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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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New Reviews/Interviews on Furtherfield.org (July 06).


Dates:
Wed Jul 26, 2006 00:00 - Wed Jul 26, 2006

New Reviews/Interviews on Furtherfield.org (July 06).

http://www.furtherfield.org

The Ultrasound of Therapy by Staalplaat Soundsystem.
One of a number of pieces reclaiming the body from a post-material
world. A therapeutic process including anything in the range from
homeopathy to electroshock therapy brings the bodies back to life.
Staalplaat Soundsystem, the audio art collective based in Amsterdam,
celebrates the physical power of sound in an installation, which is
currently shown at Manchester’s Cornerhouse. Reviewer: Mathias Fuchs.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id3

An Interview with Jeanie Finlay about Homemaker.
Entering the domestic spaces of seven people living in Tokyo or
Derbyshire, Finlay centres in on the household as a way of uncovering
individual interaction with public and private selves. Telling personal
stories with the aid of house-hold objects, fragments of narrative, and
new media technologies is a new way of thinking about portraiture.
Interview by Jess Laccetti.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id2

Handmade Electronic Music.
A review of The Art of Hardware Hacking by Nicolas Collins.
In Nicolas Collins’ book, we shake off the bounds of mass produced
software, of expensive consumer electronics and re-enter the exploratory
worlds of early electronic experimentalists such as David Tudor & Alvin
Lucier, riding the pulsating waves of sonic history through to
contemporary hardware hackers & instrument builders such as Xentos
‘Fray’ Bentos, Phil Archer, John Bowers & of course Nicolas Collins
himself. What an enlightening journey it is too. Reviewer: Liam Wells.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id1

Tijuana Calling: an exercise on virtual coyote tactics.
Mark Tribe, founder of Rhizome.org and the man behind Tijuana Calling,
defines the net-based works as “playful disruptions” that address urgent
issues such as migration flows, cultural translation, surveillance and
hybridity. Indeed, the common thread that connects Turista Fronterizo
(Ricardo Dominguez and Coco Fusco), Tj Cybercholos (Fran Illich),
LowDrone (Angel Nevarez and Alex Rivera), Corridos (Anne-Marie Schleiner
and Luis Hernandez) and DENTIMUNDO (Ricardo Miranda Zuniga) is the
commitment to pollute cyberspace through an intermittent translation of
the borderland experience. An insight into border-crossing in a
borderless space, Tijuana Calling, an on-line exhibition features five
commissioned projects by artists living on both sides of the border
Mexico-U.S. Presented in October 2005, the exhibition is one of the
“scenarios” of inSite_05, a network of art practices exploring the
cultural and sociological nature of the Tijuana-San Diego borderland.
Reviewer: Maria Guglietti.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id0

All reviews:
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreviews.php
Reviewers at Furtherfield:
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviewersbio.php


DISCUSSION

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: The conscience of the people speaks


Hi Helen,

We need something like that - cuz those shallow, rich. powerful boyz
cannot handle their resposibilties...

marc

> is it time for the revolution then?
>
> At 12:40 PM +0100 22/7/06, marc wrote:
>
>> Hi Helen,
>>
>> We are living in truly depressing times ruled by truly disgusting
>> people...
>>
>> marc
>>
>
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DISCUSSION

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: The conscience of the people speaks


Hi Helen,

We are living in truly depressing times ruled by truly disgusting people...

marc

> i also just heard on the news that the usa is fast-tracking a special
> order of guided missiles to israel as we speak ... & earlier this
> evening heard condoleeza rice describe the attrocities as "the birth
> pangs of a new middle east" ... !!!!!!! i doubt the civilians dying
> in southern lebanon would equate the experience to "birth pangs" ...
>
> there were protests here in NZ today but the info was woefully too
> little too late & i didn't know about it until it was over. a couple
> of hundred people in each of auckland & wellington i believe.
>
> h : (
>
> At 12:11 PM +0100 22/7/06, marc wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael and all,
>>
>> "This week, George Bush used his presidential veto to block a bill on
>> stem cell research, saying he couldn't support the 'taking of
>> innocent human life'. In Iraq, six civilians are killed by a US air
>> strike, while casualties in Lebanon and Israel mount. George Bush
>> (and Tony Blair) oppose UN calls for an immediate ceasefire."
>> Independent 22nd July 06.
>> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1190527.ece
>>
>> The front page of the Independent today says it all really...
>> http://news.independent.co.uk
>>
>> marc
>>
>
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DISCUSSION

Re: [NetBehaviour] Fwd: The conscience of the people speaks


Hi Michael and all,

"This week, George Bush used his presidential veto to block a bill on
stem cell research, saying he couldn't support the 'taking of innocent
human life'. In Iraq, six civilians are killed by a US air strike, while
casualties in Lebanon and Israel mount. George Bush (and Tony Blair)
oppose UN calls for an immediate ceasefire." Independent 22nd July 06.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1190527.ece

The front page of the Independent today says it all really...
http://news.independent.co.uk

marc

>This is a tad late, I know. I'm just leaving the
>house.
>I urge any Brits within reach of one of these demos to
>attend ( don't know what's happening in the US I'm
>afraid)
>best
>michael
>
>--- Stop the War Coalition <office@stopwar.org.uk>
>wrote:
>
>
>
>>To: stwc@lists.riseup.net
>>Subject: The conscience of the people speaks
>>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:06:14 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: "Stop the War Coalition"
>><office@stopwar.org.uk>
>>
>>STOP THE WAR COALITION
>>NEWSLETTER No. 2006/26
>>22 July 2006
>>Email office@stopwar.org.uk
>>Telephone 020 7278 6694
>>Web: www.stopwar.org.uk
>>
>>IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
>>1) THE CONSCIENCE OF THE PEOPLE
>>2) ISRAEL'S CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
>>3) HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS AND ISRAEL
>>
>>************************************
>>1) THE CONSCIENCE OF THE PEOPLE
>>As Israel orders the whole population of southern
>>lebanon to flee their homes before a full-scale
>>invasion of Lebanon, the whole world except George
>>Bush and Tony Blair says Israel's war crimes must
>>stop now. Virtually every government in the world is
>>calling for an immediate ceasefire, with the only
>>exceptions being George Bush and his slavishly
>>obedient servant Tony Blair. Everyone knows who the
>>Archibishop of Canterbury was talking about when he
>>said, ""We really do have to ask whether some
>>western governments are catching up with the
>>consciences of their people."
>>
>>Today, 22 July 2006, that conscience of the people
>>will be heard in emergency demonstrations all over
>>the world. In London and other cities and towns
>>across Britain, the protests calling for an end to
>>Israel's crimes against humanity will say yet again
>>to Tony Blair that his warmongering is not in the
>>name of the British people and demand that the
>>British government adds its voice to the call for an
>>immediate ceasefire.
>>
>>Israel is sytematically destroying two countries,
>>Lebanon and Palestinian Gaza. None of us can stand
>>aside in silence and watch this happen. Join the
>>demonstrations taking place in London today and
>>across Britain (details below), when the conscience
>>of the British people will speak.
>>
>>EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION
>>END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW
>>LONDON: SATURDAY 22 JULY
>>
>>ASSEMBLE WHITEHALL PLACE, SW1, 12 NOON
>>(Nearest tube: Embankment. Please note there are
>>some tube restrictions this
>>weekend)
>>
>>ROUTE: Whitehall Place, Trafalgar Square, Pall Mall,
>>Piccadilly, Berkeley
>>Street, Grosvenor Square (by US Embassy), Park Lane,
>>Hyde Park.
>>
>>ORGANISED BY: Stop the War Coalition, Palestine
>>Solidarity Campaign, Muslim
>>Association of Britain, British Muslim Initiative,
>>Lebanese organisations.
>>
>>STEWARDS NEEDED FOR LONDON DEMONSTRATION: If you
>>would like to help us
>>organise the demonstration, come to the stewards'
>>meeting point: Embankment Tube at 10.00am
>>
>>EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATIONS ROUND THE COUNTRY:
>>Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh,
>>Exeter, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, Manchester, Newcastle,
>>Norwich, Sheffield, Southampton, York.
>>FOR DETAILS GO TO: http://tinyurl.com/naz5d
>>
>>************************************
>>2) ISRAEL'S CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
>>Writer Dahr Jamail details the international laws
>>which Israel is committing in its onslaught on
>>Lebanon and Gaza, in which he concludes: "To
>>initiate a war of aggression, is not only an
>>international crime; it is the supreme international
>>crime differing only from other war crimes in that
>>it contains within itself the accumulated evil of
>>the whole. This is exactly what Israel is doing in
>>Lebanon,aided and abetted by the leaders of the US
>>government and all those who support them.
>>TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE, GO TO:
>>http://tinyurl.com/h237o
>>
>>************************************
>>3) HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS AND ISRAEL
>>Writer Alexander Cockburn writes:
>>"So here we are, 24 years after Israel did its best
>>to destroy Lebanon in 1982, here it is doing it all
>>over again. Since Israel can't endure the idea of
>>any just settlement for Palestinians, it's the only
>>thing it knows how to do. Call Lebanon a
>>terror-haven and bomb it back to the stone age. Call
>>Gaza a terror-haven and bomb its power plant, first
>>stop on the journey back to the stone age. Bomb
>>Damascus. Bomb Teheran.
>>
>>Of course they won't destroy Hezbollah. Every time
>>they kill another Lebanese family, they multiply
>>hatred of Israel and support for Hezbollah. They've
>>even unified the parliament in Baghdad, which just
>>voted unanimously -- Sunnis and Shi'ites and Kurds
>>alike -- to deplore Israel's conduct and to call
>>for a ceasefire.
>>TO READ THIS ESSENTIAL ARTICLE GO TO:
>>http://tinyurl.com/r6goc
>>
>>************************************
>>EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION
>>END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW
>>LONDON: SATURDAY 22 JULY
>>ASSEMBLE WHITEHALL PLACE, SW1, 12 NOON
>>(Nearest tube: Embankment. Please note there are
>>some tube restrictions this
>>weekend)
>>
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Re: Re: Re: Re: what are we calling ourselves?


I proclaim that we should claim the words Nibble & Nibblers...

'Nibblers' of the void unite!

Dammit - it'll probably be claimed back and placed it in the history
books, as 'Nibble-ism', then we'll have to nibble on the aeshtetics of
nibble-ist theory, then post-nibble-ism, yikes - and then we are in
trouble - crumbs ;-)

marc

>
> Am 17.07.2006 um 18:50 schrieb Steve OR Steven Read:
>
> These are all dangerous terms. I think its safer if we forgo language
> altogether and just chirp, grunt, and moan when we think of art.
>
>
>
> MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
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