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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Re: new name for Net Art News?


Hi Marisa and all,

Perhaps, 'Rhizomatic Art News' - reflecting the nature of what Rhizome's
original intentions & function? Thus decalring the ahem 'brand' in the
title, whilst declaring the context at the same time. If you are now,
more consciously bound to explore creativity that relates to all aspects
of media art ina wider context, this is a start...

Here are a few 'off the cuff' suggestions also:-

Media Arts Transmissions
Rhizomatic Art News
Media Art Broadcast
Media Art Voice
Media Art at Rhizome
Rhizomatic Relations
Rhizomatic Communications
Media Art Relations
Media Art Today
Media Art Creativity
Creative Networking Info
Creative Networking News
Media Art Connections
Media Art Radar
Media creative reference

marc

>Dear readers,
>
>I'm writing to solicit your advice. We would like to change the name
>of Net Art News and I'd like your input on a new name.
>
>As Lauren mentioned in a recent note to you, Rhizome is currently
>redesigning our site. This is an exciting moment in which we are
>thinking about all the recent developments in our field and how
>Rhizome can reflect, support, and foster them.
>
>On the editorial side, my goal with Net Art News has been to broaden
>our scope and reach, getting more international in our coverage and
>also covering not only internet art but also software art,
>performance, sound art, data visualization, technology-enabled social
>sculpture, locative media, video, and the myriad other branches of new
>media practice.
>
>While we are by no means giving up on net art, the title Net Art News
>no longer reflects the breadth of the publication. The first and
>simplest title that comes to mind is 'Media Art News,' but of course
>this is potentially dry. I'm also not necessarily looking to split
>hairs over the phrases 'media art' and 'new media art.' The title
>needs to be rather short, self-descriptive, and hopefully also
>inviting.
>
>What are your suggestions? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>If you'd like to refamiliarize yourself with Net Art News, you can
>look up previous pieces, by month, here:
>
>http://rhizome.org/netartnews/index.php
>
>With thanks,
>Marisa
>
>
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>Marisa Olson
>Editor & Curator at Large
>Rhizome.org
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DISCUSSION

New reviews/articles/works on Furtherfield Dec 05.


New reviews/articles/works on Furtherfield.

All can either be accessed via this url http://www.furtherfield.org from
the front page, or from the individual links under each of the
introductions below.

Words Made Flesh by Florian Cramer.
Although it was not until 1957 that mathematician John W. Tukey coined
the term “software”, its history can be traced back to Antiquity,
according to Florian Cramer. One of the main advocates of Software Art
and long-time researcher on the relations between literature and
computing, Cramer has written the book “Words Made Flesh. Code, Culture,
Imagination” during a fellowship in the Media Design Research program at
the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. In this 140-page essay, he
develops a historical overview of the philosophical, mystical, literary
and artistic currents that lead to the present concept of software as a
cultural practice.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id7 -
Article by Pau Waelder.

DVblog Quicktime Platform.
"DVblog.org is a Vlog and platform for artists and scholars for
presenting or publishing stand-alone quicktime works." The deal is
simple, if you are currently creating work in Quicktime, upload them and
let everyone see it. As well as the central column of recently uploaded
works for all to view, on the left side of the blog sits a list of
archived works, tagged with various genre titles such as Trailer Cinema&
Ephemera. It also has other categories such as: realtime, net art,
personal, quicktime tech, quicktime VR and many more...
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id4 -
Review by Marc Garrett.

Personal World Map by Roxana Torre.
Roxana Torre's "Personal World Map" is an interactive world map, where
the world is distorted according to the potential traveler's time/budget
limitations. The user chooses a "center", and defines time and money
boundaries. After processing that data against a database of commercial
flight data, a new map is produced, a personal world map. This new map
is a distorted map, as geography and physical distances are no longer
relevant in face of those new limitations and the availability of
flights and their cost distribution.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id2 -
Review by Tsila Hassine

Glitch Art by Tony Scott.
Behind the word 'Glitch' there is now adigital art movement emerging
that explores imperfection by producing or saving unwanted images. Made
with a digital camera, a printer or a scanner and based on an accident
or a malfunction in a program causing a computer crash, a glitch can be
defined saying that it is the on-screen output of something not working
properly.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id6 -
Review by Joachim Desarmenien.

Packet Switching by Glorious Ninth.
“Ultimately there are only two basic states or basic phases and
everything of interest takes place on the boundary between them: on the
boundary between chaos and order, on the boundary of water and ice, on
the boundary of finite and infinite computer process.” Tor
Norretranders*. Kate Southworth and Patrick Simons have been creating
audiovisual artworks, output in Shockwave, for exhibitions, projections
at public gatherings of various kinds and for distribution across the
Internet since the year 2000.
http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id1 -
Collaborative Review by Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett.

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New FurtherCritic article by ]]MEZ[[

_ Pull of The[ory] Narrative + P[H]ush of The Context _

[This article uses a threading system. Thread 1 comments + critiques the
notion of narrative. The 2nd Thread lyrically describes the Endless
Forest project
(http://www.tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/index.html). Intertwine
at your (peri)leisure].
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercriticreview.php?review_id -
]]MEZ[[ Article.

FurtherCritic, is a practical extension of the regular reviews featured
on Furtherfield. Whereas Furtherfield's reviews focus on current
projects and the promotion of artists' work in this ever expanding
field, FurtherCritic provides a more extensive, critical, cultural
overview; engaging with some of the areas discussed by media art
academics but outside the context of an institutional framework. This
offers a freedom to the participating writers to reflect on the subject
matter on their own terms, experiment with the structures and rules of
critical writing to communicate with a broad audience rather than adhere
to long established institutional protocols for knowledge dissemination.
http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercritic.php

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Other current projects events/exhibitions related to Furtherfield.

HTTP presents Abuse of the Public Domain, the first solo show of
networked media art by UK artist Stanza.

This exhibition features large-scale projections of 2 works, which use
live real-time data from CCTV cameras cited in two cities, London and
New York . Security tracking data is Stanza's chosen medium for these
process led artworks.

YOU ARE MY SUBJECTS uses data from a single fixed camera in NYC,
focusing on subjects as they pass below it. AUTHENTICITY [Trying to
imagine the world from everyone elses’ perspective, all at once] draws
its imagery from cameras all over London. Bother works can be viewed in
a web browser via the Internet and turn us all into voyeurs of eerie
'parallel realities'. Also there will be selected works for view in the
space.
For more information: http://www.http.uk.net/

Private View.
Thursday 8th December 7-9pm.
9th December 2005- 23rd January 2006.
Friday- Sunday: 12noon-5pm.

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DISCUSSION

Killing by Numbers by 'Ouch Those Monkeys'


Killing by Numbers by 'Ouch Those Monkeys'

http://www.furtherfield.org/otmonkeys/docs/killing_by_numbers.htm

As the wind stretches it yawns across broken lands it brushes over lost
bodies disparate and battered blown, scattered into a state of timeless
disposability.

An electro Ballad, about a woman who has just been shot, lying in rubble
asking questions to a soldier before she dies 'why are so many men in
this world so addicted to killing'?

full lyrics below:

as the wind stretches
it yawns
across broken lands
it brushes over lost bodies
disparate and battered
blown, scattered into a state
of timeless disposability

who knows how much human body-waste
the wind has witnessed
as histories soul bleachers
educators of the singular
create yet another bombast, carnage path
for others to unwillingly adhere to

this wind
part of the nature scene
has seen
too many things
if only it could blow away all the pains,
cleanse this shabby place
of places

it blows through, above and over
not able, unable to change what is blown apart
a crumpled psyche
in a world dissected by mythology, dreams and ideals
tired inventions and pretensions of what could be
and some have been too willing to be
what they cannot be

morals come and go
yet we will never know
why we waste our time
creating each one of them

shadows collude
and move around this place
as night cloaks the scenery
in here
slightly jittering
holding onto
the last embrace

time grinds on
leaving the dead behind
to become mere memories
as life rushes ever onwards around it

the bombing has paused.......
here lies a dying woman
not just a woman
but a woman who knows the wrath of insecure masculinity

she thinks......
are we all merely
headless lost creatures?

here I lie
one leg less
and many dreams less

if only the tears
that which I churn
could fill the gap blown asunder

are we tomorrow's ghosts
laying down snares
for future lives?

dead is gone
lost is not found
end is - finish

and the wind
it blows
it moans
it stretches it's invisible limbs
across the battered land

oh surely there's hope
once we've realized, loss of hope

but still we are trapped
caught between non-reason and hope
dangling on the gropesome
x mark's the spot
mapped out, worn out
and the wind?
It still blows.....

DISCUSSION

Art, Autonomy and Automata


Art, Autonomy and Automata.

by Finn Smith:
An article featured on METAMUTE : M24: Web Exclusives.

Last year digital arts platform Furtherfield extended itself into meat
space, opening its HTTP gallery in Finsbury Park. Finn Smith visited the
space, the boredomresearch exhibition