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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.
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The Hitler Project


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For his part in the Hitler revolution, Prescott Bush was paid a fortune.

This is the legacy he left to his son, President George Bush.

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<P><STRONG>For his part in the Hitler revolution, Prescott Bush was paid a=

fortune. </STRONG></P>
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DISCUSSION

Re: Rhizome's Book Club


Hi Jess,

About Zadie Smith - Is it coincidence that Cambridge & Oxford x-grads get a
lot media support?

marc

> jess's very unintellectual and domestic book list;
>
> just finished:
>
> blackberry wine by Joanne Harris
> feel-good, ' laymans alchemy' for beginners.
>
> to depress the hell out of you
> 'How the dead live" by Will Self
> and I'm never reading another of his books again. Brilliant but wanted to
> jump off bridge at the end (but v. v. scared to do so)
>
> "White Teeth" by zadie smith
> great (if week ending) Currently on Ch4 UK and I bloody missed it
> yesterday.
>
>
>
> have read more but haven't read a 'goodie' in ages.... gonna raid your
> lists:-)
> o
> /^ rssgallery.com
> ][
>
>
>
> + Barbarians at the XOR-gate
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>

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Blank3 new soundz from 'Ouch Those Monkeys' - enjoy

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/388/ouch_those_monkeys.html

Time is Created:
Dysfunctional anthem - chugging out its hypnotic & cut up noises with acid-=
wit lyrics. Originally a poem, then it seemed to fit just right into a no n=
onsense protest rant against that ever deceiving snatcher of breath, that c=
alled time. must embrace death and explode out of me life.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2708/2708646.html

Tracer - I'll Never tell:
A dark funky tune, cut up rhythms with kiss and tell vocals. A child journe=
ys through past memories of family violence. The child is emotionally confu=
sed and hurt but still loves their parent entrapped by inverted survival, r=
uled by fear - pain and love. The child promises that he will never tell of=
what has been done to him. http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2704/270408=
9.html

Souls Settled Within not Seeing:
A song/poem about people too busy to see life for what it is & forgetting l=
ife's numerous wonders, whilst being trapped in socially constructed enviro=
nments.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2688/2688130.html
Vision Bender

Angle-less does despise - it does over emphasize
my physical loss of movement, jailing thy scope
I am groping for room for breath, it does grope

Dangerous eyes do meander - they gander any gender
a vision sender and life bender, sight dispenser
emotional inventor of what I have not yet comprehender

It rests in most corners, sitting like a friend
lingering, sniggering. It mingles everywhere
sharing its endless innards - sublime, all the time

Killer of my space, rapid, invading space and I am
a star homing into its Cyclops eye. Caught among the
flicker, flickering its emotional maze, trapping

Bulger's last testament - our mutual haze is collected
spliced and then it becomes part of the visual noise.
Squeezing blurred info, info radical, it spies

Whether calamity or vanity, it is here, there, no care
for path tredders, concrete pacers, measured am I.
Sought by dangerous eyes, it does despise my own eyes

Dead, wired into my life and yours, and it is our life
it desires. It wants, my situation is clocked.
Planted, stunted is one's growth, choking my mind

It rewinds the motion, a constant assault teeeezing
thy emotional glands. It does marginalize my action,
my movements. Jailing thy scope, limiting hope

Outer eye, evil eye, watching my personal growth, out
here. Consuming one's space, no grace, in yer face,
our race is traced, and then reinvented, displaced...

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<DIV><U><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>3 new soundz from</STRONG>
<STRONG>'Ouch Those Monkeys' - enjoy</STRONG></FONT></U></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/388/ouch_those_monkeys.html=
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>Time is Created:</STRONG>
<STRONG></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">Dysfunctional anthem - chugging out its
hypnotic&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;cut up noises with acid-wit lyrics. Originally a p=
oem,
then it seemed to fit just right into a no nonsense protest&nbsp;rant again=
st
that ever deceiving snatcher of breath, that called time. must embrace deat=
h and
explode out of me life.<BR></FONT><A
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<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">Tracer - I'll Never
tell:</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">A dark funky tune, cut up rhythms&nbsp;with=
kiss
and tell vocals.&nbsp;A child journeys through past memories of family viol=
ence.
The child is emotionally confused and hurt but still loves their parent
entrapped by inverted survival, ruled by fear - pain and love. The child
promises that he will never tell of what has been done to him. </FONT><A
href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2704/2704089.html"><FONT
face="Courier New">http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2704/2704089.html<=
/FONT></A><FONT
face="Courier New"> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">Souls Settled Within not
Seeing:</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">A song/poem about people too busy to see li=
fe for
what it is&nbsp;&amp; forgetting&nbsp;life's numerous wonders, whilst being=

trapped in socially constructed environments.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2688/2688130.html"><FON=
T
face="Courier New">http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2688/2688130.html<=
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<P><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></P>
<P align=center><BR><FONT face="Courier New" color=#000000
size=2>Angle-less does despise - it does over emphasize<BR>my physi=
cal
loss of movement, jailing thy scope</FONT><FONT size=2><BR><FONT
face="Courier New">I am groping for room for breath, it does
grope<BR><BR>Dangerous eyes do meander - they gander any gender<BR>a=

vision sender and life bender, sight dispenser<BR>emotional inventor =
of
what I have not yet comprehender<BR><BR>It rests in most corners, sit=
ting
like a friend<BR>lingering, sniggering. It mingles everywhere<BR>shar=
ing
its endless innards - sublime, all the time<BR><BR>Killer of my space=
,
rapid, invading space and I am<BR>a star homing into its Cyclops eye.=

Caught among the<BR>flicker, flickering its emotional maze,
trapping<BR><BR>Bulger's last testament - our mutual haze is
collected<BR>spliced and then it becomes part of the visual
noise.<BR>Squeezing blurred info, info radical, it spies<BR><BR>Wheth=
er
calamity or vanity, it is here, there, no care <BR>for path tredders,=

concrete pacers, measured am I. <BR>Sought by dangerous eyes, it does=

despise my own eyes<BR><BR>Dead, wired into my life and yours, and it=
is
our life <BR>it desires. It wants, my situation is clocked.<BR>Plante=
d,
stunted is one's growth, choking my mind<BR><BR>It rewinds the motion=
, a
constant assault teeeezing<BR></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Courier New=
"
size=2>thy emotional glands. It does marginalize my
action,<BR></FONT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>my movements. J=
ailing
thy scope, limiting hope<BR><BR>Outer eye, evil eye, watching my pers=
onal
growth, out<BR></FONT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>here. Consu=
ming
one's space, no grace, in yer face,<BR>our race is traced, and then=

reinvented,
displaced...<BR></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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What a Performance

When I was in high school I was the girl that everyone talked about b=
ecause I was always pushing the envelope when it came to conceptual art. I =
was the first to paint a boy nude without one being there, the first to los=
e my business sense out of all my friends, the first to try anal deconstruc=
tion, and now that I'm in my early twenties I had thought I'd tried everyth=
ing. Then I met Trent and discovered I had a lot more 'firsts' to explore.=

We met online on an arts Internet list called Rhizome last month (I w=
as the first of my friends to try that too) and I never thought art could f=
eel so new and exciting. I met him for a one-night happening. He's already =
a net artist (all the good ones are) and he didn't tell me until our third =
meeting. I was a little upset but not so upset that I would stop exploring =
new ways of creating radical Internet art with him. In fact, finding out ma=
de our encounters invigorating just because it makes art with him a little =
more forbidden.

He introduced me to art role-playing, something I had never tried bef=
ore and I didn't think it would turn my nerve endings on. I originally play=
ed along just because he begged me to, but after having one of the best pos=
turing debates of my life pretending to be a gallery owner I've been on boa=
rd for even the simplest scenarios. I've portrayed quite a few different ch=
aracters for him now and I'm only sure of only one thing- it's fun to prete=
nd to be someone else in a creative scenario, situation. I don't know what =
I like better, taking control as a fiery curator or assuming a submissive r=
ole as an art slave.

We've even done some public art stuff that most people would find qui=
te shocking. This one time we pretended we didn't know one another in a sup=
ermarket (not online this time) and he felt my paint brushes up in front of=
a couple of housewives in the middle of an aisle. It was kool performance =
art. He did it casually and walked away without looking back as I cursed at=
him. The look on the women's faces was priceless. I wish I had a camera. I=
couldn't wait to get him home and then I drew a Dot-to-Dot picture of him =
in his car in the parking lot as soon as I got out of the store.

The stuff we've tried in public is never as much fun as the shows we =
put on in private. This other time he pretended he was an art robber; he ev=
en put a ski mask on for effect. I told him I wouldn't turn him in if he pr=
oved he could post-modernize me. I like art power games that give me an exc=
use to force him to do what I want; it makes me feel devious and impulsive.=
He really loved it and with his face covered up I was able to imagine he w=
as any artist, curator and gallerist I wanted him to be.

It's only been a month and already I've been an art director's hook=
er, a German expressionist painter's maid, his very creative baby-sitter,=
and most recently- a ski bunny with artistic potential with a pretend brok=
en leg. I know they keep getting weirder, but I like it. Being the ski bunn=
y was the best one yet because I made him do all the work. I didn't have an=
y other choice- otherwise my leg wouldn't set properly now would it?

Halloween is coming up and we've already bought tickets to a large cy=
ber conference and convention party. We've been brainstorming but we haven'=
t come to any conclusions yet. When I told him I might go as a wealthy gent=
leman who likes to buy artists, not art he told me he'd go as an old frazzl=
ed, painterly drag queen. It's an interesting thought but I think I like th=
e idea of being princess Leia from Star Wars better- the force is with her.=
But then, I already have a leather skirt that would go well with a Xena co=
stume - art is so much fun.

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face="Courier New, Courier, mono" color=#cccccc size=2><FONT
color=#000000>When I was in high school I was the girl that everyon=
e
talked about because I was always pushing the envelope when it came t=
o
conceptual art. I was the first to paint a boy nude without one being=

there, the first to lose my business sense out of all my friends, the=

first to try anal deconstruction, and now that I'm in my early twenti=
es I
had thought I'd tried everything. Then I met Trent and discovered I h=
ad a
lot more 'firsts' to explore. </FONT></FONT>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" color=#000000 size=2=
>We met
online on an arts Internet list called Rhizome last month (I was the =
first
of my friends to try that too) and I never thought art could feel so =
new
and exciting. I met him for a one-night happening. He's already a net=

artist (all the good ones are) and he didn't tell me until our third=

meeting. I was a little upset but not so upset that I would stop expl=
oring
new ways of creating radical Internet art with him. In fact, finding =
out
made our encounters invigorating just because it makes art with him a=

little more forbidden. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" color=#000000 size=2=
>He
introduced me to art role-playing, something I had never tried before=
and
I didn't think it would turn my nerve endings on. I originally played=

along just because he begged me to, but after having one of the best=

posturing debates of my life pretending to be a gallery owner I've be=
en on
board for even the simplest scenarios. I've portrayed quite a few
different characters for him now and I'm only sure of only one thing-=
it's
fun to pretend to be someone else in a creative scenario, situation. =
I
don't know what I like better, taking control as a fiery curator or=

assuming a submissive role as an art slave. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" color=#000000 size=2=
>We've even
done some public art stuff that most people would find quite shocking=
.
This one time we pretended we didn't know one another in a supermarke=
t
(not online this time) and he felt my paint brushes up in front of a=

couple of housewives in the middle of an aisle. It was kool performan=
ce
art. He did it casually and walked away without looking back as I cur=
sed
at him. The look on the women's faces was priceless. I wish I had a=

camera. I couldn't wait to get him home and then I drew a Dot-to-Dot=

picture of him in his car in the parking lot as soon as I got out of =
the
store. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" color=#000000 size=2=
>The stuff
we've tried in public is never as much fun as the shows we put on in=

private. This other time he pretended he was an art robber; he even p=
ut a
ski mask on for effect. I told him I wouldn't turn him in if he prove=
d he
could post-modernize me. I like art power games that give me an excus=
e to
force him to do what I want; it makes me feel devious and impulsive. =
He
really loved it and with his face covered up I was able to imagine he=
was
any artist, curator and gallerist I wanted him to be. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" color=#000000 size=2=
>It's only
been a month and already I've been an art director's hooker, a Germ=
an
expressionist painter's maid, his very creative baby-sitter, and mo=
st
recently- a ski bunny with artistic potential with a pretend broken l=
eg. I
know they keep getting weirder, but I like it. Being the ski bunny wa=
s the
best one yet because I made him do all the work. I didn't have any ot=
her
choice- otherwise my leg wouldn't set properly now would it? </FONT><=
/P>
<P><FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" color=#000000 size=2=
>Halloween
is coming up and we've already bought tickets to a large cyber confer=
ence
and convention party. We've been brainstorming but we haven't come to=
any
conclusions yet. When I told him I might go as a wealthy gentleman wh=
o
likes to buy artists, not art he told me he'd go as an old frazzled,=

painterly drag queen. It's an interesting thought but I think I like =
the
idea of being princess Leia from Star Wars better- the force is with =
her.
But then, I already have a leather skirt that would go well with a Xe=
na
costume - art is so much fun.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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