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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.
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.
Re: Re: RHIZOME_RARE: The Race for War
Hi there Are,
> Briefly in the sense that brevity is always a nice excuse for
incompleteness
> and imperfection.
Very true...
I hear you on the "man," in every sense, but I tried to
> bypass such familiar rants in the first paragraph. (I vaguely recall
though
> a coalition of female agricultural ministers in the EU once tabling their
> own resolution and unlocking a longstanding impasse. I forget the actual
> subject, but remember that it was something along the lines of profits vs.
> basic health concerns.)
Regarding this, I feel that mutualist intervention is a more positive role
for all concerned rather than females forming their own clique's, thus
forgetting lower class and race initiatives that need fostering in a global
sense. The traditional, singular way around issues by forming groups that
are one dimensional is not a positive and productive solution. It causes
bitterness and rivalry between outsiders, 'replacement' of patriarchal
mannerisms by women and men within the groups themselves. Example: If
hamsters feel left out of the equation, befriend the mouse who has links
within groups and focus on multi-relational connections that can be worked
with and improved, rather than the negativities alone. Thus moving from
giving 'power' to the void and desire of want which as we all know distorts,
create paltforms that nurcher the potential of equal facilitiation, not
masculine or feminine, outmoded singular concepts that emotionally entrap us
a small entities, thus commodifiable pulp. We, within are not one, but part
of many, micro to macro.
No doubt many people feel betrayed by their
> governments. (Are you not responsible for the war? If you voted in the
last
> election, I bet you voted Labor and not Tory, Marc.)
This is too easy, the context of 97 as many know, is that in the UK at that
time had a corrupt Conservstive government who ripped into the soul of our
culture and actively ruined people's lives, mainly the lower classes,
individuals and communities of all races, unless they were rich or supported
insitutionally. Then the middle class suddenly started getting hit and
wanted something new also, which was termed as the 'third way'. I have
always felt betrayed by governments, and many times refused to vote because
I personally feel that the voting system of being offered (mostly) 12 times
in a lifetime to change the environment that we exist in was not enough; 12
x's. And that they rarely reflect the feelings of the people genuinely,
whatever government. Also, representation of just a few parties, and not
many other electable groups is not that savoury either. I do not believe in
governments, it is a nationalist and sectarian non solution, to issues that
governmental 'administrative' bozo's realy on to fool the electorate that
things will change for the better, a delusory and cruel lie.
But to blame people who voted 'New Labour' in for the current War is a bit
lacking in respect of contextual realism. Cause and effect and political
shifts globally via corporate intentions have paved the way in which
governments act; is more the reason and people wishing for a better life,
falling for myth making of 'Democracy'. No I did not vote, although
sometimes I do pretend I did, whenever sending political letters to mp's.
What's your winning choice in a scenario (the one I tried to outline)
> where _everyone_ (bar your "representation" perhaps) is a miserable loser
in
> some way? It is obviously not just a question of YES or NO to this war
> anymore.
This is most definately the crux of it all. In a sense I view that everyone
is a loser, whether one is part of an American company, rubbing their pink
little hands together looking forward to potential business in Iraq after
the invasion (and it is no coincidence that only American companies are
aloud franchises). They lose because of love for 'faustian' excessiveness,
and loss of respect, within their emotional rtealizations and future guilt.
The families who will be maimed and killed by the American and Uk military,
via Spanish support. More lives wrecked by imperial, structuralist
intentions.
Humanity as whole will enter an era when anything goes regarding civilians
being demolished, pushed aside by 'losers in integrity' but winners of
masculine ignorance.
How to resolve such actions that actively dehumanize people for such
small-minded reasons as 'pocket money' and power?
Form new groups that work by alternative systems that do not rely on
commodities alone to inform their life habits. Multi-relational connections
that virtually and physically spuersede such emptiness. Start meeting and
bringing about change by creating new (possibly tribal) communities that are
self reliant - big enough to sustain indpendence, and valuable enough not to
be shunned by the jealous 'industrial dream workers' who wish to continue
living by the old rules of delusional politics and state run patronization.
Drink their wine - but love and build your own prgressive community.
much respect - marc
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.furthernoise.org
http://www.dido.uk.net
We Can Make Our Own World.
> Re: 3/10/03 22:06, "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>:
>
> > Briefly?
>
> Briefly in the sense that brevity is always a nice excuse for
incompleteness
> and imperfection. I hear you on the "man," in every sense, but I tried to
> bypass such familiar rants in the first paragraph. (I vaguely recall
though
> a coalition of female agricultural ministers in the EU once tabling their
> own resolution and unlocking a longstanding impasse. I forget the actual
> subject, but remember that it was something along the lines of profits vs.
> basic health concerns.) No doubt many people feel betrayed by their
> governments. (Are you not responsible for the war? If you voted in the
last
> election, I bet you voted Labor and not Tory, Marc.) The question is how
> this can, via gathering arguments and not personal gripe, be channeled
into
> the political systems we are supposedly a part of -- democracy. In the
> States you constantly hear that the onset of war will simplistically bring
> people in line with the administration; nothing less amounts to treason.
But
> every deeply troublesome political decision from the last couple of years
> has been prefaced with the subtext of "being at war." OK, let's talk about
> the "war" then and its consequences not just for other people, like the
> Iraqis, but also for people under the racist rubrics of "us" in the US and
> UK. What's your winning choice in a scenario (the one I tried to outline)
> where _everyone_ (bar your "representation" perhaps) is a miserable loser
in
> some way? It is obviously not just a question of YES or NO to this war
> anymore.
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
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> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>
> Briefly in the sense that brevity is always a nice excuse for
incompleteness
> and imperfection.
Very true...
I hear you on the "man," in every sense, but I tried to
> bypass such familiar rants in the first paragraph. (I vaguely recall
though
> a coalition of female agricultural ministers in the EU once tabling their
> own resolution and unlocking a longstanding impasse. I forget the actual
> subject, but remember that it was something along the lines of profits vs.
> basic health concerns.)
Regarding this, I feel that mutualist intervention is a more positive role
for all concerned rather than females forming their own clique's, thus
forgetting lower class and race initiatives that need fostering in a global
sense. The traditional, singular way around issues by forming groups that
are one dimensional is not a positive and productive solution. It causes
bitterness and rivalry between outsiders, 'replacement' of patriarchal
mannerisms by women and men within the groups themselves. Example: If
hamsters feel left out of the equation, befriend the mouse who has links
within groups and focus on multi-relational connections that can be worked
with and improved, rather than the negativities alone. Thus moving from
giving 'power' to the void and desire of want which as we all know distorts,
create paltforms that nurcher the potential of equal facilitiation, not
masculine or feminine, outmoded singular concepts that emotionally entrap us
a small entities, thus commodifiable pulp. We, within are not one, but part
of many, micro to macro.
No doubt many people feel betrayed by their
> governments. (Are you not responsible for the war? If you voted in the
last
> election, I bet you voted Labor and not Tory, Marc.)
This is too easy, the context of 97 as many know, is that in the UK at that
time had a corrupt Conservstive government who ripped into the soul of our
culture and actively ruined people's lives, mainly the lower classes,
individuals and communities of all races, unless they were rich or supported
insitutionally. Then the middle class suddenly started getting hit and
wanted something new also, which was termed as the 'third way'. I have
always felt betrayed by governments, and many times refused to vote because
I personally feel that the voting system of being offered (mostly) 12 times
in a lifetime to change the environment that we exist in was not enough; 12
x's. And that they rarely reflect the feelings of the people genuinely,
whatever government. Also, representation of just a few parties, and not
many other electable groups is not that savoury either. I do not believe in
governments, it is a nationalist and sectarian non solution, to issues that
governmental 'administrative' bozo's realy on to fool the electorate that
things will change for the better, a delusory and cruel lie.
But to blame people who voted 'New Labour' in for the current War is a bit
lacking in respect of contextual realism. Cause and effect and political
shifts globally via corporate intentions have paved the way in which
governments act; is more the reason and people wishing for a better life,
falling for myth making of 'Democracy'. No I did not vote, although
sometimes I do pretend I did, whenever sending political letters to mp's.
What's your winning choice in a scenario (the one I tried to outline)
> where _everyone_ (bar your "representation" perhaps) is a miserable loser
in
> some way? It is obviously not just a question of YES or NO to this war
> anymore.
This is most definately the crux of it all. In a sense I view that everyone
is a loser, whether one is part of an American company, rubbing their pink
little hands together looking forward to potential business in Iraq after
the invasion (and it is no coincidence that only American companies are
aloud franchises). They lose because of love for 'faustian' excessiveness,
and loss of respect, within their emotional rtealizations and future guilt.
The families who will be maimed and killed by the American and Uk military,
via Spanish support. More lives wrecked by imperial, structuralist
intentions.
Humanity as whole will enter an era when anything goes regarding civilians
being demolished, pushed aside by 'losers in integrity' but winners of
masculine ignorance.
How to resolve such actions that actively dehumanize people for such
small-minded reasons as 'pocket money' and power?
Form new groups that work by alternative systems that do not rely on
commodities alone to inform their life habits. Multi-relational connections
that virtually and physically spuersede such emptiness. Start meeting and
bringing about change by creating new (possibly tribal) communities that are
self reliant - big enough to sustain indpendence, and valuable enough not to
be shunned by the jealous 'industrial dream workers' who wish to continue
living by the old rules of delusional politics and state run patronization.
Drink their wine - but love and build your own prgressive community.
much respect - marc
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.furthernoise.org
http://www.dido.uk.net
We Can Make Our Own World.
> Re: 3/10/03 22:06, "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>:
>
> > Briefly?
>
> Briefly in the sense that brevity is always a nice excuse for
incompleteness
> and imperfection. I hear you on the "man," in every sense, but I tried to
> bypass such familiar rants in the first paragraph. (I vaguely recall
though
> a coalition of female agricultural ministers in the EU once tabling their
> own resolution and unlocking a longstanding impasse. I forget the actual
> subject, but remember that it was something along the lines of profits vs.
> basic health concerns.) No doubt many people feel betrayed by their
> governments. (Are you not responsible for the war? If you voted in the
last
> election, I bet you voted Labor and not Tory, Marc.) The question is how
> this can, via gathering arguments and not personal gripe, be channeled
into
> the political systems we are supposedly a part of -- democracy. In the
> States you constantly hear that the onset of war will simplistically bring
> people in line with the administration; nothing less amounts to treason.
But
> every deeply troublesome political decision from the last couple of years
> has been prefaced with the subtext of "being at war." OK, let's talk about
> the "war" then and its consequences not just for other people, like the
> Iraqis, but also for people under the racist rubrics of "us" in the US and
> UK. What's your winning choice in a scenario (the one I tried to outline)
> where _everyone_ (bar your "representation" perhaps) is a miserable loser
in
> some way? It is obviously not just a question of YES or NO to this war
> anymore.
>
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>
Re: RHIZOME_RARE: The Race for War
Hi Are,
Briefly?
> I want to write briefly about this war soon upon us by examining the
capital
> State of affairs
It seems that humanity has been in battle through these tiresome and blood
thirsty centuries, because of one main reason, one seemingly ever perpetual,
obvious truth. Man is not 'man' enough to put his gun away (not original but
that's what is going on here). And when I say 'man' I mean - the 'male'. Of
course, if we all live long enough to continue habitually as a emotionally
backward race, females might possibly replace or join the ranks equally and
disappoint (our desperate dreams) all by becoming much the same, making the
same mistakes all over again; but history (our suppozed guidelines) have
informed us over and over again, that 'Men' like to rule the roost and they
will fight and kill to the bitter end to stay on top at whatever cost. Which
is what the world is sadly experiencing now, male enduced sadien actions.
What a mess these ape-men have created in the Middle East, the world. As
they shoot up via their socially constructed platforms over our submissive,
blotchy faces. They have been given a free range to mutilate and create a
bloody death orgy
Briefly?
> I want to write briefly about this war soon upon us by examining the
capital
> State of affairs
It seems that humanity has been in battle through these tiresome and blood
thirsty centuries, because of one main reason, one seemingly ever perpetual,
obvious truth. Man is not 'man' enough to put his gun away (not original but
that's what is going on here). And when I say 'man' I mean - the 'male'. Of
course, if we all live long enough to continue habitually as a emotionally
backward race, females might possibly replace or join the ranks equally and
disappoint (our desperate dreams) all by becoming much the same, making the
same mistakes all over again; but history (our suppozed guidelines) have
informed us over and over again, that 'Men' like to rule the roost and they
will fight and kill to the bitter end to stay on top at whatever cost. Which
is what the world is sadly experiencing now, male enduced sadien actions.
What a mess these ape-men have created in the Middle East, the world. As
they shoot up via their socially constructed platforms over our submissive,
blotchy faces. They have been given a free range to mutilate and create a
bloody death orgy
furtherfield update...
Hi Everyone,
Just redesigned the furtherfield site, still got a few tweeks to twiddle but
all will be fine soon.
If anyone wants us to gives us links - contact us using this email address
info@furtherfield.org
We are about a month behind with new featured/hosted artists due to redesign
& extensive and intense negotiations with the BBC, regarding our current
http://www.skinstrip.net project. But we battled through with the help of
'shooting Live Artists' group and all is fine again - BBC were worried that
it was too sexually explicit for the public, especially when they are
uploading their own naked selves (live online). So all is fine and dandy
now. Those who are still wondering where their new work is on furtherfield,
well - patience will have to suffice, cuz we are busy bees and a very small
group working non-stop, plus of course making our own art work (hehe...)
Will publicize the skinstrip project nearer the offcial time march 28th -
but if you are hungry to declare your 'nakedness' to the world. There is an
unofficial launch penned in for march 14th, when we are testing everything
'live' to see if all works out fine.
best wishes to all who are exploring - marc garrett
http://www.skinstrip.net
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.furthernoise.org
http://www.dido.uk.net
We Can Make Our Own World.
Just redesigned the furtherfield site, still got a few tweeks to twiddle but
all will be fine soon.
If anyone wants us to gives us links - contact us using this email address
info@furtherfield.org
We are about a month behind with new featured/hosted artists due to redesign
& extensive and intense negotiations with the BBC, regarding our current
http://www.skinstrip.net project. But we battled through with the help of
'shooting Live Artists' group and all is fine again - BBC were worried that
it was too sexually explicit for the public, especially when they are
uploading their own naked selves (live online). So all is fine and dandy
now. Those who are still wondering where their new work is on furtherfield,
well - patience will have to suffice, cuz we are busy bees and a very small
group working non-stop, plus of course making our own art work (hehe...)
Will publicize the skinstrip project nearer the offcial time march 28th -
but if you are hungry to declare your 'nakedness' to the world. There is an
unofficial launch penned in for march 14th, when we are testing everything
'live' to see if all works out fine.
best wishes to all who are exploring - marc garrett
http://www.skinstrip.net
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.furthernoise.org
http://www.dido.uk.net
We Can Make Our Own World.
Not just anti-war but pro-democracy
Not just anti-war but pro-democracy
Yes, we're at the edge of a desperately unwanted war and that in itself
could lead to despair. But the global movement that has sprung to life in
these scant months should give us cause for modest optimism as well. Harriet
Barlow, a long-time organizer, suggests -- quite correctly, I believe --
that, unlike at the onset of Gulf War I, this movement will not simply die
away in the face of a well-orchestrated (as well as sometimes perfectly
genuine) patriotic reaction to wartime. In fact, it could well be that the
Bush administration will "win" in Iraq and manage to lose the world in the
process.
What strikes me about the movement, as it has developed here and elsewhere,
is what Barlow calls its "joy," its festive, theatrical, creative, and
generative component which in itself inspires, attracts, and offers hope.
New ideas about how to protest -- and so to spread the word (or perhaps the
words, many of them) -- arise with staggering frequency. Only recently high
school and college students (including my own son) left their schools,
nationwide, sometimes under the threat of sanctions, to demonstrate against
the war.
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Ruth Rosen just wrote a piece about an
organization, launched by Medea Benjamin, called Code Pink (a gentle play on
the administration's manic coloring coding of every moment in our lives),
whose activists have staged a four-month long vigil in front of the White
House. "In a playful but passionate piece of political theater," she writes,
"San Francisco activist Medea Benjamin spent last Tuesday trying to hand
pink slips to President Bush and members of his war team for inflicting a
senseless war and a sinking economy on ordinary American families."
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pidG1
Yes, we're at the edge of a desperately unwanted war and that in itself
could lead to despair. But the global movement that has sprung to life in
these scant months should give us cause for modest optimism as well. Harriet
Barlow, a long-time organizer, suggests -- quite correctly, I believe --
that, unlike at the onset of Gulf War I, this movement will not simply die
away in the face of a well-orchestrated (as well as sometimes perfectly
genuine) patriotic reaction to wartime. In fact, it could well be that the
Bush administration will "win" in Iraq and manage to lose the world in the
process.
What strikes me about the movement, as it has developed here and elsewhere,
is what Barlow calls its "joy," its festive, theatrical, creative, and
generative component which in itself inspires, attracts, and offers hope.
New ideas about how to protest -- and so to spread the word (or perhaps the
words, many of them) -- arise with staggering frequency. Only recently high
school and college students (including my own son) left their schools,
nationwide, sometimes under the threat of sanctions, to demonstrate against
the war.
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Ruth Rosen just wrote a piece about an
organization, launched by Medea Benjamin, called Code Pink (a gentle play on
the administration's manic coloring coding of every moment in our lives),
whose activists have staged a four-month long vigil in front of the White
House. "In a playful but passionate piece of political theater," she writes,
"San Francisco activist Medea Benjamin spent last Tuesday trying to hand
pink slips to President Bush and members of his war team for inflicting a
senseless war and a sinking economy on ordinary American families."
http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pidG1
9 New ~OUCH THOSE MONKEYS~
9 New ~OUCH THOSE MONKEYS~
An explorative and prolific Darkwave, Net-based band. Creating sounds
that are primarily electronic, using computers to cut up noises/beats
that grind with a playful and poetic dysfunction.
[Nature's Trapping]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/natures_trapping.htm
[BLK-WHITE (Burning)]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/burning.htm
[Wife Beaterz Hate Art]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/wife_beaterz.htm
[Bright Starz]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/bright_starz.htm
[FLESH-TONAL FEEDBACK]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/flesh_tonal_feedback.htm
[Monkey Food]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/monkey_food.htm
[DoubleQuickTime]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/doublequicktime.htm
[Give us back our Soul]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/give_us_back_our_soul.htm
[Anything You Say]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/anything_you_say.htm
All 'Ouch Those Monkeys' Trax on one page.
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/all_trax.htm
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/index.htm [Main Page]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmwar/ [Anti-Shoot them up WAR song]
An explorative and prolific Darkwave, Net-based band. Creating sounds
that are primarily electronic, using computers to cut up noises/beats
that grind with a playful and poetic dysfunction.
[Nature's Trapping]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/natures_trapping.htm
[BLK-WHITE (Burning)]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/burning.htm
[Wife Beaterz Hate Art]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/wife_beaterz.htm
[Bright Starz]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/bright_starz.htm
[FLESH-TONAL FEEDBACK]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/flesh_tonal_feedback.htm
[Monkey Food]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/monkey_food.htm
[DoubleQuickTime]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/doublequicktime.htm
[Give us back our Soul]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/give_us_back_our_soul.htm
[Anything You Say]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/anything_you_say.htm
All 'Ouch Those Monkeys' Trax on one page.
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/all_trax.htm
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/index.htm [Main Page]
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmwar/ [Anti-Shoot them up WAR song]