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

Your chance to save lives


Dear Helga Benson and Dudley Saward,

I am aware that you are caught in an awkward place between complying to the
demands of your work-code and the needs of the people during this ever, war
ridden world. But there comes a time when honour is asked for, by the
citizens who voted you in.

I plead to you to rattle your conscience to find it in your heart to be
brave enough to challenge the imposed protocol (default) of pulling ranks.
And declare to the world that you do not wish to be a part of this (obvious)
extermination of even more civilians, via an Iraq invasion. If you, as a
human being can feel genuine empathy towards others around the world who
have been exploited for oil and profit, now is the time to stand proud among
the many who do not want to see yet more blameless souls demolished for
greed. You know this is of great importance and you also know that there are
more people against Bush's and the UK's governments stance, than for it. It
is wrong and this sort of act of killing people should be outlawed as soon
as possible.

Please do not fall in file and rank for the sake of your job. There is much
more at stake. No more shifting aside and complicit denial for pure sadism.
As a clear and real (honest) gesture for all concerned I am asking you to
try in all your power to stop this killing, by resigning and telling your
labour comrades and the media, your friends, the world what wonderful act
you are performing by liberating yourself as a new ambassador for
humanitarian causes.

If you do not wish to be part of a world that questions the killing of many
innocent people, please let me know what is more important?

Marc Garrett
X Labour Voter
marc.garrett@furtherfield.org

DISCUSSION

Free ourselves from the prison


Albert Einstein 1879-1955
"A human being is part of the whole, called by us the universe, a part limi=
ted in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, a=
s something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his cons=
ciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our =
personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task=
must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compa=
ssion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty=
..."
New York Post, Nov. 28th 1972

DISCUSSION

America's dream...


The fact is that no other single act of terrorism against a civilian
population in history using a SINGLE device and in one SINGLE shot killed
more people in ONE INSTANCE than the horrific American attack on the two
cities in Japan, the first of which happened today, 57 years ago. Total City
destructions were a hobby of both the Allies and the Germans during World
War II. But no other attack on a civilian population was so TOTAL, so
INSTANTANEOUS, and having ENDURING CONSEQUENCES as the attacks on Japan. And
the weapons used to destroy cities in Germany by the allies were not weapons
of mass destruction anyway. Rather, they were "conventional" weapons used in
massive amounts. The nuclear weapons are, on the other hand, the obvious
"king" of all weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.uksociety.org/hiroshima.htm

DISCUSSION

2000 gal deaths


2000 gal deaths ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

they've been chopped
slashed suffocated

stripped ~ burnt
cuffed and

spleaned

add your own list up

it's in kill thrill horror

visual slavery on the screen

americano not so secret dream

how many do you think that you have seen as you cream?

a passive pouting gal

it could be a trigger ~ happy
trashy cop movie

she strips
cute lamb for your slaughter
the camera watches with you
watching with you
as she strips in front of you

the killer waits
watching with you

oh yeah

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that high pitch screech of terror
that which eagerly you sweat for

heart rates

pulsing, pulsing, pulsing, pulse

she slumps
onto the floor

dead, naked eyes open

you can still see the fright

Written

across her face

2001 gal deaths

that's the amount

I think I've seen

on the screen

I feel polluted
by someone else's fantasy

historic disposability

slaves on tv
material fodder
transpozed

inttttttttttttto virtual snuff dream
and it seems

that it will continue
with a sequel
a trilogy

with perpetual ease

yes it's easy
to kill hope via the screen

marc garrett ~ make your own dreamz...

DISCUSSION

(he)EGOS EVERYWHERE...


(he)EGOS

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(he)EGOS

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