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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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Ouch Those Monkeys.


Hi Eric,

Thank you for your encouraging feedback regarding the 'OTM' music.

Run Monkey Run, is cute whilst at the same time angst ridden- obviously
this my own intepretation and is superficial to some extent as a
reflection, but sometimes its good to let the work make its own noise...

marc

>really like the run monkey run
>http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/musik/run_monkey_run.mp3
>chunky
>Eric
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Ouch Those Monkeys.


Ouch Those Monkeys.

An explorative and prolific net-based band. Creating sounds that are
primarily electronic, using computers to cut up noises/beats that grind
with a playful and poetic dysfunction. 'OTM' are rapidly becoming part
of the Internet landscape, leaving heart-felt unsettling messages for
the Net world. Diverting the mediated gaze/haze, bypassing the delusory
bimbo-pop trap and just gettng on with making their contemporary,
imaginative noise without compromise.

The 2 most downloaded tracks 'this week' off the OTM site so far are:-

167 downloads -
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/cyber_sex_sensation.htm
102 downloads -
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/valentines_day.htm

Links to all the tracks on the site:
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/all_trax.htm

Main link:
http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/

EVENT

New Sound & Reviews at FurtherNoise.org


Dates:
Tue Jan 24, 2006 00:00 - Tue Jan 24, 2006

New Sound & Reviews at FurtherNoise.org

http://www.furthernoise.org

For the first edition of 2006, kick off your winter worn galoshas and
step into the warmth. Explore the varied and explorative talents
featured on Furthernoise.

Furthernoise features Canadian sonic comics The Dry Heeves and Dale
Lloyds collaborative album Amalgram on the net label Conv. The King of
Norwegian Noise, Lasse Marhaug is the subject of Mark Francombes feature
on the Norwegian Art Noise scene.

Other reviews include:

UK improvised guitar & drum duo Ian Kearey and Paul Wigens.
Argentinian orchestral composer Serge Smilovich.
Italian ambient artist Enrico Cosimi.
Australian sonic art star Jodie Rose with her double album Singing
Bridges release Vibrations : Variations.

A/V Net performances now online.

And what seems to be of popular interest these days by the many visitors
to the site is, the A/V net performances on Visitors Studio
http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/, which the net art group Furtherfield
http://www.furtherfield.org has generously offered for us NoiseNiks to
creatively abuse at will;-)

We now have last years A/V net performances on Visitors Studio archived,
available through the following artists links in the Editors Forward.
They feature Mark Francombe, John Kannenberg, Chris Vine and french A/V
duo 2Toms. Stretching the studio's capabilities to it's limits these
performances are some of the most innovative to date. Highly recommended
viewing / listening.

'Exploration in Sound' compilation.

Due to the encouraging success from various radio stations such as
resonance fm (UK) and Spanish radio, and many visitors downloading the
Net Label content, with some pretty cool feedback. We are now feverishly
setting up the next 'Exploration in Sound' compilation.

Furthernoise.org - Explorations in Sound is a net label releasing
quarterly high quality MP3 compilations of adventurous critical music &
sounds. Each selection is a limited edition release, available free to
download (artwork included) for 3 months before being replaced by the
next editions compilation. We will be featuring a diverse array of
artists and groups who are pushing the boundaries of their genre and
exploring new terrains that communicate via sound.

We have an open submissions poilicy for these releases and you don't
necessarily have to be featured in any edition to be considered for
inclusion. Please visit the Furthenoise link at the top of the page for
more details.


DISCUSSION

Re: I Taught Myself Everything I Know: Autodidactism in New Media Art


Hi Mark,

> The conversation will examine the idea of what constitutes a
self-taught new media artist, and whether this terminology applies to
digital artwork being created today.

Yes, for me and some of the other people that I am working with...

I was wondering whether this conversation wil be streamed at all?

marc

>I Taught Myself Everything I Know: Autodidactism in New Media Art
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>A panel discussion with Mary Flanagan, W. Bradford Paley, and Keiko Uenishi AKA o.blaat, moderated by Mark Tribe
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>American Folk Art Museum
>45 West 53rd Street (between 5th and 6th)
>New York, NY
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>10am, Sunday, January 29. Coffee provided!
>$10 general; $5 members, seniors, students
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>Moderator Mark Tribe, an artist, curator, and educator whose interests lie at the intersection of emerging technologies and contemporary art, and panelists Mary Flanagan, W. Bradford Paley, and Keiko Uenishi AKA o.blaat, new media artists, will discuss the conceptual, aesthetic, and technological demands of the field. The conversation will examine the idea of what constitutes a self-taught new media artist, and whether this terminology applies to digital artwork being created today.
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>For more information, please contact Diana Schlesinger <dschlesinger@folkartmuseum.org>
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