Architecture.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=416
Review by Rob Myers.
"A new introduction to art computing programming looks like it might become the standard work on the subject. What does it include, what does it exclude, and does it meet the high standards that it sets for itself?"
"Form+Code is an art computing programming primer. Rather than teaching any particular programming language it explains the technical and conceptual history of programming and its use in art. Starting with an introduction to the basic concepts of coding, instructions, form, and different ways of representing them (in sections titled "What Is Code?" and "Form And Computers"), it moves on to chapters covering "Repeat", "Transform", "Paramaterize", "Visualize" and "Simulate"."
Form+Code In Design, Art and Architecture
Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, LUST
2010, Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 9781568989372
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Other Info:
A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free
culture - claiming it with others ;)
http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Furtherfield - online 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 - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
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http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=416
Review by Rob Myers.
"A new introduction to art computing programming looks like it might become the standard work on the subject. What does it include, what does it exclude, and does it meet the high standards that it sets for itself?"
"Form+Code is an art computing programming primer. Rather than teaching any particular programming language it explains the technical and conceptual history of programming and its use in art. Starting with an introduction to the basic concepts of coding, instructions, form, and different ways of representing them (in sections titled "What Is Code?" and "Form And Computers"), it moves on to chapters covering "Repeat", "Transform", "Paramaterize", "Visualize" and "Simulate"."
Form+Code In Design, Art and Architecture
Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams, LUST
2010, Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 9781568989372
————>
Other Info:
A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - proud of free
culture - claiming it with others ;)
http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Furtherfield - online 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 - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
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Furtherfield on Resonance FM Wednesday Dec 1st 2010.
Dates:
Mon Nov 29, 2010 00:00 - Mon Nov 29, 2010
Join us on Resonance 104.4FM

Wednesday, Dec 1st 2010.
Time 7-8pm (UK - GMT).
Hosts: Marc Garrett, Irini Papdimitriou & Jonathon Munro
Special Guests: John Wild, Olga Panades Massanet & Vincent Van Uffelen
Info & downloads of past broadcasts (scroll down page):
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php
Live Resonance FM broadcast:
http://resonancefm.com
This critically acclaimed broadcast is every Wednesday evening at 7-8pm, a series of hour long live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art, technology & social change; discussing events and controversies, exhibitions, artworks and their social contexts.
Until Mid-December, regular host Marc Garrett is joined by Irini Papadimitriou & Jonathon Munro.
Marc will be interviewing:
John Wild, is an artist, anarchitect, and psychogeographical explorer of dataspace. He studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art (MA) and received a 1st class BA honours degree from Chelsea College of Art and Design. A dialogue between Art and Politics, and a collaborative DIY ethos are Central to Wild's practice. John has collaborated with the Space Hijackers (http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/), We Are Bad (http://wearebad.net/), Savage Messiah and is a member of the Limehouse Town Hall Boxing Club London, UK (http://the-boxing-club.blogspot.com/). Wild has gained much recognition for his work with images created by the controversial Rapiscan Secure 1000 security scanner currently in use at Heathrow.

http://www.rupture.co.uk/
Irini & Jonathan will be interviewing:
Olga Panades Massanet & Vincent Van Uffelen. The collaborative project Deep Media Ecologies emerged out of Olga Panadés Massanet and Vincent Van Uffelen curiosity driven investigation of the relationships between human bodies, communication and technology.
Olga carries practical and theoretical research in the field of media arts. She works as a co-editor with Furtherfield.org while she pursues a practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths. Her research project looks into assemblages of sunlight, human bodies and machines. She is particularly interested on subtle modes of communication across bodies of radically different nature. She looks at the ways in which electronic circuits, computational systems, endocrine processes and neurological happenings intermingle. The tools she develops are speculations about the undercurrents of body communication. http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com
Vincent is an artist and digital craftsman who exhibited his work in UK and abroad. He studied computer science, media studies, and cultural studies and gained thereby a sound theoretical foundation that supports now his critical research of the murky entanglement of media, computation, and matter. At present he creates: devices to act in the physical domain, probes that reveal, things that meddle with communication processes, as well as objects that provoke thoughts.
http://vincentvanuffelen.com

Also showcasing music and noise, providing a rolling lineup of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://resonancefm.com

Wednesday, Dec 1st 2010.
Time 7-8pm (UK - GMT).
Hosts: Marc Garrett, Irini Papdimitriou & Jonathon Munro
Special Guests: John Wild, Olga Panades Massanet & Vincent Van Uffelen
Info & downloads of past broadcasts (scroll down page):
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php
Live Resonance FM broadcast:
http://resonancefm.com
This critically acclaimed broadcast is every Wednesday evening at 7-8pm, a series of hour long live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art, technology & social change; discussing events and controversies, exhibitions, artworks and their social contexts.
Until Mid-December, regular host Marc Garrett is joined by Irini Papadimitriou & Jonathon Munro.
Marc will be interviewing:
John Wild, is an artist, anarchitect, and psychogeographical explorer of dataspace. He studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art (MA) and received a 1st class BA honours degree from Chelsea College of Art and Design. A dialogue between Art and Politics, and a collaborative DIY ethos are Central to Wild's practice. John has collaborated with the Space Hijackers (http://www.spacehijackers.co.uk/), We Are Bad (http://wearebad.net/), Savage Messiah and is a member of the Limehouse Town Hall Boxing Club London, UK (http://the-boxing-club.blogspot.com/). Wild has gained much recognition for his work with images created by the controversial Rapiscan Secure 1000 security scanner currently in use at Heathrow.

http://www.rupture.co.uk/
Irini & Jonathan will be interviewing:
Olga Panades Massanet & Vincent Van Uffelen. The collaborative project Deep Media Ecologies emerged out of Olga Panadés Massanet and Vincent Van Uffelen curiosity driven investigation of the relationships between human bodies, communication and technology.
Olga carries practical and theoretical research in the field of media arts. She works as a co-editor with Furtherfield.org while she pursues a practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths. Her research project looks into assemblages of sunlight, human bodies and machines. She is particularly interested on subtle modes of communication across bodies of radically different nature. She looks at the ways in which electronic circuits, computational systems, endocrine processes and neurological happenings intermingle. The tools she develops are speculations about the undercurrents of body communication. http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com
Vincent is an artist and digital craftsman who exhibited his work in UK and abroad. He studied computer science, media studies, and cultural studies and gained thereby a sound theoretical foundation that supports now his critical research of the murky entanglement of media, computation, and matter. At present he creates: devices to act in the physical domain, probes that reveal, things that meddle with communication processes, as well as objects that provoke thoughts.
http://vincentvanuffelen.com

Also showcasing music and noise, providing a rolling lineup of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://resonancefm.com
We Demand the Impossible: An interview with John Jordan and Gavin Grindon

Marc Garrett interviews John Jordan and Gavin Grindon about their collaborative publication, A Users Guide to (Demanding) the Impossible; about the context of publication, and their imaginative, activist interventions into art institutions, such as the Tate Gallery, National Gallery, and the various collaborations with student protesters in the UK.
This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Mocking the Arts Establishment? In Italy it can be an expensive ordeal.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/mocking-arts-establishment-italy-it-can-be-expensive-ordeal
Roberta Buiani writes about the young artist 'Luca Lo Coco', who found himself at the center of an attack initiated by the director of Flash Art, Giancarlo Politi himself. Lo Coco critiqued the commercial artworld circus, for lacking authenticity, social values and artistic integrity. He created a pesky doppelgänger of the Flash Art website at www.ashartonline.com, replacing the original content with is own artwork. The site also existed as a platform for others to share their own critiques and observations concerning the arts establishment. This ended with Lo Coco having to close the site down after 6 months, as well as losing all of his home furniture when he had no money to pay for the hefty fine imposed on him by the courts.
This David and Goliath story shows us the big divide in the art world between those powerful within the arts establishment and those existing independently trying to find a platform and representation for their own creative voice. This article also touches on issues of whether these contemporary art world gate-keepers are worthy representatives of the arts, in view of their failure to reflect the bredth of the actual contemporary art scene.
"Politi’s exaggerated reaction appeared to become gradually an act of intimidation directed to the whole independent arts community rather than a personal affair between him and Lo Coco. [...] the perfect scapegoat, the sacrificial lamb that would serve to re-affirm loudly and ostensively the power of BIG ART, authority, hierarchy, and institutions against the younger, subversive, independent emerging arts." Buiani.