marc garrett
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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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Invitation to FurtherNoise Live Online A/V Jam featuring Scarcelight
Recordings and Mikroknytes
Sunday 29th February at 2pm GMT.

This session will be played out in real-time from Alabama in the US as label
manager / musician Chris Jeely discusses Scarcelight philosophy whilst
Mikroknytes Derek Morton and John Coursey serve up an audio visual collage
of new material.

The event will run for 45 minutes after which we will be opening up the
studio, inviting submissions of sound and images in response. Anyone is
welcome to join in and collaborate.

The FurtherField team will observe with interest audience submissions with a
view to shortlisting contributors for future commission

DISCUSSION

FurtherNoise Live Online A/V Jam - Sunday.


Invitation to FurtherNoise Live Online A/V Jam featuring Scarcelight
Recordings and Mikroknytes
Sunday 29th February at 2pm GMT.

This session will be played out in real-time from Alabama in the US as label
manager / musician Chris Jeely discusses Scarcelight philosophy whilst
Mikroknytes Derek Morton and John Coursey serve up an audio visual collage
of new material.

The event will run for 45 minutes after which we will be opening up the
studio, inviting submissions of sound and images in response. Anyone is
welcome to join in and collaborate.

The FurtherField team will observe with interest audience submissions with a
view to shortlisting contributors for future commission

DISCUSSION

Mr. Green...


Mr. Green
By Marc Garrett

Love is deeper than gender.
Love is further reaching than touch.
It stretches inside, outside & in between to kiss the heart.
Nursing torment created by our own inadequate sensibilities.
http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett/mgw/docs/mrgreen.htm

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CRITICAL FORUM - FurtherStudio


CRITICAL FORUM Thursday 26th February 16:00GMT
http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/online

Charlie Gere and Giles Lane, will discuss the ideas and themes explored by
'create/remove' with the artist Rich White. Chaired by Marc Garrett.

To view the live critical debate, select FORUM from the FurtherStudio menu.
You are then invited to join the panelists in an open, public discussion in
the FurtherStudio chat room.

THE PANELISTS
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MARC GARRETT will be chairing this event and is a net artist & co-director
of Furtherfield.org http://www.furtherfield.org/mgarrett

CHARLIE GERE is Lecturer in Digital Art History in the School of History of
Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is
the author of Digital Culture (Reaktion Books, 2002). He is currently
undertaking research into the relation between speed, technology and the
avant-garde.

GILES LANE is the founder and director of Proboscis, a non profit creative
studio and cultural think tank. Giles founded and edited COIL journal of the
moving image (1995-2000) as well as conceiving and developing the DIFFUSION
eBook downloadable book format. He has published around 30 titles in this
format since 2000. In 1998 Giles founded the imprint RCA CRD RESEARCH at the
Royal College of Art where he commissioned, edited and published five books
on experimental interaction design projects. He has written other books on
digital design and creativity for Rotovision and product design company
IDEO.
http://www.proboscis.org.uk/publications
http://www.diffusion.org.uk

RICH WHITE uses various themes and ideas to explore the meaning and value of
art including art history, context, perception, time-travel,
decontextualisation and censorship. For the Furtherstudio residency Rich is
creating a project with two parallel bodies of work under the headings
'create' and 'remove'.
In 'Create' Rich is exploring the theoretical, conceptual and practical
possibilities of creating an 'original' net/software artwork - that is, a
work that remains unique in a digital environment. 'Remove' concerns
censoring art available on the net. The result will form a comprehensive
archive of censored artworks. One half creates - art is made by addition.
One half removes - art is made by subtraction.

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FurtherStudio is an exploratory, year long project, set up to create online,
real-time, net art residencies during which time the artists need not leave
their studio or home environments, as the FurtherStudio web facility offers
a public window on the artist's PC desktop as they work.
The curatorial theme of 'appropriation and ownership of ideas, services,
products and images' is explored with the artist through a programme of open
studio events and discussions between artists, net art critics and anyone
interested in exploring creativity on the Internet. More about FurtherStudio
at http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/docs/about.html