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

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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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EVENT

Death of Madonna - In the Long Run


Dates:
Thu Oct 28, 2010 00:00 - Thu Oct 28, 2010

Death of Madonna - In the Long Run by IOCOSE at HTTP Gallery, London.

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Open 05-14 November 2010
Open daily 12-5pm
Private view: Friday, 05 November, 2010, 6:30-9pm
Free admission

In the Long Run (2010) is a reconstruction of a possible future high profile media event. The death of pop star Madonna is described in a BBC News special edition, with a journalist and studio guest who go over the details of the fatal car accident, the statements of the VIPs and the reactions of fans around the world.

It is not a true story, but neither is it improbable. All TV networks prepare obituaries about famous people to put on air in the event of an unexpected death. The death of an international figure is not just predictable, it is actually predicted in the video files kept up to date in their archives.

The new video will be accompanied by two previous works, Doughboys (2009), a 'real time mockumentary', following a trio of real-life super heroes who defended illegal issues in the police patrolled streets of Rome, and FloppyTrip (2009), an installation consisting in a kit, to prepare your own hallucinogenic drink by recycling redundant floppy disks and provided with a video explaining how to use it.

For more info visit
http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/IOCOSE/


DISCUSSION

Reminder - Furtherfield on Resonance FM, 27th Oct 2010.


Furtherfield on Resonance FM TONIGHT, 27th Oct 2010.

Join us on Resonance 104.4FM
Wednesday, 27th October 2010.
Time (new time) - 7-8pm (BST TIME).
Hosts: Marc Garrett, Irini Papdimitriou & Jonathon Munro
Special Guests: Mary Flanagan, Anna Dimitriu, Tom Keene and Simon Park

For more info & downloads of past broadcasts:
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php
To listen to our live broadcast:
http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/resonance_hi.mp3.m3u

This critically acclaimed broadcast returns to Resonance FM this Wednesday evening at 7pm with a series of live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art and technology; discussing events and controversies, exhibitions, artworks and their social contexts.

Until Mid-December, regular host Marc Garrett is joined by Irini Papadimitriou & Jonathin Munro.

Marc will be interviewing:
Mary Flanagan American artist, author, educator, and designer currently resides in Hanover, New Hampshire (US). Flanagan's artwork deals primarily with how the design and use of technology can reveal insights into society. Through performance, sculpture, video game mods, software, and networked databases. Other work is concerned with cyber-feminism and the representation of women in cyberculture. http://www.maryflanagan.com

Irini & Jonathan will be interviewing:
Anna Dumitriu, a visual artist whose highly experimental work is involved with the nature of trans-disciplinary practice-based research. She has collaborated with scientists on many major projects and often tends to go very deeply into her chosen area of research, taking on, or attempting to take on, the role of scientist in an almost performative sense, raising paradigmatic questions in her work. www.annadumitriu.co.uk/

Tom Keene is a multimedia artist whose work focuses on the intersection of technology, social interaction and participation. With multi-diciplinary work ranging from hi-tech sensor driven environments and reactive video/robotic installations, to live-art/drama projects in community settings.

Dr Simon Park is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey. He has been involved in many collaborations with artists (including Dumitriu), which have been widely exhibited at venues including: The Royal Institution, Science Museum, British Science Festival and Science Gallery.

In addition to Furtherfield's invited guests this series will feature interviews with many of the 30 artists showing in the exibition of DIY, hacking and open source projects, Unleashed Devices as part of NODE.London. Irini has worked with Jonathon Munro of TINTART to curate the exhibition at Watermans.
http://watermans.lastexitlondon.com/exhibitions/exhibitions.aspx

Also showcasing music and noise, providing a rolling lineup of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.

http://www.furtherfield.org
http://resonancefm.com

EVENT

Furtherfield on Resonance FM, 27th Oct 2010.


Dates:
Tue Oct 26, 2010 00:00 - Tue Oct 26, 2010

Furtherfield on Resonance FM, 27th Oct 2010.

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Join us on Resonance 104.4FM
Wednesday, 27th October 2010.
Time (new time) - 7-8pm.
Hosts: Marc Garrett, Irini Papdimitriou & Jonathon Munro
Special Guests: Mary Flanagan, Anna Dimitriu, Tom Keene and Simon Park

For more info & downloads of past broadcasts:
http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php
To listen to our live broadcast:
http://icecast.commedia.org.uk:8000/resonance_hi.mp3.m3u

This critically acclaimed broadcast returns to Resonance FM this Wednesday evening at 7pm with a series of live interviews with people working at the edge of contemporary practices in art and technology; discussing events and controversies, exhibitions, artworks and their social contexts.

Until Mid-December, regular host Marc Garrett is joined by Irini Papadimitriou & Jonathin Munro.

Marc will be interviewing:
Mary Flanagan
American artist, author, educator, and designer currently resides in Hanover, New Hampshire (US). Flanagan's artwork deals primarily with how the design and use of technology can reveal insights into society. Through performance, sculpture, video game mods, software, and networked databases. Other work is concerned with cyber-feminism and the representation of women in cyberculture. http://www.maryflanagan.com

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Irini & Jonathan will be interviewing:
Anna Dumitriu
, a visual artist whose highly experimental work is involved with the nature of trans-disciplinary practice-based research. She has collaborated with scientists on many major projects and often tends to go very deeply into her chosen area of research, taking on, or attempting to take on, the role of scientist in an almost performative sense, raising paradigmatic questions in her work. www.annadumitriu.co.uk/

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Tom Keene is a multimedia artist whose work focuses on the intersection of technology, social interaction and participation. With multi-diciplinary work ranging from hi-tech sensor driven environments and reactive video/robotic installations, to live-art/drama projects in community settings.

Dr Simon Park is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey. He has been involved in many collaborations with artists (including Dumitriu), which have been widely exhibited at venues including: The Royal Institution, Science Museum, British Science Festival and Science Gallery.

In addition to Furtherfield's invited guests this series will feature interviews with many of the 30 artists showing in the exibition of DIY, hacking and open source projects, Unleashed Devices as part of NODE.London. Irini has worked with Jonathon Munro of TINTART to curate the exhibition at Watermans. http://watermans.lastexitlondon.com/exhibitions/exhibitions.aspx

Also showcasing music and noise, providing a rolling lineup of experimental creative adventures for your amusement.

http://www.furtherfield.org
http://resonancefm.com


EVENT

All Raise This Barn by MTAA. Interview on Furtherfield...


Dates:
Sat Oct 23, 2010 00:00 - Sat Oct 23, 2010

All Raise This Barn by MTAA.

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Eric Dymond interviews MTAA artists Michael Sarff (M.River) about their project - All Raise This Barn - a group-assembled public building and/or sculpture.

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review\_id=412

Artists MTAA conducted an old-fashioned barn-raising using high-tech techniques. The general public group-decided design, architectural, structural and aesthetic choices using a commercially-available barn-making kit as the starting point. Part construction project, part participatory performance, All Raise This Barn explores the positive and also persuasive power of the community vote and its prevalence in contemporary society, from the Internet to reality television competitions.

About MTAA (M.River & T.Whid Art Associates).
Both members of MTAA live and work in Brooklyn, New York. Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden formed the artist collaboration MTAA in 1996. MTAA has presented artworks and performances at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York city; The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; The Beall Center for Art and Technology in Irvine, CA, The Getty Center in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. International exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel. The collaboration has earned grants and awards from the Creative Capital Foundation, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam and New Radio & Performing Arts. http://www.mteww.com/

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Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.netbehaviour.org


EVENT

Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom Part 2.


Dates:
Mon Oct 18, 2010 00:00 - Mon Oct 18, 2010

Marc Da Costa interviews the ever dynamic Johannes Grenzfurthner, founder of monochrom - Part 2.

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This is second of three interviews with Grenzfurthner. This time round we focus on monochrom's art intervention at the Sao Paulo Art Biennial, Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 2002. In response to being asked as representatives of the Republic of Austria, they created the persona of Georg P. Thomann, an irascible, controversial (and completely fictitious) artist of longstanding fame and renown. Through the implementation of this ironic mechanism, the biography of the non-existent artist was also included in the catalogue. The interview explores the reasons behind such an activist endeavour, touching on various themes including questions around representation and the commodity value of the artists.

Grenzfurthner has collaborated with groups such as ubermorgen, Billboard Liberation Front, Esel and Mego (label). Grenzfurthner writes for various online/print magazines and radio stations (e.g. ORF, Telepolis, Boing Boing). Grenzfurthner has served on a number of art juries (e.g. Steirischer Herbst, Graz). He holds a professorship for art theory and art practice at the University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria and is a lecturer at University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria.

Since 1993, the Monochrom members have devoted themselves to the grey zones where systems intersect: the art (market), politics, economics, pop, gaiety, vanity, good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair. The technique underlying Monochrom's work is that of being and working in the fields of Pop/avant-garde, theory/reflection, interventionism/politics, gaiety/lust/tragedy, (self-)configuration/mystification. The project Monochrom pushes into and beyond these fields is, 'networking' events, people, possibilities, material, impetus and identities." (Zdenka Badovinac, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana)

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Other Info:

A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...

http://identi.ca/furtherfield
http://twitter.com/furtherfield

Other reviews,articles,interviews
http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php

Furtherfield - online media arts community, platforms for creating,
viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the
intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org

HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London).
http://www.http.uk.net

Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community.
http://www.furtherfield.org