marc garrett
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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: Stardust stirred with Black Coffee


Hi Jim,

> That's terrific audio, Marc.

Thanx - that was all done in Soundforge - which I now like the back of my
hand now, well almost (just wondering whether I know thw back of hand that
well).

I've got loads of that stuff going back into the late eighties, from when I
used to run various pirate radio stations, my job was to collect everyones
submissions and be the 'dj', but i used to put loads of cuts & snips in
between other people's contributions so to give the broadcasting a more
interesting and experimental edge. I've literally got about 4 bin bags on my
right side full of strange voices/noises, waiting for my attention so they
can to be digitalized.

> I don't know Cubase. So I might not understand what you are getting at.
Can you give me more
> detail on that? Is Cubase a multi-track audio editor/mixer?
>
> Or is it some kind of unique hybrid like Acid is?

I have not used Acid yet, but I might give it a go. Cubase is a 24 track
virtual studio, which you can do editing on quite easily but I prefer final
editing on soundforge myself. From cubase you can either import or export
audio/mp3/wave etc. Even though it is memory intensive, it is pretty much a
wonder tool. One is blown away by the 'gui' interface at first, like I was
with 'Reason'; but in time it becomes an excellent tool and it creates a
kind of noise space that many programs leave flat. So yes, it is both.

marc

http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.furthernoise.org
http://www.dido.uk.net
We Can Make Our Own World.

> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > As far as digital sound/Java scripted, flash etc... it is a new
experience &
> > I am working on it all right now. So you will not get a fair example
from my
> > other works, although there some oof similar vein conceptually but not
in
> > function. In fact, back at the ol' furtherfield ranch we are all
> > collaborating by creating seperate noises and tunes and then placing
them
> > into cubase, and adding our own next to the original, which is more
> > overlaying and cutting, then of course just enjoying listening to them.
> >
> > This is the nearest so far but different to your concept - but enjoy
anyway
> > http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/reaching_outwards.htm
> >
> > respect from marc

>
> ja
>
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DISCUSSION

Teenage hacker beats Hollywood


Teenage hacker beats Hollywood clamp on DVDs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,870445,00.html
Andrew Osborn
Wednesday January 8, 2003
The Guardian
Hollywood's biggest film studios were defeated yesterday in their effort to
punish a Norwegian teenage computer hacker for DVD piracy.
The case has made a cult figure of Jon Lech Johansen, who is now 19.
Mr Johansen - dubbed "DVD Jon" by the international hacker community -
created a computer program in his bedroom which cracked all the codes
protecting DVD films from illegal copying.
The codes also prevent DVDs being watched on many personal computers, which
was why Mr Johansen set out to break them.
He infuriated US film makers by posting his program, called DeCSS, on the
internet.
His bedroom was then raided by Norway's white-collar crime unit, his
computer was confiscated and he was charged with unauthorised data
tampering.
Mr Johansen maintained that he had merely devised a way of watching his
favourite films, such as The Matrix and The Fifth Element, on his own
computer.
But Hollywood disagreed. The Motion Picture Association of America, which
represents such leading studios as Walt Disney, Universal and Warner
Brothers, lodged a complaint, as did the US DVD Copy Control Association.
Yesterday the Oslo city court ruled in Mr Johansen's favour, clearing him of
all the charges.
In a unanimous ruling it said that nobody could be punished for breaking
into his own property - he had legally bought the DVDs whose codes he
subsequently cracked.
Nor was there any evidence that he or anyone else had used his program to
produce or watch pirated copies of films.
"I'm happy but not surprised," a beaming Mr Johansen said after his
acquittal.
"This is about consumers' rights. All over the world copyright holders are
trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.
"Today it's been clarified that consumers have certain rights that the film
industry can't take away from us."
In Washington Phuong Yokitis, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture
Association, said the group had decided not to issue a statement and would
have no comment.
Film studios had hoped that the case would send a signal to hackers that the
complex codes protecting DVDs against illegal copying must not be tampered
with.
They say that Mr Johansen and others like him are undermining the market for
DVDs and videos, worth $20bn (

DISCUSSION

Re: Plundered Audio


kool...

Especially interested in listening to the 'pop group' got a couple of their
lp's here - great band. One of my faves is 'she is beyond good & evil'.

marc

>
> Not Net Art per se, but:
>
> http://www.rollerderbysuperstar.com/infohearts/
>
> Is some music I made with some of the programs being discussed on
> rhizome lately. They're free for download because of the high level of
> questionable sampled content, including:
>
> Armando Travioli
> Joseph Beuys
> Spanish Language Tapes
> Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
> Victor Borge
> Johnathan Katz / Al Franken
> [off of "The Next Big Thing" on WNYC]
> Raymond Scott
> Jimmy Lunceford
> Peggy Lee and the Dave Berber Quartet
> The Wasps
> The Ohio Express
> Brigitte Bardot
> Chubby Checker
> Guy Lombardo
> The Pop Group
> George Jones
>
> Plus some other stuff; Children's Music, the Electric Slide, Music from
> Bollywood Films from the 60's, modem noises, etc, pretty much thrown
> together without any real reason or logic to it. All of the melodies [a
> lot of which were made with pitch bends on white noise and or pure sine
> waves] and most of the beats are entirely mine, created with fruity
> loops and sequenced in acid 4, with some cut-up casiotones and various
> tone generators thrown in for good measure.
>
> Anyway, it's electro-noise-pop-cut-up music crossed with drum and bass,
> early 90's acid/house and current day sell-out hip hop.
>
> -e.
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DISCUSSION

"Don't buy me Gap"


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DISCUSSION

Seven million Koreans facing starvation


Seven million Koreans facing starvation
By Jasper Becker in Beijing
05 January 2003
The United Nations food agency warned yesterday that supplies for some seven
million people, a third of North Korea's population, will run out early next
month without furtheraid. The news could worsen the crisis over North
Korea's nuclear threats.

"We only have firm commitments for 35,000 tons. This will be finished in
early February, and then we might have to close shop," said Gerald Bourke,
the spokesman for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Beijing. South Korea
stopped food deliveries two months ago, after Pyongyang admitted running a
secret nuclear weapons programme. Japan suspended aid after North Korea
admitted kidnapping Japanese citizens.

The WFP has cut three million people off from its aid programme. The
hardest-hit are townspeople who can expect to get only 270 grams a day
through North Korea's public distribution system, half the standard
emergency food ration. The UN scaled back its 2003 appeal for North Korea by
16 per cent, to 512,000 tons of grain, but only the European Union and Italy
individually have so far responded.

http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story66462&host=3&dirq