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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.
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.
worm
~~~~~~~~Worm
my flesh, frame and innards
is substance
water, iron & blood
and a combination of visceral functions
it is active
I use it
it uses me
like a worm
I eat the world external, I gulp
and then I shit
what was once internal
a recycled pulp
the world is my fuel
commodified and made easy
for the process
society is my parent
and it feeds my hunger
like a worm
I eat my world's resources
it manufactures my body
I accept in submission
what is and what must be
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Worm
<<<<<index
my flesh, frame and innards
is substance
water, iron & blood
and a combination of visceral functions
it is active
I use it
it uses me
like a worm
I eat the world external, I gulp
and then I shit
what was once internal
a recycled pulp
the world is my fuel
commodified and made easy
for the process
society is my parent
and it feeds my hunger
like a worm
I eat my world's resources
it manufactures my body
I accept in submission
what is and what must be
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Worm
<<<<<index
memory
memory =
memory = ...
One day, I came across a very close friend of whom I once shared many
intimate experiences with, in fact I remembered that we both enjoyed
rather good ....
We laughed and giggled and she reminded of when she ...... me in the =
woods
My mind spun, caught in the flux of hazy memory bites. Then I mention=
ed that
may be we should have another go at putting my .... .... where the su=
n does
not shine.
We both blushed at the idea whilst we both stood in a busy precinct a=
mongst
many other souls wandering about, not knowing of our intimate verbal &
sensual retorts. Then I suggested that it might be fun if we ..... ea=
ch
others bodies together, entwined.
We both shuddered at the thought of mutual entwinement, then she pull=
ed out
a picture of me as I was .......
That was it, she had saved it, that moment & essence of us together s=
haring
a passion that was bigger than any small minded war, a tear trickled =
down my face. Then she mentioned about the time of when we both enjoyed the=
experience of .......
Oh, it was too much to take. We both cried together & held hands re-u=
nited in our unfettered glory of what was real. Real pleasures come to thos=
e who wait...
<<<<<index
memory = ...
One day, I came across a very close friend of whom I once shared many
intimate experiences with, in fact I remembered that we both enjoyed
rather good ....
We laughed and giggled and she reminded of when she ...... me in the =
woods
My mind spun, caught in the flux of hazy memory bites. Then I mention=
ed that
may be we should have another go at putting my .... .... where the su=
n does
not shine.
We both blushed at the idea whilst we both stood in a busy precinct a=
mongst
many other souls wandering about, not knowing of our intimate verbal &
sensual retorts. Then I suggested that it might be fun if we ..... ea=
ch
others bodies together, entwined.
We both shuddered at the thought of mutual entwinement, then she pull=
ed out
a picture of me as I was .......
That was it, she had saved it, that moment & essence of us together s=
haring
a passion that was bigger than any small minded war, a tear trickled =
down my face. Then she mentioned about the time of when we both enjoyed the=
experience of .......
Oh, it was too much to take. We both cried together & held hands re-u=
nited in our unfettered glory of what was real. Real pleasures come to thos=
e who wait...
<<<<<index
Rome resists Bush's plea for a blessing on aggression
Rome resists Bush's plea for a blessing on aggression
February 9 2003
By Ray Cassin
While US Secretary of State Colin Powell was telling the UN Security Counci=
l that it must either accept that it is time for war or consign itself to i=
rrelevance, US diplomats around the world were busy trying to sell the Bush=
doctrine of preventive war as something other than what it is: an admissio=
n that the US will use military force as an instrument of policy.
One instance of this in the past week was the attempt by the US ambassador =
to Australia, Tom Schieffer, to stifle criticism of the Bush doctrine and i=
ts implications by Labor MPs. It was arrogant and clumsy, but at least the =
ambassador's antics let us know what Washington really thinks of the allian=
ce. When a diplomat thinks it acceptable to suggest that certain subjects b=
e off-limits in the parliamentary debates of the country to which he is acc=
redited, he is behaving as an agent of empire.
But Australia is a very small part of the world stage, and the Bush Adminis=
tration will not be greatly concerned about what is said here. Of far more =
importance, from Washington's point of view, is the line being taken in the=
capitals of Europe, a part of the world at which it likes to sneer but who=
se moral endorsement it continues to seek. "Old Europe" is the preferred ta=
g when sneering.
Essentially, it refers to any part of Europe where government is either sce=
ptical about US policy on Iraq or openly opposed to it; hence, it chiefly m=
eans France and Germany.
But the most intriguing, and most futile, part of the US diplomatic offensi=
ve is being directed at the oldest institution in Old Europe, the papacy. T=
he Vatican has resolutely refused to endorse either the notion of preventiv=
e war in general or an invasion of Iraq in particular.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/08/1044579984380.html
February 9 2003
By Ray Cassin
While US Secretary of State Colin Powell was telling the UN Security Counci=
l that it must either accept that it is time for war or consign itself to i=
rrelevance, US diplomats around the world were busy trying to sell the Bush=
doctrine of preventive war as something other than what it is: an admissio=
n that the US will use military force as an instrument of policy.
One instance of this in the past week was the attempt by the US ambassador =
to Australia, Tom Schieffer, to stifle criticism of the Bush doctrine and i=
ts implications by Labor MPs. It was arrogant and clumsy, but at least the =
ambassador's antics let us know what Washington really thinks of the allian=
ce. When a diplomat thinks it acceptable to suggest that certain subjects b=
e off-limits in the parliamentary debates of the country to which he is acc=
redited, he is behaving as an agent of empire.
But Australia is a very small part of the world stage, and the Bush Adminis=
tration will not be greatly concerned about what is said here. Of far more =
importance, from Washington's point of view, is the line being taken in the=
capitals of Europe, a part of the world at which it likes to sneer but who=
se moral endorsement it continues to seek. "Old Europe" is the preferred ta=
g when sneering.
Essentially, it refers to any part of Europe where government is either sce=
ptical about US policy on Iraq or openly opposed to it; hence, it chiefly m=
eans France and Germany.
But the most intriguing, and most futile, part of the US diplomatic offensi=
ve is being directed at the oldest institution in Old Europe, the papacy. T=
he Vatican has resolutely refused to endorse either the notion of preventiv=
e war in general or an invasion of Iraq in particular.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/08/1044579984380.html
REAL AUTHORS OF IRAQ DOSSIER BLAST BLAIR
REAL AUTHORS OF IRAQ DOSSIER BLAST BLAIR
Feb 8 2003
Exclusive By Gary Jones And Alexandra Williams In Los Angeles
JOURNALIST Sean Boyne and student Ibrahim al-Marashi have attacked Tony Bla=
ir for using their reports to call for war against Iraq.
Mr Boyne, who works for military magazine Jane's Intelligence Review, said =
he was shocked his work had been used in the Government's dossier.
Articles he wrote in 1997 were plagiarised for a 19-page intelligence docum=
ent entitled Iraq: Its Infrastructure Of Concealment, Deception And Intimid=
ation to add weight to the PM's warmongering.
He said: "I don't like to think that anything I wrote has been used for an =
argument for war. I am concerned because I am against the war."
The other main source was a thesis by post-graduate student, Ibrahim al-Mar=
ashi, the US-born son of Iraqis, who lives in California. His research was =
partly based on documents seized in the 1991 Gulf War.
He said: "This is wholesale deception. How can the British public trust the=
Government if it is up to these sort of tricks? People will treat any othe=
r information they publish with a lot of scepticism from now on."
REAL AUTHORS OF IRAQ DOSSIER BLAST BLAIR
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12620001&method==
full&siteid=50143
Feb 8 2003
Exclusive By Gary Jones And Alexandra Williams In Los Angeles
JOURNALIST Sean Boyne and student Ibrahim al-Marashi have attacked Tony Bla=
ir for using their reports to call for war against Iraq.
Mr Boyne, who works for military magazine Jane's Intelligence Review, said =
he was shocked his work had been used in the Government's dossier.
Articles he wrote in 1997 were plagiarised for a 19-page intelligence docum=
ent entitled Iraq: Its Infrastructure Of Concealment, Deception And Intimid=
ation to add weight to the PM's warmongering.
He said: "I don't like to think that anything I wrote has been used for an =
argument for war. I am concerned because I am against the war."
The other main source was a thesis by post-graduate student, Ibrahim al-Mar=
ashi, the US-born son of Iraqis, who lives in California. His research was =
partly based on documents seized in the 1991 Gulf War.
He said: "This is wholesale deception. How can the British public trust the=
Government if it is up to these sort of tricks? People will treat any othe=
r information they publish with a lot of scepticism from now on."
REAL AUTHORS OF IRAQ DOSSIER BLAST BLAIR
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12620001&method==
full&siteid=50143
At the 11th Hour
At the 11th Hour, "Old Europe" Unites to Stop Bush's War
Bob Fertik
February 8, 2003
The entire US media is running a single story line written by Bush
propaganda minister Karl Rove: that a US invasion of Iraq is inevitable,
since Bush will reject whatever comes out of this weekend's meetings between
Iraq and UN inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei - even if Iraq meets
every last one of their conditions.
In the wake of Colin Powell's bellicose presentation to the UN on Wednesday,
the US media's story line has significantly hardened in insisting war is
inevitable. Now it is presented as a matter of days, not even weeks.
From the start of Bush's march to war last September, the US media has
contemptuously dismissed all opposition from "Old Europe" as irrelevant and
certain to collapse under intense and "irresistable" diplomatic and economic
pressure from George Bush and Colin Powell. UN Resolution 1441, which
resulted from weeks of intense negotiations to prevent "automatic" war
following renewed inspections, was falsely presented as a complete
capitulation by Europe to Bush's unstoppable will.
Since Powell spoke, the US media has systematically dismissed all of the
statements by European leaders. According to the US media, the corrupt
French will support Bush after the US makes a side deal to give French oil
companies a small stake in Iraq's oil. Germany, which is hopelessly
controlled by socialists and greens, is now no more important than Libya or
Cuba.
Naturally, Jacques Chirac and Gerhardt Schroeder are not pleased at being
dismissed, and as the week progressed they became ever more emphatic in
their insistence on further inspections. But the US media wants war now, and
doesn't want to hear these tired old objections. So whatever European
leaders say is simply shouted down by US leaders, as evidenced by the latest
dismissive NY Times headline: "Rumsfeld Rebukes U.N. and NATO on Approach to
Baghdad."
http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id976
Bob Fertik
February 8, 2003
The entire US media is running a single story line written by Bush
propaganda minister Karl Rove: that a US invasion of Iraq is inevitable,
since Bush will reject whatever comes out of this weekend's meetings between
Iraq and UN inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei - even if Iraq meets
every last one of their conditions.
In the wake of Colin Powell's bellicose presentation to the UN on Wednesday,
the US media's story line has significantly hardened in insisting war is
inevitable. Now it is presented as a matter of days, not even weeks.
From the start of Bush's march to war last September, the US media has
contemptuously dismissed all opposition from "Old Europe" as irrelevant and
certain to collapse under intense and "irresistable" diplomatic and economic
pressure from George Bush and Colin Powell. UN Resolution 1441, which
resulted from weeks of intense negotiations to prevent "automatic" war
following renewed inspections, was falsely presented as a complete
capitulation by Europe to Bush's unstoppable will.
Since Powell spoke, the US media has systematically dismissed all of the
statements by European leaders. According to the US media, the corrupt
French will support Bush after the US makes a side deal to give French oil
companies a small stake in Iraq's oil. Germany, which is hopelessly
controlled by socialists and greens, is now no more important than Libya or
Cuba.
Naturally, Jacques Chirac and Gerhardt Schroeder are not pleased at being
dismissed, and as the week progressed they became ever more emphatic in
their insistence on further inspections. But the US media wants war now, and
doesn't want to hear these tired old objections. So whatever European
leaders say is simply shouted down by US leaders, as evidenced by the latest
dismissive NY Times headline: "Rumsfeld Rebukes U.N. and NATO on Approach to
Baghdad."
http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id976