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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DISCUSSION

New Reviews on Furtherfield Feb 07.


New Reviews on Furtherfield Feb 07.

http://www.furtherfield.org

Review Title - CURATING AMBIGUITY - ELO.
About - The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One.
Review by Franz Thalmair.

In autumn 2006 the ELO -- Electronic Literature Organization released
the ELC1 -- Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, including
selected works in New Media forms such as Hypertext Fiction, Kinetic
Poetry, generative and combinatory forms, Network Writing, Codework, 3D,
and Narrative Animations.

One of the main common characteristics of all Web-based literary
products is that they can be read (or viewed, listened, played with,
used) in multifaceted ways. Accordingly the curation of Electronic
Literature is challenged by ambiguity and heterogeneity on different
levels. As broadly termed by the ELO itself, Electronic Literature is a
form of cultural and artistic production on the Internet with important
literary aspects that takes advantage of the contexts provided by the
stand-alone or networked computer. Similar to what is not yet
consistently defined as Digital Art, Netart, Internet Art, New Media
Art, etc.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review\_id!7

Review Title and name of work - The Possible Ties Between Illness and
Success.
Review by Pau Waelder.
A work by Carlo Zanni in the form of a short, one-minute movie that
plays over the web [1]. Starring Stefania Orsola Garello and Ignazio
Oliva, the film has been produced with the quality of a major motion
picture, yet it will be screened exclusively on the Internet. The reason
for this is, the movie is meant to be transformed by its own audience.
When users visit the website to watch it, they leave a trace in the form
of data (date and time of access, IP address, country of origin and so
on). This data is collected by Google Analytics, and then sent to the
server that hosts the film. A program interprets this information and
fills the body of the man in the movie with stains, their number and
location depending on the number of visitors and their origin. The film
is then re-edited and uploaded so that the next users can watch a newly
made movie. Their presence is monitored by Google Anaylitics, and the
whole process starts again.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review\_id!8

Review Title and name of work - You Are Not Here.
Review by Luis Silva.
Developed by Thomas Duc, Kati London, Dan Phiffer, Andrew Schneider, Ran
Tao and Mushon Zer-Aviv and inviting people to 'explore Baghdad through
the streets of New York

DISCUSSION

New Reviews on Furtherfield 07.


New Reviews on Furtherfield 07.

http://www.furtherfield.org

Review Title - CURATING AMBIGUITY - ELO.
About - The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One.
Review by Franz Thalmair.

In autumn 2006 the ELO -- Electronic Literature Organization released
the ELC1 -- Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, including
selected works in New Media forms such as Hypertext Fiction, Kinetic
Poetry, generative and combinatory forms, Network Writing, Codework, 3D,
and Narrative Animations.

One of the main common characteristics of all Web-based literary
products is that they can be read (or viewed, listened, played with,
used) in multifaceted ways. Accordingly the curation of Electronic
Literature is challenged by ambiguity and heterogeneity on different
levels. As broadly termed by the ELO itself, Electronic Literature is a
form of cultural and artistic production on the Internet with important
literary aspects that takes advantage of the contexts provided by the
stand-alone or networked computer. Similar to what is not yet
consistently defined as Digital Art, Netart, Internet Art, New Media
Art, etc.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id!7

Review Title and name of work - The Possible Ties Between Illness and
Success.
Review by Pau Waelder.
A work by Carlo Zanni in the form of a short, one-minute movie that
plays over the web [1]. Starring Stefania Orsola Garello and Ignazio
Oliva, the film has been produced with the quality of a major motion
picture, yet it will be screened exclusively on the Internet. The reason
for this is, the movie is meant to be transformed by its own audience.
When users visit the website to watch it, they leave a trace in the form
of data (date and time of access, IP address, country of origin and so
on). This data is collected by Google Analytics, and then sent to the
server that hosts the film. A program interprets this information and
fills the body of the man in the movie with stains, their number and
location depending on the number of visitors and their origin. The film
is then re-edited and uploaded so that the next users can watch a newly
made movie. Their presence is monitored by Google Anaylitics, and the
whole process starts again.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id!8

Review Title and name of work - You Are Not Here.
Review by Luis Silva.
Developed by Thomas Duc, Kati London, Dan Phiffer, Andrew Schneider, Ran
Tao and Mushon Zer-Aviv and inviting people to “explore Baghdad through
the streets of New York”, YANH presents itself as an urban tourism
mash-up. Not only can you be in two places at the same time (the
ubiquity concept we departed from), but also both places become
interconnected in a psychological enactment of a meta-city. The
underlying mechanism is pretty simple: users (the so-called
meta-tourists) are invited to download and print on one side of a sheet
of paper a map of Baghdad and on the other side a reversed map of New
York. As soon as that task is accomplished the exotic sightseeing can
begin. Scattered around New York are YANH street-signs that provide
warned explorers (those who printed the map) as well as random
passers-by the telephone number for the Tourist Hotline, where
audio-guided tours of contemporary Baghdad destinations in NYC can be
listened to.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id!6

About Furtherfield Reviewers:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviewersbio.php
If you want to be a reviewer on Furtherfield,
contact - marc.garrett@furtherfield.org

DISCUSSION

New Reviews on Furtherfield Feb 07.


New Reviews on Furtherfield Feb 07.

http://www.furtherfield.org

Review Title - CURATING AMBIGUITY - ELO.
About - The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One.
Review by Franz Thalmair.

In autumn 2006 the ELO -- Electronic Literature Organization released
the ELC1 -- Electronic Literature Collection Volume One, including
selected works in New Media forms such as Hypertext Fiction, Kinetic
Poetry, generative and combinatory forms, Network Writing, Codework, 3D,
and Narrative Animations.

One of the main common characteristics of all Web-based literary
products is that they can be read (or viewed, listened, played with,
used) in multifaceted ways. Accordingly the curation of Electronic
Literature is challenged by ambiguity and heterogeneity on different
levels. As broadly termed by the ELO itself, Electronic Literature is a
form of cultural and artistic production on the Internet with important
literary aspects that takes advantage of the contexts provided by the
stand-alone or networked computer. Similar to what is not yet
consistently defined as Digital Art, Netart, Internet Art, New Media
Art, etc.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id!7

Review Title and name of work - The Possible Ties Between Illness and
Success.
Review by Pau Waelder.
A work by Carlo Zanni in the form of a short, one-minute movie that
plays over the web [1]. Starring Stefania Orsola Garello and Ignazio
Oliva, the film has been produced with the quality of a major motion
picture, yet it will be screened exclusively on the Internet. The reason
for this is, the movie is meant to be transformed by its own audience.
When users visit the website to watch it, they leave a trace in the form
of data (date and time of access, IP address, country of origin and so
on). This data is collected by Google Analytics, and then sent to the
server that hosts the film. A program interprets this information and
fills the body of the man in the movie with stains, their number and
location depending on the number of visitors and their origin. The film
is then re-edited and uploaded so that the next users can watch a newly
made movie. Their presence is monitored by Google Anaylitics, and the
whole process starts again.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id!8

Review Title and name of work - You Are Not Here.
Review by Luis Silva.
Developed by Thomas Duc, Kati London, Dan Phiffer, Andrew Schneider, Ran
Tao and Mushon Zer-Aviv and inviting people to “explore Baghdad through
the streets of New York”, YANH presents itself as an urban tourism
mash-up. Not only can you be in two places at the same time (the
ubiquity concept we departed from), but also both places become
interconnected in a psychological enactment of a meta-city. The
underlying mechanism is pretty simple: users (the so-called
meta-tourists) are invited to download and print on one side of a sheet
of paper a map of Baghdad and on the other side a reversed map of New
York. As soon as that task is accomplished the exotic sightseeing can
begin. Scattered around New York are YANH street-signs that provide
warned explorers (those who printed the map) as well as random
passers-by the telephone number for the Tourist Hotline, where
audio-guided tours of contemporary Baghdad destinations in NYC can be
listened to.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id!6

About Furtherfield Reviewers:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviewersbio.php
If you want to be a reviewer on Furtherfield,
contact - marc.garrett@furtherfield.org

DISCUSSION

The Furtherfield Blog - Media Art Practice: Making it, Curating it, Translating it


The Furtherfield Blog:
A shared space for personal reflections on Media Art practice: making
it, curating it, translating it.

http://blog.furtherfield.org

More Context:
The Furtherfield blog is a place for Media Arts practitioners to
intuitively explore their practice together as it occurs, to develop
understanding and to learn, without the pressure to formulate complete
arguments or to come up with answers. The blog was set up in Autumn
2006, initially as a place for informal, day to day exchange between
members of the Furtherfield.org team, including editor/reviewers. We
discovered that this format suits some people more than others and
invited a couple more to join. The Furtherfield blog is not intended as
a platform to promote particular projects. Instead bloggers explore
their own perspectives on their own terms; personal thoughts, emotional
responses and critical intentions that are rarely publicly discussed
elsewhere in such detail.

Regular Furtherfield bloggers so far, are: - Camille Baker, Ruth Catlow,
Aileen Derieg, Marc Garrett, Mark Hancock, Patrick Lichty and Lauren A
Wright.

DISCUSSION

A CONTEXT MAP OF VisitorsStudio on Remix Theory.


A CONTEXT MAP OF VisitorsStudio on Remix Theory.

Remix Theory is featuring the collaboratively written article by Ruth
Catlow & Marc Garrett 'A CONTEXT MAP OF VisitorsStudio'.
http://remixtheory.net/?p5#more-115

Putting forward a clearer perspective & context, in regard to where
VisitorsStudio sits within the thriving territory of real-time art,
software art, net art and participative and collaborative expression in
contemporary ‘remix culture’..

The Remix Theory blog itself, is an online resource implimented by
Eduardo Navas that offers some of his own research, focusing on Remix
itself as opposed to Remix Culture. Examining Remix extensively in
essays that are added to the website as they become available.
http://remixtheory.net/