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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.
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.
Disassembly Event-Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain.
Dates:
Sat Jan 16, 2010 00:00 - Sat Jan 16, 2010
Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain.

http://http.uk.net
The last three weeks.
Exhibition open 12-5pm, Friday-Sunday, till Saturday 30th January 2010
Disassembly Event- Mail out the Mail Art
Join us at the next full moon from 3 pm, Saturday 30th January 2010 for our closing event- to take part and redistribute works from this exhibition of eMail-Art provoked by the Dark Mountain project.
---> Take down the artworks and mail them back out into the world for others to receive through the postal system.
---> Everyone who comes along gets to take an artwork away with them and to send artworks to friends and acquaintances.
This event is a celebration of the DIWO (Do It With Others) spirit, the collaborative process and excellent contributions from the artists who took part. As well as a chance to reflect on the ideas and controversies generated by The Dark Mountain Project, which provided the focus for the exhibition. There will be eating and drinking!
If you cannot make it to the gallery but would like to receive a work of art in the post (or know someone else who would)- please send your postal address to marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
Visit here for images of the exhibition opening and performance
http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/?p=90
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Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain
a Mail Art project across physical and digital networks
http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/
as part of the Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies Programme
http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php
Info about gallery:
HTTP Gallery based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. Working with artists from around the world, HTTP provides experimental approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual space, and for online projects that explore participatory and collaborative art practice.
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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
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

http://http.uk.net
The last three weeks.
Exhibition open 12-5pm, Friday-Sunday, till Saturday 30th January 2010
Disassembly Event- Mail out the Mail Art
Join us at the next full moon from 3 pm, Saturday 30th January 2010 for our closing event- to take part and redistribute works from this exhibition of eMail-Art provoked by the Dark Mountain project.
---> Take down the artworks and mail them back out into the world for others to receive through the postal system.
---> Everyone who comes along gets to take an artwork away with them and to send artworks to friends and acquaintances.
This event is a celebration of the DIWO (Do It With Others) spirit, the collaborative process and excellent contributions from the artists who took part. As well as a chance to reflect on the ideas and controversies generated by The Dark Mountain Project, which provided the focus for the exhibition. There will be eating and drinking!
If you cannot make it to the gallery but would like to receive a work of art in the post (or know someone else who would)- please send your postal address to marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
Visit here for images of the exhibition opening and performance
http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/?p=90
====================
Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain
a Mail Art project across physical and digital networks
http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/
as part of the Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies Programme
http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php
Info about gallery:
HTTP Gallery based near North London's thriving Green Lanes area is London's first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. Working with artists from around the world, HTTP provides experimental approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual space, and for online projects that explore participatory and collaborative art practice.
------------>
Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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
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
Older than youtube. Curator Laure Prouvost Explains Seven Years of tank.tv
Dates:
Tue Jan 12, 2010 00:00 - Tue Jan 12, 2010
Older than youtube. Curator Laure Prouvost Explains Seven Years of tank.tv

Article by Angela Ferraiolo
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=373
Seven years ago, or about two years before the invention of youtube, the editors of Tank Magazine saw the possibility of an internet platform dedicated to video art. Their response was tank.tv, an Internet site that is part moving image archive, part online gallery, and part cutting edge video art exhibition.
"The sole focus is on the work," explains curator and creative director Laure Prouvost, who has been with the site since its beginning. Prouvost describes tank.tv as a completely open endeavor, one that supports experimentation by accepting submissions and curatorial proposals throughout the year: "We have worked to make tank.tv a collaborative platform over time and we're still looking for ways to open our programme as much as possible."
After running a series of solo shows in 2009, tank decided to finish the decade with the group show 'Open End'. About twelve films were selected from the submissions tank.tv received throughout the year. Works by emerging artists received special attention. They include Just a 'Quiet Peaceful Dance' by Dean Kissick, a rapid, flash cut montage that cascades in one smooth glide over its upbeat house track, and the dreamy, slightly disturbing 3D animation 'Your Uncertain Spirit' by Jonathan Monaghan and more...
Angela Ferraiolo is an interactive writer and filmmaker experimenting with text, video, and animation for the web, installation, and mobile applications. She is currently working on a new interactive movie titled "The Loop". Her digital story "Map of a Future War" was published in the Fall 2008 issue of the New River Journal. Her plays have been produced at La Mama Galleria and Expanded Arts in New York City and at the Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia, USA. She is also the author of the RPG Aidyn Chronicles and the MMORPG Earth and Beyond. Angela teaches game programming and theories of game design in the Film and Media Department of Hunter College in New York.
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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
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

Article by Angela Ferraiolo
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=373
Seven years ago, or about two years before the invention of youtube, the editors of Tank Magazine saw the possibility of an internet platform dedicated to video art. Their response was tank.tv, an Internet site that is part moving image archive, part online gallery, and part cutting edge video art exhibition.
"The sole focus is on the work," explains curator and creative director Laure Prouvost, who has been with the site since its beginning. Prouvost describes tank.tv as a completely open endeavor, one that supports experimentation by accepting submissions and curatorial proposals throughout the year: "We have worked to make tank.tv a collaborative platform over time and we're still looking for ways to open our programme as much as possible."
After running a series of solo shows in 2009, tank decided to finish the decade with the group show 'Open End'. About twelve films were selected from the submissions tank.tv received throughout the year. Works by emerging artists received special attention. They include Just a 'Quiet Peaceful Dance' by Dean Kissick, a rapid, flash cut montage that cascades in one smooth glide over its upbeat house track, and the dreamy, slightly disturbing 3D animation 'Your Uncertain Spirit' by Jonathan Monaghan and more...
Angela Ferraiolo is an interactive writer and filmmaker experimenting with text, video, and animation for the web, installation, and mobile applications. She is currently working on a new interactive movie titled "The Loop". Her digital story "Map of a Future War" was published in the Fall 2008 issue of the New River Journal. Her plays have been produced at La Mama Galleria and Expanded Arts in New York City and at the Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia, USA. She is also the author of the RPG Aidyn Chronicles and the MMORPG Earth and Beyond. Angela teaches game programming and theories of game design in the Film and Media Department of Hunter College in New York.
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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
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
Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 - 2009). By Edward Picot.
Dates:
Mon Jan 11, 2010 00:00 - Mon Jan 11, 2010

Co-published by Furtherfield and The Hyperliterature Exchange.
Not-so-silly Millie. An Appreciation of Millie Niss (1973 - 2009).
Millie Niss, the writer and new media artist, died at 5 a.m. on 29th November 2009, of swine flu with complications. Her mother and longtime collaborator, Martha Deed, was with her at the time. She had been in hospital for four weeks, mostly in intensive care, after picking up the virus, which quickly became serious in her case, probably because she already had respiratory difficulties as a result of a rare condition known as Behcet's Disease. She was 36 years old.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=372
"Millie's work for me, has always reached beyond the surface of things. Managing to communicate an essence of her character and her varied intentions successfully. There is a unique sense of humour in much of her work, even when dealing with dark themes. A surreal edge, informed by her particular views on humanity and all of its, seemingly perpetual absurdities. Mixed with a playful, open spirit and a twist of simplicity. Her work was and is, more for those not bound by distracting trends - open for all. A rare wisdom with an authentic voice in this strange and complex world. Good bye Millie..." Marc Garrett.
This article by Edward Picot can also be read on The Hyperliterature Exchange - http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewmillieniss.php
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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
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
We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion.
Dates:
Mon Jan 04, 2010 00:00 - Mon Jan 04, 2010

Review by Rob Myers.
We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion
Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar
Scribner Book Company, December 2009
ISBN 1439116830
"We Feel Fine - An Almanac Of Human Emotion" is a hardback book that in just under 300 pages of well designed montages, data visualisations, diagrams, illustrations and text presents and analyses the data gathered by the We Feel Fine project. Started in 2005 and launched in early 2006 by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, We Feel Fine is based around a database assembled using a webcrawler that searches the blogosphere for statements of the form "I feel" or "I feel like". Any matches are stored along with as much contextual data as the webcrawler can find (a photograph nearby in the blog post, the poster's age, gender, and location, local weather). The database contained twelve million such entries by the time the book was published.
Harris and Kamvar are admirably candid in laying out the history, methodology, technology and in the case of the book's production even the finances of their project. The code listings included in the book are tantalising glimpses into how the We Feel Fine server works, allowing a rare chance for students and artists to study such a system, and are licenced under the GPLv3. The book is under the obscure but principled Creative Commons "Founders Copyright" licence which will automatically expire the copyright on the book in twenty years time. This is all invaluable for critique and study of the project by artists, academics and anyone with an interest in art and technology, and more artists should do it.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=371
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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
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