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

Do It With Others - (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain.


Hi Renalto,

We have had a lot of people signing up, I'll check that everything is ok regarding the software. I will also check to see if you email address is on there - if not I'll put you in myself:-)

chat soon.

marc

DISCUSSION

Do It With Others - (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain.


HI Renato,

>Should we send content or links through netbehaviour mailing list?

Yes - also as things progress information is shared, discussed to and by the community in the list...

Tomorrow, I will be posting info about files and also answering any other questions on the Netbehaviour.org list.

Thanks for asking and looking forward to collaborating for the show :-)

marc

EVENT

Do It With Others - (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain.


Dates:
Fri Oct 23, 2009 00:00 - Fri Oct 23, 2009

Do It With Others - (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain.

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You are invited to contribute to a Mail-Art project across physical and digital networks towards an open exhibition at HTTP Gallery

We live in a time of social, economic and ecological unravelling. All around us are signs that our whole way of living is already passing into history.- Uncivilisation, The Dark Mountain Manifesto.

The Dark Mountain Project is ‘a new cultural movement for an age of global disruption.’ It aims to ‘question the stories that underpin our failing civilisation, to craft new ones for the age ahead and to write clearly and honestly about our true place in the world.’ Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountainis a cultural collaboration for this age. “Uncivilisation,” the Dark Mountain Manifesto, calls for a cultural response to our current predicament. Its challenge is offered to network-minded artists, technologists, writers and activists as a provocation - to work together to re-envision the narratives and infrastructures that govern our relationships with the natural world, and how they might be unravelled and rewoven to reconfigure our place in it. As “Uncivilisation” concludes, ‘The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop.’

Artists, technologists, writers, activists and all other living beings are invited to correspond with each other across physical and digital mail networks. Transmissions and missives may take the form of texts, images, sound, net movies, objects, software programmes and instructions and will be assembled for an exhibition of all submissions offering new myths and maps for future uncivilisation at HTTP Gallery.

Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain is a collaborative project by Furtherfield.org and The Dark Mountain Project.

Do you want to Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain?

E-Mail: go to http://netbehaviour.org, subscribe to the NetBehaviour email list, correspond and join the explosive discussions in image, text, sound, movie and code.

Mail via Royal Mail: working with, or around, striking mail-workers, send chain letters, circular interviews, or invent some rules for Royal Mail object relay.

All submissions should arrive at HTTP Gallery by Thursday 26th November addressed to

DIWO, HTTP Gallery,
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre,
71, Ashfield Road,
London, N4 1NY
England, UK

Join the Open Curation event: 12-3pm Friday 27th November ‘09 to decide how to best display all submissions and entries at HTTP Gallery. Join us at the gallery or online by webcam, instant messaging and Skype.
To learn how visit http://http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain

Follow the blog http://http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain where Dark Mountaineer, Dougald Hine will be your guide to the emerging landscape of email and snailmail exchanges.

Attend the Open Disassembly Event: 7-9pm Full Moon, 30th January ‘10
Assemble at HTTP Gallery for the closing event to help us disassemble the display and to choose the work you would like to take home with you.

Other Important dates

Private View 7-9pm Full Moon, Wednesday 2nd December ‘09
Gallery Open
12-5pm, Friday-Sunday, 4th-12th December 2009, 8th-30th January 2010
This is the second Do It With Others (DIWO) E-Mail-Art project initiated by Furtherfield.org. The first DIWO experiment in 2007 extended the Do-It-Yourself ethos of early net art, characterised by curiosity, activism and precision, towards a more collaborative approach, using the Internet as an experimental artistic medium and distribution system to foment grass-roots creativity.

More about The Dark Mountain Project and Furtherfield.org

The Dark Mountain Project is curated by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine. http://www.dark-mountain.net/

Paul is the author of One No, Many Yeses and Real England. He was deputy editor of The Ecologist between 1999 and 2001. His first poetry collection, Kidland, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. http://www.paulkingsnorth.net

Dougald writes the blog “Changing the World (and other excuses for not getting a proper job).” He is a former BBC journalist and co-founder of the School of Everything, and has written for and edited various online and offline magazines. http://www.dougald.co.uk

This project is part of Furtherfield.org’s three-year programme, which aims to provide opportunities for critical debate, exchange and participation in emerging ecological media art practices, and the theoretical, political and social contexts they engage.

HTTP Gallery is Furtherfield.org’s dedicated space for media art. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices in art and technology. Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery are supported by Arts Council England, London.

Furtherfield.org http://furtherfield.org
HTTP Gallery http://http.uk.net
Furtherfied Media Art Ecologies http://furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php
NetBehaviour email list http://netbehaviour.org


DISCUSSION

Destructural Video


Hi there,

I am also interested in Nicolas Bourriaud, he is not a great man, more of a top-down patriarchal thief, imposing his ego-centered modernist (non)values, on others to submit to, in hope of a profile in history...

Those who follow him are not only sheep, they are lost sheep ;-)

you may be interested in this article here:

Altermodernism: The Age of the Stupid - by Ellie Harrison.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=360

"Postmodernism is dead" declares Nicolas Bourriaud in the opening line of his manifesto for our new global cultural era - the 'altermodern'. As a preface to the latest Tate Triennial exhibition of the same name, the French curator and theorist sets about defining what he sees as the parameters of our contemporary society and offering paradigms for artistic approaches to navigating and negotiating them.

This essay aims to identify what the birth of this new era tells us about our culture's relationship to time. It will explore how we choose to define the periods in which we live and how our relationships with the past, present and future seem to constantly evolve. As a central focus, it brings together two examples of cultural events from 2009 which have both, in semi-revolutionary ways, attempted to define our current age. The Altermodern exhibition and its accompanying Manifesto (Bourriaud 2009b) launched at the Tate Britain on 4th February provides the first, and the second is provided by The Age of Stupid - a feature film and accompanying environmental campaign launched in UK cinemas on 20th March.

Set in the year 2055, The Age of Stupid focuses on a man living alone in a world which has all but been destroyed by climate change. In an attempt to understand exactly how such a tragedy could have befallen his species and the society and culture which they created over the course of several millennia, he begins to review a series of 'archive' documentary clips from 2008. His aim is to discover how his ancestors - the one generation of people who had the power to prevent the impending disaster - could have demonstrated such disregard or contempt for the future.

By focusing on two central texts - Bourriaud's Altermodern Manifesto and a faux encyclopedia entry from the future which retrospectively defines 'the Age of Stupid' released as promotional material for the film (Appendix One) - the essay aims to explore the disturbing continuities between these two perceptions of our current times and the drastic consequences these could have, if left unchecked, for the future of humanity and indeed the future of art.

DISCUSSION

Notes on Going Under: A DEVO Primer


Thank you very much for an excellent and enjoyable article - I am biased towards this kind of stuff anyway. Also, I have been dj'ing again playing punk, new wave, electro, no wave etc under the name of RE:ROOT.

It has been tremendous fun and a re-earthing, reconnecting to a creativity which quite honestly seems to reach more deeply than much of the art I see today, but not all of it of course ;-)

wishing you well.

marc