[syndicate] Interviewing The Crisis - Art Is Open Source, interviews Marc Garrett.

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Interviewing The Crisis - Art Is Open Source, interviews Marc Garrett.

http://www.interviewingthecrisis.org/?p=27

Marc Garrett from Furtherfield.org interviewed by Art Is Open Source.
"His interview is an incredible text that shows more than “art”, 
accessing dimensions that show how new practices can create a physical 
and networked-to-a-human-scale critique to the world that is around us. 
A use of networking that is centered on human beings that need/want to 
act/react. A form of life. Technology, network, sociality and positive 
attitudes as the necessary set of tools to confront the contemporary 
era." Art Is Open Source.

In this interview Marc discusses how the finacial crises and how the 
cuts in arts fundng has been and is continuing to affect art freedoms in 
the UK, Canada the USA and elsewhere. With reference to how the 
Olympics, nationalism, art cuts and wars are from the same source of 
neoliberalist strategies, "Many of our institutions have been committed 
in taking on and implementing their own global and local versions of 
neoliberalism, where it has seeped into the very infrastructures and 
consciousness of our entertainment industries, the arts, academia, 
business, governments and broadcasting media, news publications; where 
corporate agendas (and governmental schemes) matter more than the health 
of the planet, human contexts and social needs. Where the value of human 
life has been worth less than product and fanciful ideologies. In a 
world when genuine concerns are expressed, they are constantly ignored 
systematically, or at best paid lip-service and treated as annoying 
irritants. Together, we need to rethink things and negotiate ways out of 
these cul-de sacs. To be concerned and thinking about these things 
really should not be seen as extremist or radical, it is simply common 
sense." Marc Garrett.

Furtherfield believes that through creative and critical engagement with 
practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to 
become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. We provide 
and collaborate with platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and 
learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, 
technology and social change.

Italian & English version here:
http://www.artsblog.it/post/2803/intervistando-la-crisi-con-marc-garrett-part-2

Art Is Open Source:
http://www.artisopensource.net