Notes on My Re-Enchantment Art Residency
During my residency at Hamilton MAS, I have been rereading some books which reflect the contexts and intentions of why I am here and how to proceed as an artist afterwards. One book which feels…
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My Re-Enchantment
This residency and exhibition will allow me to reexamine my artistic connection with nature. After spending over 25 years working with digital technologies.
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Living the Proposition – Art Worlding and The Hologram
We need to build on, reevaluate, and relearn from the already progressive and insightful enrichments that art, technology and activism have generously produced and given us through the years – into more personalised, informed, shared,…
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Magnificent Failures Collide
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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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…
Autoethnographic PhD of Furtherfield and DIWO Culture
I have just finished Chapter 3 of my PhD, and it’s called ‘DIWO (Do-It-With-Others): Co-creation and Decentralizing Artistic Practice’. In its original form it (still) exists as a peer reviewed published paper for the SEAD: White Papers, in 2013. [1] The new refreshed version has been quite a journey. Not only because of writing the…
Exhibitions: Monsters of the Machine and Children of Prometheus (Resource)
This is a resource page for two touring exhibitions Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21st Century and, it’s smaller version Children of Prometheus. Monsters of the Machine: Frankenstein in the 21st Century, was first exhibited at Laboral, Spain, from 18th November 2016 – 31st August 2017. It featured Artists (no particular order): Lynn…
I’m moderating at ‘Drones: Eyes From A Distance’ 18th April in Berlin
I’m looking forward to be moderating at the ‘Drones: Eyes From A Distance’ conference on the 18th April in Berlin, this Saturday. As part of Furtherfield’s partnership with the Disruption Network Lab I will chair a panel with Tonje Hessen Schei (filmmaker, NO), Jack Serle (investigative journalist, UK), Dave Young (artist, musician and researcher, IE).…
The beginning
A small snippet (draft) from my personal statement – which is part of my PhD intro… When one is living on a council estate – bred within a culture which, as part of its everyday existence, issues forth a regular diet of violence in a myriad of forms, as well as a bad education system and…
Prometheus 2.0: Frankenstein Conquers the World
Prometheus 2.0: Frankenstein Conquers the World!, is about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and looks at science and technological determinism, and humanity’s bond with digital media and social networks. It includes human-machine relations, cyborgs, theories in cyber-culture, classical and SF literature and contemporary art practices across the fields of media art, hacktivism, activism, feminism and cyberpunk. It…
List of Books I’m Reading as Research Material for a Chapter soon to be finished
This list of books is for a chapter within my PhD called the Magnificant Failure. A draft will be uploaded soon. —————————— Jonathan Israel. A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy. Princeton University Press. 2010. Ken Knabb. The Joy of Revolution. Theory and Practice 2013. Michael Hardt and…
Comments on setting up for the Piratbyrån & Friends exhibition
I was at the Furtherfield space yesterday & Met for the first time (in the flesh), Palle Torsson & Geraldine Juárez who are part of the (many) of Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy). They are working with us to set up the Piratbyrån & Friends exhibition, opening on the weekend of 3 May 2014. http://go.shr.lc/1nyJ2Gm It…
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DIWO (Do-It-With-Others): Artistic Co-Creation as a Decentralized Method of Peer Empowerment in Today’s Multitude.
Introduction. Furtherfield originally created the term DIWO (Do It With Others) in 2006, to represent and reflect its own involvement in a series of grass root explorations. These critical engagements shift curatorial and thematic power away from top-down initiations into co-produced, networked artistic activities; it is now an international movement and it has grown into…
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Presentation: Furtherfield and Contemporary Art Culture – Where We Are Now
The paper was an early draft of what is now called Furtherfield and Contemporary Art Culture – Where We Are Now. Summary Marc Garrett reflects on Furtherfield’s role and direction as a rhizomatic arts collective. He argues that the mainstream art world is becoming less relevant in contemporary life. He presents a selection of artworks,…
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