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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

NODE.London presents : Open Season, London, October 2005


*NODE.London presents : Open Season, London, October 2005*

This October the UK government, as part of its presidency of the EU is
holding a pan-European conference on how to consolidate regulation and
control of intellectual property, copyright and technology.

Looking for creative alternatives, NODE.London is declaring this October
an 'Open Season' on technology, media, culture, politics and art with a
diverse and challenging series of events - building towards London-wide
media arts events in March 2006.

October 2005

Sat-1st--Sun-2nd
*WSFII*
(The World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures)

Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October 2005, 11am - 6pm.
Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA
Booking details http://wsfii.org/register

DISCUSSION

Re: nznl.com digest, Sep 15, 2005 - Sep 21, 2005


Hi Geert,

Your monthly blog is pretty intriguing and I think that I will vist
regularly, there is something ghostly about this one, single web page -

web cams are amazing, un-invited spectres watching, capturing human
behaviour (imposing eyes) and when there is no one there to see on the
screen - one becomes a lone voyour just watching, static - eyes peeled
and waiting...just one's self, and the screen.

I noticed that you also have uploaded Jess Loseby's 'im_mobile' project...
http://nznl.com/blog.shtml

Here is some poetic txt that I did a while back regarding web-cams...

Vision Bender

Angle-less does despise - it does over emphasize
my physical loss of movement, jailing thy scope
I am groping for room for breath, it does grope

Dangerous eyes do meander - they gander any gender
a vision sender and life bender, sight dispenser
emotional inventor of what I have not yet comprehender

It rests in most corners, sitting like a friend
lingering, sniggering. It mingles everywhere
sharing its endless innards - sublime, all the time

Killer of my space, rapid, invading space and I am
a star homing into its Cyclops eye. Caught among the
flicker, flickering its devotional haze, trapping

Bulger's last testament - our mutual craze is collected
spliced and then it becomes part of the visual noise.
Squeezing blurred info, info radical, it spies

Whether calamity or vanity, it is here, there, no care
for path tredders, concrete pacers, measured am I.
Sought by dangerous eyes, it does despise my own eyes

Dead, wired into my life and yours, and it is our life
it desires. It wants, my situation is clocked.
Planted, stunted is one's growth, choking my mind

It rewinds the motion, a constant assault teeeezing
thy emotional glands. It does marginalize my action,
my movements. Jailing thy scope, limiting hope

Outer eye, evil eye, watching my personal growth, out
here. Consuming one's space, no grace, in yer face,
our race is traced, and then reinvented, displaced...

marc

> nznl.com digest
> Sep 15, 2005 - Sep 21, 2005
> Posts 1207 - 1213
> http://nznl.com
>
> 1207. Sep 15, 2005
> PLAN FOR A PERFORMANCE FOR FOUR NZNL.COM WORKERS AT THE CHINATI
> FOUNDATION, 2009, MARFA, TEXAS
> fireworks file
> http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag 050915
>
> 1208. Sep 16, 2005
> PLAN FOR A SITE FOR THE NZNL.COM EXHIBITION HALL IN THE MIDDLE OF NEW
> YORK, 2009, EMPTY SECTION, MODEL, WEEDS
> fireworks file
> http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag 050916
>
> 1209. Sep 17, 2005
> INSIDE/OUTSIDE (STUDY FOR A NZNL.COM HALL NATURAL LIGHT PLAN), 2009,
> WHITE CUBE, LANDSCAPE
> fireworks file
> http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag 050917
>
> 1210. Sep 18, 2005
> STUDY FOR A FLOATING BODY, 2009, BODY, FLOATING
> flash movie
> http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag 050918
>
> 1211. Sep 19, 2005
> BODY, 2009, BODY
> flash movie
> http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag 050919
>
> 1212. Sep 20, 2005
> CUBE, 2009, CUBE
> flash movie
> http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag 050920
>
> 1213. Sep 21, 2005
> STUDY FOR A MODEL OF THE NZNL.COM EXHIBITION HALL, 2009, WHITE CUBE,
> MODEL, MAGIC PROPULSION
> flash movie
> http://nznl.com/geert/pop.php?dag 050921
>
>
>

DISCUSSION

Open Season!


*Open Season!*

This October the UK government holds a pan-European conference on how to
increase official regulation and control of intellectual property,
copyright and technology.

In response, NODE.London is declaring this October an 'Open Season' on
technology, media, culture, politics and art with a diverse and
challenging series of events:

*WSFII*
World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures
Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October 2005, 11am - 6pm.
Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA
booking details: http://wsfii.org/register/
http://wsfii.org

EVENT

NetBehavior List Residency


Dates:
Fri Sep 02, 2005 00:00 - Fri Sep 02, 2005

NetBehavior List Residency

Artist: Joseph McElroy

The Netbehaviour list community has elected Joseph McElroy as artist in residence for 2 weeks, from 01/08/05 - 01/08/15.

Information on Joseph McElroy's Residency:

Community Newspaper.
A community newspaper is committed to serving and building a local community by providing news and information to enhance the quality of life and to forge community bonds. A paper such as this provides a means of recording events; it tells the history of this community as it happens. The paper also defines this community; it defines it as a society. It gives it identity.

"Now to start the Nethaviour Community Paper for the next two weeks. Please take a look at the sample day..."
http://www.corporatepa.com/netbehaviour/

Then on each day of the next two weeks, those days you feel like it, send me a fax (US 7182286482), scanned image via email (joseph AT corporatepa DOT com), or even a link to online version of an article in your local paper (preferably a small circulation paper). I will compile daily (with help) into a daily paper. Please, also feel free to send me 250 px x 150px business card ads (see bottom of sample day) for the classified section (can be image or animation) as often as you like. Be creative as you like as long as it fits in format easily. Make suggestions on any changes you would like to see in format.

Artist's URL:
http://www.corporatepa.com/

All are welcome to collaborate join on the list for Joseph McElroy's residency...

Netbehaviour:
http://www.netbehaviour.org/
To subscribe:
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour


DISCUSSION

Re: HTTP presents Theatre of Restless Automata


Hi evereyone,

If you respond to any of these announcements to me personally onto the list - please could you cc a copy to me of your email to me also marc.garrett@furtherfield.org, because for some reason I am not receiving any mails at all from Rhizome at the moment. Cannot figure out why either...

thanks
marc

> HTTP presents Theatre of Restless Automata
> the largest solo exhibition to date
> by boredomresearch
>
> =======================================================
> Theatre of Restless Automata
> 1 September - 23 October 2005
>
> Private View: Thursday 1 September, 7-9 pm
>
> HTTP [House of Technologically Termed Praxis]
> Gallery address:
> Unit A2, Arena Design Centre,
> 71 Ashfield Rd,
> London N4 1NY
>
> Gallery open Friday - Sunday 12-5pm
> =======================================================
>
> Theatre of Restless Automata comprises three animated universes
> modelled from variations of the same computational formula. Each
> universe has a distinct aesthetic quality, which ranges from geometric
> abstraction to decorative figuration. Using computer algorithms based
> on scientific modelling techniques, the artists demonstrate how simple
> programming rules can create an infinite number of elaborate patterns.
> From these mosaics of pixels emerge small robotic figures (beings),
> which perform in a digital Otheatre of lifeO.
>
> In RandomSeed Systems, groups of coloured pixels develop a pattern
> according to algorithms inspired by the mathematical model of cell
> growth known as Cellular Automata. The model designed by the artists
> produces patterns that evolve over time along an invisible grid of
> regular cells in a fashion reminiscent of tapestry weaving. The result
> is independent from the aesthetic control of the artists: a real
> computational creation. Biome systems consist of a set of glass
> portholes hung on the wall through which viewers can peer and observe
> virtual universes of swarming automata. Evoking a natural world of
> insects and micro-organisms, the artificial creatures evolve in sealed
> environments called Biomes, which span an acre of terrain. Limited by
> the two-inch diameter of the portholes, viewers can only catch a
> glimpse of the toing and froing of the biomesO inhabitants.
> Ornamental Bug Garden 001 features a formally arranged space, which is
> being colonised by simple mechanisms and plants created from the same
> algorithm. These colonies of bug like creatures are catapulted around
> the ornamental garden and sometimes collide with bubble pumping lifts.
> A sound piece is incidentally composed from the noise of these
> collisions.
>
> boredomresearch are interested in building computational works,
> inspired by simple rules found in natural systems. They explore
> processes of computer modelling and the creative potential of genetic
> algorithms for the creation of nature-like phenomena. E
>
> =======================================================
> About boredomresearch
>
> Vicky Isley and Paul Smith have been collaborating as boredomresearch
> since 2000. boredomresearch have produced a number of interactive
> sound applications, online projects and computational soundscapes.
> Their work has been recently shown at Transmediale.05, Germany;
> FILE04, Brazil; NOW festival 2004, Nottingham, Electrohype festival in
> Sweden, Garage festival in Germany, Data:base Media Event in Dublin
> and within online exhibitions such as VIDA 7.0 Art & Artificial Life
> International Competition, soundtoys.net, mobilegaze.com and Dots &
> Line online exhibition.
>
> Ornamental Bug Garden 001 has been awarded honorary mention in
> Transmediale.05, International Media Arts Festival, Berlin and VIDA
> 7.0, International A-Life Electronic Arts Competition, Madrid.
>
> Theatre of Restless Automata has been produced in collaboration with
> Aspex Gallery and Peterborough Digital Arts.
> =======================================================
>
> HTTP [House of Technologically Termed Praxis] is one of LondonOs
> foremost galleries dedicated to showing net art, new media and sound
> art. HTTP is a Furtherfield initiative in the vibrant and culturally
> diverse Green Lanes area of North London. HTTP works with a wide
> range of artists and audiences to explore the potential of current
> network technology and to promote distributed creativity. HTTP is
> supported by Arts Council of England.
>
> Furtherfield is an online platform for the creation, promotion and
> criticism of net art, new media and sound art.
>
> =======================================================
> For more information about the exhibition and associated events,
> please visit http://www.http.uk.net/ and http://www.furtherfield.org/
>
> For press information and visuals, please contact StZphanie Delcroix
> e-mail: stephanie@furtherfield.org