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

True to my dreamz


It is exactly those kind of moments in life that encourage me to get up in
the morning and it's got everything to do with sensation but nothing to do
with sensational. It's purely spiritual, not like a religion or a contained
doctrine handed down by institutional monkeys all chasing the same banana.
It's about a sense of being, a sense of place and has everything to do with
nothing and everything at the same time. I am tired of pretending to be
something else, someone else. As I have grown older, discovering the tricks
of the trade, learnt more about surviving and keeping my real identity
separate from others who would not normally understand my personal realness.
I have had to become a spy in a world that as a matter of course denies real
sensuality from the individual, unless it is hidden or sold as a product. I
have redesigned myself, adapted and mutated to my given surroundings yet I
have remained true to my dreams.

DISCUSSION

Capital Games


Capital Games
David Corn

The Bush crew still hasn't uncovered evidence that its prewar
pronouncements about weapons of mass destruction were on (or close to) the
mark. Nor has it been able to explain why the Pentagon did not move
expeditiously during and after the war to secure suspected WMD sites.

Still, as David Corn explains in a new edition of Capital Games, Bush has
not had to answer the tough questions regarding WMD, largely because polls
show that most Americans aren't particularly concerned that the
Administration seems to have lied about what it knew regarding Hussein's
weapons stores.

But the current chaos in Iraq may be a different matter. Last week,
Democratic and Republican senators finally began criticizing the Bush
Administration's handling of the postwar situation. The complaints have
hardly reached a crescendo. But there are stirrings.

For more, see "Bush's Postwar Iraq Causing Cracks" by David Corn:
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pidp1

DISCUSSION

Re: NYTimes.com Article: Stating the Obvious


Yes, it is a pretty worrying situation.

In relation to Net Art based in America, if people do not hurry up & start
collectively helping each other out(whatever cv, background or school of
thought), you are all gonna be in deep shit. Well, not those who are forging
secret career shifts accordingly, but everyone else should get their skates
on before it is too damn late and join forces...

marc

> This article from NYTimes.com
> has been sent to you by twhid@mteww.com.
>
>
> if you live in the US you might want to read Krugman. His columns along
with dystopia fantasies such as 'Oryx and Crake' are starting to make me
scared as hell.
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> twhid@mteww.com
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>
> Stating the Obvious
>
> May 27, 2003
> By PAUL KRUGMAN
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "The lunatics are now in charge of the asylum." So wrote
> the normally staid Financial Times, traditionally the voice
> of solid British business opinion, when surveying last
> week's tax bill. Indeed, the legislation is doubly absurd:
> the gimmicks used to make an $800-billion-plus tax cut
> carry an official price tag of only $320 billion are a
> joke, yet the cost without the gimmicks is so large that
> the nation can't possibly afford it while keeping its other
> promises.
>
> But then maybe that's the point. The Financial Times
> suggests that "more extreme Republicans" actually want a
> fiscal train wreck: "Proposing to slash federal spending,
> particularly on social programs, is a tricky electoral
> proposition, but a fiscal crisis offers the tantalizing
> prospect of forcing such cuts through the back door."
>
> Good for The Financial Times. It seems that stating the
> obvious has now, finally, become respectable.
>
> It's no secret that right-wing ideologues want to abolish
> programs Americans take for granted. But not long ago, to
> suggest that the Bush administration's policies might
> actually be driven by those ideologues - that the
> administration was deliberately setting the country up for
> a fiscal crisis in which popular social programs could be
> sharply cut - was to be accused of spouting conspiracy
> theories.
>
> Yet by pushing through another huge tax cut in the face of
> record deficits, the administration clearly demonstrates
> either that it is completely feckless, or that it actually
> wants a fiscal crisis. (Or maybe both.)
>
> Here's one way to look at the situation: Although you
> wouldn't know it from the rhetoric, federal taxes are
> already historically low as a share of G.D.P. Once the new
> round of cuts takes effect, federal taxes will be lower
> than their average during the Eisenhower administration.
> How, then, can the government pay for Medicare and Medicaid
> - which didn't exist in the 1950's - and Social Security,
> which will become far more expensive as the population
> ages? (Defense spending has fallen compared with the
> economy, but not that much, and it's on the rise again.)
>
> The answer is that it can't. The government can borrow to
> make up the difference as long as investors remain in
> denial, unable to believe that the world's only superpower
> is turning into a banana republic. But at some point bond
> markets will balk - they won't lend money to a government,
> even that of the United States, if that government's debt
> is growing faster than its revenues and there is no
> plausible story about how the budget will eventually come
> under control.
>
> At that point, either taxes will go up again, or programs
> that have become fundamental to the American way of life
> will be gutted. We can be sure that the right will do
> whatever it takes to preserve the Bush tax cuts - right now
> the administration is even skimping on homeland security to
> save a few dollars here and there. But balancing the books
> without tax increases will require deep cuts where the
> money is: that is, in Medicaid, Medicare and Social
> Security.
>
> The pain of these benefit cuts will fall on the middle
> class and the poor, while the tax cuts overwhelmingly favor
> the rich. For example, the tax cut passed last week will
> raise the after-tax income of most people by less than 1
> percent - not nearly enough to compensate them for the loss
> of benefits. But people with incomes over $1 million per
> year will, on average, see their after-tax income rise 4.4
> percent.
>
> The Financial Times suggests this is deliberate (and I
> agree): "For them," it says of those extreme Republicans,
> "undermining the multilateral international order is not
> enough; long-held views on income distribution also require
> radical revision."
>
> How can this be happening? Most people, even most liberals,
> are complacent. They don't realize how dire the fiscal
> outlook really is, and they don't read what the ideologues
> write. They imagine that the Bush administration, like the
> Reagan administration, will modify our system only at the
> edges, that it won't destroy the social safety net built up
> over the past 70 years.
>
> But the people now running America aren't conservatives:
> they're radicals who want to do away with the social and
> economic system we have, and the fiscal crisis they are
> concocting may give them the excuse they need. The
> Financial Times, it seems, now understands what's going on,
> but when will the public wake up?
>
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/opinion/27KRUG.html?ex55062423&ei=1&en=
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OPPORTUNITY

Furtherfield Networking Party


Deadline:
Tue May 27, 2003 10:53

You are invited to attend the Furtherfield Networking Party

Saturday 14th June, 3 o'clock till late.
Deluxe Gallery
1st Floor 2-4 Hoxton Square,
London N1 6NU

The Furtherfield Networking Party is an informal annual event in which
artists, thinkers, techies, entrepreneurs, transgressive types, scientists,
musicians, performers, curators and critics are invited to bring along
documentation of any current projects. Everyone gets to talk about something
they are really involved in, opening up potential for individuals and groups
to collaborate and realise each other on their own terms.

Speakers For this year's event we have invited 5 speakers to give short
presentations and answer questions about their current projects. We are very
pleased to introduce:-

Mac Dunlop from Here Nor There
Kate Southworth from Glorius Ninth
Karla Ptacek from Avatar Body Collision
Luci Eyers from Lo-Fi
Tom Corby from Corby and Baily

Please visit http://www.furtherfield.org/networking/ for details and times
of the talks.

Other Guests:-
A long table will accommodate guests' CD Roms, discs, sketchbooks, brain-
scanners, mathematical formulas etc. There will be an Internet connection,
data/video projectors, computers and monitors on which to view work.
Oh yes, and there will be a bar!

Yes, we expect people to mingle - there are no rules except that all guests
must be involved with a creative project and bring with them current
documentation.

If you would like to come along to the Furtherfield Networking Party, please
rsvp to info@furtherfield.org.

http://www.furtherfield.org


DISCUSSION

Giving Good War


Giving Good War
By Tom Engelhardt

Can't you feel the war already slipping away, just like Saddam Hussein or
Mullah Omar or Osama Bin Laden? How briefly triumphal it was, the Iraqis
falling before our forces, our tanks heading north, our missiles hitting
home, much of it in real time on our own private screens. There was the
heroic rescue of Jessica Lynch, the toppling of Saddam's statue, our
generals grinning behind that marble table in one of Saddam's palaces. How
victorious we were - and then came the looting and shooting, the feckless
first occupation administration, the gas lines, the angry Shiites, and the
missing weapons of mass destruction. The embedded reporters departed for who
knows where; the cameras turned away; bombs began going off in Riyadh and
Casablanca and Jerusalem, and husbands were murdering wives and wives
killing their babies right here in the USA.

For almost thirty years the Pentagon has worked its tail off organizing the
media to give us good war, the sort of "Good War" the "greatest generation"
gave us on-screen year after year, film after film; the sort of good war
American-style that George W, and Don R, and Paul W, and I once, in our
distant childhoods, sat in the dark and thrilled to, as American children
had long thrilled to American images of triumph and victory. It's funny,
back then on-screen it seemed so easy. It seemed like it would never go
away.

http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pidi8