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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Re: We Interrupt This Art...


Thanx Daniel,

Will do - already had a look at this site, and its kool.

marc

> I have violated the artistic purity of my precious NewZoid to insert
messages on the site against war with Iraq. In them I recommend signing the
anti-war statement found on http://www.moveon.org. A nice feature of that
well-written statement allows you to add your personal comments to it.
>
> I respectfully suggest that other artists may find it appropriate to
temporarily interrupt their artworks to make their views known.
>
> Daniel Young
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Europe urges restraint, but Bush knows best


Europe urges restraint, but Bush knows best
By Eric Margolis
Contributing Foreign Editor
The Toronto Sun
January 26, 2003

Time's European edition asked its readers what nation posed the greatest
threat to world peace. Of the 268,000 respondents (as of this writing), 7.8%
replied North Korea, 8.9% named Iraq and a shocking 83.3% said the United
States. Good work, President Bush.

The Time poll mirrors feeling around the globe, with the exceptions of
Israel and Britain. American neo-conservatives, however, will dismiss this
poll as just another example of European wimpiness, irrelevance and
anti-American prejudice. So will George Bush and his hawkish entourage, who
have made it plain they don't care what the rest of the world thinks so long
as America and Israel get their way.

http://www.canoe.ca/Columnists/margolis_jan26.html

DISCUSSION

Re: We Interrupt This Art...


We've put a link to stop the war on the front of our site...I suggest anyone
who is bothered does the same...

marc

> good idea Daniel.
> I've done the same -I suggest we Brits link to
> http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
> which is the Coalition's site - they're organising the
> 15th February demo which promises to be huge.
> best
> Michael
>
> --- "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>
> wrote:
> > Thanx Daniel,
> >
> > Will do - already had a look at this site, and its
> > kool.
> >
> > marc
> >
> >
> > > I have violated the artistic purity of my precious
> > NewZoid to insert
> > messages on the site against war with Iraq. In them
> > I recommend signing the
> > anti-war statement found on http://www.moveon.org. A
> > nice feature of that
> > well-written statement allows you to add your
> > personal comments to it.
> > >
> > > I respectfully suggest that other artists may find
> > it appropriate to
> > temporarily interrupt their artworks to make their
> > views known.
> > >
> > > Daniel Young
> > > + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> > > -> post: list@rhizome.org
> > > -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> > > -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
> > http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
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> > > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms
> > set out in the
> > > Membership Agreement available online at
> > http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> > -> post: list@rhizome.org
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DISCUSSION

gravity


gravity http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/gravity.htm

it has weight

no sound

it festers

on our clinging years

teezing, whispering

until we meet the ground

the messages are clear written on our bodies

inscribed by time's ever

too keen ball point

on our bodies

smiles and old faces are the traces

of the inevitable

we have called gravity

what once stood up must slump down

the human freight
can you feel its weight
as we wait for the

"
"
"
"
"
"
drop
our

time

verses gravity's

a collective reality

a universal dead beat rhyme

buildings crumble, decay

we do decay

we have no say

no say

and no way of changing

delaying

the pace of the gradual decline into the sublime

years are increasingly

subtracted

as we subside

to the

pull of gravity

activity decreases

movement becomes pivoted

polarized centralized marginalized

downwards
down.
.
.
.

we meet the core

of gravity

we fall closer

to the ground

we get closer to the sod

bloody sod

......gravity....

DISCUSSION

dreams/desire-reality


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