This essay revisits a time when both Punk and Situationism flourished in the UK. When a whole generation of radically different artists emerged as outsiders, amateurs, and the lower classes found cultural empowerment as an agent for social change. Their varied practices critiqued the societies they lived in, questioning the authority and authenticity of established … Continue reading Magnificent Failures Collide
The Year of Covid-19, Death and Collages
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, I’ve reconnected to my art-making side again. Like many people who have experienced the death of their loved ones and gone through lockdown, things in life feel very different than before the pandemic. This post aims to declare and share a small part of my life that academia and everyday work-life … Continue reading The Year of Covid-19, Death and Collages
An Open P2P Resource for AI technology: Art, Academia and Activism
An open knowledge list for all to add to, use, and share with others. Created for the cultural production of AI: investigating various methods, such as: computer vision, artificial intelligence, neurorobotics, speech recognition, generative writing, generative music, image manipulation, statistical modelling. This page will be updated by myself and the community every now and then. … Continue reading An Open P2P Resource for AI technology: Art, Academia and Activism
Monsters of the Machine and Children of Prometheus, Reading Materials
During the last 8 months or so, I have been working on a new book with co-editor Yiannis Colakides. It's called Frankenstein Reanimated: Conversations with Artists in Dystopian Times. However, before compiling the materials for this book I had already been in deep research, discovering numerous: emotional, historical, social, psychological, technological, feminist, and political contexts, … Continue reading Monsters of the Machine and Children of Prometheus, Reading Materials
Introduction to the ‘Unlocking Proprietorial Systems’ Keynote, at the Mapping festival, Geneva May 25th 2019
I presented a keynote at the Mapping Festival in Geneva, Thursday May 25th, 2019. The reading from a chapter of the same name, Unlocking Proprietorial Systems: For a More Expansive Artistic Practice, from my PhD. After my talk a few people asked whether the chapter was available to read online for download. Sadly, as part … Continue reading Introduction to the ‘Unlocking Proprietorial Systems’ Keynote, at the Mapping festival, Geneva May 25th 2019
Interviews with Working Class Autodidacts Practising in the Field of Media Art, and Activist Art Culture
Interviews with Working-class Autodidacts Practising in the Field of Media Art, and Activist Art Culture. Introduction This paper draws from of an autoethnographic study about Furtherfield, London’s longest running centre for art and technology. Since 1996, the organisation has formed alliances with artists, technologists and activists, who have dedicated their lives to learning and updating … Continue reading Interviews with Working Class Autodidacts Practising in the Field of Media Art, and Activist Art Culture
Unlocking Proprietorial Art Systems interview: with Artists, Gretta Louw, Antonio Roberts & Annie Abrahams
The mainstream art world has been locked into its own proprietorial* systems for years, closing down possibilities for emancipation in the arts. It is clumsy and out of date. Cultural evolution and its expansion is stunted by a complex blend of: conservatism, colonialism, imperialism, conformity, and submission to market dominated directives, which unfortunately lead to … Continue reading Unlocking Proprietorial Art Systems interview: with Artists, Gretta Louw, Antonio Roberts & Annie Abrahams
To the Lords of Google Earth
Marc Garrett performs an updated version Gerrard Winstanley's 'A Declaration from the Poor Oppressed People of England' originally published in 1649, at Transmediale 2018, Berlin.
Reclaiming the Corporate Owned Self
The American born artist Jennifer Lyn Morone registered herself as a corporation in 2014, founding Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc. As the founder, CEO, owner, shareholder and product of her own company, she sells, leases, rents or invests her personal data for her own profit. She has commercialised her hormones and diamonds made from her hair, … Continue reading Reclaiming the Corporate Owned Self
Unlocking Proprietorial Art Systems – Presentations & Workshops 2017-2018
I'm doing a series of presentations in relation my paper Unlocking Proprietorial Systems, from a chapter of my autoethnographic PhD research. It will be in the form of presentations and workshops, exploring how this learned knowledge can be used in ways that enhance and or bring about social and cultural change. In it I ask … Continue reading Unlocking Proprietorial Art Systems – Presentations & Workshops 2017-2018
