marc garrett
member since July 27, 2011, last login July 27, 2011
- Name
- marc garrett
- Location
- London
- Projects
- none
- Member home
- http://openfsm.net/people/m_garrett
- Website
- About
- 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 Furtherfield Gallry in London, UK. Co-curating various contemporary Media Arts exhibitions, projects nationally and internationally. 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) for a while with Heath Bunting on Cybercafe BBS, dedicated to arts, technology and hacking.
- Interests
- art, activism, networks, p2p, social change, situationism, psychology, free & open source resources & its culture, hacktivism, social hacking, creative freedom...