marc garrett
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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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DISCUSSION

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BlankHi Wally,

I have learnt a lot by our arguments though - it has forced me to reevaluat=
e certain presumptions of my own. Some of my ideas have become stronger and=
some are now obsolete. And I am very sorry for being offensive. My brain i=
s buzzing with some new ideas presently. If you are ever in the UK, pop rou=
nd and say hello and we can carry on with our arguments in a more civilized=
manner over a beer and possibly a spliff (dare I say it). In respect of us=
dating, I am married at the moment but will keep you in mind :-)

respect from marc

p.s. I know you were'nt serious about dating by the way...

-
Hi there Wally,

This may sound absurd, but in each email that I have been writing to yo=
u I have been beginning to warm to you.

Gosh I hope this doesn't lead to dating. :-) But sharing a drink or =
spliff would be pleasant. I have a pref for spliffs.

Finding out other things of you past in repsect of certain humanistic t=
hings that you, yourself have also taken upon to do. So I am not going to r=
espond to you in an aggressive way at all, and say that I agree with some =
of your comments and have a good day creating some art.

Damn good idea. I'm more inclined towards poetics, but always had a pro=
found admiration for those with visual talents. Here's looking at your work=
. :-)

One last point, the Russian dictate really fucked it up big time, what =
a tragedy, waste of lives, it makes me sad.

Me too.

respect from marc

All good things
Wally

From: furtherfield

Hello Wally,

I do not believe that you possess any interest in resolving anything

from these discussions - you have not successfully argued your case=
to justify your

governments actions.

Nor do I regard you as having been sucessful in arguing your case.

You have not answered questions in relation to America's need

for oil.

There are questions I asked which you likewise failed to address.

Your right-wing stance does not read well on the email page, with t=
he very

simplistic ill-informed assumption, that I do not care about the Ch=
echnya

occupation, you are quite simply - wrong.
Your simplistic and uninformed assumption that I am a USAmerican is=
quite simply -- wrong. And your simple-minded knee-jerk labelist-response =
that I am a McCarthyist was exceedingly easy to trash.

For about 3 years, on and off, I have been helping (in my own small=
way)

a couple friends, who have come to the UK from Chechnya, with legal

issues in relation to immigration. Supporting them and experiencing=
the

endless, non-sensical administration and continuous beaucracy throw=
n at

people who have escape from troubled areas around the world. Talkin=
g on

the phone for them because they do not speak good english. I did

not know how badly foreigners were treated until I actually got inv=
olved

with it. It is a very stressful thing to do, they were treated like

criminals and they had not even done anything wrong and they had al=
so

lost a brother before they had left their home country. And the rep=
ect

they have received is disgraceful.
And I definitely commend you for this action of yours. Although not=
perfect, Canada has been far more accepting of Roma (Gypsy) refugees than =
the European countries. I have been involved with the Gypsy community for s=
everal years now, especially those fleeing right-wing extremist Euro situat=
ions. My my, how this must conflict with your right-wing stereotype labelli=
ng of me.

And they, like myself, believe that America is not helping the worl=
d via

its unilateral stance. Yes, they have their own problems at home bu=
t they

can also see that certain issues need to be resolved and challenged=
, in a

more intuitive and intelligent way, rather than by aggression.

Please don't assume Wally, for you do not know what I am up to in my

life, just as much I do not know what you are doing in yours.

Then reflect seriously on your presumption that I am an USAmerican.

Why don't

you admit that America is only interested in oil? I won't think the=
less

of you for it, in fact I would respect you for being honest.
I am being honest when I assert that I do not believe "that America=
is only interested in oil". America has been doing quite well since 1991 w=
ithout Iraqi oil. Indeed, all that the USA has to do to open the oil sluice=
s of Iraq is to withdraw sanctions.

In April 2000, we demonstrated outside Downing street when Mr Putin=
came

visit the UK. Mr Blair promised to raise the issue with him about

Russia's human rights record in Chechnya.

It is not a human rights problem. I really don't understand how you=
could diminish the horrendous atrocities of the Russian occupation -- it i=
s far more brutal and lethal than Israel's occupation of the West Bank, or =
Indonesia's former occupation of East Timor. It is a racist war of extermin=
ation that is over a decade long -- and in spite of your involvement on Dow=
ning street, there has never been a mass demonstration against it. Why do y=
ou think that is so? And it is not a question of your personal involvement,=
but of the non-involvement of the peace movement at large.

But in the end they just said

that they would not allow the entirety of their relations with Russ=
ia and

a new Russian President to be defined by only one issue. We campaig=
ned

and nothing came out of it of course, but at least we bothered. Com=
passion

for others is not Fraud Wally, it is humane, there is nothing wrong=
with it.
I never asserted that "compassion for others" is fraud. I assert th=
at the peace activists at large are perpetrating a fraud when they behave a=
s if the USA is the most brutal, most lethal, most violent in the world. My=
take is that the Russian invasion, occupation and racist genocide of total=
destruction in Chechnya has been the most brutal, most lethal, most violen=
t in the world and it has been going on for over a decade and relative to t=
he activity against the USA, hardly a peep has ever been heard from the pea=
ce activsist about Chechnya. It is THAT discrepancy which I refer to as a f=
raud.

Yes: I am very bored with protesting, I do not want to do it. But I=
feel

compelled to when so much crap is being dished out to civilians via

political dominance.

You seem to believe the official press line - and also you do not s=
eem

brave enough to question your own reasonings of why your country is=
eager

to pretend that they are carrying out a war against Muslim extremis=
ts,

when really they just want economical control over oil, due to Amer=
ica's

own need for it.

I question my own reasonings -- so keep your ill-informed presumpti=
ons to yourself in that regard. Oil is cheap in the USA, compared to the re=
st of the world. The proof is the number of gas-guzzling SUV's on the roads=
. During the 70's when the cost of oil took a major leap thanks to the OPEC=
cartel, the era of the "compact car" was born after the heady days of the =
chromium-ladened land yachts of the 50 & 60's. The USA has done quite well =
oil-wise during the 1990's when Iraq wasn't putting out due to sanctions.=

That is why Iraq is going to be invaded, not because

your president believes in human decency. It is all very simple rea=
lly,

your government is lying to you, don't you get it yet?

And your Chomsky's have been lying to you, don;t you realize your o=
wn gullibility?

Despite a striking lack of consensus among the American foreign-pol=
icy

elite,

Thank goodness for a lack of consensus -- it is a sign of democracy=
. There is 100\% consensus in Iraq -- that is a sigh of dictatorshit.

Congress voted to grant President Bush the power to attack Iraq

unilaterally. But the rest of the world, and a good part of the Ame=
rican

public,

A good part, but not quite majority enough at this time.

seem unconvinced of the necessity of an attack. Your aggression

towards other cultures is very wrong Wally,

You need a reading and comprehension course, Marc. I don't have any=
aggression towards other cultures. My wife is of a culture other than mine=
. I have worked for many years with refugees and immigrants to this country=
. I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which two independent studies found t=
o be the most multicultural multiracial city in North America (Yes, it trum=
ps NYC). In 1995 in Toronto the census revealed that I now belong in the ca=
tegory of "visible minority" -- I am a WASP. Canada, while far from perfect=
, and with many flaws, has become quite reknown for its accomodation to toh=
er cultures and I take a lot of pride in that. So you know where you can sh=
ove your simple-minded presumptuous acusation that I am aggressive towards =
other cultures. What I am aggressive against is the culture of dictatorshit=
s -- I refuse to accommodate with such governing organs. I am very pro-demo=
cratic and anti-dictatorshit. As I have previously said, I have no problem =
with killing Hitler and his brain trust, and as much as I regret some loss =
of innocent lives to do so, I would be healed by the fact that the lives of=
several million Jews, Gypsies, Gays, handicapped wouldn't be transported t=
o the ovens. On exceedingly rare occasions I believe many innocent lives ca=
n be saved by a selective and focussed killing of a few 100's, 1000's direc=
tly involved in the dictatorshit.

and it does seem that

everyone in the world thinks so as well.

That is a load of hyperbolic crap. You don't know any such thing.

Do you think that it is a

democratic act when America decides to bomb another country anyway,

when everyone else in the world has voted for it not to take place

When and where did that vote take place?

Do you

think that is right? It's the people that matter in the world, not

governments, wake up!

Except when the government is killing hundreds of thousands of inno=
cent civilians in neighbouring countries, hundreds of thousands of innocent=
civilians within the same country using gas, torture, or whatever else is =
at hand. I think it is wrong to acquiess to letting a government do that to=
so many innocent people. Wake up!

In 1990, in the run-up to Desert Storm, George Bush Senior bribed a=
nd

threatened virtually every country on the Security Council to force=
them

to vote to authorize the US war. The Administration cajoled poor

countries with cheap Saudi oil and dangled arms packages before

governments like Ethiopia and Colombia, whose access to US military

support had been cut because of wars and human rights violations. US

diplomats went to China and said "name your price" to avert a veto-=
-and

fulfilled Beijing's wish list for post-Tiananmen Square diplomatic

rehabilitation (with the announcement of a White House visit by the

Chinese foreign minister) and new development aid (in the form of a=
$114

million World Bank assistance package). China abstained. When Yemen=
, the

only Arab country on the Council, voted against the war, a US diplo=
mat

said, "That will be the most expensive No vote you ever cast." And

Washington cut off its entire $70 million US aid package.

Are you proud of this kind of action; do you really think that bull=
ying

other countries into doing things that they do not want to do is ri=
ght?
Sept.

11 was followed by more violence and death, bloodshed and destructi=
on and

promises of 'permanent war.

DISCUSSION

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BlankHi Wally,

I have learnt a lot by our arguments though - it has forced me to reevaluat=
e certain presumptions of my own. Some of my ideas have become stronger and=
some are now obsolete. And I am very sorry for being offensive. My brain i=
s buzzing with some new ideas presently. If you are ever in the UK, pop rou=
nd and say hello and we can carry on with our arguments in a more civilized=
manner over a beer and possibly a spliff (dare I say it). In respect of us=
dating, I am married at the moment but will keep you in mind :-)

respect from marc

p.s. I know you were'nt serious about dating by the way...

-
Hi there Wally,

This may sound absurd, but in each email that I have been writing to yo=
u I have been beginning to warm to you.

Gosh I hope this doesn't lead to dating. :-) But sharing a drink or =
spliff would be pleasant. I have a pref for spliffs.

Finding out other things of you past in repsect of certain humanistic t=
hings that you, yourself have also taken upon to do. So I am not going to r=
espond to you in an aggressive way at all, and say that I agree with some =
of your comments and have a good day creating some art.

Damn good idea. I'm more inclined towards poetics, but always had a pro=
found admiration for those with visual talents. Here's looking at your work=
. :-)

One last point, the Russian dictate really fucked it up big time, what =
a tragedy, waste of lives, it makes me sad.

Me too.

respect from marc

All good things
Wally

From: furtherfield

Hello Wally,

I do not believe that you possess any interest in resolving anything

from these discussions - you have not successfully argued your case=
to justify your

governments actions.

Nor do I regard you as having been sucessful in arguing your case.

You have not answered questions in relation to America's need

for oil.

There are questions I asked which you likewise failed to address.

Your right-wing stance does not read well on the email page, with t=
he very

simplistic ill-informed assumption, that I do not care about the Ch=
echnya

occupation, you are quite simply - wrong.
Your simplistic and uninformed assumption that I am a USAmerican is=
quite simply -- wrong. And your simple-minded knee-jerk labelist-response =
that I am a McCarthyist was exceedingly easy to trash.

For about 3 years, on and off, I have been helping (in my own small=
way)

a couple friends, who have come to the UK from Chechnya, with legal

issues in relation to immigration. Supporting them and experiencing=
the

endless, non-sensical administration and continuous beaucracy throw=
n at

people who have escape from troubled areas around the world. Talkin=
g on

the phone for them because they do not speak good english. I did

not know how badly foreigners were treated until I actually got inv=
olved

with it. It is a very stressful thing to do, they were treated like

criminals and they had not even done anything wrong and they had al=
so

lost a brother before they had left their home country. And the rep=
ect

they have received is disgraceful.
And I definitely commend you for this action of yours. Although not=
perfect, Canada has been far more accepting of Roma (Gypsy) refugees than =
the European countries. I have been involved with the Gypsy community for s=
everal years now, especially those fleeing right-wing extremist Euro situat=
ions. My my, how this must conflict with your right-wing stereotype labelli=
ng of me.

And they, like myself, believe that America is not helping the worl=
d via

its unilateral stance. Yes, they have their own problems at home bu=
t they

can also see that certain issues need to be resolved and challenged=
, in a

more intuitive and intelligent way, rather than by aggression.

Please don't assume Wally, for you do not know what I am up to in my

life, just as much I do not know what you are doing in yours.

Then reflect seriously on your presumption that I am an USAmerican.

Why don't

you admit that America is only interested in oil? I won't think the=
less

of you for it, in fact I would respect you for being honest.
I am being honest when I assert that I do not believe "that America=
is only interested in oil". America has been doing quite well since 1991 w=
ithout Iraqi oil. Indeed, all that the USA has to do to open the oil sluice=
s of Iraq is to withdraw sanctions.

In April 2000, we demonstrated outside Downing street when Mr Putin=
came

visit the UK. Mr Blair promised to raise the issue with him about

Russia's human rights record in Chechnya.

It is not a human rights problem. I really don't understand how you=
could diminish the horrendous atrocities of the Russian occupation -- it i=
s far more brutal and lethal than Israel's occupation of the West Bank, or =
Indonesia's former occupation of East Timor. It is a racist war of extermin=
ation that is over a decade long -- and in spite of your involvement on Dow=
ning street, there has never been a mass demonstration against it. Why do y=
ou think that is so? And it is not a question of your personal involvement,=
but of the non-involvement of the peace movement at large.

But in the end they just said

that they would not allow the entirety of their relations with Russ=
ia and

a new Russian President to be defined by only one issue. We campaig=
ned

and nothing came out of it of course, but at least we bothered. Com=
passion

for others is not Fraud Wally, it is humane, there is nothing wrong=
with it.
I never asserted that "compassion for others" is fraud. I assert th=
at the peace activists at large are perpetrating a fraud when they behave a=
s if the USA is the most brutal, most lethal, most violent in the world. My=
take is that the Russian invasion, occupation and racist genocide of total=
destruction in Chechnya has been the most brutal, most lethal, most violen=
t in the world and it has been going on for over a decade and relative to t=
he activity against the USA, hardly a peep has ever been heard from the pea=
ce activsist about Chechnya. It is THAT discrepancy which I refer to as a f=
raud.

Yes: I am very bored with protesting, I do not want to do it. But I=
feel

compelled to when so much crap is being dished out to civilians via

political dominance.

You seem to believe the official press line - and also you do not s=
eem

brave enough to question your own reasonings of why your country is=
eager

to pretend that they are carrying out a war against Muslim extremis=
ts,

when really they just want economical control over oil, due to Amer=
ica's

own need for it.

I question my own reasonings -- so keep your ill-informed presumpti=
ons to yourself in that regard. Oil is cheap in the USA, compared to the re=
st of the world. The proof is the number of gas-guzzling SUV's on the roads=
. During the 70's when the cost of oil took a major leap thanks to the OPEC=
cartel, the era of the "compact car" was born after the heady days of the =
chromium-ladened land yachts of the 50 & 60's. The USA has done quite well =
oil-wise during the 1990's when Iraq wasn't putting out due to sanctions.=

That is why Iraq is going to be invaded, not because

your president believes in human decency. It is all very simple rea=
lly,

your government is lying to you, don't you get it yet?

And your Chomsky's have been lying to you, don;t you realize your o=
wn gullibility?

Despite a striking lack of consensus among the American foreign-pol=
icy

elite,

Thank goodness for a lack of consensus -- it is a sign of democracy=
. There is 100\% consensus in Iraq -- that is a sigh of dictatorshit.

Congress voted to grant President Bush the power to attack Iraq

unilaterally. But the rest of the world, and a good part of the Ame=
rican

public,

A good part, but not quite majority enough at this time.

seem unconvinced of the necessity of an attack. Your aggression

towards other cultures is very wrong Wally,

You need a reading and comprehension course, Marc. I don't have any=
aggression towards other cultures. My wife is of a culture other than mine=
. I have worked for many years with refugees and immigrants to this country=
. I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which two independent studies found t=
o be the most multicultural multiracial city in North America (Yes, it trum=
ps NYC). In 1995 in Toronto the census revealed that I now belong in the ca=
tegory of "visible minority" -- I am a WASP. Canada, while far from perfect=
, and with many flaws, has become quite reknown for its accomodation to toh=
er cultures and I take a lot of pride in that. So you know where you can sh=
ove your simple-minded presumptuous acusation that I am aggressive towards =
other cultures. What I am aggressive against is the culture of dictatorshit=
s -- I refuse to accommodate with such governing organs. I am very pro-demo=
cratic and anti-dictatorshit. As I have previously said, I have no problem =
with killing Hitler and his brain trust, and as much as I regret some loss =
of innocent lives to do so, I would be healed by the fact that the lives of=
several million Jews, Gypsies, Gays, handicapped wouldn't be transported t=
o the ovens. On exceedingly rare occasions I believe many innocent lives ca=
n be saved by a selective and focussed killing of a few 100's, 1000's direc=
tly involved in the dictatorshit.

and it does seem that

everyone in the world thinks so as well.

That is a load of hyperbolic crap. You don't know any such thing.

Do you think that it is a

democratic act when America decides to bomb another country anyway,

when everyone else in the world has voted for it not to take place

When and where did that vote take place?

Do you

think that is right? It's the people that matter in the world, not

governments, wake up!

Except when the government is killing hundreds of thousands of inno=
cent civilians in neighbouring countries, hundreds of thousands of innocent=
civilians within the same country using gas, torture, or whatever else is =
at hand. I think it is wrong to acquiess to letting a government do that to=
so many innocent people. Wake up!

In 1990, in the run-up to Desert Storm, George Bush Senior bribed a=
nd

threatened virtually every country on the Security Council to force=
them

to vote to authorize the US war. The Administration cajoled poor

countries with cheap Saudi oil and dangled arms packages before

governments like Ethiopia and Colombia, whose access to US military

support had been cut because of wars and human rights violations. US

diplomats went to China and said "name your price" to avert a veto-=
-and

fulfilled Beijing's wish list for post-Tiananmen Square diplomatic

rehabilitation (with the announcement of a White House visit by the

Chinese foreign minister) and new development aid (in the form of a=
$114

million World Bank assistance package). China abstained. When Yemen=
, the

only Arab country on the Council, voted against the war, a US diplo=
mat

said, "That will be the most expensive No vote you ever cast." And

Washington cut off its entire $70 million US aid package.

Are you proud of this kind of action; do you really think that bull=
ying

other countries into doing things that they do not want to do is ri=
ght?
Sept.

11 was followed by more violence and death, bloodshed and destructi=
on and

promises of 'permanent war.

DISCUSSION

3 More 'Ouch Those Monkeys' Tunes


Blank3 More 'Ouch Those Monkeys' Tunes

Touch Thy Self.
A song advocating the freedom of self-pleasure for all in this troubled
world. Touch our selves, explore one's own physical and spiritual body mesh,
a personal liberation from containment. Use our fleshy frames to defy the
all to frequent constraints of socially imposed fear and paranoid, sexual
myth making. Go - Touch Thy Self and masturbate, caress your visceral
sensuality and enjoy...
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2824/2824478.html

Who's Controlling My Fate?
A simple question is asked in this angst ridden, rhythm kicking swipe about
those who are too eager to play with our lives for their own ends, and those
that are also too eager to let them. Declaring that power is an emotional
bed-fellow to submission, can we escape the dichotomy of absolutes between
sadism and masochism, and that addictive willingness to be suffocated by
another?
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2829/2829385.html

Change Our Lives.
'May be We ought to change our lives', is questioning a war mongering world
that is always keen to resolve issues through the singular pattern of
violence; the perpetual historically accepted, mass human slaughter. How
long can we hide away inside losing freedom through compromise?
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2824/2824525.html

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

'Ouch Those Monkeys' are an explorative and prolific Darkwave, net-based
band. Creating sounds that are primarily electronic, using computers to cut
up noises/beats that grind with a playful and poetic dysfunction. 'OTM' are
rapidly becoming part of the Internet landscape; leaving heart-felt
unsettling messages for the Net world. Diverting the mediated gaze/haze,
bypassing the delusory bimbo-pop trap and just gettng on with making their
contemporary, imaginative noise without compromise. Advocating that everyone
should start making their own noise, clouding out the corporate gatekeepers.
Do not let anyone stop you from creating your own art, and clamping your
genius, your own voice - they are the enemy of our imaginations. Remember
that there is a war against our imagination, 'OTM' are reclaiming theirs.
Let's kick ass and enjoy what's left of our imaginations' in this very
shakey and uncertain world!

DISCUSSION

Re: NEWSgrist: *interaXis*- Supplement to The Music & Art Issue


Good stuff....

marc

> NEWSgrist: *interaXis*- Supplement to The Music & Art Issue
> (Vol. 3, no. 17 (Oct. 28, 2002)
> ============================
> ============================
> NEWSgrist
> where spin is art
> http://newsgrist.net
> {bi-weekly news digest}
> ============================
> Vol. 3, no. 17, supplement (Oct. 28, 2002)
> ============================
> ============================
> *interaXis*
>
> For Immediate Release
> interaXis: A sonic exploration on the web and in real space.
>
> When/Where: Sunday, November 3, 2002:
> 8:00 p.m. at Engine 27, NY
> 5:00 p.m. at CalArts, LA
> online at http://turbulence.org/Works/interaxis
>
> interaXis is an investigation into the possibilities of
> improvisation, form, and presentation in multi-site, network-
> based performance. A group of accomplished composer/improvisers
> and technologists come together to create a dynamic, structured,
> experimental sonic exploration on the web and in real space. The
> live performers in New York and Los Angeles perform with one
> another and musician-web artists, guided by a projected video
> score.
>
> interAxis is:
>
> ... a networked performance that connects two physical locations
> via streaming technologies.
> ... an exchange of sounds and data in real-time
> ... live improvisation by musicians in real space together with
> the contributions of remote performers all responding in real-time
> to a networked video score
> ... live audiences in NY and LA as well as an international
> Internet audience
>
> http://turbulence.org/Works/interaxis
>
> . CalArts musicians are: Wadada Leo Smith, Mark Trayle, and
> Karen Elaine Bakunin.
> . Engine 27 musicians are: Nick Didkovsky, Dafna Naphtali, and
> Pheroan Aklaff.
> . Carole Kim is the video artist and Jesse Gilbert is the
> Project Director.
>
> InteraXis was first performed in December 2001. This is the second
> performance. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, New
> Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is the lead organization in a
> consortium with Harvestworks, NY, and CalArts, LA. A recording of
> the first performance can be heard at
http://turbulence.org/Works/interaxis
>
> This project is one of many multi-location performance events
> sponsored by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA)
>
> NPRA has been active in live Internet performances since 1997 when
> it contributed its 'turbulence' composition to PORT: Navigating
> Digital Cultures, a two-month exhibition at MIT's List Visual Arts
> Center, organized by artnetwebs' Remo Campopiano and Robbin
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BlankHello Wally,

I do not believe that you possess any interest in resolving anything

from these discussions - you have not successfully argued your case to just=
ify your

governments actions. You have not answered questions in relation to America=
's need

for oil. Your right-wing stance does not read well on the email page, with =
the very

simplistic ill-informed assumption, that I do not care about the Chechnya

occupation, you are quite simply - wrong.

For about 3 years, on and off, I have been helping (in my own small way)

a couple friends, who have come to the UK from Chechnya, with legal

issues in relation to immigration. Supporting them and experiencing the

endless, non-sensical administration and continuous beaucracy thrown at

people who have escape from troubled areas around the world. Talking on

the phone for them because they do not speak good english. I did

not know how badly foreigners were treated until I actually got involved

with it. It is a very stressful thing to do, they were treated like

criminals and they had not even done anything wrong and they had also

lost a brother before they had left their home country. And the repect

they have received is disgraceful.

And they, like myself, believe that America is not helping the world via

its unilateral stance. Yes, they have their own problems at home but they

can also see that certain issues need to be resolved and challenged, in a

more intuitive and intelligent way, rather than by aggression.

Please don't assume Wally, for you do not know what I am up to in my

life, just as much I do not know what you are doing in yours. Why don't

you admit that America is only interested in oil? I won't think the less

of you for it, in fact I would respect you for being honest.

In April 2000, we demonstrated outside Downing street when Mr Putin came

visit the UK. Mr Blair promised to raise the issue with him about

Russia's human rights record in Chechnya. But in the end they just said

that they would not allow the entirety of their relations with Russia and

a new Russian President to be defined by only one issue. We campaigned

and nothing came out of it of course, but at least we bothered. Compassion

for others is not Fraud Wally, it is humane, there is nothing wrong with it.

Yes: I am very bored with protesting, I do not want to do it. But I feel

compelled to when so much crap is being dished out to civilians via

political dominance.

You seem to believe the official press line - and also you do not seem

brave enough to question your own reasonings of why your country is eager

to pretend that they are carrying out a war against Muslim extremists,

when really they just want economical control over oil, due to America's

own need for it. That is why Iraq is going to be invaded, not because

your president believes in human decency. It is all very simple really,

your government is lying to you, don't you get it yet?

Despite a striking lack of consensus among the American foreign-policy

elite, Congress voted to grant President Bush the power to attack Iraq

unilaterally. But the rest of the world, and a good part of the American

public, seem unconvinced of the necessity of an attack. Your aggression

towards other cultures is very wrong Wally, and it does seem that

everyone in the world thinks so as well. Do you think that it is a

democratic act when America decides to bomb another country anyway,

when everyone else in the world has voted for it not to take place? Do you

think that is right? It's the people that matter in the world, not

governments, wake up!

In 1990, in the run-up to Desert Storm, George Bush Senior bribed and

threatened virtually every country on the Security Council to force them

to vote to authorize the US war. The Administration cajoled poor

countries with cheap Saudi oil and dangled arms packages before

governments like Ethiopia and Colombia, whose access to US military

support had been cut because of wars and human rights violations. US

diplomats went to China and said "name your price" to avert a veto--and

fulfilled Beijing's wish list for post-Tiananmen Square diplomatic

rehabilitation (with the announcement of a White House visit by the

Chinese foreign minister) and new development aid (in the form of a $114

million World Bank assistance package). China abstained. When Yemen, the

only Arab country on the Council, voted against the war, a US diplomat

said, "That will be the most expensive No vote you ever cast." And

Washington cut off its entire $70 million US aid package.

Are you proud of this kind of action; do you really think that bullying

other countries into doing things that they do not want to do is right?
Sept.

11 was followed by more violence and death, bloodshed and destruction and

promises of 'permanent war.