marc garrett
Since the beginning
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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DISCUSSION

HTTP Gallery - Game/Play at London Games Festival this weekend.


HTTP Gallery - Game/Play at London Games Festival this weekend.

[giantJoystick] by Mary Flanagan.
Truck Dismount by Jetro Lauha.
The Endless Forest by Tale of Tales.
Noiz2sa by Kenta Cho.
Facade by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern.
2nd Person Shooter by Julian Oliver.
VisitorsStudio by Furtherfield.

HTTP were asked to be part of the London Games Festival, to introduce an
alternative perspective of contemporary game culture from a grass roots
level, in contrast to the traditional corporate elements that usually
dominate these large and popular events. This is a major step forward
for the London Games Festival group, and hopefully this will be the
first of many 'Fringe' orientated opportunties, that serve in offering
experimental and up and coming game artists/groups to have their work
seen andc experienced by a diverse audience.

[giantJoystick] by Mary Flanagan was commissioned by the HTTP
Gallery/Furtherfield.org and other independent video games selected by
Corrado Morgana, are featured in the World Series of Video Games at the
London Trocadero as part of the London Games Festival.

London Trocadero.
Friday 6th - Sunday 8th October
Open Fri- Saturday 10am-10pm, Sunday 10-5pm
7 - 14 Coventry Street,
London W1D 7DH
10am - 10pm

Information about London Games Festival
http://www.londongamesfestival.co.uk/Custom/EventDetail.aspx?IDf

Information about the Game/Play (touring) Exhibition.
http://blog.game-play.org.uk

Information about HTTP Gallery.
http://www.http.uk.net/

DISCUSSION

The Progressive Net Therapist.


The Progressive Net Therapist.

sam

Barbara Ley has kindly offered to write about her personal experience as
a Progressive Net Therapist, she has also kindly created an audio
account for those who prefer to listen, regarding her exploits.

text version:
http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/the_sam_diaries/docs/external9.htm

mp3 version:
http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/the_sam_diaries/sleazy9_ley.mp3

DISCUSSION

The Progressive Net Therapist.


The Progressive Net Therapist.

Barbara Ley has kindly offered to write about her personal experience as
a Progressive Net Therapist, she has also kindly created an audio
account for those who prefer to listen, regarding her exploits.

text version:
http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/the_sam_diaries/docs/external9.htm

mp3 version:
http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/the_sam_diaries/sleazy9_ley.mp3

DISCUSSION

Re: Fwd: xxxxx_at_piksel


If I had extra money - I would definately pay this seminar a visit - it
looks interesting...

marc

>
> xxxxx_at_piksel
>
> 13-14 October, Cinemateket USF,Bergen, Norway
>
> Two days of seminar, discussion and highly practical interrogation of
> expanded
> software and the impact of the executable on necessarily open hardware
> as a
> political act.
>
> xxxxx crashes into the intent of open hardware, eviscerating software;
> the
> blunt realm of the user as cynical economic motif. After Artaud, the CPU
> (central processing unit) and its double mimes The Theatre and its
> Double. On
> the one hand, there is the System or entropic operation of a necessarily
> cynical machine for living, an atrocity exhibition, on the other hand the
> specification of an artistic CPU for life coding. The data sheet will be
> examined as to its operational codes (day one), new (simulation)
> models will
> be constructed (day two).
>
> Confirmed participants:
> Wilfried Hou Je Bek, Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp, Aymeric Mansoux, Bruno
> Marchal, Otto Roessler, Tom Schouten, Marloes de Valk, Eva Verhoeven,
> Valentina Vuksic
>
> Produced by BEK and ap/xxxxx:
>
> ap/xxxxx[1] was founded in 1998 to necessitate the code-terms expansion
> implied by a growing and politically active free software movement. With
> wilfully avant-garde intent, and through intervention, performance,
> staged
> events, seminars, hardware constructions and readily accessible software,
> ap/xxxxx examines through live descriptive process software (culture and
> history), embedding auto-destruction. Software is viewed as substance.
>
> Piksel[2] is an annual event for artists and developers working with open
> source audiovisual software. Part workshop, part festival, it is
> organised in
> Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK)[3] and
> involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas,
> coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops,
> performances
> and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of open source and free
> culture. This year's event - Piksel06[4]

DISCUSSION

Re: A Polemic - In protest of 9/11 rememberance.


>Sorry if I'm naive, but I'm speaking from my gut today.

You are not naive - just somone who values and respects humanity and not
just rich Americans alone, as the corporate led Administration so
clearly does.

The value of life around the world has been demoted, made more
disposable by an extremely elite group of people who should be arrested
and put to trial as soon possible, before they do any more damage to all
of our lives...

My take on rememberance - is that all the lives lost since 9/11 should
be acknowledged equally.

marc

>I was sitting here watching the 9/11 service and when they rung the bell
>at 9:03, I had to turn it off.
>
>I remember seeing the second one hit, dumbfounded, blankly thinking that
>this was a hoax or that this needed a soundtrack and Bruce Willis (so
>did Andrei Codrescu).
>
>I also remember being up late nights, keeping a lot of folks company on
>IM who were still staying below 15th St.
>
>And in my own context, I lost a cousin in Oklahoma City, and was part of
>the Katrina disaster, as my home in Baton Rouge was in the extended path
>of the whole thing, and suffered little damage, unlike so many of my
>friends, whom we housed through the Fall.
>
>But, when I watched the observance, I was in a double bind. While on
>one hand, the event was horrendous and deserves remembrance, the problem
>is that it will undoubtedly be used by the Bush Administration and
>American Media Culture once again as a justification for its own
>irresponsibility, and for that, I feel that perhaps some other form of
>commemoration would be in order. One that would maintain the gravitas
>of the event without the maudlin faux patriotism that actually reduces
>it to an ad for little silver coins with pop-up WTC effigies.
>
>
>Today, I'm not thrilled, and am set with even more resolve to vote these
>idiots out of office... The DHS and TSA are paper tigers that let
>people think that they are somehow safer, but are band-aids for the
>severed limb of social injustice in/by the US. The war has more to do
>with the Project for the American Century and the Bush/Hussein feud than
>Al Qaeda or even oil. In the power vacuum created by the fall of the
>USSR, it is the US who have taken on the role of imperial power.
>
>I guess I'd like to make my simple and possibly naive plea- Less bombs
>and guns, more education, outreach, health care, food and housing here
>and abroad. Either way, some people will lose their lives at this
>point, but would it be better to have it happen while giving someone a
>meal, or by detaining someone at a checkpoint? I'll support 115,000
>Peace Corps in Iraq...
>
>Sorry if I'm naive, but I'm speaking from my gut today.
>
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