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

Re: Question?


Hi LIza,

You did not answer the question its self but you certainly opened it up to
excellent other ideas - with a genuine response which has triggered off some
fresh cranium shifts, answering many other issues that we are in the motions
of trying to sort out - which is pretty cool...

How much do you charge for such a quality consultation?

You've cheered me up Liza, an excellent email, much thanx :-)

marc

>
> Hi Marc,
>
> I say, make your organization less browser dependent and, in that same
> vein, more interactive outside of the browser. Meaning, WAP, RSS, PDA
> friendly. Make it easy for people to trackback, ping, linkback (or
> whatever it is you want to call it) your content. Make it easy for
> others to create a web of context around your site. Will it create more
> hassles like comment-spam? Absolutely, that may well be the case. But
> the internet is not just about content, it's about people and the only
> way you're going to get people to commit to your message is by engaging
> them in a dialogue. And just getting them into your site is not enough.
>
> The web browser does not scale. With an aggregator, I can scan more
> than 300 sites on a daily basis. Back in the old days, I could view
> most of the web on a week (1995). You've just gotta make it easier for
> people to get to furtherfield. I mean, I rarely go to Rhizome's front
> door --because I have no incentive to do so. On the other hand, with
> Rhizome Raw, even if it does not have the activity of its hey-day it is
> still the most interesting thing Rhizome has to offer because it is
> Rhizome's social space. If I could have it on my aggregator, it would
> make me even happier.
>
> Furtherfield is a fabulous site with a lot of interesting stuff to look
> at --but I have to go to your front door to know what's new. I'm sorry
> but the ease of looking at more than 300 sites in under an hour will
> kick out any non-syndicated sites from my "Must See" list. And, no, RSS
> is not just a geek thing. MyYahoo! just introduced an RSS module to
> their services. They made email ubiquitous, I am sure that they'll do
> the same with RSS.
>
> So the moral of the story is: Make it easy for your potential audience
> to get to your content in as many ways as possible. I mean, your site
> is supported by the BBC. Make sure you check their web-dev process. I
> read their specs were floating somewhere on Kazaa.
>
> Best,
>
> l i z a
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> www.culturekitchen.com
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DISCUSSION

Question?


Question?

So as the mapping of Internet creativity continues are the more independent
groups going to be ignored due to nationalist preferences and institutional
gate-keeping?

If this is the case how do we change this?

marc

DISCUSSION

Discuss Net art & New Media on Furtherfield.


Discuss Net art & New Media on Furtherfield.

Furtherfield is pleased to announce its new discussion facility; a
functional accessible community forum that is simple to use.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displaydiscussions.php

Discuss the work reviewed and featured on Furtherfield and debate with other
members of the Furtherfield community about themes and concepts related to
Net Art and New Media.

Anyone can join in and take part in this forum, it costs nothing. All you
need to do is register.
http://www.furtherfield.org/register.php

Join in and be part of a fresh net-based community together now!

http://www.furtherfield.org

DISCUSSION

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New work & reviews on Furtherfield - Jan 2004


New work & reviews on Furtherfield - Jan 2004
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FurtherStudio - Welcomes Rich White.
View from the ground floor - Jess Loseby. Review by Marc Garrett.
multiAMAZE - Andy Forbes. Review by Ruth Catlow.
Plug & Pray - Holy Soft. Review by Marc Garrett.
Tandem Surfing the Third Wave - OnRamp Arts. Interview by FurtherCritic Ryan
Griffis.
Opensource, digital arts publishing - Ars Publica. Review by Garrett Lynch -
Net Art Review.
VideoHomeTraining - Live at Trondheim Matchmaking. Review by Marc Garrett.

http://www.furtherfield.org recent works & reviews can be accessed via front
page.

FurtherStudio - Rich White.
Furtherfield welcomes Rich White to FurtherStudio the current online
real-time resident. View him working from his desktop, live. From you the
Internet user Rich requires snippets of Javascript, HTML, Action-script -
any code that does something interesting or unusual that can be used without
need of a compiler. For this 'readymade' net.art project, the artist will
attempt to use scripts sent in to create new artworks live online. So join
in and send in your coded odds & ends to be transmuted now.

Visit http://www.furtherstudio.org for more info & send direct to
richwhite@furtherstudio.org

Views from the ground floor - Jess Loseby.
With her recent project, Views from the ground floor, Jess Loseby's
digital-based, net.art and new media practice has taken a evolutionary leap
forward from her smaller net based artworks, into a larger production of
interactive net.film. This ambitious experiment fully incorporates layered
slices of text, audio and visual composites, each declaring independent
dialogues in their own right. When stitched together, this series of flash
and html pages, amalgamate into a closely woven multi-narrative tapestry of
consecutive pieces. Review by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idy

multiAMAZE - Andy Forbes.
Negotiating the audio device selection process I set my Dr Octagon CD
playing, chose a colour, and entered multiAMAZE. Here I sat, with an
insect-bum's eye view of an elegantly animated, flying insect reminiscent of
the MAVs (Micro Air Vehicles) I'd just seen scarily represented in the
'Future Space' at Birmingham's museum of science and discovery, Think Tank
in the UK. Putting dark thoughts of surveillance swarms of spy flies behind
me, I buzzed gaily around, using the arrows on my keyboard to navigate,
dodging and diving through the jittering palm leaves and the shattered
planes. Review by Ruth Catlow.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idu

Plug & Pray - Holy Soft.
In the guise of a business corporation, 'Holy Soft' sell us the Internet
user, packaged faiths in Plug & Pray, an imaginative play on 'choose your
religion, choose your politics'. The web site itself is well designed,
presented with an accurate and meticulous verve. If you were to take the
time to observe official software-selling sites on the Internet you'd notice
the blanketing of dubious commercial presentations with sober identities
that Plug & Pray have consciously mimicked. It seems authentic at first
glance, (almost) believable. Review by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idt

Resident FurtherCritic Ryan Griffis.
Tandem Surfing the Third Wave - OnRamp Arts.
An edited transcript of a phone conversation between Ryan Griffis and OnRamp
Arts co-founder Jessica Irish on OnRamp's past, present and future, the
relationship between technology and education, and her move from LA to
Boston. Recorded on June 4, 2003.
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id

Opensource- digital arts publishing - Ars Publica.
Through a no-restrictions policy, regardless of where the content originated
or what language is used, their "policy is to support collaboration,
community, transparency and immediacy in the arts: net art, media art,
correspondence/mail art, network art, context art, or other otherness and
marginal artifactualizations." The server space embraces art work and its
byproducts in all shapes and forms, functioning and non-functioning; in
fact, it revels in the successes, changes and even failures of the
combinations of art and technology, documenting work as it is, in an almost
dadaesque manner. Review by Garrett Lynch - Net Art Review.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idw

VideoHomeTraining - Live at TEK's 'Trondheim Matchmaking' conference,
Norway.

Marieke and Gijs, up on the screen as animated super 2d fantasy heroes,
video game avatars, using high-end vector FX. The whole show was controlled
live on stage via their physical selves, from their lab-tops, incorporating
a funky mix of noisy sound samples with cut up animations. The epic series
featuring iconic game characters such as Transformers and Lara Croft forged
an immediate connection born of deep familiarity with the audience. They
fought against dark forces in the form of various aliens, spaceships and
dangerous clones of bikini-clad women. Their performance reminded me of the
1982 Disney movie 'Tron' written and directed by Steven Lisberger. Like Tron
caught up in virtual landscapes, these electric warriors possess heroic
superhuman strength. Review by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idx

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