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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.
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.
NETWORK HAPPY.
Dates:
Thu Mar 04, 2010 00:00 - Thu Mar 04, 2010
NETWORK HAPPY.
Article By FABRIC MAGAZINE.
ANNIE ABRAHAMS ‘IF NOT YOU NOT ME’ AT HTTP IN LONDON.

Rachel Dainer-Best
Whether it’s finding out too late that your cell phone hasn’t been receiving calls or fretting over whether it’s okay to respond to a Facebook message with a text, we all know that technology makes communication both limitless and painfully complicated. Annie Abrahams is exploring these fragile relations via a series of networked performance pieces in her solo exhibition, If Not You Not Me at the HTTP gallery in London. The show highlights her idea that “communication guided by machines doesn’t go by the same rules, nor uses the same abilities as “normal” communication.”
The central piece of the exhibition is Shared Still Life, a live broadcast between two galleries, HTTP and Kawenga media arts space in Montpellier, France. A still life is set up in each of these galleries and is projected by live broadcast in the other. The interactive exhibit allows visitors to the gallery to rearrange the still life and send messages to visitors at the other location.
FABRIC MAGAZINE offers ready to wear fashion, art openings, beauty advice, new music, models, gossip, hotel reviews, new restaurants and style at FABRIC ...
More from the article:
http://tinyurl.com/yf754sy
‘IF NOT YOU NOT ME’ Exhibition.
http://http.uk.net/
Article By FABRIC MAGAZINE.
ANNIE ABRAHAMS ‘IF NOT YOU NOT ME’ AT HTTP IN LONDON.

Rachel Dainer-Best
Whether it’s finding out too late that your cell phone hasn’t been receiving calls or fretting over whether it’s okay to respond to a Facebook message with a text, we all know that technology makes communication both limitless and painfully complicated. Annie Abrahams is exploring these fragile relations via a series of networked performance pieces in her solo exhibition, If Not You Not Me at the HTTP gallery in London. The show highlights her idea that “communication guided by machines doesn’t go by the same rules, nor uses the same abilities as “normal” communication.”
The central piece of the exhibition is Shared Still Life, a live broadcast between two galleries, HTTP and Kawenga media arts space in Montpellier, France. A still life is set up in each of these galleries and is projected by live broadcast in the other. The interactive exhibit allows visitors to the gallery to rearrange the still life and send messages to visitors at the other location.
FABRIC MAGAZINE offers ready to wear fashion, art openings, beauty advice, new music, models, gossip, hotel reviews, new restaurants and style at FABRIC ...
More from the article:
http://tinyurl.com/yf754sy
‘IF NOT YOU NOT ME’ Exhibition.
http://http.uk.net/
Review of Transmediale.10 - Futurity Now!
Dates:
Tue Mar 02, 2010 00:00 - Tue Mar 02, 2010
Review of Transmediale.10 - Futurity Now!

By Marcello Lussana and Gaia Novati.
The article features artworks, projects and conference highlights from individuals, groups and organisations. Honor Harger, Gebhard Sengmuller, Franz Buchinger, Ryoji Ikeda, Julian Oliver, Damian Stewart, Clara Boj, Diego Diaz, Ken Rinaldo, Michell Teran, Aaron Koblin, Daniel Massey, F.A.T, Warren Neidich, Kahaimzon Michel, Bruce Sterling, I-Wei Li, Steve Lambert Matteo Pasquinelli and more...
This year's Transmediale.10 Festival explores the theme 'future' through connections between arts and technology. A part of the introduction reads "Futurity is a concept that examines what the 'future' as a conditional and creative enterprise can be. At its heart lays the intricate need to counter political and economic turmoil with visionary futures. [...] what roles internet evolution, global network practice, open source methodologies, sustainable design and mobile technology play in forming new cultural, ideological and political templates."
2010 is a year that has often represented the future in Science Fiction literature, such as Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two, and now here we are. A good time to compare how we percieved the future, the past, and assess what is really happening, what we lost and what we have gained, and 'perhaps' find better ways to proceed. Art can offer different perspectives, ways of seeing and understanding, revealing our present states of being, sharing alternatives or even new meanings for our futures. This festival allows those visiting and taking part, an opportunity to explore, negotiate possible avenues in understanding together, what all this means.
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org
HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - 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.
http://www.furthernoise.org

By Marcello Lussana and Gaia Novati.
The article features artworks, projects and conference highlights from individuals, groups and organisations. Honor Harger, Gebhard Sengmuller, Franz Buchinger, Ryoji Ikeda, Julian Oliver, Damian Stewart, Clara Boj, Diego Diaz, Ken Rinaldo, Michell Teran, Aaron Koblin, Daniel Massey, F.A.T, Warren Neidich, Kahaimzon Michel, Bruce Sterling, I-Wei Li, Steve Lambert Matteo Pasquinelli and more...
This year's Transmediale.10 Festival explores the theme 'future' through connections between arts and technology. A part of the introduction reads "Futurity is a concept that examines what the 'future' as a conditional and creative enterprise can be. At its heart lays the intricate need to counter political and economic turmoil with visionary futures. [...] what roles internet evolution, global network practice, open source methodologies, sustainable design and mobile technology play in forming new cultural, ideological and political templates."
2010 is a year that has often represented the future in Science Fiction literature, such as Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two, and now here we are. A good time to compare how we percieved the future, the past, and assess what is really happening, what we lost and what we have gained, and 'perhaps' find better ways to proceed. Art can offer different perspectives, ways of seeing and understanding, revealing our present states of being, sharing alternatives or even new meanings for our futures. This festival allows those visiting and taking part, an opportunity to explore, negotiate possible avenues in understanding together, what all this means.
------------>
Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org
HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - 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.
http://www.furthernoise.org
Digital Pioneers
Dates:
Mon Mar 01, 2010 00:00 - Mon Mar 01, 2010
Digital Pioneers.

Rob Myers reviews the exhibition Digital Pioneers, at the V & A Museum. An overview of the first decades of the computer's history in art and design. including some of the earliest computer-generated works in the V&A's collections, many of which have never been exhibited in the UK before.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=381
Digital Pioneers
Victoria And Albert Museum
7 December 2009 - 25 April 2010.
"The bulk of the art in the show was produced between the 1950s and the 1970s. This means that it was produced or recorded as photographs from cathode ray tubes or as print-outs from teletypes and pen plotters. Some of this work will be familiar to students of the history of art computing through reproductions but as with most art reproductions do not tell the whole story.
Seeing the actual work itself is as important for art made using the paraphernalia of early digital computing as it is for art made with linseed oil and cotton duck. What Digital Pioneers drives home is just how deeply and intentionally involved early computer artists were in manipulating the aesthetically limited but socially and ideologically key technology of computing machinery. This leaves both social art historians and code aesthetes with some explaining to do, or at least some catching up."
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org
HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - 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.
http://www.furthernoise.org

Rob Myers reviews the exhibition Digital Pioneers, at the V & A Museum. An overview of the first decades of the computer's history in art and design. including some of the earliest computer-generated works in the V&A's collections, many of which have never been exhibited in the UK before.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=381
Digital Pioneers
Victoria And Albert Museum
7 December 2009 - 25 April 2010.
"The bulk of the art in the show was produced between the 1950s and the 1970s. This means that it was produced or recorded as photographs from cathode ray tubes or as print-outs from teletypes and pen plotters. Some of this work will be familiar to students of the history of art computing through reproductions but as with most art reproductions do not tell the whole story.
Seeing the actual work itself is as important for art made using the paraphernalia of early digital computing as it is for art made with linseed oil and cotton duck. What Digital Pioneers drives home is just how deeply and intentionally involved early computer artists were in manipulating the aesthetically limited but socially and ideologically key technology of computing machinery. This leaves both social art historians and code aesthetes with some explaining to do, or at least some catching up."
------------>
Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield
Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php
Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org
HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net
Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - 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.
http://www.furthernoise.org
Zero Dollar Laptop Workshops Update...
Dates:
Sat Feb 27, 2010 00:00 - Sat Feb 27, 2010
Week 6. Spraying our stencils!

The Zero Dollar Laptop Project aims to change the way we all think about technology.
Workshops have been running in London since January 2010 with clients of St Mungo’s charity for homeless people. We are recycling hardware, breaking Windows and installing Free and Open Source Software to build media laptops and create music, graphics and video for distribution over the Internet. Participants will leave the project with street-smart technical knowledge and a wireless enabled media laptop, classier than any shiny power-book.
The Zero Dollar Laptop is a recycled computer, running Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is fast and effective- now and long into the future.
Artistic Team: Jake Harries and James Wallbank (Access Space) Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (furtherfield.org)
http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop

The Zero Dollar Laptop Project aims to change the way we all think about technology.
Workshops have been running in London since January 2010 with clients of St Mungo’s charity for homeless people. We are recycling hardware, breaking Windows and installing Free and Open Source Software to build media laptops and create music, graphics and video for distribution over the Internet. Participants will leave the project with street-smart technical knowledge and a wireless enabled media laptop, classier than any shiny power-book.
The Zero Dollar Laptop is a recycled computer, running Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is fast and effective- now and long into the future.
Artistic Team: Jake Harries and James Wallbank (Access Space) Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (furtherfield.org)
http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop
'If not you not me' exhibition by Annie Abrahams - update.
Dates:
Wed Feb 10, 2010 00:00 - Wed Feb 10, 2010

This Friday evening, 6.30-9pm
'If not you not me', an exhibition of networked performance art by Annie Abrahams opens with 3 live performances at HTTP Gallery in London
http://www.http.uk.net/index.shtml
We hope to see you there.
Ruth Catlow has written an essay to accompany the exhibition
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=378
Where social networking sites make us think of communication as clean and transparent, Abrahams creates an Internet of feeling - of agitation, collusion, ardour and apprehension. This exhibition presents three new collaborative works alongside documentation of recent networked performances created and curated by the artist.
Exhibition Details:
If not you not me
by Annie Abrahams
Open 12 February - 20 March 2010
Open Thursday - Saturday, 12-5pm
Private view and performances:
Friday, 12 February 2010, 6.30-9pm
All are welcome to come along this Friday evening, 6.30-9pm
http://www.http.uk.net/index.shtml
How to get to HTTP Gallery
http://www.http.uk.net/index.shtml
About Annie Abrahams
Annie Abrahams was born to a farming family in a rural village in the Netherlands. She obtained a doctorate in biology in 1978 and found that her observations of monkeys inspired curiosity about human interactions. After leaving an academic post, she trained as an artist and moved to France, where she became interested in using computers to construct and document her painting installations. She began experimenting with networked performance and making art for the Internet in the mid 1990s. Her work has since returned to the questions raised by the monkeys, concentrating on the possibilities and limitations of communication on the Internet. She has performed and shown work extensively in France, including at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and in many international galleries including among others Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; and the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan; festivals such as the Moscow Film Festival and the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, and on online platforms such as Rhizome.org and Turbulence.
About HTTP Gallery
HTTP Gallery, near North London's thriving Green Lanes area, is
Furtherfield.org's dedicated space for media art. Furtherfield.org
provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about
experimental practices in art, technology and social change.
Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery are supported by Arts Council England,