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

Fundamental Forces: audiovisual research by Robert Henke & Tarik Barri


Fundamental Forces: audiovisual research by Robert Henke & Tarik Barri

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Interview by Natascha Fuchs.

Natascha Fuchs interviews Robert Henke (DE) and Tarik Barri (NL), creators of the AV installation artwork 'Fundamental Forces', part of the «substructions» exhibition 2012. A collaborative project between sound:frame Festival and MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. This audiovisual experiment is dealing with music, visualization and its creative interplay. Fundamental Forces pops up in different locations worldwide.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/fundamental-forces-audiovisual-research-henke-barri

DISCUSSION

An Interview with Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint of Ecoarttech


An Interview with Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint of Ecoarttech

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Sophia Kosmaoglou interviews Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir, co-founders of ecoarttech (2005). An artist duo working at the intersection of media, technology, and environments. Cary and Leila work interdisciplinarily, drawing on ideas and methodologies from digital studies, philosophy, literature, ecological science, critical/cultural studies, and art. Their work uses mobile technology and digital networks to offer alternatives to both the idea of the technological fix and the romantic return to nature.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/interview-leila-nadir-and-cary-peppermint-ecoarttech

Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint founded Ecoarttech in 2005. They teach Video Art and Sustainability Studies at the University of Rochester in New York and they work with a range of institutions, including the Whitney Museum, Turbulence.org and the University of North Texas. They have exhibited at MIT Media Lab, Smackmellon Gallery, European Media Art Festival, Exit Art Gallery and the Neuberger Museum of Art. In June 2012, they will be artists in residence at Joya: Arte+Ecología, an off-the-grid residency program based at Cortijada Los Gázquez in Parque Natural Sierra Maria-Los Velez in Eastern Andalucía.

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The Banality of The New Aesthetic


The Banality of The New Aesthetic

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By robert jackson.

It's a bizarre thing when you stumble upon the "new art movement" filtering through discursive chatter. Is it actually a movement, or is it simply a bunch of like-minded individuals telling me its a movement?

Behold The New Aesthetic then - a new art meme in visual culture whimsically constructed by James Bridle, which manifests itself in a Tumblr blog, a presentation for Web Directions South, Sydney and an original blog post. Recent attention to it has reached feverish proportions coming off the back of a SXSW panel in March and a generally positive endorsement by Bruce Sterling in Wired, plus some group responses on the creators project. More recently, the computational media scholar and philosopher Ian Bogost has posted his own thoughts for The Atlantic.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/banality-new-aesthetic

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Review of Rosa Menkman's book "The Glitch Moment(um)".


Review of Rosa Menkman's book "The Glitch Moment(um)".

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Review by Rob Myers.

The Glitch Moment(um)
Rosa Menkman
Institute Of Network Cultures, 2011
ISBN 9789081602167

Rosa Menkman's book "The Glitch Moment(um)" is a comprehensive study of the theory, practice and social context of contemporary digital Glitch Art. Glitch Art is similar to the ironisation of the noise of old media into cultural signals seen in Trip Hop and that is the basis for the nostalgic image-making of Lomography or Instagram. But it is based on current digital technology, rather than past analogue technology.

Glitch Art is growing in popularity and critical attention, and is already being recuperated by the mass media (for example in a recent Calvin Klein perfume television advertisement). Analogue glitches have been part of art and popular culture for decades, for example in Nam June Paik's television-based art or the titular character of the cyberpunk TV show "Max Headroom". Digital glitches and their simulation featured in the postmodern graphic design of the early 1990s created by groups such as Designers' Republic. But between a history of analogue media and a future of mass media recuperation there is the current Moment(um) of digital glitch aesthetics that Menkman identifies.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/glitch-momentum#

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DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! and the Right to Die.


DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! and the Right to Die An experimental review By Channel TWo.

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DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! is a new video work (2012) by Everything is Terrible!, a self-described "found footage chop shoppe". DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! is an active catalog which describes, invents and destroys concepts as it arranges video footage into flows of multiple cuts that map the use of dogs in cinema and television.

"We neglected to offer an appraisal of the worth of the work, and add to the number of words already in the world. Instead, we traced the flows passing through the video and developed a program of citations that provide a map of exit and entrance points-a map, as any map, that is as much about those making as about the territory described-which we hope will provide openings for a reader who has not yet watched the work, and provide expanded intersections for those who already have." Channel TWo.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/doggiewoggiez-poochiewoochiez-and-right-die

Channel TWo is Adam Trowbridge and Jessica Westbrook, artists currently living in Chicago and working under the name Channel TWo. They received a 2011 Turbulence Commission for “NYC on Channel TWo.” They co-edited “Dynamic Coupling,” Fall 2010, Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, addressing issues of collaboration in research, practice, and academia. Select recent projects/installations include: Pace Digital Gallery, NYC; University of Wisconsin Madison, gli.tc/h/ festival, Kinsey Institute, Hyde Park Art Center, and the Block Museum. Jessica Westbrook is Director of Technology Initiatives and Assistant Professor in The Department of Contemporary Practices at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Adam Trowbridge is Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and will become Assistant Professor (August 2012) in the Department of Contemporary Practices. http://www.onchanneltwo.com/