marc garrett
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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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my eyes scan a pan
scan the map
intersections are placed
onto the page

objectively surveyed

roads interweave
connecting places

buildings and places
letters inscribe names of places
this
updated map
has erazed the past
and once known spaces
where people once...trod

this map
a recording
of present time
and place

and present space
does not trace
the movements
of feet
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: PDPal and the continual nature of digital art


Keep swinging Emile,

You got it!

And it takes more than education and words to get that swing...

marc

> Hi
>
> I don't mean to come on as cantankerous-:)
>
>
> At 4:44 PM -0500 3/5/03, ryan griffis wrote:
> >Hi Dyske, and everyone else reading...
> >
> >Is there a form of criticism that is not normative, not based on
> >some form of rationalized set of desires? Is the problem making the
> >desires conscious, on the "surface" that is problematic? Is it the
> >stripping of "mystery," the "evocative," (at least on a surface
> >level) that is bothersome?
>
> I would say that the value of art to me is in "mystery," the "evocative,"
>
>
> >Is it because "socially engaged" art has become institutionalized,
> >or at least more visible, especially in an arena as tight knit as
> >"new media"? Does this make it seem more conventional, expected? Is
> >it the search for the new, the "art thing" that doesn't look like
> >art that creates the dissappointment with "socially engaged" new
> >media art.
>
> Its the absence of the mystery and the evocative that creates my
> personal disappointment with most "socially engaged" art in all media.
>
> >Isn't this just old-fashioned avant garde-ism? Once an aesthetic
> >becomes "conventional" (even though it all must be in some respect
> >to be recognized - if it gets called "Art" in the first place) it's
> >no longer self-critical, expansive, progressive, pioneering (take
> >your pick)?
>
> "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing" -- Duke Ellington
> -- replace 'swing' with ; mystery or evocative
>
> >but i don't get the pomo argument. despite douglas crimp's assertion
> >that institutional critique represents the apex of pomo rationality,
> >i would say the evidence points the other way. institutional
> >critique (and most "socially engaged" art), seems to engage some
> >pretty modernist ideals (even if it tries to be cynical about it).
> >This is not a negative criticism of the practice, which i find
> >extremely useful and needed. but i would root the debate in
> >"committment" (adorno/brecht/lukacs) rather than mod/pomo. the
> >postmodern turn, in my opinion is better represented in the
> >anti-social, or superficially social, surface orientation of a lot
> >of new design and 'old school' art (painting and scultpture), not
> >the theories of social construction (as laid-on as they often are)
> >in new media. socially concerned art seems more akin to what adorno
> >called "committed" art, relegating it's autonomy to a particular
> >ideology, even though he knew all art represented an ideology.
>
> What ideology would you say an Ansel Adams photograph of Yosemite
represents?
>
>
> For an example of socially engaged art that does (IMO) "swing", I'd
> recommend Michael Moore's film "Bowling for Columbine". Between the
> use visuals and sound, the cutting between multiple threads of the
> story, and Moore's sheer chutzpah, the movie definitely "swings", at
> the same time it made me more aware of the details of some important
> social problems.
> --
> "Freedom is a scary thing --- Not many people really want it"
> -- Laurie Anderson -- pre 9.11
>
> "Freedom is a scary thing --- So precious, so easy to lose".
> -- Laurie Anderson -- post 9.11
>
> Visit "Before the Fall -- Images of the World Trade Center" at
> http://www.foryourhead.com
>
> Emile Tobenfeld, Ph. D.
> Video Producer Image Processing Specialist
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m ce lroy cult


I pasted these txt's into google to try and find more info on the piece
'cult'

m ce lroy cult

http://216.239.37.100/search?qEche:Q9PjDaDtwjQC:www.stanford.edu/~andrewkg
/NWV99hdt.pdf+m+ce+l+r+o+y+cult&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

see what I found...

marc

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We Can Make Our Own World.

DISCUSSION

Re: the upgrade


It's not often that someone actually says something nice about us -
I'm putting just here, below - so my day ends with a smile.

>PS Have to put my vote in for furtherfield's skills! They rock!

marc

> Well, I am very intrigued!
>
> I don't get that involved on the raw conversations, preferring chats in
> person, where its not so easy to pick over everything I say quite so
> fastidiously ;-) therefore, as I am coming to NY for the Digital Salon
> Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time symposium in April, I would be interested
> to hear if there is an Upgrade around that time!
>
> I am surprised by the lack of name tags though! An American friend of mine
> led me to believe they were an integral part of a gathering in the US! She
> even suggested them for a party she was having, but I managed to stop her
as
> it was a party mostly consisting of her family!
>
> If there is an Upgrade around then, I could start to make my name tag now,
> so that it is really special looking, and detracts from the fact no one
will
> know (or perhaps care) who I am! On the other hand, as you can't get them
> here, and as I have a close friend flying in with some on Thursday, you
will
> perhaps know me by the amount of Krispy Kremes I can put away!
>
> Charlotte
>
> PS Have to put my vote in for furtherfield's skills! They rock!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]On Behalf Of
> t.whid
> Sent: 04 March 2003 15:01
> To: list@rhizome.org
> Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: the upgrade
>
>
> >well I had a really nice time...
> >Mostly due to t.whid (who came over and introduced himself) and Doron
> >(who
> >has to be the most hospitable man on the planet) and an great eccentric
> >artist called Nina
> >
> >The space is just fab and I was amazed to find out that it was going to
> >all go and be replaced by something new. Give me the huge warehouse
> >space anytime. I didn't know who anyone
> >was either and kind of longed for badges so I could recognise names
> >but it
> >didn't seem that kind of gathering.
>
> one more note on this:
>
> usually the Upgrade is much more casual and not as many people
> attend. Usually before the presentation Yael would have everyone in
> the room introduce themselves (that's how i met Auria Harvey who is
> just as interesting in person). She either simply forgot this time or
> thought there were to many people for it to be feasible.
>
> I agree with everyone's comments, it would have been best for some
> introductions this time as there were lots of new people there.
>
> take care
> --
> <twhid>
> http://www.mteww.com
> </twhid>
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Re: british artists practice on the net


Hi kate,

Kool...

best wishes - marc

http://www.furtherfield.org
http://www.furthernoise.org
http://www.dido.uk.net
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> Dear Jess
>
> There's us lot here at Glorious Ninth - nano-marxist aesthetic realists
>
>
> best wishes
> Kate
>
>
> jess3/4/03 18:45jess@rssgallery.com
>
> > I'm writing an article this week for the Brit art mag a-n about british
> > art practice on the net. Although I kind of know mainly who and what
> > I'd like to focus on, I wondered rhizome brits would fancy posting
> > their urls on the list so I give a good balanced overview. I think
> > it would make interesting viewing for everyone anyway as MT has been
> > throwing phrases like 'European nodes' around...
> >
> > cheers,
> > jess.
> >
> > o
> > /^ssgallery.com
> > ][
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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