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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Towards the return of the Counter-Counter-Culture: Do Punks Dye (their hair?)


Towards the return
of the
Counter-Counter-Culture.
Do Punks Dye
(their hair?)

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: [thingist] Rub Linda the right way and she might show you wonderland


The fire crew have been & gone now...

5 trees burnt - 2 cars completely gutted, black smoke engulfing everything -
it stinks. I can go to bed now...

And yes - it is a bit of a mess out there...

marc

> oh my!!! Two years ago someone torched our van. It is going to be one
hell of
> mess to clean up, let me warn you.
>
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>
> Quoting "marc.garrett" <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>:
>
> > Hi Joseph,
> >
> > We could discuss this till the bombs come home...
> >
> > We've just had a car catch fire in our yard (sheeesh!) & its just
reached
> > another car now, it's wild.
> >
> > The fire brigade are popping round to extinguish the blaze, I hope.
> >
> > marc
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Good - I'm glad, so you'll also understand that it ain't ethical to
use
> > > > people's dead bodies for something as disposable as a statement
then?
> > >
> > > I don't agree with such a blanket generalization. It entirely depends
upon
> > the
> > > nature of the statement.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I still believe that it could of been shown in a different way, not
> > losing
> > > > impact.
> > >
> > > Perhaps, but you would have to show me.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >Given that the Arab world is displaying their dead for a
> > > > >similar purpose, I don't feel I have violated them at all.
> > > >
> > > > We are not isolated by distance
> > > > But by greed and our racist history
> > > > Just a wall's width away
> > > > Still impossible to reach across
> > > > This space in front of me
> > > > It's we who write this history
> > > > We who guard the money-tree
> > > > We support the companies
> > > > We stole the colonies
> > >
> > > Every person I know believes that no one else can understand them. It
is
> > not
> > > racism, its selfism. You can expand that identity to your race. It
is
> > not
> > > such a binary issue. My ancestors were indentured servants, cherokee
> > indians,
> > > and rural appalachian farmers living in poverty. Donna is african
> > american,
> > > and though I write here in first person, the final decision on
released
> > art is
> > > with the both of us. Donna firmly believes it was important for the
photos
> > of
> > > lynched slaves and africans in NYC to be displayed as an artistic
> > statement.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > This is not my beef - I feel that too many images of dead people
have
> > been
> > > > mediated, almost like their souls are being re-invented for other
> > > > functions - it's getting like a bloody 'Dirty Harry go-round otu
there'.
> > > >
> > > > What do we know of their history, their real lives? Nothing...
> > > > What do we know about them now - they are dead.
> > >
> > > I think you are shuddering to think of yourself, dead and lost in an
> > ignoble
> > > death. I shudder to think of such for myself. However, if a picture
of my
> > body
> > > in death could be used to a good purpose, I would wish it so.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > No Joseph - you compiled it, placed the images there. Then I was
invited
> > to
> > > > shoot your visual prisoners unkowingly - then I shot them. It's like
> > being
> > > > stopped by a cop & one of them plants some crack on me then says
'you're
> > > > nicked for possessing drugs'. I was framed.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I explained to Ruth, perhaps my indicator was not strong enough.
> > Regardless,
> > > even curiosity bears responsibility. Though I do not like to condemn
for
> > such.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 'It ain't unusual to be wrong every now & then, dah, dah dah dooo'.
> > >
> > > as with me.
> > >
> > > joseph
> > > + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
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DISCUSSION

Snobz as well...


It's almost official,

Rhizome potentially

could be for Snobz also...

non conformity is also bliss.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: [thingist] Rub Linda the right way and she might show you wonderland


Hi Joseph,

We could discuss this till the bombs come home...

We've just had a car catch fire in our yard (sheeesh!) & its just reached
another car now, it's wild.

The fire brigade are popping round to extinguish the blaze, I hope.

marc

>
> >
> > Good - I'm glad, so you'll also understand that it ain't ethical to use
> > people's dead bodies for something as disposable as a statement then?
>
> I don't agree with such a blanket generalization. It entirely depends upon
the
> nature of the statement.
>
> >
> > I still believe that it could of been shown in a different way, not
losing
> > impact.
>
> Perhaps, but you would have to show me.
>
> >
> >
> > >Given that the Arab world is displaying their dead for a
> > >similar purpose, I don't feel I have violated them at all.
> >
> > We are not isolated by distance
> > But by greed and our racist history
> > Just a wall's width away
> > Still impossible to reach across
> > This space in front of me
> > It's we who write this history
> > We who guard the money-tree
> > We support the companies
> > We stole the colonies
>
> Every person I know believes that no one else can understand them. It is
not
> racism, its selfism. You can expand that identity to your race. It is
not
> such a binary issue. My ancestors were indentured servants, cherokee
indians,
> and rural appalachian farmers living in poverty. Donna is african
american,
> and though I write here in first person, the final decision on released
art is
> with the both of us. Donna firmly believes it was important for the photos
of
> lynched slaves and africans in NYC to be displayed as an artistic
statement.
>
> >
> > This is not my beef - I feel that too many images of dead people have
been
> > mediated, almost like their souls are being re-invented for other
> > functions - it's getting like a bloody 'Dirty Harry go-round otu there'.
> >
> > What do we know of their history, their real lives? Nothing...
> > What do we know about them now - they are dead.
>
> I think you are shuddering to think of yourself, dead and lost in an
ignoble
> death. I shudder to think of such for myself. However, if a picture of my
body
> in death could be used to a good purpose, I would wish it so.
>
> >
> > No Joseph - you compiled it, placed the images there. Then I was invited
to
> > shoot your visual prisoners unkowingly - then I shot them. It's like
being
> > stopped by a cop & one of them plants some crack on me then says 'you're
> > nicked for possessing drugs'. I was framed.
> >
>
> I explained to Ruth, perhaps my indicator was not strong enough.
Regardless,
> even curiosity bears responsibility. Though I do not like to condemn for
such.
>
> >
> > 'It ain't unusual to be wrong every now & then, dah, dah dah dooo'.
>
> as with me.
>
> joseph
> + ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gniht ym tup
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
>

DISCUSSION

for Snobz only...


It's official,

Rhizome is

for Snobz only...

conformity is bliss.