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Projects by Marc
Articles/Reviews by Marc
![]() released 21/7/10 | In this two part interview Marc Garrett discusses with Heath Bunting about his current work within two distinctive areas of digital culture and sport-art, starting with The Status Project, which studies the construction of our 'official identities'.
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| abstract, activism, agency, archive, behaviour, conceptual, critical, cyberculture, database, hacking, hactivism, intervention, Legal, life hacking, media art, networked, resource, social, software art | |
![]() released 30/5/10 | Marc Garrett talks to Danja Vasiliev about his personal works, ideas and intentions, asking what motivates him to use computers, technology and networks, as well as understand more about the social contexts and implications of his endeavors.
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| activism, conceptual, critical, cyberculture, DIY, hacking, hactivism, Internet Art, intervention, media art, networked, open source, social, software art, wireless | |
![]() released 21/5/10 | Marc Garrett interviews Patrick Lichty, renowned conceptually-based artist, writer, curator and activist. He has exhibited internationally since 1990. This two part interview includes discussion about his work with The Yes Men, other art projects such as Sprawl, 8 Bits or Less, other works, curation, ideas about culture and life.
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| activism, conceptual, critical, curation, cyberculture, hactivism, independent, installation, Internet Art, interplay, intervention, interview, media art, networked, psychogeography, social | |
![]() released 14/5/10 | Marc Garret talks to Joseph Young - member of the Neofuturist Collective - about his performances, interventions and sound recordings.
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| activism, intervention, media art, performance, poetic, Political, psychogeography, sound, street, Transgressive, urban, video | |
![]() released 5/3/10 | An interview with Chris Dooks, a 'Polymath' exploring various creative avenues, making his art using different media. Whether it be directing arts-based TV documentaries, explorative psychogeographical projects, design, composing and making music or audio visual installations. |
| activism, agency, audiovisual, behaviour, community, conceptual, DIY, documentary, event, Film, interplay, intervention, interview, life hacking, media art, performance, psychogeography, remix, social, social games, sound, street, TV, urban, video | |
![]() released 16/5/09 | This 6-year retrospective of the Feral Trade project, by artist Kate Rich, kicks off Furtherfield.org's Media Art Ecologies programme. An ecological approach pays special attention to the interrelation of technological and natural processes: beings and things, individuals and multitudes, matter and patterns. |
| distributed creativity, DIY, exhibition, infrastructure, media art ecologies, networked, open source, self organisation, social | |
![]() released 9/4/09 | This text is a reflection on the NODE.London experiment and its engagement with radical openness. Looking at its context, its cultures and the make-up of its events, infrastructure and organisation it discusses how it might be possible and worthwhile to support the development of grassroots media arts infrastructure in London.
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| abstract, activism, collaboration, collective, community, media art, media art ecologies, participation, self organisation | |
![]() released 7/4/09 | In support of Ada Lovelace Day Furtherfield.org invited women working in media arts to join the NetBehaviour email list for a week. Contributors posted information about their own work alongside the work of other women who had inspired them in their own practice. |
| agency, archive, article, collaboration, collective, community, context, critical, cyberculture, dialogue, distributed creativity, feminism, gender, media art, networked, participation, resource, social | |
![]() released 25/3/09 | Exploits in the Wireless City is the 4th Radiator festival and symposium to date, which lasted between 13-24 January 2009, 10 days of Exhibitions, Events, Screenings, Music, Artists' Talks and more. Marc writes about the commission for the festival 'Going Underground', enquiring how the works relate to the theme of Surveillance and Sousveillance.
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| activism, agency, collaboration, collective, commission, festival, Film, performance, Political, resource, social, social games, street, urban, wireless | |
![]() released 23/10/08 | Pure:dyne Discussion on the Netbehaviour list with Heather Corcoran & Aymeric Mansoux members of GOTO10 collective. pure:dyne is an operating system developed to provide media artists with a complete set of tools for realtime audio and video processing.
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| agency, audiovisual, Code Art, collaboration, collective, critical, dialogue, distributed creativity, DIY, free code, free software, interview, media art, open source, participation, resource, software art | |
![]() released 13/10/08 | Jeremy Bailey interviewed by Marc Garrett on the Netbehaviour list. As part of his residency & exhibition "The Jeremy Bailey Show" at HTTP Gallery. Discussing works in the exhibition, critical approaches & contemporary contexts about his art work. Also discussing 'WarMail', commissioned by HTTP/Furtherfield.org, performed with a participating audience at the HTTP Gallery at the opening night.
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| animation, archive, article, audiovisual, dialogue, exhibition, interview, mobile art, performance, satire, software art, video, war | |
![]() released 14/9/08 | An account of experimental networked co-curatorial process. Introducing some of the threads, streams, experiences and debates generated as part of the Do It With Others (DIWO) E-mail Art initiated by Furtherfield.org in February 2007 and exhibited one month later at HTTP Gallery, London.
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| collaboration, community, dialogue, distributed creativity, DIY, E-mail Art, media art, net art, networked, participation | |
![]() released 11/6/08 | Marc Garrett reviews the works love_potion and Invisibility_Phial. Through their recent work, Glorious Ninth (Kate Southworth & Patrick Simons) has created an intriguing interface introducing a more personal and emotional context. Their own lives become part of the works, that serve to introduce us to their world via their intuitive, creative practice.
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| abstract, agency, audiovisual, browser art, Code Art, collaboration, cyberdomestic, digital, distributed creativity, DIY, generative art, life hacking, net art, networked, participation, recycling, shockwave, web art | |
![]() released 31/1/08 | Norwayweb is a Net Art project by Bjorn Magnhildoen that Scrapes tax information of over 4 million Norwegians from different databases into a real-time artwork.
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| activism, aesthetic, agency, Code Art, conceptual, critical, curation, cyberculture, database, generative art, interactive, Internet Art, media art, net art, networked, real time, software art | |
![]() released 18/9/07 | Edward Picot's visually playful, web art interpretation of Wallace Stevens's poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
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| aesthetic, animation, audiovisual, digital, Flash, Internet Art, narrative, poetic, reflection, web art | |
![]() released 4/4/07 | This text describes how Furtherfield came about and how it now extends the DIY ethos of some early net art and tactical media, towards a more collaborative Do It With Others (DIWO) approach; whereby peers connect and collaborate, creating their own structures, using digital networks and shared physical environments, making art that is both made and distributed across a network.
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| critical, distributed creativity, DIY, E-mail Art, independent, Internet Art, media art, net art, networked | |
![]() released 27/11/06 | Describes VisitorsStudio as a media art project and its connection with Fluxus, mail art, happenings, performance, art-activism and live art and now positioned within the thriving territory of real-time art, software art, net art and participative and collaborative expression in contemporary "remix culture".
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| activism, audiovisual, collaboration, distributed creativity, media art, multi-user, networked, participation, performance, real time, remix | |
![]() released 3/3/06 | As part of NODE.London's Season of Media Arts during March 06, there is a meeting taking place where backspace used to be...
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![]() released 18/2/06 | NODE.L defines a season of celebration and acknowledgement of interest and engagement. It illustrates creative and experimental uses of communication media and technological innovation to express ideas and...
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| abstract, activism, collaboration, critical, distributed creativity, DIY, social | |
![]() released 1/12/05 | DVblog.org is a Vlog and platform for artists and scholars for presenting or publishing stand-alone quicktime works.
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| archive, art Blog, cinema, community, database, digital, Internet Art, media art, multi-user, net film, resource, video | |
![]() released 1/11/05 | Packet Switching is described by the artists as an encounter with the “liminal space between ocean and land, between emotions and thoughts, and between reality and virtuality”.
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![]() released 29/9/05 | This is the last chance to see the third in a the series of exhibitions of Low-fi net art commissions, that serve to introduce aspects of networked media art to a more established art audience.
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![]() released 14/11/04 | A web-zine project cataloging all the best hacks and D.I.Y tech ventures on the Internet. Users daily add their own hacks of hard/software, bringing technology home to the user.
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![]() released 14/7/04 | 11 hours of video footage, tricking QuickTime into thinking that the RAM of a home computer is actually video instead. Transforming his emails, music files and DSL into sound and visual data.
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![]() released 22/4/04 | Rats placed in a human-social construct - a scaled-down model of the artists own home. A kind of real-time Big Brother scenario, with rats (obliviously) taking centre stage.
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![]() released 20/3/04 | A Furtherfield retrospective of Andy Deck's work from 1996 to 2004. A contemporary artist, activist who explores technology and art, challenging our assumptions via collaborations, programming and activism.
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| activism, agency, Code Art, critical, exhibition, geopolitical, Internet Art, net art, Political, reflection, satire, social, software art | |
![]() released 26/1/04 | With her recent project, Views from the ground floor, Jess Loseby's digital-based, net.art and new media practice has taken a evolutionary leap forward...
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![]() released 16/1/04 | A new way to deal with religious conflicts, a software application helps you get converted in a couple of clicks. Choose the most suitable & convenient religion.
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![]() released 16/1/04 | A live played sound & video concert based on Classic Computergames, High-end Vector FX & Super 2D Fantasy Heroes. Sound & Image controlled live on stage with a funky mix of noisy soundsamples and animations.
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![]() released 25/11/03 | An ongoing net art project. Compiling reflections on the U.S. and its war culture, dealing with the constant relentless onslaught of propaganda by its pro war media via broadcasting corporations.
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![]() released 5/11/03 | Every other day Edvardsson frequents the station's studio to deposit his fresh seed for the online audience to listen to. A trans materialization of bodily fluid - data for the Internet.
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![]() released 5/11/03 | This new collection of work by Joseph and Donna McElroy features a successful exploration of defining unconsciousness as experience.
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![]() released 5/11/03 | These are abstract works, stripped of narrative, subjectivity or political slant. lo_y is only what lo_y writes. no history, no stories, no explanations...
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| behaviour, kinaesthetic, net art | |
![]() released 25/9/03 | Couples all over the world are networking for sex with others using magazines to connect to each other. A subculture that not only swaps their physical selves but also share their consciousnesses.
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| agency, behaviour, community, conceptual, digital, interactive, Internet Art, media art, narrative, net art, networked, photography, sexuality, social, taxonomy, Transgressive, web art | |
![]() released 25/9/03 | August Highland collaborates with William Shakespeare with the start of an going series of sonnets.
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![]() released 30/8/03 | Two web cam installations by Ivan Pope - Lost Magic Kingdoms and Tabletop. The rate of image change will also vary. Large pages. Mixed media installation with web cams and computer. 200 x 200 x 200 cm.
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![]() released 30/8/03 | New work by Chris Webb producing abstract animated visual models working from the audio samples of couples engaging in sexual activities.
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| aesthetic, body, Internet Art, media art, object, sexuality, web art | |
![]() released 15/8/03 | The Relation Papers explores the consequences of changing the perception of time catagories on individual behaviour.
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![]() released 15/8/03 | Interactive sound environment where the user combines different sonic elements from meditative pieces taken from Blanchard's 'Airsteam' recordings
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| photography, sound | |
![]() released 15/8/03 | A collaborative effort of Taped Rugs Artists, conceived and executed during spring and summer, 2002. It is credited not to any specific artist, but to 'Taped Rugs Productions'.
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![]() released 15/8/03 | As you journey through the collection of pages, static images, moving images, dates, times and moments; you get the sense that images are a platform for communicating what cannot be said by words alone.
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| aesthetic, archive, audiovisual, digital, Flash, independent, interactive, Internet Art, media art, narrative, participation, photography, sound, video, web art | |
![]() released 15/8/03 | An amazing journey following the 'West Nile Virus' as it starts in the Bronx Zoo, New York, then spreads across 38 States, found in both mosquitos and birds.
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![]() released 15/8/03 | A collection of images showing a healthy distrust of 'art for family' viewing which is a refreshing non conformist stance.
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![]() released 15/8/03 | Punk in spirit, S.C.A.R.E's underbelly possesses many shadows, the text's originate from Microsoft programmer's development kits and from porn sites.
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![]() released 15/8/03 | Graffiti-like scrawlings reflecting back to the viewer a punk existentialism that unashamedly points out humanity's seemingly perpetual dysfunction.
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![]() released 15/8/03 | An online mapping tool where participants are invited to embark on a 'programmed' psychogeographic walk, following a set of instructions written as a pseudo computer program.
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![]() released 1/1/02 | Pipe-cleaner figures, cavorting in a domestic setting
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| aesthetic, agency, conceptual, cyberfeminism, digital, interactive, Internet Art, media art, narrative, net art, poetic, satire, sexuality, Transgressive, web art | |
![]() released 1/1/02 | Mouse over various buttons to trigger events in the piece. The experience is a sound and poetry work in which the user is the main collaborator, mixing the loops and shaping the work.
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![]() released 1/1/02 | Collection of 'Banner' animations for all to use at will, in areas of websites more commonly used for web advertisements. Originally created for the Banner Art Collective.
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| aesthetic, digital, participation, photography, web art | |
![]() released 1/1/02 | A collection of Marc Garrett's explorative essays, amazing cyber stories, his sleazy art meetings, plus critical poetry.
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![]() released 1/1/02 | A comprehensive on-line compendium of nuclear-related links, imagery & documentation. It is intended specifically as a resource for artists
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![]() released 1/1/02 | An exploration of the less disenchanted states of being locating the migrant 'soul' of myth and magic through sculpture and performance art.
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![]() released 1/1/02 | People talking about their experiences and perceptions on life, ways of living, life in New York Also reflections about sensory experience with the mouth. Flavours, the kiss and the memory.
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![]() released 1/1/02 | 'Wrapping Our Warped Minds', are visual and multimedia artists; exploring imaginative visual scapes that users can interact with.
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![]() released 1/1/02 | A walk round Gilston, Essex/Herfordshire border - with Janet and Jo - 12 noon to 12.50 - 21st November2002
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| documentary, Internet Art, photography | |
![]() released 1/1/02 | Oculart is a playful and visionary Internet Art piece that transcends the everyday, using Flash in a way that stuns one' s expectations and emotional reasoning.
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![]() released 1/1/01 | A revealing anthropological survey. This live piece shows the pictures the most viewed (ranked from 1 to 10) on different national Yahoo portals.
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| browser art, cyberculture, digital, interactive, Internet Art, media art, participation | |
![]() created 16/4/09 | In support of Ada Lovelace Day we invited women working in media arts to join the NetBehaviour.org email list for a week, between 23rd and 30th March. They were invited to post information about their own work alongside the work of other women who had inspired them in their own practice, this list is a result of the project. |
| agency, archive, collaboration, collective, community, context, dialogue, distributed creativity, feminism, gender, media art, networked, participation, resource, social | |
![]() created 12/4/09 | An exponential growth pledge using the Pledgebank social utility. Ruth and Marc won't fly for art for six months but only if 6 others will do the same AND replicate the pledge |
| environmental, generative art, life hacking, media art ecologies | |
![]() created 2/1/09 | An interview about media art and ecology within Eco-scope, a communication tool that provides a context for discussing environmental affairs, acknowledging by its structure the "importance of participation in any meaningful solutions that can be imagined". |
| collaboration, environmental, geopolitical, interview, media art, software art | |
![]() created 10/3/08 | Two people attempt to resolve a recurring argument. Their conversation is transcribed into 2 frames in a single browser. Lag starts to interfere with the flow of statements and responses. |
| collaboration, DIY, net art | |
![]() created 21/2/08 | First, in a series of contemporary Net Art works exploring the making of Net Art now, as an Art object in its own right, using straight forward code, html, javascript, imaging & sound, and open source. |
| aesthetic, agency, Code Art, context, critical, cyberculture, DIY, Internet Art, media art, net art, net.art | |
![]() created 31/3/07 | A Mail Art project that explored the Do-It-Yourself ethos of early Net Art which used the early Internet as an experimental artistic medium and distribution system. DIWO highlighted an open and collaborative approach to making, curating and appreciating art. |
| collaboration, community, dialogue, distributed creativity, DIY, E-mail Art, media art, net art, networked, participation | |
![]() created 18/2/06 | NODE.L defines a season of celebration and acknowledgement of interest and engagement. It illustrates creative and experimental uses of communication media and technological innovation to express ideas and... |
| abstract, activism | |
![]() created 17/9/04 | Real-time live performance direct from London to New York's Postmasters Gallery. As part of the RNC NODE, public broadcasting, a system of online, real time protest performances |
| activism, agency, archive, audiovisual, browser art, collaboration, critical, dialogue, digital, distributed creativity, DIY, event, Flash, free software, independent, interactive, Internet Art, life hacking, live, media art, multi-user, narrative, net art, networked, participation, performance, Political, real time, remix, resource, satire, social, social games, software art, sound, video, war | |
![]() created 4/5/04 | As we all experience the perpetually endless building of hierarchies regarding the new media world, it is not easy for people to get on and find their place to be seen. |
![]() created 3/3/04 | The networking party is an informal annual event for artists, thinkers, techies, entrepreneurs, transgressive types, scientists, musicians, performers, curators and critics. |
| agency, behaviour, collaboration, community, conceptual, conference, context, critical, cyberculture, dialogue, distributed creativity, DIY, event, Internet Art, media art, narrative, net art, networked, participation, performance, resource, taxonomy | |
![]() created 3/3/04 | Exploring moves from the net to the street. People were invited to respond with text and/or images to advertising and the wider world via 2 furtherfield sites: Emotion in Information and Concrete Myrth Posters. |
![]() created 3/3/04 | A collaboration between Completely Naked and Furtherfield.org. An interactive, online, digital photography installation in which the participating audience create expressive images of their own naked bodies |
![]() created 3/3/04 | Showcasing a diverse array of artists and groups who are pushing their work further than the traditional remit of corporate controlled cliches, re-interpreting new terrains that communicate via sound. |
| agency, archive, article, collaboration, collective, commission, community, creative commons, cyberculture, database, distributed creativity, DIY, independent, interactive, journalism, networked, participation, performance, publication, remix, social, street | |
![]() created 3/3/04 | Ryan Griffis was a 'Furthercritic' in residence between 2002-04 and Mez Breeze from 2005 - 2007. |
| agency, article, context, critical, cyberculture, Internet Art, interview, journalism, media art, net art, networked, publication, reflection, residency, resource, text, theory | |
![]() created 3/3/04 | An online place for real-time, multi-user mixing, collaborative creation, many to many dialogue and networked performance and play. |
| activism, audiovisual, collaboration, distributed creativity, media art, multi-user, networked, performance, remix | |
![]() created 3/3/04 | Furthertxt.org is the second sister site to furtherfield.org. A a bi-monthly thematic text project, edited by digital art critic Charlotte Frost (Rhizome Net Art News and Mute). |
| archive, article, context, critical, cyberculture, Internet Art, interview, journalism, language, media art, net art, publication, resource, text, theory | |
![]() created 3/3/04 | Around the world people are invited to contribute to a collective global diary. You are invited to collaborate with us on building a chaotic and varied picture of our collective lives. |
| agency, archive, art Blog, behaviour, collective, cyberculture, database, dialogue, digital, interactive, Internet Art, media art, narrative, net art, networked, participation, publication, resource, social, text, web art | |
![]() created 20/8/03 | A Marco & Pablo collaboration. A witty response to a Zybooks.com project displaying his artwork alongside Picasso's. |
![]() created 20/8/03 | An exploration of mans' misogyny and its relationship with war & its weaponry; in accordance to themes such as atomic energy, masculinity,bloodlust, sadism, sex, desire, fashion, heroism, lust, bravado, murder |
![]() created 20/8/03 | Ten pieces speaking eloquently about the precarity of the individual and the world around her, Garrett has here captured the dominant metaphors of our times and scripted them...with JavaScript. - Lewis LaCook. |
![]() created 20/8/03 | Explorative and prolific Darkwave, net-based band. Cut up noises/beats that grind with a playful and poetic dysfunction. |
![]() created 20/8/03 | Welcome, to a small collection of my Email_Art which has been sent to many computer users, globally over the years. |
| agency, archive, behaviour, conceptual, critical, cyberculture, digital, distributed creativity, E-mail Art, Internet Art, intervention, media art, net art, networked, poetic, publication, reflection, resource, satire, text, web art | |
![]() created 20/8/03 | The Following information was taken from a cynical trial conducted by the Anti-Net Art Society. |
| activism, agency, critical, Internet Art, net art, satire | |
![]() created 20/8/03 | Images, notes, poems & rants 1986 -1990. A philosophical look at life, art, insanity, security, institutions & many other things. |
![]() created 20/8/03 | The net piece Become a Curator was inspired by a spam e-mail selling penis enlargement received by the artist. |
| activism, agency, conceptual, critical, DIY, hactivism, independent, net art, satire, social | |
![]() created 3/3/03 | An exploratory, year long project, set up to create online, real-time, net art residencies with three UK-based artists. Each residency lasts for 3 months, including critical forums & live interaction. |
| agency, archive, audiovisual, behaviour, browser art, dialogue, Flash, interactive, Internet Art, live, media art, narrative, net art, networked, participation, performance, platform, real time, remix, residency, resource, social, software art | |
![]() created 1/1/02 | A collection of Marc Garrett's explorative essays, amazing cyber stories, his sleazy art meetings, plus critical poetry. |
![]() created 1/1/02 | Welcome to the darkness that (supposed autonomous) secret grotto that other people normally seldom see. Have a look inside my computer and ask yourself, what if I was looking inside yours. |
![]() created 1/1/02 | Interventions born out of experiencing the Old Boy Network syndrome in the established academic fields of arts and literary criticism. A mix of texts taken from sex sites, theoretical concepts... |
![]() created 3/3/01 | Festival of Multimedia and Interactive works Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| conference | |
![]() created 1/1/01 | A short story about a group of renegade scientists who discover how to transmute themselves into objects. |
![]() created 1/1/01 | Images collaged from magazines and the news media. By claiming these images, mutating the personalities and products Marc has created a new form of playful and emotional propaganda. |
![]() created 1/1/00 | 2 Journeys through a world of 'Industrial Bondage', 'Big Stinks', 'Teen Puppets' and the 'Tripple Freudian Squeeze'. |
![]() created 1/1/00 | Marc's feelings after watching Ken Russell's 'The Devils'. Governments are still hiding the truth in favour of control & conveniently forgetting their responsibilities to us, the people & the world. |
![]() created 1/1/00 | A Textual Wandering piece by Marc Garrett about a violent father lies dying in hospital. |
![]() created 1/1/99 | In darkness we all hide -enjoying what is... soulful black & white drawings comprise a poetic journey of text and images celebrating sexual exploration. |

































































































