marc garrett
Since the beginning
Works in London United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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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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London's bottled poetry - a tonic for the dysfunctional 96/97.

An old Net Art work by Marc Garrett.

Originally on Backspace's server 96.
http://bak.spc.org/concretemyrth/

Some pages need updating, but I am surprised that most links still work. A basic web site, that linked from the virtual to physical.

Still trying to trace some older works from 94 & 95. I know that I have them on a HD somewhere...

marc

EVENT

How to Talk to Images - Exhibiton by Richard Wright


Dates:
Thu Jun 19, 2008 00:00 - Thu Jun 19, 2008

How to Talk to Images
Exhibition by Richard Wright
at HTTP Gallery


4th July - 3rd August 2008
Opening Reception: Friday 4th July 6-9pm
Exhibition open: Fri-Sun 12noon-5pm
www.http.uk.net

No one is sure how many images there are on the Internet. Google has nearly a billion. Some say it is hundreds of times more than that.

For "How to Talk to Images", Richard Wright has compiled a database of 50,000 random Internet images as the raw content for two artworks. "The Internet Speaks" and "The Mimeticon" use this database to create a world where we can “read” pictures, browse “libraries” of endless images or learn to draw with alphabets.

New Online Work and Film Retrospective

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In this era, finding our way through the world of images is so overwhelming, that the dominant mode is to “search” rather than to “see”. An image is an answer to a question, a search query. The Internet Speaks gives us one of the simplest imaginable ways of searching this set of images, stepping through them, one by one in random order, without context. In contrast, The Mimeticon is a wilfully complex and ‘baroque’ search engine that allows us to search for images by visual similarity rather than by typing in keywords. These 'search images' are 'drawn' using letters from the history of the alphabet.

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THE MIMETICON 2006

As part of How to Talk to Images, Richard Wright’s first solo exhibition in London, a selection of Wright’s animated films demonstrates the development of his current interest in the Baroque. The exhibition is also the occasion of publication of a limited-edition poster featuring an essay by the artist illustrated by the entire visual history of the Western alphabet - from its pictorial Egyptian origins 5,000 years ago to its perfected form under the Romans, as well as a new book documenting the artists twenty year long practice.

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THE INTERNET SPEAKS 2006

Richard Wright has been making digital animation and interactive pieces since the eighties. Heliocentrum, an animation about Louis XIV, was described by writer Hari Kunzru as “…an amazingly effective way of showing how a sovereign manipulated power” and The Bank of Time was nominated for a BAFTA in 2001. Richard was most recently a member of artists group Mongrel and is currently working on an urban media project called “decorative surveillance”. Since summer 2007 he has been Artist in Residence at Furtherfield.org.

Opening Reception
Your chance to meet Richard Wright, to enjoy a few drinks and conversations about the exhibition.

Contact:
Lauren Wright, HTTP Gallery
laurenATfurtherfieldDOTorg

HTTP Gallery
Unit A2, Arena Design Centre
71 Ashfield Road
London N4 1LD
+44(0)79 8129 2734
www.http.uk.net

Further info:
www.futurenatural.net

HTTP Gallery is Furtherfield.org’s (www.furtherfield.org) dedicated space for exhibiting networked media art. Furtherfield.org is a not-for-profit, artist-led organisation. Based in Harringay, North London, we provide an online and physical platform for creating, exhibiting, commissioning, and discussing networked media arts.

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EVENT

Review of Glorious Ninth/Interview with Marius Watz at Furtherfield.


Dates:
Mon Jun 16, 2008 00:00 - Mon Jun 16, 2008

Review of Glorious Ninth
Interview with Marius Watz.


www.furtherfield.org

Artists - Glorious Ninth
Review Title - love_potion and Invisibility_Phial
Reviewer - Marc Garrett

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When I first began writing this review I thought that I'd just be writing a couple of quick paragraphs in response to Glorious Ninth's latest artwork Invisibility_Phial. However this work has not only uncovered for me aspects of the nature of their artistic collaboration, but also how bringing everyday life into art adds essential value to art and culture. Through their recent work, Glorious Ninth (Kate Southworth & Patrick Simons) have created an intriguing interface introducing a more personal and emotional context. Their own lives become part of the works, that serve to introduce us to their world via their intuitive, creative practice.
Permlink - http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=305

A FORM OF TECHNOLOGICAL MIMESIS
Interview with Marius Watz by Franz Thalmair

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Marius Watz, an artist concerned with generative systems for creating visual form, still, animated, or realtime, argues in the following interview: "One of the privileges of Generative Art is that the author can easily be surprised by her own creation." Watz discovered the computer at age eleven and immediately found his direction in life. At age 20 he defected from Computer Science studies to do graphics for raves, using his programming to create organic shapes in 2D and 3D. In 2005 Watz started Generator.x, a platform for Generative Art and Design which so far has resulted in a conference, a blog, a travelling exhibition and concert tour. Watz currently lives in Oslo and New York. His tools of choice are Java, Processing, VVVV and Flash. He continues to edit the Generator.x blog and prepare future Generator.x events, as well as teaching workshops in Computational Design and Generative Art.
Permlink - http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=304


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What?


Of course you are right, but one should push things to see what happens...

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