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

Pox: Save the People. An interview with Mary Flanagan.


Pox: Save the People. An interview with Mary Flanagan.

Emilie Giles interviews artist Mary Flanagan about Tiltfactor's latest social game, Pox: Save the People. A new board game challenging 1-4 players to stop the spread of a deadly disease. The Tiltfactor Laboratory is a conceptual design lab that researches, designs, launches, and publishes games and interactive experiences related to technology and human values.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/pox-save-people-interview-mary-flanagan

DISCUSSION

Face-to-facebook: Disrupting Monopolism.


Face-to-facebook: Disrupting Monopolism.

Reviewed by Elin Ahlberg

Elin Ahlberg reviews 'Face to facebook' by Italian artists Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico. It was the Final project of a series of three called 'Tha Hacking Monopolism Triology'. The 'Face to facebook' project was to steal 1 million facebook profiles and re-contextualize them on a custom made dating website (lovely-faces.com).

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/face-facebook-disrupting-monopolism

DISCUSSION

Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art


Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art

This is a collection of artworks, texts and resources about
freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet. Freedom to
collaborate – to use, modify and redistribute ideas, artworks,
experiences, media and tools. Openness to the ideas and contributions of
others, and new ways of organising and making decisions together. This
non exhaustive collection is intended to inspire, inform and enable
people to apply peer-to-peer principles for making things and getting
organised together. We hope that all art lovers, makers, thinkers,
organisers and strategists will find something for them from this set of
imaginative, communitarian and dynamic contemporary practices.

http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art

DISCUSSION

Pox: Save the People. An interview with Mary Flanagan


Pox: Save the People. An interview with Mary Flanagan.

Emilie Giles interviews artist Mary Flanagan about Tiltfactor's latest social game, Pox: Save the People. A new board game challenging 1-4 players to stop the spread of a deadly disease. The Tiltfactor Laboratory is a conceptual design lab that researches, designs, launches, and publishes games and interactive experiences related to technology and human values.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/pox-save-people-interview-mary-flanagan

DISCUSSION

Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art.


A collection of artworks, texts and resources about freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet. Freedom to collaborate – to use, modify and redistribute ideas, artworks, experiences, media and tools. Openness to the ideas and contributions of others, and new ways of organising and making decisions together.



This non exhaustive collection is intended to inspire, inform and enable people to apply peer-to-peer principles for making things and getting organised together. We hope that all art lovers, makers, thinkers, organisers and strategists will find something for them from this set of imaginative, communitarian and dynamic contemporary practices.



Curated by Furtherfield: Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett with additional texts by Charlotte Frost and Rob Myers.



Can be found at the the Foundation for P2P Alternatives


http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art

And at ACE/Thinking Digital


http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/about-us/digital-innovation-development/thinking-digital/collaboration-and-freedom/

Commissioned by Arts Council England for Thinking Digital.
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/about-us/digital-innovation-development/thinking-digital/>

It will also be presented at the FLOSSIE (Women in FLOSS) conference in November 15th. London.


http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=189