User:Mgarrett~enwiki

Net artist, (new) media artist, curator, writer, street artist, activist, educationalist. Emerging in the late 80's from the streets exploring creativity via agit-art tactics. Using unofficial, experimental platforms such as the streets, pirate radio and networked technologies. Content provider and co-producer of the 1980's alternative broadcasting, sound art collective 'Savage Yet Tender' based in Bristol, UK. Exploring with net broadcasts, BBS systems, performance, intervention, events, pamphlets, showing work in subways, warehouses and independent gallery spaces. In the early 90's was co-sysop (systems operator) with artist Heath Bunting on 'Cybercafe BBS', dedicated to arts, technology and various forms of hacking, social & technological.

Created many Net Art works such as 'Men and Bombs', 'Sam Diaries' and the 'No Flesh Guaranteed' project which began its life 1997. In the context of proliferating Internet porn this controversial site explored the notion of whether net-surfers would feel more at ease, ethically, psychologically or emotionally, viewing aestheticized pornographic images from which all traces of bare-flesh had been extricated. The site became so popular that, over two days in 2004, 1.8 million visitors to the site crashed the server. Many of these Net Art projects have been featured, written about and collected. Rhizome.org Artbase has a permanent archive of the original version of 'No Flesh Guaranteed' and Computer Fine Arts has commissioned and owns two pieces, Hardware and Marc's Email Art Project.

On the selection panel for the international Turbulence Net.Art Commissions 2004 and the panel of judges for the Rhizome 2007-2008 Commissions. Has had published various articles about media art and culture in books, magazines, online zines, catalogues and blogs, which have been featured on Mute Magazine, New Media Fix, Media Mutandis: a NODE.London Reader, A Handbook for Coding Cultures, Game/Play, Post.thing.net and VJ Theory - Philosophy and Cultural Theory of Vjing and Realtime Interaction. Has been the lead editor for reviews and articles on Furtherfield.org since 1997.

Co-instigator and co-participant for NODE.London season of media arts, which involved 150 media art projects organized in over 40 locations as a distributed festival by a number of individuals, venues, institutions and media art groups in London during March 2006. Member of the MARCEL Network, an organisation to facilitate exchange and collaboration over a permanent broadband interactive network dedicated to artistic, educational and cultural experimentation, exchange between art and science and collaboration between art and industry.

Has taught and worked at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, Greenwich University, Southbank University and University of East London as a contextual studies and dissertation lecturer and has contributed to curriculum development on the subjects of Net Art, Media Art and Digital Cultures.