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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DISCUSSION

Social Cities of Tomorrow


Social Cities of Tomorrow

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On Feb. 17th Amsterdam hosted Social Cities of Tomorrow, a conference on new media and urbanism. Adapting its title from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of Tomorrow, but taking equal inspiration from the work of Archigram, the conference presented a snapshot of the direction cities are moving today: as conventional means of planning and designing are renegotiated through our engagement with new media technologies. Review by Lawrence Bird

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/social-cities-tomorrow

DISCUSSION

Reviews of the 25th edition of transmediale (2012), and its theme 'In/compatible'.


transmediale 2k+12, in/compatible

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Marialaura Ghidini reviews a range of events, projects, artworks and speeches featured in the 25th edition of transmediale (2012). The theme - in/compatible - explored the current worldwide proclamations of crisis: political, financial, technological and environmental. Marialaura found everything was connected...

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/transmediale-2k12-incompatible

Marialaura Ghidini is a curator, researcher, founder and director of the web-based curatorial platform or-bits.com (http://www.or-bits.com), a project devoted to promoting practices and dialogues across and beyond media and exploring the creative and critical possibilities of the web as a language, medium and subject. She is co-curator at Grand Union, an artist-led project space and studios in Birmingham, for which she has organised the residency programme 'Search Engine' and a series of collaborative exhibitions and sound performances.

Marialaura is currently a PhD researcher on an AHRC studentship with CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss) at the University of Sunderland, researching in the field of online curating with a specific interest in the theory and practice of artistic and curatorial work operating between the online and offline dimensions.

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Other Info:

Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network
http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997

Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space:
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery

About Furtherfield:
http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

DISCUSSION

Lawrence Weiner Erasure


Lawrence Weiner Erasure.

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How can you erase a work of Conceptual Art, and what does it mean to try? Armed only with a biro and a sketchpad, Michael Szpakowski takes us on a critical journey into one of Western art's most radical movements with a mash-up of the ideas of Lawrence Weiner and Robert Rauschenberg.

Michael Szpakowski's "Lawrence Weiner Erasure", 2012, presents itself as an erasure of Lawrence Weiner's "A RUBBER BALL THROWN ON THE SEA", 1969. It takes the form of a handwritten text on a drawing pad accompanied by the ballpoint pen used to write it and an edition of framed photographs of them.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/lawrence-weiner-erasure

Michael Szpakowski is an artist, composer & writer. His music has been performed all over the UK, in Russia & the USA. He has exhibited work in galleries in the UK, mainland Europe & the USA. His short films have been shown throughout the world. He is composer & video artist for Tell Tale Hearts Theatre Company & a joint editor of the online video resource DVblog (http://dvblog.org). http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/

Rob Myers is an artist, writer and hacker based in the UK. During the 1990s was an art student, then an art & technology student, then an art & technology lecturer, and a dot.com worker. In the 2000s he programmed games, prepress software and more, and then got involved in Free Software and Free Culture. He has been a reviewer for Furtherfield since 2006. Reviewing computer art, net.art, and books, trying to bring a historical context and a sympathetic eye to them. http://robmyers.org/

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Other Info:

Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network
http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997

Also - Furtherfield Gallery& Social Space:
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery

About Furtherfield:
http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

DISCUSSION

The small person in front of the flashing billboards


The small person in front of the flashing billboards. By Jasna Frangovska

How many New Years can a world survive before it crashes into a recession? Jasna Frangovska interviews Senka Anastasova - Dr of Philosophy from the Sts. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje - about the strange feeling of the New Year under the dark shadow of the economic crash. Senka argues these glamorous holidays are paradigmatic of the consumer society we all live in – culturally, economically and politically.

www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/small-person-front-flashing-billboards

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Other Info:

Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network
http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997

Also - Furtherfield Gallery & Social Space:
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery

About Furtherfield:
http://www.furtherfield.org/content/about

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

DISCUSSION

The Last Collaboration By Edward Picot


The Last Collaboration By Edward Picot

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"The United States loses more American lives to patient safety incidents every six months than it did in the entire Vietnam War." Edward Picot introduces The Last Collaboration an art documentary book by artists and poets Martha Deed and Millie Niss.

This work is a construction of Millie’s hospital experiences in the last hospital she ever visited. The story is told through Millie’s notes, emails, the daily diary she sent home, her posts on her Sporkworld blog, her mother’s log, and Millie’s medical records.

These primary, often raw, documents are framed with medical notes and clinical guidelines as well as the outcomes of two NYS Department of Health investigations of Millie’s care.

Millie wanted her story told. She wanted an autopsy performed if she died. Because of the autopsy, we have the story.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/last-collaboration