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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.
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.
Jimpunk vs Visitorsstudio.
Jimpunk vs Visitorsstudio.
Jimpunk has just created one of his dynamic and enigmatic net art pieces
that focuses on Furtherfield's Visitorsstudio, a deconstruction or
destruction of its interface.
Please use a Firefox browser for viewing this work to get the full
effect. Internet Explorer does not work for it.
http://www.jimpunk.com/xxx/F/
Visitorsstudio blog:
an online place for real-time, multi-user mixing, collaborative
creation, many to many dialogue and networked performance and play.
http://blog.visitorsstudio.org/
Jimpunk has just created one of his dynamic and enigmatic net art pieces
that focuses on Furtherfield's Visitorsstudio, a deconstruction or
destruction of its interface.
Please use a Firefox browser for viewing this work to get the full
effect. Internet Explorer does not work for it.
http://www.jimpunk.com/xxx/F/
Visitorsstudio blog:
an online place for real-time, multi-user mixing, collaborative
creation, many to many dialogue and networked performance and play.
http://blog.visitorsstudio.org/
Furthernoise on BCFM 93.2 fm - Adventurous Music & Sound.
Furthernoise on BCFM 93.2 fm - Adventurous Music & Sound
Tuesday 22nd May 10-11pm BST (GMT+1)
http://www.bcfm.org.uk
NYC 5 - 6 pm
Tokyo 6 - 7 am
Sydney 7-8 am Wednesday 23rd.
For your own location time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock
This weeks programme features a host of new experimental music & sound
including:
Special mix of Random Function Live at Watershed, Bristol + live radio
visual mix by Adrian Smith. Recorded exclusively for Furthernoise, this
is a 15 minute mix of performances by Random Function artists from their
April event at Watershed, Bristol.
Radio you can watch
In a unique opportunity, listeners to the programme will be able to
watch a visual mix performed live to the radio stream in our online A/V
studio VisitorsStudio. Whether your listening to the programme on your
radio or from the stream on your computer simply open another browser
window and log into
http://www.visitorsstudio.org
Our regular radio VJ's Grazmaster, Open Mix, & Stu will carry on the
live visual mix through out the programme.
We are also featuring tracks by Brian Eno & David Toop from the new
Sonic Arts Network compilation 'Otherness' along side new tracks from
Matthijs Slijkhuis, Michael Chocalak, Bernhard Wagner, Andrea's Brandal,
Mazen Kerbaj & Negativeland.
New reviews, comments and requests http://www.furthernoise.org
Tuesday 22nd May 10-11pm BST (GMT+1)
http://www.bcfm.org.uk
NYC 5 - 6 pm
Tokyo 6 - 7 am
Sydney 7-8 am Wednesday 23rd.
For your own location time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock
This weeks programme features a host of new experimental music & sound
including:
Special mix of Random Function Live at Watershed, Bristol + live radio
visual mix by Adrian Smith. Recorded exclusively for Furthernoise, this
is a 15 minute mix of performances by Random Function artists from their
April event at Watershed, Bristol.
Radio you can watch
In a unique opportunity, listeners to the programme will be able to
watch a visual mix performed live to the radio stream in our online A/V
studio VisitorsStudio. Whether your listening to the programme on your
radio or from the stream on your computer simply open another browser
window and log into
http://www.visitorsstudio.org
Our regular radio VJ's Grazmaster, Open Mix, & Stu will carry on the
live visual mix through out the programme.
We are also featuring tracks by Brian Eno & David Toop from the new
Sonic Arts Network compilation 'Otherness' along side new tracks from
Matthijs Slijkhuis, Michael Chocalak, Bernhard Wagner, Andrea's Brandal,
Mazen Kerbaj & Negativeland.
New reviews, comments and requests http://www.furthernoise.org
New Reviews/Articles/Interviews on Furtherfield May 21st 07.
New Reviews/Articles/Interviews on Furtherfield May 21st 07.
http://www.furtherfield.org
- Charlotte Frost Interviews David Rokeby.
- Twisting Fistfuls of Time (Part 1).
An Interview with David Rokeby, in conjunction with his first UK
retrospective
http://www.furtherfield.org
- Charlotte Frost Interviews David Rokeby.
- Twisting Fistfuls of Time (Part 1).
An Interview with David Rokeby, in conjunction with his first UK
retrospective
New Reviews on Furtherfield 30/4/07.
New Reviews on Furtherfield 30/4/07.
http://www.furtherfield.org
- Jess Lacetti interviews Chris Joseph (Babel):
Chris Joseph is Digital Writer in Residence at De Montfort University,
Leicester, UK. He is a writer and artist who has produced solo and
collaborative work since 2002 as babel. His past work includes Inanimate
Alice, an award-winning series of multimedia stories produced with
novelist Kate Pullinger; The Breathing Wall, a groundbreaking digital
novel that responds to the reader's breathing rate (also with Kate
Pullinger); and Animalamina, an A-Z of interactive multimedia poetry for
children. He is editor of the post-dada magazine and network 391.org.
http://www.furtherfield.org/chrisJosephinterview.php
- Article on Yves Klein by Joseph Nechvatal.
- Long live the immaterial! Yves Klein,
The Chelsea Hotel Manifesto.
Yves Klein is for me, and many others, the most important French artist
after Henri Matisse. This may sound somewhat appalling to some, as Klein
enjoyed only a very concise, but invigorating, seven-year artistic
career. But I will clarify this controversial judgment by pointing out
his historic relevance to our era of digital culture. The emphasis here
will be on Klein’s conceptual articulation of the spatial and the
ephemeral/immaterial in relationship to our current actual state of
virtuality. Indeed the subtitle of the exhibition, CORPS, COULEUR,
IMMATERIEL (Body, Color, Immaterial), itself brings out the salient
viractual aspects of Klein's art.
http://www.furtherfield.org/YVESKLEINreview.php
- What If We Played A War and Nobody Won?.
- Review by Natasha Chuk.
What If We Played A War and Nobody Won?: Critical Approaches to War in
Videogame Art is a mouthful of a title that asks the big question that
lingers in our contemporary culture’s collective mind and begs its
audience to consider the possibility of deconstructing war through game
metaphor. This online exhibition is comprised of six online games that
tamper with the rules and styles of standardized games. Each explores an
aspect of war -- from its gruesome realities to its philosophical
blurriness - through play. What is being reinvented here is not the act
of play and the skills required to “win”, rather the motivation behind
play and how it relates to our perceptions of war.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review\_id"7
- The Last Tag Show by Pash*.
- Review by Nathan Lovejoy.
The Last Tag Show cleverly took advantage of Last.FM's technical
structure to pull off a 24 hour performance. As the allotted time
progressed, viewers saw tracks and artists appear in succession on
Last.FM user profile lasttagshow's profile page. These were no ordinary
songs however, the artists instead altered the metadata of audio tracks
such that when they were uploaded to the Last.FM servers they appeared
as a multi-character dialogue. The principal personages in the
performance include “Moderator,” “Hannah,” “Voiceover,” “Instructor,”
“Marck,” “Zita Vass,” and “Gregg,” with occasional guest stars like Thom
Yorke.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review\_id"8
- The Postnational Foundation by Dan Phiffer.
- Review by Luis Silva.
Dan Phiffer, a computer hacker from California (now based in Brooklyn),
interested in exploring the cultural dimension of inexpensive
communications networks such as voice telephony and the Internet,
created the Postnational Foundation, a website/series of public
interventions, defined as “an ongoing series of brief, personal
interventions, an open-ended question about personal agency and a
starting point for doing something meaningful”. Each of these three
goals contains a very important concept, contextualizing Phiffer’s
practice (and discourse): interventive behaviour, personal agency and
meaningfulness. In these three concepts we can anchor the importance of
The Postnational Foundation, in the steps of Lyotard’s views of the
contemporary world.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review\_id"9
Other Reviews:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreviews.php
About Furtherfield Reviewers:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviewersbio.php
If you want your work reviewed or to be a reviewer on Furtherfield,
contact - marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
http://www.furtherfield.org
- Jess Lacetti interviews Chris Joseph (Babel):
Chris Joseph is Digital Writer in Residence at De Montfort University,
Leicester, UK. He is a writer and artist who has produced solo and
collaborative work since 2002 as babel. His past work includes Inanimate
Alice, an award-winning series of multimedia stories produced with
novelist Kate Pullinger; The Breathing Wall, a groundbreaking digital
novel that responds to the reader's breathing rate (also with Kate
Pullinger); and Animalamina, an A-Z of interactive multimedia poetry for
children. He is editor of the post-dada magazine and network 391.org.
http://www.furtherfield.org/chrisJosephinterview.php
- Article on Yves Klein by Joseph Nechvatal.
- Long live the immaterial! Yves Klein,
The Chelsea Hotel Manifesto.
Yves Klein is for me, and many others, the most important French artist
after Henri Matisse. This may sound somewhat appalling to some, as Klein
enjoyed only a very concise, but invigorating, seven-year artistic
career. But I will clarify this controversial judgment by pointing out
his historic relevance to our era of digital culture. The emphasis here
will be on Klein’s conceptual articulation of the spatial and the
ephemeral/immaterial in relationship to our current actual state of
virtuality. Indeed the subtitle of the exhibition, CORPS, COULEUR,
IMMATERIEL (Body, Color, Immaterial), itself brings out the salient
viractual aspects of Klein's art.
http://www.furtherfield.org/YVESKLEINreview.php
- What If We Played A War and Nobody Won?.
- Review by Natasha Chuk.
What If We Played A War and Nobody Won?: Critical Approaches to War in
Videogame Art is a mouthful of a title that asks the big question that
lingers in our contemporary culture’s collective mind and begs its
audience to consider the possibility of deconstructing war through game
metaphor. This online exhibition is comprised of six online games that
tamper with the rules and styles of standardized games. Each explores an
aspect of war -- from its gruesome realities to its philosophical
blurriness - through play. What is being reinvented here is not the act
of play and the skills required to “win”, rather the motivation behind
play and how it relates to our perceptions of war.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review\_id"7
- The Last Tag Show by Pash*.
- Review by Nathan Lovejoy.
The Last Tag Show cleverly took advantage of Last.FM's technical
structure to pull off a 24 hour performance. As the allotted time
progressed, viewers saw tracks and artists appear in succession on
Last.FM user profile lasttagshow's profile page. These were no ordinary
songs however, the artists instead altered the metadata of audio tracks
such that when they were uploaded to the Last.FM servers they appeared
as a multi-character dialogue. The principal personages in the
performance include “Moderator,” “Hannah,” “Voiceover,” “Instructor,”
“Marck,” “Zita Vass,” and “Gregg,” with occasional guest stars like Thom
Yorke.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review\_id"8
- The Postnational Foundation by Dan Phiffer.
- Review by Luis Silva.
Dan Phiffer, a computer hacker from California (now based in Brooklyn),
interested in exploring the cultural dimension of inexpensive
communications networks such as voice telephony and the Internet,
created the Postnational Foundation, a website/series of public
interventions, defined as “an ongoing series of brief, personal
interventions, an open-ended question about personal agency and a
starting point for doing something meaningful”. Each of these three
goals contains a very important concept, contextualizing Phiffer’s
practice (and discourse): interventive behaviour, personal agency and
meaningfulness. In these three concepts we can anchor the importance of
The Postnational Foundation, in the steps of Lyotard’s views of the
contemporary world.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review\_id"9
Other Reviews:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreviews.php
About Furtherfield Reviewers:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviewersbio.php
If you want your work reviewed or to be a reviewer on Furtherfield,
contact - marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
DIWO E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour Exhibition update.
(Sorry for posting before changing Subject header before)
DIWO E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour Exhibition update.
For those who could not make it to the DIWO exhibition at the HTTP
Gallery, here is a link to some images of the show that finished, 1st
April.
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/Diwo_exhibition2.shtml
95 - 100 individuals actively created work, participated or collaborated
in the DIWO project.
The project has already had offers to show in different venues around
the world which are presently being negotiated.
The exhibition is a distributable project which can be moved to any
space in the world. It works both online and in physical space
simultaneously. The venue is a physical interface showcasing co-selected
by artists and curators.
Details about the project/exhibition here:
Do It With Others (DIWO):
E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/exhibitions12.shtml
View list activity from all participants on the NetBehaviour here.
Official beginning - 1 February 2007 DIWO Archives by email thread:
http://www.netbehaviour.org/pipermail/netbehaviour/20070201/thread.html
DIWO E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour Exhibition update.
For those who could not make it to the DIWO exhibition at the HTTP
Gallery, here is a link to some images of the show that finished, 1st
April.
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/Diwo_exhibition2.shtml
95 - 100 individuals actively created work, participated or collaborated
in the DIWO project.
The project has already had offers to show in different venues around
the world which are presently being negotiated.
The exhibition is a distributable project which can be moved to any
space in the world. It works both online and in physical space
simultaneously. The venue is a physical interface showcasing co-selected
by artists and curators.
Details about the project/exhibition here:
Do It With Others (DIWO):
E-Mail-Art at NetBehaviour
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib12/exhibitions12.shtml
View list activity from all participants on the NetBehaviour here.
Official beginning - 1 February 2007 DIWO Archives by email thread:
http://www.netbehaviour.org/pipermail/netbehaviour/20070201/thread.html