For our #prospectives2023 we will have at 12.00 PM an online Keynote talk by
the co-founder of Furtherfield, Marc Garrett
Free tickets available here: https://prospectives-2023-keynotes.eventbrite.com/
Title: Furtherfield’s Grounded Spirit of Activism in Art, Technology and Social
Change.
Dr Marc Garrett will present four aspects of Furtherfield's grassroots contexts
since it started in the mid-90s. He will talk about how the spirit of activism
has been a key focus and fed the organisation's practice through the years as
it has examined crossovers of practices in art, technology and social change.
First, he will discuss building a grassroots cultural agency and DIY
activist-led art activities as part of a street-wise community, in Bristol, UK,
in the late 80s and early 90s and how this period influenced Furtherfield's
ideas, ventures and philosophy. Then he will talk about curating critical
perspectives against top-down, extractive, patriarchal and hierarchical
behaviours and their dominant systems. This will include a look at peer 2 peer,
collectively built online platforms, the start of DIWO initiatives, and
exhibitions. Thirdly, he will talk about living the proposition in digital art
activism and what it means to follow ambitions beyond cherry-picking,
institutional lip service, and taking risks. Examples of projects include: We
Won't Fly For Art, Zero Dollar Laptop, DAOWO, and The Hologram. Lastly, Marc
will talk about publishing critiques reflecting on art, technology and social
change for curious minds. He will conclude with a discussion of Furtherfield’s
current direction in the face of what we have learned about the role that
“technological innovations” play in destroying critical imagination and
producing an unequal society and climate collapse.
Bio:
Dr Marc Garrett explores postdigital contexts of working-class and grassroots
culture as part of an intersectional enquiry. He co-founded the arts collective
Furtherfield as a collaborative platform online in 1996 with artist Ruth
Catlow. It has two physical venues, a gallery and a Commons lab, both situated
in the park in Finsbury Park, London. Garrett has curated over 60 contemporary
Media Arts exhibitions and projects nationally and internationally. He has
written many critical and cultural essays, articles, interviews, and books and
is currently editing the book Furtherfield: 25 Years of Art, Technology and
Social Change (2023), published by Torque.
Other recent book publications: Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation & Technology
in the 21st Century (2022), eds Marc Garrett and Yiannis Colakides, published
by Torque. State Machines: Reflections & Actions at the Edge of Digital
Citizenship, Finance, & Art (2019). Edited by Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett,
and Inte Gloerich. INC, Amsterdam. Artists Re: Thinking the Blockchain (2017).
Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner. Torque Editions &
Furtherfield, Liverpool Press. Currently editing the book Living the
Proposition (2023), published by Goldsmiths, UK.
Wishing you well
Marc
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https://marcgarrett.org/cv/Dr Marc Garrett. He/Him.
Co-founder of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab.
Current book - Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation & Technology in the 21st
Century. Co-editors Marc Garrett and Yiannis Colakides, 2022.
https://tinyurl.com/m65jydyn
https://marcgarrett.org/
Co-founder of Furtherfield
https://www.furtherfield.org/
Co-founder of DECALhttps://decal.furtherfield.org/http://decal.is/
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