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Author: Marc Garrett

Dr Marc Garrett recently completed his PhD at Birkbeck University, London, UK. His work explores postdigital contexts of working-class 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 about art, technology and social change. He has recently published Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation & Technology in the 21st Century, 2022, Torque. Currently editing the book Furtherfield: 25 years of Art, Technology and Social Change for 2022, published by Torque.

The Relentless Suffocation of our Community Spirit and Radical Selves.

This Christmas has been a sombre and reflective one, cast in a new light by the profound sacrifice of the … More

community, DIWO, ecology, genocide, hunger strikers, May Day, media art, New Year, research, social

Living the Proposition – Art Worlding and The Hologram

The “capitalist totality” only exists in our imagination. I do not think there is a capitalist totality. I think there’s … More

community, hack value, hacktivism, media art, mutualism, research, social, worlding

Magnificent Failures Collide

This chapter examines the historical convergence of British punk culture, Situationist theory, and traditions of popular dissent, arguing that these formations collectively constituted a distinctive mode of cultural and political emancipation rooted in amateurism, collective practice, and anti-hierarchical organisation.

academic, hacktivism, history, post-punk, punk, research, situationism, social

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 … More

academia, AI, art, Artificial Intelligence, links, resource

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 … More

book, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

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 … More

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 … More

art, class, interviews, PhD, politics, research, social

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 … More

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.

art, Diggers, hacktivism, Levellers, Performance, politics, technology, Transmediale 2108

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 … More

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