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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EVENT

If not you not me: Annie Abrahams closing party + bonus activities: 3-5pm Saturday 20th March


Dates:
Fri Mar 19, 2010 00:00 - Fri Mar 19, 2010

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Please join us this weekend
3-5pm, Saturday 20 March, HTTP Gallery, London
(http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml)

Last chance to see 'If not you not me: Annie Abrahams' at HTTP Gallery. http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.shtml

Join in with some Guerrilla Gardening with the Urban Wilderness Action Centre.
AND to join us in wishing Lauren Wright a farewell from the Furtherfield.org team.

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Come along for the closing hours of the exhibition If not you not me: Annie Abrahams; contribute to the telematic work Shared Still Life / Nature Morte Partagée and enjoy documentation of other networked performances. A last opportunity to see the show, or to find out how it's evolved in the past month.

Also on that afternoon guerrilla gardeners activated by Tim Osborn and Kai-Oi Jay Yung with the Urban Wilderness Action Centre will be digging and seeding a scruffy strip of mud that edges the communal car park outside HTTP Gallery. The interchange between sites in London, Berlin, and New York will be carried out via updates and pictures onto the UWAC website as well as tips and interviews and twitter posts on http://twitter.com/uwac
http://uwac.anewfuckingwilderness.com/ Bring your own seeds and gardening fork if you would like to get involved or just relax and watch others get their hands dirty; )

Finally our Assistant Director Lauren Wright will be leaving Furtherfield.org in April after nearly four years. She'll be taking up a fantastic new job as Curator at Turner Contemporary in Margate, so come along to toast her contribution and wish her well.

Refreshments will be served!
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Hope to see you then

Best wishes
Marc and the Furtherfield crew

Now at HTTP:
If not you not me - Annie Abrahams
Open 12 February - 20 March 2010

Info at: http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/ifnotyounotme/index.shtml

Furtherfield.org
Unit A2 Arena Design Centre
71 Ashfield Road
London N4 1NY
T +44(0)208 802 2827


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F.A.T Lab at Transmediale.10


Dates:
Sun Mar 14, 2010 00:00 - Sun Mar 14, 2010

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A collaborative article and interview
by Marcello Lussana and Gaia Novati:

Whilst exploring the different happenings, projects and artworks at Transmediale.10, Marcello Lussana and Gaia Novati interviewed Evan Roth, a member of the dynamic F.A.T. Lab group.

"An interesting outsider project at Transmediale.10 this year, was F.A.T Lab (Free Art and Technology Lab). A collective of artists, engineers, scientists, lawyers, musicians and trouble-makers who have been working together for two years, on the intersections of Pop culture and Open source. Their stapline describes them as "An organization who is dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media."

For Transmediale.10 they presented a project called Fuck Google, focusing on reminding us all how this big company has become omnipresent in our digital lives, refering to the risk that too much data is owned and is going to be owned more and more, just by Google alone. It exists as a collection of browser add-ons, open source software, theoretical musings and direct actions.

Read their other article Transmediale.10 - Futurity Now! here:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=380

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Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

Furtherfield's 1st broadcast on Resonance FM
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org

VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html

Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org


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Download Furtherfield's first Broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM.


Dates:
Thu Mar 11, 2010 00:00 - Thu Mar 11, 2010

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A big thanks to all those who listened live, as well as those who sent emails and tweets about the programme on the night. It feels good to know that people are out there listening and interested...

You can download and listen to our first programme here:
http://tinyurl.com/yhtn346

Next broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM:
9.30pm-10.30pm Tuesday 6th April 2010.
A series of eight weekly broadcasts.

A live, jam-packed, hour-long review of contemporary media arts culture. Marc Garrett and Charlotte Frost interviewed Douglas Dodds, Senior Curator at the V&A and Mztek founders, Sophie Macdonald & Sally Northmore. Other features included noise-collages, soundscapes and exploratory music...

More information about the programme here:
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

This programme is part of 'Hyperlink: Media Art Contexts' whose principal aim is to present and promote high-quality contemporary media art work, alongside critical discussion of past, present and future media art in a contemporary art context.

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About Furtherfield.org
Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. Furtherfield.org also runs HTTP Gallery in North London.

http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.http.uk.net/

About ResonanceFM
ResonanceFM is "a laboratory for experimentation, that by virtue of its uniqueness brings into being a new audience of listeners and creators. All this and more, Resonance104.4fm aims to make London's airwaves available to the widest possible range of practitioners of contemporary art."

Resonance 104.4FM
http://www.resonancefm.com


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HTML Color Codes - Reviewed...


Dates:
Wed Mar 10, 2010 00:00 - Wed Mar 10, 2010

Reviewed by Susan Ballard.

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Curated by Carolyn Kane for Rhizome.org September, 2009.

The HTML Color Codes exhibition features a selection of internet based artwork that address the topic of digital color. The central question that the exhibition poses is whether or not artists working with the internet are in fact limited to a "ready-made" color palette, a premise that many artists working with film, photography, and mass produced, standardized paint sets have assumed. The rationale for this question stems from theories of perception that argue that color is a not ready-made object found in a paint set or machine, but rather it is an experience that results from a complex process of light interacting with the retina and human nervous system.

Dr. Susan Ballard is a writer, curator, musician and artist who spends her time writing, thinking and teaching about contemporary digital and time-based installation art, sound and noise. Her current research investigates the contribution of artists to contemporary notions of utopia and the political and cultural implications of a materialist reading of media cultures in antipodean environments. Su is the Principal Lecturer in Electronic Arts at the Dunedin School of Art, in New Zealand. Her book The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader was published in 2008. She is a founding trustee of ADA (http://www.aotearoadigitalarts.org) New Zealand's digital artists network. She tends to blog here: http://housesparrow.blogspot.com

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Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

We are on Resonance FM Radio
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php

We are on Twitter
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews/articles/interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org

Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org

VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html

Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org


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Furtherfield now on Resonance FM - A must listen!


Dates:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 00:00 - Fri Mar 05, 2010

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Furtherfield's first programme on Resonance FM is a live, jam-packed, hour-long review of contemporary media arts culture. This week, Marc Garrett and Charlotte Frost will interview Douglas Dodds, Senior Curator at the V&A and Mztek founders, Sophie Macdonald & Sally Northmore. Other features include interviews with artists and curators recorded during the Crumb symposium, as part of this week's AV Festival, in Newcastle. Noise-collages, soundscapes and exploratory music, will also be featured.

More information about featured guests:

Douglas Dodds is co-curator of the exhibition 'Digital Pioneers' at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). This is part of the Computer Art & Technocultures project, an Arts and Humanities Research project studying the history of computer-generated art. The project is based jointly at Birkbeck and the Victoria and Albert Museum. This is exhibited in parallel with Decode: Digital Design Sensations
http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/Digital%20Pioneers/index.html

Sophie Macdonald and Sally Northmore are co-founders of Mztek. A non- profit collective with the aim of encouraging women artists to pick up technical skills in the fields of new media, computer arts, and technology. Based in London and supported by Hackney arts institution [ space ], hosting a range of women only workshops, talks, and self-initiated tinker sessions. http://www.mztek.org

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About Furtherfield.org
Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. Furtherfield.org also runs HTTP Gallery in North London.

http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.http.uk.net/

About ResonanceFM
ResonanceFM is "a laboratory for experimentation, that by virtue of its uniqueness brings into being a new audience of listeners and creators. All this and more, Resonance104.4fm aims to make London's airwaves available to the widest possible range of practitioners of contemporary art."

Resonance 104.4FM
http://www.resonancefm.com