marc garrett
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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

I want to be a machine


I want to be a machine

I found the bones of all your ghosts
Locked in the wishing well
While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets
I slumbered in my shell

In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine
Kissed me on my eyes
I rose and left the fire-ladies
Glowing lonely in the night
With all the pornographers
Burning torches beneath the sea

Chorus:

I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine

I stole a cathode face from newscasts
And a crumbling fugue of songs
From the reservoir of video souls
In the lakes beneath my tongue
In flesh of ash and silent movies
I walked at boulevards again
A nebula of unfinished creatures
From the lifetimes of my friends
I hope your innocence has depraved me

(Chorus)

Broadcast me, scrambled clean
Or free me from this flesh
Let the armchair cannibals take their fill
In every cell across wilderness
We'll trip such a strangled tango
We'll waltz a wonderland affair
Let's run to meet the tide tomorrow
Leave all emotion dying there
In the star cold beyond all of your dreams

(Chorus)

Ah!

Ultravox

DISCUSSION

DISCUSSION

White House wants to block March report on Iraq


White House wants to block March report on Iraq

By Colum Lynch, Miami Herald, January 17, 2003
The Bush administration is seeking to derail plans by the U.N.'s chief
weapons inspector to issue another report on Iraqi disarmament to the
Security Council in late March, fearing it could delay U.S. plans to force
an early confrontation over Iraq's banned weapons programs.

The administration also resisted calls Wednesday by other nations that it
rule out a war with Iraq without the explicit blessing of the Security
Council, and suggested that it could choose military action even if weapons
inspectors do not find concrete new evidence against Saddam Hussein.

A day after President Bush warned that ''time is running out'' on Hussein, a
senior administration official said the timing of a decision about war would
be ''driven by events.'' Those include a report to be submitted by the U.N.
weapons inspectors Jan. 27 and evidence that Hussein is truly complying with
the U.N. demand that he give up any weapons of mass destruction.

And in a move that diplomats predicted would start a potentially divisive
battle in the Security Council, the administration plans to press the
15-nation body today to a planned March 27 report by Swedish diplomat Hans
Blix in which he was expected to list specific disarmament obligations that
Iraq is required to meet before U.N. sanctions can be suspended.

Blix told the council Tuesday that the March meeting was required under a
1999 resolution that created his inspection agency. But his plans have
complicated the administration's strategy at the United Nations in which it
is pointing to the end of this month as the start of an endgame in the
6-week old U.N. weapons inspections program.

The administration would like a decision on whether to go to war soon after
Blix makes a Jan. 27 presentation to the council, and U.S. officials said
they would ask the council to effectively disregard the 1999 resolution
mandating the later report. Bush is expected to make a strong case for
action against Iraq in his State of the Union address Jan. 28.

By announcing his assumption that he would report again two months later,
Blix underscored that he is following a much more deliberate timetable. That
risks undermining the administration's strategy to ratchet up the pressure
for a decision on whether to go to war later this month and it raised the
prospect that Security Council members, including some U.S. allies, would
use it to justify putting off a decision until March, at the earliest.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: One Day Left


Hi Meta & Mark,

'Hark I hear a cheap swipe...woe is me when one tries to kill thy father'.

People are so mean about other people who are bothering to do things that
are kool. Why is that?

I worked for an organization in the East End of London with Ruth Catlow.
In that time we managed to get more studios built, studio rents as the
lowest
in London for over 80 artists. We sorted out a

DISCUSSION

a new start...


Hi Meta & Mark,

'Hark I hear a cheap swipe...woe is me when one tries to kill thy father'.

People are so mean about other people who are bothering to do things that
are kool. Why is that?

I worked for an organization in the East End of London with Ruth Catlow.
In that time we managed to get more studios built, studio rents as the
lowest in London for over 80 artists. We sorted out a