marc garrett
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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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EVENT

Reminder - The Jeremy Bailey Show at HTTP Gallery.


Dates:
Fri Sep 19, 2008 00:00 - Wed Sep 17, 2008

Reminder - The Jeremy Bailey Show at HTTP Gallery.

http://www.http.uk.net

Warmail is a new, live, collaborative software performance, led by Jeremy Bailey, commissioned by HTTP.

Audiences! Share your latent song and dance potential to write and send an email to the artist's mother while simultaneously directing a space war campaign.

Other exhibited works include VideoPaint 3.0 and SOS...

"Canadian artist Jeremy Bailey creates cutesy digital interfaces which facilitate computer-aided performances that bring art and technology, techies and technophobes into tension. Fusing an expert knowledge of software design and acclaimed performance and video art skills, Bailey asks his audience to examine their acquiescence to the GUIs (Graphic User Interfaces) that provide the face of contemporary living. More than that, he invites one and all to watch his unique brand of 'interface-off'." (Charlotte Frost)

Private View 7-9pm Fri 19th Sept
Live Performance at 7.30
Open 19 Sept - 19 Oct 2008
Fri-Sun 12noon-5pm
How to get here :
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml


DISCUSSION

Third Attempt


Hi Ceci,

>Its amusing how Rhizome staff has always been accused of being an in-club,
>when really the staff has always been a group of people trying to promote
>the work of artists in this field to the wide audiences that come to our site
>with as much integrity as possible.

you are right, it is amusing...

Like Michael said, we are all different & perhaps we should just leave things at that.

marc

DISCUSSION

Third Attempt


Hi Michael,

Yes you are right, it is different and that is fair enough.I do have things to discuss about this though, I am of course glad that Rhizome is here - and I have mentioned this many times before, but there is something missing. And it is bigger than just Rhizome and furtherfield, yet we are all part the problem. When I am less caught up with things I intend to share some ideas publicly, in mutually exploring solutions...

wishing all well.

marc

DISCUSSION

Third Attempt


I'm just fed up of the cultural divide...

marc

DISCUSSION

Third Attempt


Hi ERyk & all,

Things are not looking that good at the moment on here - it is actually depressing thing to experience.

It's as though, work outside of a small tight-nit group of people is not aloud to be seen on the front page - on Rhizome! Surely not!

please change - and join the rest of humanity.

marc