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

Rhizome Celebrates Ada Lovelace Day


Hey, What about commenting on furtherfield's involvement in this - or are we just out of bounds these days?

EVENT

In support of Ada Lovelace Day.


Dates:
Mon Mar 23, 2009 00:00 - Mon Mar 23, 2009

In support of Ada Lovelace Day we are inviting all women who work in media arts and net art to join the NetBehaviour email list for a week between 23rd and 30th March.

http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour

We would like to know about your work and that of other women who have inspired you in your own practice. So please come and squat the NetBehaviour list for a week (of course we hope you'll stick around for longer:) and share your inspirations with our friendly community of artists, academics, writers, code geeks, curators, independent thinkers,
activists and net mutualists.

Posts are welcome in any format and frequency.

The following is offered as an example.

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MY NAME: Ruth Catlow

URL: http://www.furtherfield.org/display_user.php?ID=14

INSPIRED BY:

Ele Carpenter - http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ for tech inspired and facilitated participation with Open Source Embroidery, her curatorial project exploring artists practice that explores the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing.

Auriea Harvey - for her part with Entropy8Zuper in early intimate networked performances http://entropy8zuper.org/wirefire and for Endless Forest, Tale of Tales's bucolic social screensaver http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest

Mary Flanagan - for her energetic explorations as academic, educator, artist and programmer at the intersection of games, art and feminism and exploring collaborative approaches to thinking about values in http://www.valuesatplay.org/

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At the end of the week we will collate all of the posts in the thread and feature them on Furtherfield.org.

See you on Netbehaviour : ))

With all best wishes from

Ruth and the Furtherfield team
http://www.furtherfield.org
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Ada Lovelace Day -bringing women in technology to the fore http://findingada.com/blog/2009/01/05/ada-lovelace-day/
sign a pledge to blog about inspirational women in tech on 24th March.

NetBehaviour is the Furtherfield.org email discussion listJoin NetBehaviour for a week between 23rd and 30th March (of course we hope you will stick around: )
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour


DISCUSSION

Andy Warhol Paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga


Hi Salvatore,

I agree, it is always a useful tactic to be optimistic ;-)

DISCUSSION

Andy Warhol Paints Debbie Harry on an Amiga


I prefer the 'Andy Warhol - rejected from the RomaEuropaWebFactory Prize' work.

http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/41839

Judging by the amount of people who viewed it '393', in contrast to 35 for the RomaEuropaWebFactory post.

Why wasn't RomaEuropaWebFactory post put on the front page of Rhizome?

marc

DISCUSSION

2 New Reviews on Furtherfield Feb 23rd 09.


2 New Reviews on Furtherfield Feb 23rd 09.

www.furtherfield.org

SwanQuake: House by igloo (Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli).
Review of the Virtual work as Exhibition/Installation by Rob Myers.

House features the penthouse apartment of the title overlooking a stormy street, the stairwell of an apartment block, the tunnels of a Tube station, and more fantastic elements such as a burnt-out tube train that leads to a portal to hell. Occasionally, ghostly female figures dance endlessly through graceful choreography trapped in time and space.

The darkly lit corridors, tunnels and rooms rendered by a first-person shooter (FPS) game engine and haunted by impersonal ghostly figures immediately call to mind the survival horror genre. There's an unsettling feel to the environment, even when the feeling of threat gives way to a sense of wonder in the underground warehouse filled with joyfully dancing figures.
Permlink: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=333

COPY-IT-RIGHT project by JonCates.
Review by Marisa Plumb.

JonCates began research on the COPY-IT-RIGHT project by Phil Morton in 2007. It Predates The Pirate Party, Free and Open Source Software, Creative Commons and/or the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. "The archive exists to organize and freely distribute Morton's new media artwork, and also to perpetuate the COPY-IT-RIGHT ideal that Morton advocated." JonCates.

"The early experimental video art scene in Chicago, and its indispensability in developing an understanding of contemporary New Media practices, is something that I learned from jonCates and that jonCates learned from Phil Morton. Well, maybe it's not quite that simple, but that is one possible set of connections that can be traced from jonCates' COPY-IT-RIGHT project."
Permlink: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=335

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Reviews, interviews & articles:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

About Furtherfield:
Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies.

Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.

More About Furtherfield - http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php