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

Open Access: 11th FILE Festival in Sao Paulo.


Dates:
Thu Aug 26, 2010 00:00 - Thu Aug 26, 2010

Open Access: 11th FILE Festival in Sao Paulo.

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Review by Pau Waelder.

Between July 27th and August 29th, 2010, the eleventh edition of the FILE festival is taking place in Sao Paulo (Brazil), at several locations along the popular Paulista Avenue. After a decade of existence, this veteran festival, which spreads over several cities in Brazil (including Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre) as well as other international locations, has introduced for the first time its own award: the FILE PRIX LUX. With a total amount of approximately 120,000 euros, distributed in three categories, the prize is unprecedented in the continent and has received, on this first edition, 1,235 registrations from 44 countries.

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A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

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

Furtherfield - art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

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

Netbehaviour - A networked Artist Community (email list).
http://www.netbehaviour.org


EVENT

lists, boards, friends + feeds (PART V)


Dates:
Mon Aug 16, 2010 00:00 - Mon Aug 16, 2010

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In "lists, boards, friends + feeds (PART V)" jonCates details the automagical artware machines of Jake Elliott. From the social networks of Twitter, Tumblr and local Media Art Histories of Glitch Art in Chicago, Elliott's prolific 'conceptual artware mashups' (as he calls them) entangle Pop Art, Situationist detournement, APIs and our
assumptions of how to relate to one another online. This is the fifth and final entry in jonCates' "lists, boards, friends + feeds" series of texts.

jonCates writes for Furtherfield as well as other online and offline publications including upcoming collections on Art and Games from Penn State University Press and on Media Art Histories from Chicago University Press and The University of Melbourne.


EVENT

Review of the Ambient Information Systems publication.


Dates:
Fri Aug 13, 2010 00:00 - Fri Aug 13, 2010

Review of the Ambient Information Systems publication.

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Article by Rob Myers.

Ambient Information Systems by Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel is a hardback book that presents a comprehensive and in-depth, historical context by ambient.tv (Luksch and her collaborators) from during the last decade. The material presented in the book ranges from written essays and project proposals through preparatory sketches, computer server log files and video screen grabs to modification of the printed book iteslf by unique rubber stamps and scribbling over sections of text. This diverse and detailed presentation of ambient.tv's work provides an insight into the inspiration, planning and production of some conceptually and aesthetically rich new media art.

About Ambient.tv

Mukul Patel and Manu Luksch codirect Ambient Information Systems (AIS), a crucible for the conception and production of collaborative, interdisciplinary, and critical artworks, events, and tools. They work as artists under their own names and also as ambientTV.NET. They have a history of conceiving works that integrate curatorial and collaborative aspects (e.g., VBI), research (FACELESS and the Data Protection Act), community involvement (BOW SPACE), and hybrid media installations (ORCHESTRA OF ANXIETY). Of particular interest are concrete, contemporary issues that arise at the interface of social and technical infrastructures: access to information, privacy, surveillance. The establishment of participative processes, creation of tools, and archiving and documentation are signal features of recent projects.

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Other Info:


A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

We are on identi.ca & Twitter

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

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

Furtherfield - art, technology, social change
http://www.furtherfield.org

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


DISCUSSION

EVENT

Sprint As Process - Eclectic Tech Carnival (/ETC).


Dates:
Tue Aug 10, 2010 00:00 - Tue Aug 10, 2010

Sprint As Process - Eclectic Tech Carnival (/ETC).

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Article by Helen Varley Jamieson.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=401

In June 2010 Helen went to Madrid for the Eclectic Tech Carnival (/ETC) website workweek - On a 'sprint', a collective effort of five women coming together for a week to rebuild the group's website, physically & remotely.

Teams respond to the unpredictability of building software through incremental, iterative work cadences, known as sprints. Sprint methodology, a concept first met in Agile software development, but one that is being increasingly applied as a successful creative collaboration methodology. During the workweek Helen blogged about the process and this article is an assemblage of these posts.

The new Eclectic Tech Carnival's (Drupal-based) web site is now live:
http://www.eclectictechcarnival.org/

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Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

We are on identi.ca & Twitter

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

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

Furtherfield - Art, Technology and Social Change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

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