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

FURTHERNOISE RADIO ON BCFM 22.00 - 23.00 TONIGHT


FURTHERNOISE RADIO ON BCFM 22.00 - 23.00 TONIGHT TUESDAY 28th AUGUST.

Radio 93.2 FM (Bristol, UK) - 22.00-23.00 pm BST (+ 1GMT)
Repeated 11.00-12.00 BST Wednesday 29th August.
Online Stream - http://www.bcfm.org.uk

On tonight's program we have a feature on the influential & wayward 60's
British record producer & composer Joe Meek. John Pickford who has
written a retrospective on Meek in the new issue of Furthernoise.org
will also joining me in the studio to talk about the man, his life & his
recording techniques. We also have loads of new music & noise including
Kim Cascone, Future Sound Of London, Luca Deriu, Lessons Around Us, Mac
Dunlop, Phil Hargreaves & Glenn Weyant, Fuzz Against Junk & Matt Weston.

As usual our regular VJ's Graziano Milano & Neil Jenkins will be mixing
live to the stream. To watch the live visual mix open another browser
window and log onto
http://www.visitorsstudio.org

Audio & visual mixes available as podcasts from http://www.furthernoise.org

World Times
22.00 - 23.00 UK
17.00 - 18.00 NYC
23.00 - 24.00 Europe
6.00 - 7.00- Tokyo Wednesday 29th August (Repeated 19.00 - 20.00)
7.00 - 8.00- Australia Wednesday 29th August (Repeated 20.00 - 21.00)

See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock for your own location time.
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DISCUSSION

Recent posts on the Furtherfield Blog.


Recent posts on the Furtherfield Blog.

http://blog.furtherfield.org

'Lectronic Linking and Thinking, Post-Banff.
By Ruth Catlow.

Struggling home along the trolley-wobbling pavement of Green Lanes in
North London. Dank, grey skies and chaotic, always-divergent,
multicultural masses are in sharp contrast to the rarefied air of the
mountains of Banff. Where friendly participants clustered around shared
interests, to learn, exchange and muck about together. This rare
pleasure is very sweet but probably has to be temporary, because the
point is to make connections with difference, across distance and then
to maintain and explore the creative potentials of those connections...No?

So I'm tearing myself away from a fizzing new group of friends on
Facebook, all doing interesting work, to cluster three
presentations/activities that stick in my mind from the second half of
the conference.

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how i got a tail.
By Helen Varley Jamieson.

i've always fancied the idea of a tail, and last night my dream came
true. out with a group of artists on our ponies for a gallery crawl, i
was secretly admiring and coveting the impressive long black swishing
tail of one of our company, nonnatus. after some time i plucked up the
courage to compliment him on his appendage, which it turns out he made
himself, and he generously offered to give me one. i leapt at the
opportunity & promptly attached it to my pelvis. (second) life is so
much more fun with a tail. however it detaches every time i wear my
pony, & when i dismount i have to reattach it, which is pretty annoying...

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Do academics actually do anything?
By Aileen Derieg.

Calls for support have been circulating around various related mailing
lists for several weeks now, and I hope that many, many people will sign
the online petitions calling for the suspension of proceedings and the
release of those imprisoned in Germany: open letter.

The charges against Andrej H. are especially outrageous and clearly pose
a threat to the freedom of academic research and political engagement,
and a wave of protests has responded accordingly. I wholeheartedly
support these efforts on the basis of my own political convictions, but
also for personal reasons.

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What is the difference between performing arts and performance art in
Second Life?
By Patrick Lichty.

To ask this question, one is actually asking two simultaneous questions.
The first of the two is: "What are the differences between performance
art and the performing arts", and the second being "What is the
difference between performance art in the physical and in Second Life?"
To draw these distictions is to make addressing the issue much more
manageable.

QUESTION 1: The Difference between Performance and Performing
(I will not even bring up the matter of the "performative")
First, the issue of performance art vs. performaing arts. This is
primarily an issue of scope and tradition. Counter to my usual stance, I
really like Wikipedia's blurb on the matter:

""Although performance art could be said to include relatively
mainstream activities such as theater, dance, music, and circus-related
things like fire breathing, juggling, and gymnastics, these are normally
instead known as the performing arts. Performance art is a term usually
reserved to refer to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art
which grew out of the visual arts."

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mekkverk administreres av www.teks.no / teks@teks.no

DISCUSSION

Recent posts on the Furtherfield Blog.


Recent posts on the Furtherfield Blog.

http://blog.furtherfield.org

'Lectronic Linking and Thinking, Post-Banff.
By Ruth Catlow.

Struggling home along the trolley-wobbling pavement of Green Lanes in
North London. Dank, grey skies and chaotic, always-divergent,
multicultural masses are in sharp contrast to the rarefied air of the
mountains of Banff. Where friendly participants clustered around shared
interests, to learn, exchange and muck about together. This rare
pleasure is very sweet but probably has to be temporary, because the
point is to make connections with difference, across distance and then
to maintain and explore the creative potentials of those connections...No?

So I'm tearing myself away from a fizzing new group of friends on
Facebook, all doing interesting work, to cluster three
presentations/activities that stick in my mind from the second half of
the conference.

------------------------------------------>

how i got a tail.
By Helen Varley Jamieson.

i've always fancied the idea of a tail, and last night my dream came
true. out with a group of artists on our ponies for a gallery crawl, i
was secretly admiring and coveting the impressive long black swishing
tail of one of our company, nonnatus. after some time i plucked up the
courage to compliment him on his appendage, which it turns out he made
himself, and he generously offered to give me one. i leapt at the
opportunity & promptly attached it to my pelvis. (second) life is so
much more fun with a tail. however it detaches every time i wear my
pony, & when i dismount i have to reattach it, which is pretty annoying...

------------------------------------------>

Do academics actually do anything?
By Aileen Derieg.

Calls for support have been circulating around various related mailing
lists for several weeks now, and I hope that many, many people will sign
the online petitions calling for the suspension of proceedings and the
release of those imprisoned in Germany: open letter.

The charges against Andrej H. are especially outrageous and clearly pose
a threat to the freedom of academic research and political engagement,
and a wave of protests has responded accordingly. I wholeheartedly
support these efforts on the basis of my own political convictions, but
also for personal reasons.

------------------------------------------>

What is the difference between performing arts and performance art in
Second Life?
By Patrick Lichty.

To ask this question, one is actually asking two simultaneous questions.
The first of the two is: "What are the differences between performance
art and the performing arts", and the second being "What is the
difference between performance art in the physical and in Second Life?"
To draw these distictions is to make addressing the issue much more
manageable.

QUESTION 1: The Difference between Performance and Performing
(I will not even bring up the matter of the "performative")
First, the issue of performance art vs. performaing arts. This is
primarily an issue of scope and tradition. Counter to my usual stance, I
really like Wikipedia's blurb on the matter:

""Although performance art could be said to include relatively
mainstream activities such as theater, dance, music, and circus-related
things like fire breathing, juggling, and gymnastics, these are normally
instead known as the performing arts. Performance art is a term usually
reserved to refer to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art
which grew out of the visual arts.

DISCUSSION

Welcome to a new Furtherfield...


Welcome to a new Furtherfield...

www.furtherfield.org

We are pleased to announce a new Furtherfield with the creation, design
and technical development of a dynamic content management system (CMS).
We invite our ever-increasing users, audiences, practitioners, and
digitally, cross and poly-culturally focused explorers to continue with
us in the discovery of viewing, researching and sharing contemporary
media art.

We invite you come and join us:
Create a new user ID by registering either from the front end of the
site or via this link -
http://www.furtherfield.org/register.php

New changes/features to Furtherfield include:

- All reviews/interviews of artists projects are now tagged from the
front page and through the site, so that users can find related
information, either about projects, subjects, artists, groups,
interviews, reviewers, genre etc...

- A more comprehensive and user friendly ID card section which include
users, artists, reviewers & groups.

- An updated 'Public Broadcast' section for visitors/users to add and
promote projects and events.

- Under the 'Public Broadcast' section on the front page we have set up
an area where users can recommend their own favourite reviews, artworks,
interviews featured on Furtherfield for others to view.

- New sections for easy access to view artists/reviewers and
reviews/articles on Furtherfield.

- Updated system so that reviewers are now able to add their own reviews
themselves.

- Updated system so that it is easier for artists and groups to
update/add new work, projects and material to their personal ID cards on
Furtherfield whenever they wish to.

Remember, Furtherfield is still free and everything is accessible and
can be linked from outside of the site itself.

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Furtherfiield Behaviour Statement:

Furtherfield was founded in London in 1996 and is the collaborative work
of artists, programmers, writers, activists, musicians and thinkers who
explore beyond traditional remits; dedicated to the creation, promotion,
and criticism of adventurous digital/networked media art work for public
viewing, experience and interaction. Developing imaginative strategies
in a range of digital & terrestrial media contexts, Furtherfield
develops global, contributory projects that facilitate art activity
simultaneously on the Internet, the streets and public venues.

An artist-led group that utilizes networked media to create, explore,
nurture and promote the art that happens when connections are made and
knowledge is shared - across the boundaries of established art-world
institutions and their markets, grass-roots artistic and activist
projects and communities of socially-engaged software developers. This
is a spectrum that engages from the maverick media-art-makers and small
collectives of cross-specialist practitioners, to projects that critique
and change dominant hierarchical structures as part of their art process.

more about us here:
http://www.furtherfield.org/about.php

DISCUSSION

The Spirit of Furtherfield.


The Spirit of Furtherfield.

we know that many have explored their focus into media art and connected
creativity via an academic route, but we do not believe that much of
this dynamic creativity that we all experience comes from an influence
of official education alone. In fact, we ourselves are influenced by a
varied amount of diverse energetic music just as much as theories, art
and technology.

Over the last few weeks I have been collecting 'youtube' links to videos
of some of the bands that www.furtherfield.org has enjoyed and still
listens to. I have pasted a few of these links below for you to explore...

Also, as a playful retort to our declaration of what influences us in
regard to sound - perhaps you would like to create a separate e-mail
letting others know the noise that inspires you to create :-)

If you do respond - just put 'the spirit of 'your name or group' in the
subject header.

OK - enjoy:-)

aphex twin - come to daddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?vZz_7U0-cK0

my robot friend - 'DEAD'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upTZKGZnA54

The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health
http://www.youtube.com/watch?va7ANIA5Rqs&mode=related&search=

Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator Live 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZt64_XOflk&mode=related&search=

Princess Superstar - Famous : from My Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DOhIZI17Y&mode=related&search=

Sonic Youth-Bull in the heather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4BsnXmJaI&mode=related&search=

Bob Dylan - Masters Of War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muQRIUVd6Aw

Kool Keith/Dr Octagon - Aliens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FluNM036_Qg&mode=related&search=

Bush Tetras - Things That Go Boom In The Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gze5hap2BOI&mode=related&search=

Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-IixtxKETU

Deerhoof - The Perfect Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rrnTDDhVnw&mode=related&search=

Prinzhorn Dance School: "Crackjack Docker"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huLplQFezHk&mode=user&search=

Revl9n - United
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1aq3mxQ-w0&mode=related&search=

PLASTICS - COPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mFipU8PW4g

Simone White - Why is your raincoat always crying?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJY_cAarqUU

Gina X performance - No GDM 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN-0FjVu4yA&mode=related&search=

Tuxedomoon - Desire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUfqXrUBnNg&mode=related&search=

LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Crass Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz5b0LXcUEk&mode=related&search=

Kool Keith - Livin' Astro 1999
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4y9IZqJEhw&mode=related&search=

Gary Numan - Cars & Are Friends Electric ? - BBC 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWwDjZjPhUg&mode=user&search=

SHOX LUMANIA Richard Bone - "Signals"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnQDHKeZ9Nc&mode=related&search=

The Residents - The Act Of Being Polite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maWcmXcgCOk&mode=related&search=

Polysics- I My Me Mine (Strong Machine 2 Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9wSMuCJCkQ

Public Image - Careering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9O2tsIbKD0

Squarepusher - The Exploding Psychology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_ImXLQCO20&mode=related&search=

holger hiller - Ohi Ho Bang Bang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVpzlcUW-8U&mode=related&search=

DAF - Der Raeuber und der Prinz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDQPVXUegPs&mode=related&search=

kraftwerk- autobahn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v\81X6BiI0Y

Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R9_ZLxsmmg&mode=related&search=

The Birthday Party - A Dead Song (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNDx6HGjngk&mode=related&search=

Lene Lovich - Bird Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maucjGIUzzo&mode=related&search=

Kool Keith - "Call the Romans" Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9llTy7_fVk&mode=related&search=

Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty (TV Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJHQmJAiKA&mode=related&search=