marc garrett
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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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Recent entries on the Furtherfield blog


The Furtherfield Blog is a shared space for personal reflections on Media Art practice: making it, curating it, translating it.

image By Jon Cates

Below is a selection of recent Blog entries. To read the rest of the varied posts just visit - http://blog.furtherfield.org

jon Cates - Jake Elliott + Dirty New Media.
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/238

Aileen Derieg - Being Audience.
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/240

Ruth Catlow - 2012 - The End.
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/229

Rachel Beth - An ant hill inspired from Ruth's mound...
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/222

Helen Varley Jamieson - 080808...
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/239

CBelow - Art on spam: part 1. Analogue translation-
Spam into different format/medium.
http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=node/242

More Info about the Furtherfield blog:
This multi-blog is a place to intuitively explore media arts practice, together, as it occurs, to develop understanding and to learn, without any pressure to formulate complete arguments or to come up with answers. The blog was set up in Autumn 2006, initially as a place for informal, day to day exchange between members of the Furtherfield.org team, including editors/reviewers. The team discovered that this format suited some people more than others, always open to new contributors who practice in media art. The Furtherfield blog is not intended as a platform to promote particular projects. Instead bloggers explore their own perspectives on their own terms; personal thoughts, emotional responses and critical intentions that are rarely publicly discussed elsewhere in such detail.

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Making Sense of ISEA2008 (Without Any Decent Statistics)


Making Sense of ISEA2008 (Without Any Decent Statistics).

Review of this year's ISEA2008 by Brogan Bunt. Held in Singapore from 25 July - 3 August, hosted in Asia for the second time in its history. An international symposium on Electronic Art, for the critical discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in interactive and digital media.

imageLev Manovich, ISEA opening night, Exodus

"In his weirdly scheduled ISEA2008 lecture - delivered the day after the closing night party - Lev Manovich argued that we have shifted from a state of new media to one of 'more' media. There is simply so much media these days (the product of new technologies and social interactive forms) that it is humanly impossible to gain an overall perspective. Our only viable option is to draw upon the quantitative methods that have driven contemporary science and business. We must data-mine culture in order to develop new methods of visualization that have the potential to represent cultural patterns indiscernible to the naked critical eye and provide a necessary interface to the universe of specific cultural objects. Manovich dubs this new critical and expressive field, 'cultural analytics'. While I am suspicious that significant aspects of culture are so easily amenable to discrete quantitative representation, Manovich's lecture, delivered to a packed audience, resonated very much with my experience of ISEA2008. With its 800 delegates, five concurrent streams, juried exhibition and huge range of associated panels, seminars, workshops and exhibitions, ISEA2008 was anything but digestible. As Andreas Broeckmann suggested at the ISEA board meeting, every participant is likely to have had a substantially different experience of the event depending upon their particular path through it. A stronger and more clearly integrated keynote program may have helped, but there are clear issues of scale that no manner of organization can solve. Lacking the means to effectively data-mine the event, all I can offer here is a sample of issues that emerged for me."

Click link below for main article...
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=310

Visit main page for recent reviews/interviews/articles
http://www.furtherfield.org

Other reviews on furtherfield.org here
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

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The Salt Satyagraha by Joseph Delappe- review by Natasha Chuk


Dates:
Mon Jul 28, 2008 00:00 - Mon Jul 28, 2008

The Salt Satyagraha by Joseph Delappe- review by Natasha Chuk

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Realized in several stages, DeLappe's virtual re-creation of The Salt Satyagraha, Mahatma Ghandi's Salt March to Dandi, a journey 240 miles long, is part installation and part performance art. His historical re-enactment reveals more about how virtual space is navigated from real space than it explains the politics of Mahatma Ghandi's protest against British salt tax in 1930, utilizing travel in real space, a blog, and images from the journey housed on Flickr.

DeLappe's re-creation relies on Second Life to provide a virtual landscape of India and an avatar that sports the likeness of Ghandi. DeLappe's role in this excursion is to propel the avatar through this space by means of his own physical movement in reality, creating a visceral connection to the march and providing a personality to an otherwise soulless avatar. As part of DeLappe's mission, he welcomed strange participants along his path to join him in his peace march by offering a walking staff. These participants met him on Second Life while real-life participants also served as spectators of his journey at Eyebeam's Chelsea gallery.

A custom-designed treadmill in Real Life provides movement through Second Life. DeLappe, the avatar's human counterpart, takes the journey seriously, wearing comfortable shoes, a T-shirt, and gym pants for the stretch of the march, which he achieves over the course of 26 days. The treadmill has a wooden desk for his laptop, a bottle of water, and a coffee mug; a leather cushion at abdomen height provides ample comfort for his journey through cyberspace. His activity through cyberspace is projected onto a wall.

More of the article:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=308

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Pissed Off Artists Allegedly Urinate on Kruger Art


>There is one thing she isn´t for sure: an egocentric,
>self centered artist like the majority of those whose
>who work, or try to work, in art institutitions.

You seem to know her well :-)

So if one does not agree with a female 'famous' artist suddenly one becomes an anti-feminst?

Although, the issue is not whether Kruger is a feminist or not.

I actually respect some of her early work. Although, I'd value her contribution more if she explored challenging the structures that she works within - may she does, I'm always happy to be educated more.

What I really dislike is shallow idiots who presume pissing is a form of 'art' protest - it's easy and gets one in the gaze of the spectacle quicker than actually doing anything interesting.

marc

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Pissed Off Artists Allegedly Urinate on Kruger Art


Whether it is Kruger just paying lip service, or artists finding an easy opportunity to get themselves known - it all feels a little cheap really.