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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Re: Internet Art Survives, But the Boom Is Over -NY times


http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/

I'm on there now if you fancy a play - just typr in your alias...now!

marc

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Re: Re: Internet Art Survives, But the Boom Is Over -NY times


Alexei & heath killed it ages ago & became with a little helping hand
from Lev.M ...

why try to kill it again...

ah yes - i forgot - HISTORY.

I've got an Idea Lets kill history!!

Yeah - history is dead.

marc

>ah, here it is...
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>http://nytimes.com/2004/03/31/arts/artsspecial/31SISA.html
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Re: Internet Art Survives, But the Boom Is Over -NY times


Killing things is a political act...

Killers of other people's aspirations do not have the right to quell
what is not theirs...

marc

>In a small article in the New York Times this morning
>(sorry, it does not seem to be online) entitled
>'Internet Art Survives, But the Boom Is Over

DISCUSSION

Andy Deck Retrospective at Furtherfield...


_Andy Deck __Retrospective __at Furtherfield._
Creating art software since 1990 and then moving onto the Internet in
1994 Andy Deck has worked with the Web using two main sites,
artcontext.net and andyland.net as platforms to display his digital
based explorations. In the net art activist world there have been many
inspiring talents who have shone through the flickering, radiated haze
of our computer monitors. Andy Deck is one of those individuals who,
has somehow succeeded in maintaining a consistent integrity in his work.

_Why a retrospective?_

This is Furtherfield's first ever 'artist's retrospective'. We've been
puzzling over what this might actually mean in the context of a platform
such as this, and why we would do such an 'art world' thing? Well, in
the case of the work of Andy Deck, someone's got to do it and why not
us? It's got to be done and it should have been done already, so now we
are doing it.

Perhaps it is also because with Deck's work there is coherence, a
crystal clear dedication, a purpose to his oeuvre that offers an unique
perspective on the artistic/critical history of the Internet. In
committing ourselves to a retrospective we create an alternative
context, a choice. History is subjective, fickle and can be divisive,
which can all too often make being seen a political situation whether
one wishes it to be or not.

So, this 'soft group' Furtherfield, who advocates that anyone can claim
and reclaim their own identities whether it is as individuals or as a
group on their own terms, invites you to enjoy and gives a warm thanks
to Andy Deck for allowing such an occasion to occur.

http://www.furtherfield.org

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New reviews/articles on Furtherfield - March 2004.


_6 New reviews/articles on Furtherfield - March 2004._

Furtherfield's first net art retrospective:-
An Andy Deck Retrospective: review by Marc Garrett.

A warm welcome to two new reviewers:-
Joe Keenan's 'Moment' - Joe Keenan: review by Jim Andrews.
NIESATT - Jtwine: review by Darshana Vora.

Three more insightful new reviews/articles:-
Google Hacks 'Google and Saussure' - Douwe Osinga: review by Lewis LaCook.
California Dreaming, Silicon Valley of Dreams: FurtherCritic article by
Ryan Griffis.
no/copy/right - no-org.net.org: review/article by Garrett Lynch (Net Art
Review).

You can get to all new reviews/articles and work on the front of the site...
http://www.furtherfield.org - or view links seperately via the six
introductory paragraphs below.

_Andy Deck Retrospective._
Creating art software since 1990 and then moving onto the Internet in
1994 Andy Deck has worked with the Web using two main sites,
artcontext.net and andyland.net as platforms to display his digital
based explorations. In the net art activist world there have been many
inspiring talents who have shone through the flickering, radiated haze
of our computer monitors. Andy Deck is one of those individuals who,
has somehow succeeded in maintaining a consistent integrity in his
work. Review by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id