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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5 New reviews/articles on Furtherfield


5 New reviews/articles on Furtherfield - April 2004.

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.

Agoraxchange - Natalie Bookchin & Jacqueline Stevens.

The stated purpose of agoraXchange is to establish

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replic**t transcript...& list mix.


replic**t transcript...& list mix.

20:24 ][....pondering the idea of post-modernist mental health revisions ie
that some types of so called abnormal or even psychopathological states may
actually be an adaptive reaction to the human cultural condition [that is,
from a westernised perspective]
20:25 ][...states like schizophrenia, maybe even borderline personality
types.....

replic**t : i view myself as a commodity
replic**t : i plan to franchise myself

20:36 ][after a bit he also started to display a type of play-geared
behaviour

lazarus corporation : corporate talk turns me on
phil : oh yes
replic**t : im a magnate
phil : uniforms
replic**t : a baron
replic**t : a tycoon
phil : obedience
replic**t : im enron in a domestic setting
phil : efficiency
lazarus corporation : the similarity between bedroom and boardroom
replic**t : is confouding
replic**t : confounding
phil : indeed
phil : conforming
lazarus corporation : I'm the Vice president
phil : absolved
phil : truly naked
replic**t : im a corporate whore
phil : truly of service
replic**t : or perhaps a corporate bore
phil : so how much for a hand job?

20:38 ][ ...but that its also very alientating, and could be perceived as
straight out immaturity by regular socially adapted "adults"

im pricing the words in the transcipts according to how many times they
appear
neil : so handjobs is going up then
phil : and getting cheap sexual services to boot
replic**t : so the first time he mentioned hand j*b is twas only .99
neil : (did that help?)
replic**t : exactly
replic**t : lol
neil : well, how much is blow job ?
replic**t : the more we mention it this less likely he can afford it
neil : what a handjob ?
replic**t : hand job hand jo hand job hand job
replic**t : yes
phil : um I am the service provider
neil : lol
phil : you are the client
phil : I thought we had an agreement?
replic**t : lol
neil : client-server schmerver
replic**t : business is business buddy
phil : yup
phil : can you spare a dime
neil : a bit of a hand job
replic**t : whats that about hand jobs

20:39 ][....certain nerdy or geek traits often correspond 2 extrememly high
levels of intelligence but also a high incidence of alienation and/or
isolation

phil : I ate pork couscous tonight

20:49 ][i also think that it may b a type of media-inducment in terms of
schizoid personas; that the linear method of existence is slowly being
erroded by various cultural standards

20:53 ][in an environment that now encourages fracturing, splintering of
this ego via post-modern de[in]struction of that ego [ie via rapid and
effective removal of community ethos, of nuclear family-type
responsibilities, of any cohesive sense of altruism or responsibility in
relation 2 our ecosystem or even our own species]...

replic**t : i believe in aesthetic amoralism

20:54 ][ ..it seems almost normal that patterns of behaviour that favour
this new type of alienated/isolated/compeditive existence
20:55 ][..will increasingly manifest on a cultural spectrum....
20:55 ][ [such as aspergers, or even bi-polar disorders that show a
fracturing in emotional/intellectual states prized by any corporate
mindset]...

replic**t : so do you think corporate strategy negates authorial
subjectivity
replic**t : in that we use an already existing language
lazarus corporation : I think that corporations can create their own
distinct authorial subjectivities - they're just group subjectivities
rather than belonging to individuals.
lazarus corporation : a shared, corporate subjectivity
replic**t : so does that question the concept of singular authorship
lazarus corporation : no - I don't think so
replic**t : hmm
germseed : i dont understand
lazarus corporation : it's like mob mentalities - crowds/groups have a
shared mentality/purpose which is a combination of all the individuals
germseed : ok
lazarus corporation : so if a person can create a piece of art... then
why not a group of people
germseed : well of course
replic**t : but that is collaborative
replic**t : so singular authorship is challenged
lazarus corporation : mob mentalities aren't collaborative
replic**t : in the sense of the modernist genius artist
replic**t : ahh
lazarus corporation : they're a new being
replic**t : so is a franchise a collective
lazarus corporation : yes - I guess so
replic**t : hmm
lazarus corporation : collective is certainly better word than group
replic**t : its very serious in here today ;]
lazarus corporation : for this sort of thing
lazarus corporation : haha
replic**t : its hasnt turned to smut yet
lazarus corporation : I'm sure it will
replic**t : lol
lazarus corporation : that's mob mentalities at work
replic**t : collaborative filth
lazarus corporation : I like that phrase
germseed : a franchise is like a child is it not..like lots of bits of 'me'
lazarus corporation : yes
lazarus corporation : or like clones
replic**t : multiple personality disorder
germseed : they call it something else now..it it d i d
lazarus corporation : I think they just like renaming these things
germseed : yes, dissasociate identity disorder

20:57 ][..without adequate acceptance/understanding as 2 how this would
effect individual mental functioning

phil : you demons

21:02 ][...that they may be highly *adaptive* sets of behaviours
[genetically triggered or otherwise]
21:02 ][..rather than *maladaptive*

Wurzel : How does replicunt survive
edvard : on your drivvle
Wurzel : from the cynic
phil : don't ask
replic**t : via corporate facism
lazarus corporation : she franchises
replic**t : and hand jobs

http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/online/index_replic.htm

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replic**t at FurtherStudio today...


replic**t
Real-time online digital/net art residency

replic**t will be online - live from 3pm (BST) today, pop in and say hello.

www.furtherstudio.org <http://www.furtherstudio.org/>

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Best known for her piece 'The Physical Impossibility of ASCII Art in the
Mind of the Analogue Artist', replic**t is an emerging female artist who
has recently relocated from Vulvaria to Shoredik. Her iconic turn of the
millennium works, engage with networked and new media art practices and
are recognised by their dramatic digi-confessional nature.

In response to increasingly disturbing rumours of her immateriality,
replic**t will appear online in as series of exclusive live, real-time
studio events at www.furtherstudio.org Here she will be sharing
thesecrets of her digital art process and declaring her radical views on
code/flesh in online chat with visitors. For the next two months, you
can visit the web page to watch her computer screen while she works on
her homepage, www.replic88t.net, which will incorporate a series of
limited edition, addictively priced, signature net art works. These
works, commissioned exclusively for FurtherStudio represent the first
time that replic**t's work will be available to the global consumer.

Later this year replic**t will present her first Major RetrospecTit at
the Zedkayem Biennale, in association with MyGrowsoft.

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