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

Bush Loves...


Bush Loves Orphans Everywhere

President Bush Loves Black Children

Bush loves things just the way they are

Bush loves the Carpenters

Bush Loves Ecology -- At Home

President Bush loves Myers' Goldmember

Bush loves those the way he loves black conservatives

President Bush loves you

Bush loves to show off

Bush loves Ozzy

Bush loves peace!

Everybody Loves Bush

Bush loves getting e-mail from people in
Florida letting him know their concerns

Bush loves sports

Bush loves wood

Bush loves the foreplay of politics

DISCUSSION

Better Porn, Now


Better Porn, Now

By Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet
January 27, 2003

A skinny blonde girl periodically stops to spit vigorously on a gargantuan
penis, and then gets right back to work. Her brow is knitted with fierce
concentration as her mouth works back and forth, sucking and licking with
painful earnestness. By the end of, say, an eternity, rivulets of sticky
drool are running down her chin and perky breasts.

And that was just the opening scene of the porn flick I'd ordered on
pay-per-view. How much more could I take?!

Fortunately, the spit and suck scene was not a recurring motif in "Sex
Nymphs 2." But I never quite recovered from the blow to my libido, going
from interested to bored to downright queasy within an hour. It's a shameful
confession for a sex-positive feminist to make.

The unfashionable truth is that I have mostly embraced pornography on
principle rather than as a personal practice. The last time I watched a
smutty video was as a freshman in college, in the company of giggling,
wide-eyed girls. From what I can recall, we were mostly bemused and a little
bored - even though half of us were still virgins. Fifteen years later, my
sexual tastes are still lagging stubbornly behind my political beliefs. The
monotonous blur of clits, tits and dicks, delivered in vivid anatomical
detail, quite frankly makes my head ache.

Really, who gets off on this stuff?

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID042

DISCUSSION

Copyrighting Freedom of Expression


Copyrighting Freedom of ExpressionT

By Kembrew McLeod, In These Times
January 27, 2003

The power of corporations to censor was greatly expanded by the passage in
1998 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was written by and for
the lobbies that paid to push it through Congress - the software,
entertainment, pharmaceutical and other intellectual property industries.

Most significantly, the DMCA severely curtails the "fair use" of copyrighted
goods. The fair use statute was written into the 1976 Copyright Act to
prevent overzealous copyright owners from controlling all uses of their
goods. Fair use allows artists, writers and scholars to use fragments of
copyrighted works without permission for the purposes of education,
criticism and parody, among other things. The problem is that the DMCA,
passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by President Clinton,
places the judicial powers of deciding what is fair use and what is not into
the hands of copyright and trademark owners. They, of course, are not very
liberal in their interpretations of how their intellectual property is used
by others. For most intellectual property-owning corporations, any use is
stealing.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID026

DISCUSSION

THE ROVING EYE - Three meetings and a funeral


THE ROVING EYE
Three meetings and a funeral
By Pepe Escobar

CAIRO - The diplomatic endgame starts now. This is the ultimate question:
How long is the US willing to wait after Hans Blix's crucial January 27
report to the Security Council? Washington's verdict seems to be final:
Saddam Hussein is guilty until pronounced guilty. A few days ago, American
officials were talking about the wait in terms of "weeks", not months. Now
there's every indication that they will be talking about a few "days", not
weeks. The war against Iraq can be launched any time between mid and late
February. But there are deep fears in the Arab world that it could be
launched as early as the day after the so-called war council between George
W Bush and Tony Blair on Friday, January 31.

According to a member of a humanitarian mission now inside Iraq, the local
authorities seem to be cooperating and providing the UN inspectors with
unrestricted access to places and people. But the key problem remains that
all the protagonists in the whole mechanism - the inspectors on the ground
in Iraq and their supervisors in New York and Vienna - are under tremendous,
relentless pressure from Washington to come up with the smoking or
non-smoking gun proving Iraq is in "material breach" of Resolution 1441.
There are echoes filtering to Cairo of some dejected weapons inspectors
overdosing on their bottles of arak: they seem to be convinced that their
arduous job will amount to nothing anyway because Washington and London have
already chosen to go to war - regardless of what the UN is doing.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EA25Ak02.html

DISCUSSION

America's dreams of empire


America's dreams of empire

Here is a remarkable analysis of American imperial dreams and plans from a
clear-eyed man. Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Pakistani physicist, has been a
courageous and lonely antinuclear activist in a country, now an American
ally in the war against terrorism, whose government hasn't hesitated to wave
and threaten to play the nuclear card while at the very edge of war with
India.

So here we are at what seems to be another "edge" -- the edge of what may be
America's first great colonial war since the turn of the nineteenth century,
a war (in the fashion of the European countries that preceded it in the
region) meant to redraw the very map of the Middle East in the course of a
full-scale occupation of the region. Hoodbhoy wants us to know that the
"clash of civilizations," whatever embattled Muslims or emboldened Americans
may think, is so much foolishness; that America's dreams have been longer in
the making, more self-interested, and largely unrelated to any distaste for
Islam. He does, however, see a striking new element in the post-post Cold
War imperial mix: "Now that there is no other superpower to keep it in
check, the U.S. no longer sees a need to battle for the hearts and minds of
those it would dominate." Don't miss his piece, which appeared on the
opinion page of today's Los Angeles Times.

http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid34