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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.
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.
Zero Dollar Laptop workshops Update.
Dates:
Wed Jan 27, 2010 00:00 - Wed Jan 27, 2010
Working with Homeless, Reusing donated Laptops and upgrading them with Linux Software. http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop

The first day of working with St Mungos Homeless, clients & residents was a success. After our call asking people to send their old laptops to us so that we can work with homeless people for the Zero Dollar Laptop project, we received many computers (laptops), and they are still arriving. We even received one from Greece.
The class was over subscribed. 12 individuals was the limit "Twenty people got together in a busy room (18 participants and 2 tutors Jake Harris and Olga Panades Massanet) and went through the first big step."
Week 1. Breaking Windows. Installing Linux.
http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/?p=53
Preparing for ZDLT workshops
http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/?p=13
Wishing you all well.
more info:
The Zero Dollar Laptop Project aims to change the way we all think about technology.
The Zero Dollar Laptop is a recycled computer, running Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is fast and effective- now and long into the future.
Artistic Team: Jake Harries and James Wallbank (http://www.access-space.org/) Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (http://www.access-space.org/)
The Zero Dollar Laptop project is a programme of public debates, exhibitions and workshops about art, technology and environment inspired by the Zero Dollar Laptop Manifesto http://robvankranenburgs.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/james-wallbank-says-the-zero-dollar-laptop-manifesto/. Developed in partnership with Access Space and St Mungo’s charity for the homeless http://www.mungos.org/as part of Furtherfield.org’s Media Art Ecologies programme http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/Furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php

The first day of working with St Mungos Homeless, clients & residents was a success. After our call asking people to send their old laptops to us so that we can work with homeless people for the Zero Dollar Laptop project, we received many computers (laptops), and they are still arriving. We even received one from Greece.
The class was over subscribed. 12 individuals was the limit "Twenty people got together in a busy room (18 participants and 2 tutors Jake Harris and Olga Panades Massanet) and went through the first big step."
Week 1. Breaking Windows. Installing Linux.
http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/?p=53
Preparing for ZDLT workshops
http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/?p=13
Wishing you all well.
more info:
The Zero Dollar Laptop Project aims to change the way we all think about technology.
The Zero Dollar Laptop is a recycled computer, running Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is fast and effective- now and long into the future.
Artistic Team: Jake Harries and James Wallbank (http://www.access-space.org/) Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades (http://www.access-space.org/)
The Zero Dollar Laptop project is a programme of public debates, exhibitions and workshops about art, technology and environment inspired by the Zero Dollar Laptop Manifesto http://robvankranenburgs.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/james-wallbank-says-the-zero-dollar-laptop-manifesto/. Developed in partnership with Access Space and St Mungo’s charity for the homeless http://www.mungos.org/as part of Furtherfield.org’s Media Art Ecologies programme http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/Furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php
Reminder - Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain.
Dates:
Tue Jan 26, 2010 00:00 - Tue Jan 26, 2010
Reminder - Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain.
http://http.uk.net
The last three weeks.
Exhibition open 12-5pm, Friday-Sunday, till Saturday 30th January 2010
Disassembly Event- Mail out the Mail Art
Join us at the next full moon from 3 pm, Saturday 30th January 2010 for our closing event- to take part and redistribute works from this exhibition of eMail-Art provoked by the Dark Mountain project.
---> Take down the artworks and mail them back out into the world for others to receive through the postal system.
---> Everyone who comes along gets to take an artwork away with them and to send artworks to friends and acquaintances.
This event is a celebration of the DIWO (Do It With Others) spirit, the collaborative process and excellent contributions from the artists who took part. As well as a chance to reflect on the ideas and controversies generated by The Dark Mountain Project, which provided the focus for the exhibition. There will be eating and drinking!
If you cannot make it to the gallery but would like to receive a work of art in the post (or know someone else who would)- please send your postal address to marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
Visit here for images of the exhibition opening and performance
http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/?p=90
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Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain
a Mail Art project across physical and digital networks
http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/
as part of the Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies Programme
http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php
http://http.uk.net
The last three weeks.
Exhibition open 12-5pm, Friday-Sunday, till Saturday 30th January 2010
Disassembly Event- Mail out the Mail Art
Join us at the next full moon from 3 pm, Saturday 30th January 2010 for our closing event- to take part and redistribute works from this exhibition of eMail-Art provoked by the Dark Mountain project.
---> Take down the artworks and mail them back out into the world for others to receive through the postal system.
---> Everyone who comes along gets to take an artwork away with them and to send artworks to friends and acquaintances.
This event is a celebration of the DIWO (Do It With Others) spirit, the collaborative process and excellent contributions from the artists who took part. As well as a chance to reflect on the ideas and controversies generated by The Dark Mountain Project, which provided the focus for the exhibition. There will be eating and drinking!
If you cannot make it to the gallery but would like to receive a work of art in the post (or know someone else who would)- please send your postal address to marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
Visit here for images of the exhibition opening and performance
http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/?p=90
====================
Do It With Others at the Dark Mountain
a Mail Art project across physical and digital networks
http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/
as part of the Furtherfield.org Media Art Ecologies Programme
http://www.furtherfield.org/mediaartecologies.php
Review of GOTO10's 'make art'.
Dates:
Thu Jan 21, 2010 00:00 - Thu Jan 21, 2010
GOTO10's project - 'make art' in the small town of Poitiers in 2009.

Review by Gabriel Menotti.
One of the world's most important free and libre art events, happens far away from the European metropolis, in the small town of Poitiers. The name 'make art' might sound familiar because not long ago they were doing a series of workshops in the UK to introduce FLOSS tools using their own pure:dyne operational system - a GNU/Linux distribution for multimedia creation. Having received some funding from the Arts Council, pure:dyne recently grew in efficiency and popularity.
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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 - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org

Review by Gabriel Menotti.
One of the world's most important free and libre art events, happens far away from the European metropolis, in the small town of Poitiers. The name 'make art' might sound familiar because not long ago they were doing a series of workshops in the UK to introduce FLOSS tools using their own pure:dyne operational system - a GNU/Linux distribution for multimedia creation. Having received some funding from the Arts Council, pure:dyne recently grew in efficiency and popularity.
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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 - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org
WE THE USERS - DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader.
Dates:
Tue Jan 19, 2010 00:00 - Tue Jan 19, 2010
WE THE USERS - DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader.

DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader, reviewed by Pau Waelder.
DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader. Edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied. Designed by Manuel Buerger. Contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement...
"Although we are being constantly told that this is the era of the user (or youser), as the TIME magazine Person of the Year cover in 2006 so triumphantly expressed and social networks try to remind us every day, the role of users is still underestimated, while their contributions are both labeled as "amateur" and absorbed into the structures provided by web 2.0 companies. In front of this, Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied advocate the importance of the contribution of user-generated content to contemporary culture by coining the term Digital Folklore: "Digital Folklore encompasses the customs, traditions and elements of visual, textual and audio culture that emerged from user's engagement with personal computer applications during the last decade of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century". The term stems from the artistic work of Lialina and Espenschied over the last years, as well as their research in Interface Design at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, which has derived into an unorthodox and very interesting publication, halfway between the scholarly reader and the artist's book."
Pau Waelder Graduated in Art History at the University of Barcelona, has a Masters Diploma in Advanced Studies in History Science and Art Theory at the University of the Balearic Islands and is currently writing his PhD thesis in the field of art, science and technology. He has participated in international simposia such as the I International Conference on Arthur Danto and the End of Art, (CENDEAC, Murcia, 2003) and Gaming Realities, (Fournos, Atenas, 2006). He has written chapters for the books Gaming Realities. A challenge for digital culture (Athens: Fournos, 2006) and Extending Experiences. Structure, Analysis and Design of Game Player Experience (Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press, 2008), as well as the text Games of Pain: Pain as Haptic Stimulation in Computer-Game's Based Media Art, published in Leonardo Vol. 40, Issue 3 (MIT Press, 2007).
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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 - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org

DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader, reviewed by Pau Waelder.
DIGITAL FOLKLORE Reader. Edited by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied. Designed by Manuel Buerger. Contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement...
"Although we are being constantly told that this is the era of the user (or youser), as the TIME magazine Person of the Year cover in 2006 so triumphantly expressed and social networks try to remind us every day, the role of users is still underestimated, while their contributions are both labeled as "amateur" and absorbed into the structures provided by web 2.0 companies. In front of this, Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied advocate the importance of the contribution of user-generated content to contemporary culture by coining the term Digital Folklore: "Digital Folklore encompasses the customs, traditions and elements of visual, textual and audio culture that emerged from user's engagement with personal computer applications during the last decade of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century". The term stems from the artistic work of Lialina and Espenschied over the last years, as well as their research in Interface Design at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, which has derived into an unorthodox and very interesting publication, halfway between the scholarly reader and the artist's book."
Pau Waelder Graduated in Art History at the University of Barcelona, has a Masters Diploma in Advanced Studies in History Science and Art Theory at the University of the Balearic Islands and is currently writing his PhD thesis in the field of art, science and technology. He has participated in international simposia such as the I International Conference on Arthur Danto and the End of Art, (CENDEAC, Murcia, 2003) and Gaming Realities, (Fournos, Atenas, 2006). He has written chapters for the books Gaming Realities. A challenge for digital culture (Athens: Fournos, 2006) and Extending Experiences. Structure, Analysis and Design of Game Player Experience (Rovaniemi: Lapland University Press, 2008), as well as the text Games of Pain: Pain as Haptic Stimulation in Computer-Game's Based Media Art, published in Leonardo Vol. 40, Issue 3 (MIT Press, 2007).
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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 - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org
The Furtherfield Newsletter
Dates:
Mon Jan 18, 2010 00:00 - Mon Jan 18, 2010
The Furtherfield Newsletter.
We are in the process of compiling the latest Furtherfield Newsletter, the 25th edition.
We have many interested subscribers who already receive it. But, before the latest version is distributed - we are asking if there are others out there, who would like to receive the Newsletter. Also, it is a good time for those who have changed their email addresses to let us know, so we can update the mailing list.
Whether you're an artist, curator, academic, musician, student, activist or curious. We offer a wealth of cross cultural projects and platforms where people regularly produce their creative digitally orientated endeavours, physical and on-line. We are part of an ever changing, expanding and explorative self-built set of communities, contemporary and networked.
"Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies." Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.
The Newsletter features information about projects, publications, projects and we are doing with others, updates on what is happening on different nodes/platforms as well as on furtherfield. What is currently happening on furthernoise, visitorsstudio, netbehaviour, the furtherfield blog, the HTTP Gallery, events, workshops, collaborations. You will know what is going on right across the whole, networked neighbourhood. Sent via email (plain txt) about every couple of months, sometimes every three months.
If interested - reply to marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
Wishing you all well.
The Furtherfield crew :-)
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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 - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org
We are in the process of compiling the latest Furtherfield Newsletter, the 25th edition.
We have many interested subscribers who already receive it. But, before the latest version is distributed - we are asking if there are others out there, who would like to receive the Newsletter. Also, it is a good time for those who have changed their email addresses to let us know, so we can update the mailing list.
Whether you're an artist, curator, academic, musician, student, activist or curious. We offer a wealth of cross cultural projects and platforms where people regularly produce their creative digitally orientated endeavours, physical and on-line. We are part of an ever changing, expanding and explorative self-built set of communities, contemporary and networked.
"Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies." Furtherfield.org provides platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.
The Newsletter features information about projects, publications, projects and we are doing with others, updates on what is happening on different nodes/platforms as well as on furtherfield. What is currently happening on furthernoise, visitorsstudio, netbehaviour, the furtherfield blog, the HTTP Gallery, events, workshops, collaborations. You will know what is going on right across the whole, networked neighbourhood. Sent via email (plain txt) about every couple of months, sometimes every three months.
If interested - reply to marc.garrett@furtherfield.org
Wishing you all well.
The Furtherfield crew :-)
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Other Info:
A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood...
We are on Twitter
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 - an open email list community engaged in the process of
sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas
focused around contemporary networked media arts practice.
http://www.netbehaviour.org
Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art
practice.
http://blog.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many
to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html
Furthernoise - an online platform for the creation, promotion,
criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art
for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike.
http://www.furthernoise.org