marc garrett
Since the beginning
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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EVENT

Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom. Alternative Knowledge Part 4.


Dates:
Tue Jul 27, 2010 00:00 - Tue Jul 27, 2010

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Articles by Ellie Harrison

From September 2008 - June 2010, Ellie Harrison undertook a Leverhulme Scholarship on the Master of Fine Art programme at Glasgow School of Art. The thesis published forms one of the major outcomes of her research during this period. This is part one of four weekly articles to be published on Furtherfield.

How Can We Continue Making Art? - which questions whether there is a place for art in a world which is fast approaching environmental catastrophe, and Altermoderism: The Age of Stupid (http://tinyurl.com/32a3wr7) published on Furtherfield (26/8/09) - which uses Nicolas Bourriaud's Altermodern exhibition at Tate Britain in 2009 as a paradigm for exploring the art world institution's lack of acknowledgement and action over climate change.

Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom, addresses the ethical implications of continuing to choose the career of artist in the twenty-first century. It is a manifesto of sorts, written from the personal perspective of a young UK-based artist looking to identify worthwhile reasons for continuing down this 'self-interested' path, given that the future we are likely to face as a result of climate change, is so different from how we dreamt our careers might pan out whilst growing up under Thatcher and New Labour. It explores how we should aim to evolve our roles as artists, in light of this, and what form a new 'reconciled practice' might take.

Part 1. Setting the Scene.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=393
Part 2. A Rude Awakening.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=394
Part 3. Plan of Action.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=395

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Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

We are on identi.ca & Twitter

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
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


DISCUSSION

Cyber Sex Sensation


Hi Diletta,

The approach of the song is kind of a Ballardian perspective. Because, most of humanity feels the need to hand over self-control to others, feeling more emotionally secure in regard to technology, religion and state-politics, especially neoliberalism now - I chose technology as an ideology, a subject of inner impulses and universal desires. Whether they concern people in respect of conforming to corporate desire through being a product themselves, such as being part of the new 'consumer class', or with older forms of cultural dominance. But there is also s play on the trad-freud thang, of sexual desire underpinning the psychological relationship 'as' mother and father, which is the INTERNET.

thanks for your question :-)

marc

----here are the original words.

I will no longer have to touch the key board to tap out my agendas and personal vendettas
and what's more I will no longer need a screen to dream

I will no longer need physical space once I have jumped into the immaterial once I have emerged
into that transcendental mental state of dreamlike synthesis of

sub
sub
sub.............conscious desire

digital desire will supersede visceral need flesh will be obsolete and without a comp I will feel incomplete

sex games via Microsoft sega and the rest designed scenarios made for my pleasure with luscious effects

to astound

tap
tap
tapping into the profound with sense surround

new toys for us little boys & girls to act out our lack will flood the market

companies will dictate our actions via interactive means - schemes

to cum
into the
sublime
engulfed
by the other
which is
seemingly
universal
blinded by
the compliance
that science gives
complicity
will be...

...second nature

displaced bodies will become
antibodies
anti visceral
anti physical

afraid of emotional
truth's within
clouding the membrane
with non-brain solutions
with the appliance of science
and all what it feeds and
when I lie back
after the experience
of digital sensation
contemplation of the orgasm
the word love
would of somehow
of escaped my thought's stream....

DISCUSSION

Cyber Sex Sensation


Cyber Sex Sensation

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to cum into the sublime
engulfed by the other
which is seemingly universal
blinded by the compliance

displaced bodies will
become anti-bodies
anti-physical and
anti-visceral

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

or download track from here...
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/musik/cyber_sex_sensation.mp3

EVENT

The Status Project: Data-Mining Our Identities.


Dates:
Thu Jul 22, 2010 00:00 - Thu Jul 22, 2010

The Status Project: Data-Mining Our Identities.

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An Interview with Heath Bunting - Part 1.


In this two part interview, Marc Garrett discusses with Heath Bunting his current work within two distinctive areas of digital culture and sport-art starting with The Status Project, which studies the construction of our 'official identities' and creates what Bunting describes as "...an expert system for identity mutation".

His research explores how information supplied by the public in their interaction with organisations and institutions is logged. The project draws on his direct encounters with specific database collection processes and the information he was obliged to supply in his life as a public citizen, in order to access specific services; also on data collected from the Internet and from information found on governmental databases. This data is then used to map and illustrate how we behave, relate, choose things, travel and move around in social spaces. The project surveys individuals on a local, national and international level producing maps of influence and personal portraits for both comprehension and social mobility.

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Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...


We are on identi.ca & Twitter

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
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

Join Furtherfield.org on Resonance 104.4FM - weekly Broadcasts
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

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


DISCUSSION

Stop the Victimisation of Ricardo Dominguez


I want Rhizome, which I love dearly & perhaps too sentimentally, to do the right thing... "

Too late...