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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Finsbury Park Radiation Walk. London.


Finsbury Park Radiation Walk. London.

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Date: Saturday 21 July 2012, 2-5pm
Venue: Furtherfield Gallery, McKenzie Pavilion

Public exploratory radiation walk around Finsbury Park, measuring mobile phone radiation levels and discovering what type of radiations we are exposed to on a daily basis. As we walk, we will unravel a parallel, hidden story of the local area along with technical data and possible medical effects of the radiation.


Participants will measure radiation levels, GPS positions and marked levels on a large map of the area, creating a collaborative artwork (poster sized map of local radiation) to be made available for display as part of the exhibition after the event.

Visit here to sign up:
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/events/finsbury-park-radiation-walk



About the Artist
Dave Miller is a South London based artist and currently a Research Fellow in Augmented Reality at the University of Bedfordshire. Through his art practice Dave draws out the invisible forces that make life difficult. His work is about caring and being angry, as an artist. His art enables him to express feelings about the world, to attempt to explain things in a meaningful, yet subjective way, and makes complex information accessible. Recurrent themes in his work are: human stories, injustices, contentious issues and campaigning. Recently he's been very bothered by the financial crisis.

Finsbury Park Radiation Walk is part of Invisible Forces at Furtherfield Gallery.
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/invisible-forces

Invisible Forces events
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/invisible-forces-events

DISCUSSION

'Born in 1987: The Animated GIF', Marc Garrett interviews Digital Curator Katrina Sluis


Marc Garrett interviews Katrina Sluis, the new curator of the Digital Programme at The Photographers' Gallery, London.

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We discuss about the gallery's recent show 'Born in 1987: The Animated GIF', and what kind of exhibitions and projects to expect from the gallery in the Future.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/interview-katrina-sluis-digital-curator-photographers-gallery

"Why look at animated GIFs now? They are one of the first forms of image native to computer networks making them charmingly passé, a characteristic that gives them contradictory longevity. Animated GIFs crystallise a form of the combination of computing and the camera. As photography moves almost entirely into digital modes, the fascination with such quirky formats increases. The story of photography will be, in no small part, that of its file formats, the kinds of compression and storage it undergoes, as they in turn produce what is conjurable as an image." Matthew Fuller.

Katrina Sluis is an artist, curator and academic based in London where she teaches digital media at London South Bank University. She was recently appointed the first Curator (Digital Programme) at the Photographers’ Gallery, London. Her writing has been published in journals including Photographies, Philosophy of Photography and ArteEast. Her research is concerned with materiality, archiving and transmission in relation to the photographic image and she is currently working on a chapter for the (forthcoming) second edition of Martin Lister's The Photographic Image in Digital Culture.

DISCUSSION

The Overpass Light Brigade: Art + Electronics in the Wisconsin Uprising


The Overpass Light Brigade: Art + Electronics in the Wisconsin Uprising

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Interview by Nathaniel Stern.

Wisconsin has arguably been ground zero for union busting, DIY social movements, corporate takeover of government, and divisive - and often misinformed - political debate in the US for more than a year. And the Overpass Light Brigade (OLB), initiated by Milwaukee artists Lane Hall and Lisa Moline, have been a guiding light - literally - in how ground-up messaging and change can happen. Now a collaboration between many people, the OLB relies on an ever-widening community of activists, artists, thinkers, and do-ers for their "Signs of Resistance." After a few rounds of local rye whiskey at Milwaukee's Riverwest Public House Cooperative - one of the only Co-op bars in the country - Nathaniel Stern did an email back and forth with OLB co-founder Lane Hall to find out more about what makes them tick, how they see themselves, and where the movement they are a part of is headed.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/overpass-light-brigade-art-electronics-wisconsin-uprising

Nathaniel Stern (USA / South Africa) is an experimental installation and video artist, net.artist, printmaker and writer. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from interactive and immersive environments, mixed reality art and online interventions, to digital and traditional printmaking, latex and concrete sculpture - often with kinetic parts. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. http://nathanielstern.com/

DISCUSSION

CROWDSOURCING A CONSPIRACY.


CROWDSOURCING A CONSPIRACY.

IOCOSE's latest project A Crowded Apocalypse draws on 'crowdsourcing to hijack the collective imagination'.

Marc Garrett – of Furtherfield spoke with IOCOSE about the project.
http://andfestival.org.uk/blog/iocose-garrett-interview-furtherfield

"Conspiracy theories usually assume the presence of an invisible force, of someone or something plotting in the shadows. The resulting theories are precisely concerned with the reasons and motivations which lie behind the facade, hidden from the surface level impression intended to mislead the victims." IOCOSE

The group IOCOSE has been working in Italy and Europe since 2006. It organizes actions in order to subvert ideologies, practices and processes of identification and production of meanings. It uses pranks and hoaxes as tactical means, as joyful and sound tools. IOCOSE thinks about the streets, internet and word of mouth as a battlefield. Tactics such as mimesis and trickery are used to lead and delude the audience into a semantic pitfall.

It is commissioned by AND Festival (http://andfestival.org.uk) and Furtherfield.
A Crowded Apocalypse is currently being shown at both the Furtherfield Gallery
(http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/invisible-forces)
as part of a group show called Invisible Forces, and online at (http://acrowdedapocalypse.com/)

DISCUSSION

"All Hail Damien Hirst!" An Augmented Reality Intervention @ Tate Modern.


Marc Garrett interviews Tamiko Thiel about "All Hail Damien Hirst!" An Augmented Reality Intervention @ Tate Modern.

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Interest in Damien Hirst and his commercialized, celebrity status is well known. So when we heard that Tamiko Thiel was making the artwork "All Hail Damien Hirst!", we were immediately curious. Hirst is an extremely rich individual with powerful allies within wealthy, traditional art establishment circles. This includes Charles Saatchi, and commercially dedicated art mags and art institutions whom have all successfully helped in marketing his particular brand as part of their own economic strategy. With this in mind and acknowledging the potential risk in satirizing a well known art celebrity we thought it was a good idea to interview Thiel about her ideas and experience on the project?

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/all-hail-damien-hirst-augmented-reality-intervention-tate-modern