marc garrett
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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.
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Re: how to be a net.artist: lesson one: the name game


Hi Abraham,

I must say I am chuffed that you have taken it upon yourself to place my
name amongst well known and x-college trained, and educated net.artists;
i'll save this document for my children to see (if I ever have any that is).
And all those mark's - you've got a point. Sheesh, it makes me feel as if I
shouild change my name.

concrete myrth (my alias)

> how to be a net.artist: lesson one: the name game
>
> is your name mark? if so you are 10 times more likely to become a
net.artist
> than someone named vuk or netochka. look at all these net.artists named
> mark:
>
> mark amerika, mark tribe, mark napier, mark voge, marc garrett, mark
dagget,
> mark river and marc lafia, just to name a sampling. that's amazing!
>
> if your name isn't mark consider including 'mark

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Re: August 14th 2003


Someone's being kept in the dark...

marc

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Re: ho/wuss crit 101


Hi Curt,

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=wuss
A person regarded as weak or timid and especially as unmanly.

Your reference to wuss suggests that you favour a more masculine approach. A
more up front, direct critical state of thought.

So, if you are keen for a more up front approach (same here), may be it
would be good to know who actually is implicated in the text
so they know who they actually are. For it can get a bit confusing for those
who are criticized if they do not know that they are being criticized -
surely that's reasonable.

For instance, if I am one of those artists who might be sucking up to
critics so that I can get a warm reception by the 'rigid' - gatekeeping
art-world that we all pathetically in our own slutfest mannerisms prostitute
ourselves in; then it would be advantagous to know my own mistakes. So I can
move and create strategies that are more in-line to your informed and
'referenced' suggestions.

I'm still keen to know who this is also - 'ho/wuss crit 101'
Who is this refering to?
A single person?
Do I know this individual?
Does this individual use this list at all?

'chafe under the scrutiny of more legitimate critics'.
This is macho stuff Curt, 'work till your muscle bound all day long'.
Also, it smells of modernist pitfalls, in its denial context, situaional
circumstance - people who trying to bypass those pillars that block real
talent due to default.

Intersting stuff...

marc

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> The text is aimed at critics who refuse to make judgments, who take
> pride in lavishing praise (or at least smiling a benign countenance)
> upon every new artistic phenomenon that swims within their ken
> (horrifying or not as it may be). It is also aimed, by implication,
> at those artists who seek benefit from such critics and chafe under
> the scrutiny of more legitimate critics.
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> The slang terms used in the subject header are derived from Kramer's
> mention of whores and eunuchs.
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ho [cf: third entry]
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=wuss
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> peace,
> curt
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>
> > > "Critics who refuse to make judgments, who take pride in lavishing
> > > praise (or at least smiling a benign countenance) upon every new
> > > artistic phenomenon that swims within their ken (horrifying or not as
> > > it may be) are quickly seen to be, let's face it, either the whores
> > > or the eunuchs of their profession. They may illicit our pity or
> > > inspire our contempt, but they can never command our respect... They
> > > belong to the history of publicity rather than the history of art."
> > > - Hilton Kramer, 2002
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