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

Choose Your Muse Interview: Annie Abrahams


Choose Your Muse Interview: Annie Abrahams

Choose Your Muse Interview, Marc Garrett interviews Annie Abrahams and asks what has inspired her, personally, artistically and culturally. Abrahams is known worldwide for her net art and collective writing experiments and is internationally regarded as a pioneer of networked performance art.

http://bit.ly/1UDy6sp

OPPORTUNITY

Art Data Money


Deadline:
Fri May 15, 2015 00:00

Art Data Money

We are proud to announce a new programme at Furtherfield. Art Data Money aims to build a commons for arts in the network age, and invites people to join us and discover new ways for cryptocurrencies and big data to benefit us all.

http://www.furtherfield.org/artdatamoney/

While the sustainability and legitimacy of our global systems are daily called into question, our critical, artistic network cultures point to a wealth of possibilities for mutual prosperity.

The Art Data Money programme at Furtherfield includes:

- Art Shows where finance, cryptocurrencies and data are made tangible through critically engaging and feelable artworks for everyone. http://bit.ly/1IW4B97

- Labs using hacking, play, and artistic techniques to take apart existing financial structures; algorithms and data flows to discover how they work and create new more participatory models. http://bit.ly/1NnGKXF

- Debates involving an alliance of diverse partners to generate new conversations, networks, and ways of organising value exchanges across traditional divides. http://bit.ly/1XGtl0g

‘AltCoins, cryptotokens, smart contracts and DAOs [Digital Autonomous Organisations] are tools that artists can use to explore new ways of social organisation and artistic production. The ideology and technology of the blockchain and the materials of art history (especially the history of conceptual art) can provide useful resources for mutual experiment and critique’ - Rob Myers


DISCUSSION

Review of ‘Body Drift: Butler, Hayles and Haraway’ by Arthur Kroker


Review of ‘Body Drift: Butler, Hayles and Haraway’ by Arthur Kroker

Review by Marc Garrett.

Body Drift by Arthur Kroker, takes the work of three leading women thinkers as its main focus. Re-examining their critical perspectives and creative processes - assemblages, remixing and cyborgs- Kroker terms the emerging technological spectre. He examines the connections between what he sees as Judith Butler’s postmodernism, Katherine Hayles’s posthumanism, and Donna Haraway’s companionism.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/body-drift-butler-hayles-and-haraway

DISCUSSION

Inside the internet there’s glory: Interview with Guido Segni


Inside the internet there’s glory: Interview with Guido Segni.

Filippo Lorenzin interviews Guido Segni about Top Expiring Internet Artists, an art project that ranks internet artists on the basis of the expiring date of their websites. They discuss other works, the hypercompetition, charts and the state of the Web Art scene (if it does exist).

http://bit.ly/1J16Q1D

DISCUSSION

Inside the internet there’s glory: Interview with Guido Segni


Inside the internet there’s glory: Interview with Guido Segni.

Filippo Lorenzin interviews Guido Segni about Top Expiring Internet Artists, an art project that ranks internet artists on the basis of the expiring date of their websites. They discuss other works, the hypercompetition, charts and the state of the Web Art scene (if it does exist).

http://bit.ly/1J16Q1D