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: Re[2]: RHIZOME_RAW: finding net.art in the rhizome artbase


But what if we all enter this potentially collective void naked?

marc

> Agreed...I speculate that many people from each different "era" of rhizome
> are no longer active, thus judging would be based upon current interests,
> not what was best at the time. I don't care to be part of a People
> Magazine's best dressed list.
>
> joseph the barbarian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eryk Salvaggio" <eryk@maine.rr.com>
> To: <list@rhizome.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:28 AM
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: RHIZOME_RAW: finding net.art in the rhizome artbase
>
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> >
> >
> > I never agreed to enter my work into a competition when I allowed my
work
> to
> > be shown on Rhizome's servers (for no compensation.) Nor am I
comfortable
> > with the idea of any artists work "competing" in a populist pony show
> > without thier permission.
> >
> > -e.
> >
> > +
> > -> post: list@rhizome.org
> > -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> > -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> > -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> > +
> > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> > Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
> >
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> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>
>

DISCUSSION

The GNU/Linux Art Farm


Here's an easy question: Who won the first prize Golden Nica award, in the
Prix Ars Electronica's .net category? The penguin is a BIG hint! If you
answered Linus Torvalds, GNU/Linux, and its 1000+ creators, pat yourself on
the back... you are art and technology-aware. Was this an award for art?
Yes? Uh, oh... wrong answer!
http://arttech.about.com/library/weekly/aa083099.htm

DISCUSSION

China plans Linux investment


Reuters
November 05, 2003, 15:05 GMT

The Chinese government plans to throw its financial weight behind
Linux-based computer systems that could rival Microsoft's Windows, in one of
the world's fastest-growing technology markets, a government official said
Wednesday.

China would build a domestic software industry around Linux -- a open-source
software standard that can be copied and modified freely -- said Gou
Zhongwen, a vice minister at the Ministry of Information Industry. "Linux is
an opportunity for us to make a breakthrough in developing software," he was
quoted as saying on the ministry's Web site. "But the market cannot be
developed on a large scale without government support," he said.

Gou did not give details on the amount of planned government investment in
Linux. China's information technology market is growing at 20 percent a
year, with software sales expected to reach $30.5bn in 2005, according to
researcher IDC. The domestic industry is dominated by Microsoft, Oracle,
IBM, Sybase, UFSoft and Kingsoft. Japan, China and South Korea agreed in
September to collaborate on building a new computer operating system as an
alternative to Windows. Japanese media reported that they would probably
build an open-source system such as Linux.

Chinese officials have said they preferred to use software with open-source
codes to ensure that software guarding sensitive state information and
networks could not be easily tampered with. The government has been pushing
the development of a homegrown software industry and a national standard for
Linux to counter the dominance of Windows.

DISCUSSION

ISOLATION=RELIGION=ARROGANCE


When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas
Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they
heard:
"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to
seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says 'Woe to those who
call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our
spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We confess that.

We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it Pluralism.

We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism.

We have endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.

We have killed our unborn and called it choice.

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building
self-esteem.

We have abused power and called it politics.

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it
freedom of expression.

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it
enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and
set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent to
direct us to the center of Your will, to open ask it in the name of Your
Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen"

The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the
prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where
Rev.Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of
those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international
requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa, and Korea.

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on "The Rest of the Story" on the
radio and received a larger response to this program than any other he has
ever aired.

With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and
wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called one nation
under God.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/wright.htm

DISCUSSION

New work & reviews on Furtherfield


New work & reviews on Furtherfield
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http://www.furtherfield.org All recent works can be accessed via front page.

Jimpunk - ______________1_______________.

There's something, well, much more primal, almost tribal, in this here site
of jimpunk's. He has a fondness, in ______________1_______________, for the
visual impact of early video games---pixelization, my friend: monochromatic
and dichromatic grids. The site seems to be a collection of animated DHTML
pages, stitched together via javascript, to reload and refresh randomly into
each other. One fullscreen composition melts into another; images,
functioning here (WARNING: CONCEPTUALIST INTERPRETATION AHEAD!!) as tropes,
collide both metaphorically and literally across your screen, sketching thin
strands of association. Reviewed by Lewis LaCook.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idU

Shorts - Joseph & Donna McElroy.

Unearthing an existential realisation that our languages, gestures and
actions, are not necessarily of our own. They are shared, whether we like it
or not. We are subconsciously entwined, at many levels, with non-fixed
narratives and we might not even be aware of such shifts. These socially
informed performed observations are a poetic subjectivity, trying to break
way from a singular 'themed' (one liner) narrative. These works somehow
manage to touch, reach inside the psyche. Leaving one in a state of
confusion yet simultaneously accepting that what we see and hear, it is true
but also immeasurable. Reviewed by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idT

5 Operas - Michael Szpakowski

5 Operas launched at Epping Hall, Essex UK in June this year. We couldn't
make it to the launch but logged on and watched and listened in stunned
delight. I did post some of my thoughts to art lists at the time, but wanted
to draw attention to the operas again as they explore the contributory and
collaborative possibilities of the Internet in such a fresh and direct way.

I was reminded of a double CD that I took out of Walthamstow Library (North
East London) a couple of years ago, recordings of old folk tunes, songs and
stories from across England and Scotland made by Ewan MacColl and Peggy
Seeger. These stories and songs were born in contained geographic regions,
into a slower pace of life, a slower rate of cultural consumption. Stories
of the particular, passing through archetype, dream, myth, for the purposes
of protest, human solidarity, survival, pleasure. Reviewed by Ruth Catlow.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idR

Sperm phase detector - Nils Edvardsson

The latest work brought to us online in real-time from nonTVTVstation is
'Sperm phase detector' by the artist Nils Edvardsson. Every other day he
frequents the station's studio to deposit his fresh seed for the online
audience to listen to. We do not only hear, we can also actually view the
machine as it processes, translates the potentially 'life-giving' liquid
into audio. It feels like a performance but without the artist literally
being there, except in spirit and essence that is. Reviewed by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idS

030807 - lo_y
These are abstract works, stripped of narrative, subjectivity or political
slant. In a recent message on August Highland's site I noticed a statement
from Lo_y. It went "well there's not much to say. Lo_y is only what Lo_y
writes. No history, no stories, no explanations." Reviewed by Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_idV

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