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

Internet Interventions: Imperica magazine interviews Ruth Catlow of Furtherfield.


Internet Interventions: Imperica magazine interviews Ruth Catlow of Furtherfield.



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Networks are disrupting our society. They offer new opportunities, while bringing age-old issues into sharper focus. If networks offer us a chance to engage and connect with others in order to crystallise thinking, the devices that provide a connection to them can be ecologically unpleasant. According to Ruth Catlow, we are nowhere near a harmonious resolution to these problems – even though we can almost feel them within our grasp.


Catlow is the co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield, a digital community of co-creators that are interested in the intersection between art and technology, complimented by the Furtherfield Gallery in north London, a space dedicated to the exhibition and performance of work. Underpinning the organisation is a creative approach which is inspired by the metaphors and material media of networks within art.


http://www.imperica.com/features/ruth-catlow-internet-interventions/


Furtherfield continues to offer new angles on received and perceived thinking. As arts funding starts to put digital creativity at risk, Catlow is adamant that, as digital media becomes more sophisticated and more connected, this is a space that should build, not shrink. "What gets missed out is how much value there is in a much more networked, lateral, thinking approach that isn't just about markets, but is pumping value into the communities that are engaged with it - that doesn't fit into the existing model of metrics. The value of this approach is missed.


Ruth Catlow is co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield. Re-rooting Digital Culture takes place on Friday 13 May at the University of Westminster.


Chair: John Hartley


Speakers: -


Michel Bauwens - On how Peer to Peer thought and technology point towards alternative production methods and a sustainable future.


Catherine Bottrill - On working with producers and consumers to consider the environmental long-tail of digital culture.


Ruth Catlow - On ecological approaches to tools, networks and behaviours in a digital art community.


http://www.furtherfield.org/event/re-rooting-digital-culture-media-art-ecologies

EVENT

MADE REAL. An exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, the founders of Wikipedia Art.


Dates:
Fri May 27, 2011 12:00 - Sat Jun 25, 2011

Location:
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Furtherfield presents


MADE REAL. An exhibition by Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, the founders of Wikipedia Art.


27 May – 25 June 2011 – 12-5pm
Private View: Thursday 26 May 2011, 6.30-9pm


Networks – social, political, physical and digital – are a defining feature of contemporary life, yet their forms and operations often go unseen and unnoticed. For this exhibition Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, artists and co-founders of Wikipedia Art take these networks as their artistic materials and play-spaces to create artworks about love, power-play and a new social reality.


Three works are shown for the first time in the UK: Wikipedia Art, a collaborative work “made” of dialogue and social activity; Given Time, an Internet artwork that creates a feedback loop across virtual and actual space; and Playing Duchamp, a one-on-one meeting and game between an absent artist and viewer/participant.


‘if you claim something to be true and enough people agree with you, it becomes true.’ Steve Colbert on Wikiality


'I now pronounce Wikipedia Art ... It’s alive! Alive!' Kildall and Stern.


About Furtherfield.
http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about>



DISCUSSION

We Are Alive: NetAudio Festival London 2011.


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As part of the festival Broadcast strand, Liliane Lijn will present a new online adaptation of Power Game.


Marc Garrett interviews Andi Studer of NetAudio London, about their latest Festival at the Roundhouse and other venues in London, from Friday 13th - 15th May 2011. Showcasing work of artists who use digital and network technologies to explore new boundaries in music and sonic art, their festivals encourage participation in all forms: interactive sound art installations, conferences, workshops, collaborative online broadcasting and headline shows. This year promises to be a special event, headlined by the legendary Nurse With Wound and many more.


http://www.furtherfield.org/interviews/we-are-alive-netaudio-festival-london-2011

EVENT

Re-rooting digital culture - media art ecologies.


Dates:
Fri May 13, 2011 18:00 - Fri May 13, 2011

Location:
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

A Furtherfield Unconference event.
TO BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW please email ale[at]furtherfield[dot]org
Over the last decade the awareness of anthropogenic climate change has emerged in parallel with global digital communication networks. In the context of environmental and economic collapse people around the world are seeking alternative visions of prosperity and sustainable ways of living.
While the legacy of the carbon fuelled Industrial Revolution plays itself out, we find ourselves grappling with questions about the future implications of fast-evolving global digital infrastructure. By their very nature the new tools, networks and behaviours of productivity, exchange and cooperation between humans and machines grow and develop at an accelerated rate.
The ideas for this trans-disciplinary panel have grown out of Furtherfield's Media Art Ecologies programme and will explore the impact of digital culture on climate change, developing themes adopted in grass-roots, emerging and established practices in art, design and science.
http://www.furtherfield.org/event/re-rooting-digital-culture-media-art-ecologies
Chair: John Hartley
Speakers: -
Michel Bauwens - On how Peer to Peer thought and technology point towards alternative production methods and a sustainable future. http://p2pfoundation.net/
Catherine Bottrill - On working with producers and consumers to consider the environmental long-tail of digital culture.
http://www3.surrey.ac.uk/resolve/view_profiles.php?teamMember_ID=22
Ruth Catlow - On ecological approaches to tools, networks and behaviours in a digital art community. http://www.furtherfield.org/user/ruth-catlow
The discussion will inform a second event in September at ISEA 2011 where we will be joined by artists Tom Corby http://tinyurl.com/6fblopc and Helen Varley Jamieson http://www.creative-catalyst.com/.
Who this is for: any interested members of the public, cross-disciplinary (science, art, technology) practitioners, academics, students, researchers with an interest in digital culture, technology, sustainability.
Re-rooting digital culture is part of Furtherfield's Media Art Ecologies Programme http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/media-art-ecologies. This unconference event is partnered by CREAM (Centre for Research in Education Art and Media) http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-569


DISCUSSION

April issue of Furthernoise.


Welcome to the April issue of Furthernoise, where as always we have a host of new reviews and sounds for your reading and listening pleasure. Our latest net release, Explorations in Sound, Vol. 4 is still getting lots of attention and is available to download from the net label page of the site.
So sit back, turn the volume up and enjoy !
Furthernoise issue April 2011
http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=93
Furthernoise is an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
Furthernoise encourages new methodologies and practices in creating adventurous music and sound that is not bound by the constraints of historically experimental genres. We showcase artists work through critical reviews & features as well organising performances and events on the internet as well as public venues and galleries.
A non profit organisation that was established in 1999 by Marc Garret and Ruth Catlow as the sister site to London based digital / net art organisation Furtherfield. All our activities are resourced by the passion, ideas, exploration and skills of the Furthernoise team and the contribution of our diverse international membership of artists and audience.
Roger Mills
Editor, Furthernoise