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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.
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.
Re: Ubuntu: a Linux noob's\_sto ry\_
Hi t.whid,
I have been delving back into linux. I had a brief experience with it
before the internet camre along using 'Red Hat/wild cat', for the
'CyberCafe' Bulletin Board in the UK, using it, but not actually
installing it...
Now I am doing all that stuff - learning it all etc, via using Suse
(downloaded) 9.1. It is much harder than it would be. Although, it is a
pretty ace software - with all the other stuff that I am involved in,
sometimes you just wanna go to something that you already know by
mannerism, like windows or a mac - but sticking to it is helping me to
relearn things about myself and my own laziness. Repetitive use of use
of computers creates behaviour patterns that are a bit slack really...it
makes one conform - if using a computer ain't making one conform enough
in the 1st place 'sheesh'...
Anyway - I'm making new stuff on Linux, and it's enlightening... I being
re-educated -------------- (shit, not again?)
marc
> Ubuntu: a Linux noob
I have been delving back into linux. I had a brief experience with it
before the internet camre along using 'Red Hat/wild cat', for the
'CyberCafe' Bulletin Board in the UK, using it, but not actually
installing it...
Now I am doing all that stuff - learning it all etc, via using Suse
(downloaded) 9.1. It is much harder than it would be. Although, it is a
pretty ace software - with all the other stuff that I am involved in,
sometimes you just wanna go to something that you already know by
mannerism, like windows or a mac - but sticking to it is helping me to
relearn things about myself and my own laziness. Repetitive use of use
of computers creates behaviour patterns that are a bit slack really...it
makes one conform - if using a computer ain't making one conform enough
in the 1st place 'sheesh'...
Anyway - I'm making new stuff on Linux, and it's enlightening... I being
re-educated -------------- (shit, not again?)
marc
> Ubuntu: a Linux noob
Re: Frieze on Political Art
Hi Rob and list,
Yes - I read this, and I thought that Dan had some valid pointers,
especially in regard to that 'meaning' is floundering when residing on a
gallery wall. But, then what is a socially aware or reflective
individual/group to do? Are they to be seen as just noise makers,
expounding hollow rhetoric, rather than at least trying to acknowledge,
voicing genuine disdaine using, various political reasonings, via their
creative processes?
In respect of recusant work that refuses to tow the line to authority -
as in it is not going to change much of the world that we are liviing in
now anyway. I think that this is only partly true, because such a fate
accompli statement is almost like saying well - whatever you say and do
you have lost anyway, so why bother to try and change anything. Which is
bit slack...
I mean what is wrong in not towing the line - have we really gone so far
as to say that it is wrong to have a political voice?
In his article - he does not really venture far outside the white cube,
thus it is not really seeing other things that are happening beyond an
established art arena. Fair enough to some point - he is engulfed in his
work, but there is a lot more going on, as we all know. So, I cannot
take this article that seriously - for it is not being representative,
and looks inwards rather than outwards.
I have heard the 'value' judgement many times in reference to an art
piece or creative/political art, labeling as too literal, which really
means - bad art. This is such an opt out clause used too many times,
denying the creator a voice to express their creastive reasoning beyond
the imposed dialect of assumed purest-led sensibilities. Yes - sometimes
literal art can be bad, but only some of it, yes art can be bad, but not
necessarily all of it.
To slap one big sticker onto political art is to say all of it is bad -
which in its own way is a political act and an action of conservatism,
which to be honest is not helping any of us at the moment.
marc
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.http.uk.net/
>"I fear that the symbols of recusance aren't going to effect much
change as they progress from studio to museum wall.
>Surface references can preclude discussion since they suggest that
deeper meaning implicitly resides in the work. The engage artist can
mistake reproducing historical images of political activism for activism
itself, and, as a result, is in danger of being no better than a
nostalgist, performing cover versions of other people's slogans. (As
Morrissey sang, 'I thought if you had an acoustic guitar, it meant you
were a protest singer'.)"
>
>http://www.frieze.com/column_single.asp?c8
>
>I tend to think of Wolfie Smith or the JPF rather than Rick, though...
:-)
>
>- Rob.
>
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Yes - I read this, and I thought that Dan had some valid pointers,
especially in regard to that 'meaning' is floundering when residing on a
gallery wall. But, then what is a socially aware or reflective
individual/group to do? Are they to be seen as just noise makers,
expounding hollow rhetoric, rather than at least trying to acknowledge,
voicing genuine disdaine using, various political reasonings, via their
creative processes?
In respect of recusant work that refuses to tow the line to authority -
as in it is not going to change much of the world that we are liviing in
now anyway. I think that this is only partly true, because such a fate
accompli statement is almost like saying well - whatever you say and do
you have lost anyway, so why bother to try and change anything. Which is
bit slack...
I mean what is wrong in not towing the line - have we really gone so far
as to say that it is wrong to have a political voice?
In his article - he does not really venture far outside the white cube,
thus it is not really seeing other things that are happening beyond an
established art arena. Fair enough to some point - he is engulfed in his
work, but there is a lot more going on, as we all know. So, I cannot
take this article that seriously - for it is not being representative,
and looks inwards rather than outwards.
I have heard the 'value' judgement many times in reference to an art
piece or creative/political art, labeling as too literal, which really
means - bad art. This is such an opt out clause used too many times,
denying the creator a voice to express their creastive reasoning beyond
the imposed dialect of assumed purest-led sensibilities. Yes - sometimes
literal art can be bad, but only some of it, yes art can be bad, but not
necessarily all of it.
To slap one big sticker onto political art is to say all of it is bad -
which in its own way is a political act and an action of conservatism,
which to be honest is not helping any of us at the moment.
marc
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.http.uk.net/
>"I fear that the symbols of recusance aren't going to effect much
change as they progress from studio to museum wall.
>Surface references can preclude discussion since they suggest that
deeper meaning implicitly resides in the work. The engage artist can
mistake reproducing historical images of political activism for activism
itself, and, as a result, is in danger of being no better than a
nostalgist, performing cover versions of other people's slogans. (As
Morrissey sang, 'I thought if you had an acoustic guitar, it meant you
were a protest singer'.)"
>
>http://www.frieze.com/column_single.asp?c8
>
>I tend to think of Wolfie Smith or the JPF rather than Rick, though...
:-)
>
>- Rob.
>
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*DATA AGENCY*
*Next at HTTP: A SCAN Showcase
======================*
Opens 7pm Saturday 15th January 2005
* *DATA AGENCY**
Fenlandia by Susan Collins
dotdotdot by Igloo
Reverb by Lorie Novak
(AS)RAM by Neil C Smith
We invite you to the opening of the exhibition to view the work and to
meet some of the artists in person.
Artists Private View- 7pm Saturday 15th January 2005
then open to 30th January, Friday - Sunday: 12 noon- 5pm
===============================
Data Agency is a SCAN showcase of live, real-time, online media arts.
Combining found data with content produced by webcams, streamed audio,
generative programmes and their own sounds and visuals, these artists
reconfigure the original function and meaning of the data to create
their own, new devices and meanings, to enhance online arts projects.
*Susan Collins*
Fenlandia features a series of gradually unfolding, digital landscapes
created by images harvested from webcams in rural, technological sites
(Silicon Fen in Norfolk, Silicon Valley in the M4 corridor, and Silicon
Glen in Scotland) around the UK. The data feed from the webcams updates
the images pixel by pixel, recording fluctuation in light and movement
throughout the day. At any one time the viewer experiences a different
version of the image as the pixels change and the piece expands -
Fenlandia extrapolates and develops traditional devices of the landscape
tradition in painting.
Commission by Film and Video Umbrella
*Igloo*
dotdotdot is a new web and installation work. It is the net's first
interactive radio-streaming, motion capture project and is an on-line
choreographic work where viewers select the soundtrack whilst driving
the performance animations.
*Lorie Novak*
Reverb examines the cultural relevance of photographs by interspacing
media images of significant moments from the last 50 years with highly
personal images which place the viewer within a deeply political and
historical context.
Direct broadcasts and archived sounds of historical events, political
speeches, and personal testimonies create different sound/image
permutations each time the piece is played.
*Neil C Smith*
(AS)RAM
Through improvisation and self-generating artworks, Oxford-based artist
Neil C Smith places the creative process in real-time, often remixing
the work of other artists; much of his work is unrecorded and ephemeral.
(AS)RAM is an online development of Neil's solo performance Radio Access
Memory, an improvised remix of live radio.
*Data Agency is a SCAN exhibition produced in association with
Furtherfield at HTTP*
Online exhibition http://www.scansite.org December 2004 - May 2005
*About SCAN*
SCAN is the new media arts agency in the South of England with a
commitment to the delivery and facilitation of collaborative works. The
organisation provides a fertile space for individuals and organisations
to share resources in the realisation of quality projects and
experimental initiatives using emergent technologies and practices.
Using the SCAN website, the physical spaces of our member organisations
and the expertise of our partner organisations, it provides a focal
point for a wide spectrum of digital arts practice. Data Agency is
supported by Arts Council of England
Press release for print (322k)
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib2/data_agency_press_release.pdf
Gallery website http://www.http.uk.net
Getting to HTTP http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.htm
HTTP is a non-profit organisation run by artists and curators of
Furtherfield.org & Dosensos
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.dosensos.org
======================*
Opens 7pm Saturday 15th January 2005
* *DATA AGENCY**
Fenlandia by Susan Collins
dotdotdot by Igloo
Reverb by Lorie Novak
(AS)RAM by Neil C Smith
We invite you to the opening of the exhibition to view the work and to
meet some of the artists in person.
Artists Private View- 7pm Saturday 15th January 2005
then open to 30th January, Friday - Sunday: 12 noon- 5pm
===============================
Data Agency is a SCAN showcase of live, real-time, online media arts.
Combining found data with content produced by webcams, streamed audio,
generative programmes and their own sounds and visuals, these artists
reconfigure the original function and meaning of the data to create
their own, new devices and meanings, to enhance online arts projects.
*Susan Collins*
Fenlandia features a series of gradually unfolding, digital landscapes
created by images harvested from webcams in rural, technological sites
(Silicon Fen in Norfolk, Silicon Valley in the M4 corridor, and Silicon
Glen in Scotland) around the UK. The data feed from the webcams updates
the images pixel by pixel, recording fluctuation in light and movement
throughout the day. At any one time the viewer experiences a different
version of the image as the pixels change and the piece expands -
Fenlandia extrapolates and develops traditional devices of the landscape
tradition in painting.
Commission by Film and Video Umbrella
*Igloo*
dotdotdot is a new web and installation work. It is the net's first
interactive radio-streaming, motion capture project and is an on-line
choreographic work where viewers select the soundtrack whilst driving
the performance animations.
*Lorie Novak*
Reverb examines the cultural relevance of photographs by interspacing
media images of significant moments from the last 50 years with highly
personal images which place the viewer within a deeply political and
historical context.
Direct broadcasts and archived sounds of historical events, political
speeches, and personal testimonies create different sound/image
permutations each time the piece is played.
*Neil C Smith*
(AS)RAM
Through improvisation and self-generating artworks, Oxford-based artist
Neil C Smith places the creative process in real-time, often remixing
the work of other artists; much of his work is unrecorded and ephemeral.
(AS)RAM is an online development of Neil's solo performance Radio Access
Memory, an improvised remix of live radio.
*Data Agency is a SCAN exhibition produced in association with
Furtherfield at HTTP*
Online exhibition http://www.scansite.org December 2004 - May 2005
*About SCAN*
SCAN is the new media arts agency in the South of England with a
commitment to the delivery and facilitation of collaborative works. The
organisation provides a fertile space for individuals and organisations
to share resources in the realisation of quality projects and
experimental initiatives using emergent technologies and practices.
Using the SCAN website, the physical spaces of our member organisations
and the expertise of our partner organisations, it provides a focal
point for a wide spectrum of digital arts practice. Data Agency is
supported by Arts Council of England
Press release for print (322k)
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib2/data_agency_press_release.pdf
Gallery website http://www.http.uk.net
Getting to HTTP http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.htm
HTTP is a non-profit organisation run by artists and curators of
Furtherfield.org & Dosensos
http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.dosensos.org
Re: huh?
Shouldn't that be murderer of the year?
marc
Pall Thayer wrote:
> Time magazine names George W. Bush man of the year.
>
marc
Pall Thayer wrote:
> Time magazine names George W. Bush man of the year.
>
Netbehaviour is Back!
Yes - the list is back!
And yep - the server was hacked, but moving on from such dreary
experiences. The main thing is, that everything is in fine-working order
once again.
Much thanks to those who sent us emails, and even phoned us with their
genuine concerns, offering very generous thoughts, ideas and sympathies
- that was exactly what we needed, a bit of support in such dark
moments. So, hats of to you :-)
Also big shout goes out to Sim for carrying the baton, on his own site
with a temporary version of Netbehaviour, whilst we were in the midst of
fixing the server problems.
A lot has gone on since then..
and much is happening - especially regarding 'server collectives'.
Anyway, welcome back everybody - let's get busy.
marc
p.s. note that the email address: is now list@netbehaviour.org
+WHAT IS NET BEHAVIOUR?
Netbehaviour is an open email list community for sharing ideas, posting
events, opportunities, facilitating collaborations in the area of
artists, academics, soft groups, writers, code geeks, curators,
independent thinkers, relationalists, activists, networkers, net
mutualists, new media types, new media performers, net sufi's, non
nationalists. Join in and get involved make our history here and now
before its too late, before someone else does it all for us instead...
Remember You as in We, are the medium - we are the context - We are on
the frontline - We are the real source of networked creativity.
What are you waiting for?
subscribe and build...
+HOW TO JOIN THE LIST
To subscribe to the netbehaviour email list, please send an email to
majordomo@netbehaviour.org, leave the subject header blank and in the
body of the message type 'subscribe list'
To unsubscribe please type 'unsubscribe list' in the body of the message
And yep - the server was hacked, but moving on from such dreary
experiences. The main thing is, that everything is in fine-working order
once again.
Much thanks to those who sent us emails, and even phoned us with their
genuine concerns, offering very generous thoughts, ideas and sympathies
- that was exactly what we needed, a bit of support in such dark
moments. So, hats of to you :-)
Also big shout goes out to Sim for carrying the baton, on his own site
with a temporary version of Netbehaviour, whilst we were in the midst of
fixing the server problems.
A lot has gone on since then..
and much is happening - especially regarding 'server collectives'.
Anyway, welcome back everybody - let's get busy.
marc
p.s. note that the email address: is now list@netbehaviour.org
+WHAT IS NET BEHAVIOUR?
Netbehaviour is an open email list community for sharing ideas, posting
events, opportunities, facilitating collaborations in the area of
artists, academics, soft groups, writers, code geeks, curators,
independent thinkers, relationalists, activists, networkers, net
mutualists, new media types, new media performers, net sufi's, non
nationalists. Join in and get involved make our history here and now
before its too late, before someone else does it all for us instead...
Remember You as in We, are the medium - we are the context - We are on
the frontline - We are the real source of networked creativity.
What are you waiting for?
subscribe and build...
+HOW TO JOIN THE LIST
To subscribe to the netbehaviour email list, please send an email to
majordomo@netbehaviour.org, leave the subject header blank and in the
body of the message type 'subscribe list'
To unsubscribe please type 'unsubscribe list' in the body of the message