Hello everyone
Intro as required, this should about cover it all...
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Garrett Lynch is a net.artist / new media artist, lecturer in
'Digital Media' at 'Canterbury Christ Church University'
(http://www.cant.ac.uk/), curator, critic and theorist of net.art
currently living and working in Kent, England.
His works are hosted and documented at http://www.asquare.org/, the
artists personal website.
Principal curatorial output is 'bannerart'
(http://www.bannerart.org/), a net.artist led initative to curate,
exhibit and distribute free net.art online while critical and
theoretical writing is distributed via 'netartreview'
(http://www.netartreview.net/).
Recent accomplishments include...
1) Exhibited and participated in the newformsfestival in Vancouver, Canada.
2) 'Bannerart.org' participating in the 'Total Überzogen' exhibition
at Edith-Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany.
3) '_pause' being nominated in the 16th 'Filmwinter Festival for
Expanded Media' in Stuttgart, Germany.
4) '_pause' participating in the 'reload' exhibition at the 'Istanbul
Museum of Contempory Art'.
5) Inclusion under net.art in the idealine project commissioned by
'Whitney Artport'.
6) 'Julies Journey' being nominated in 'Videoformes 2001' the
'Festival international d'arts vidéo et multimedia' at
Clermont-Ferrand, France.
7) 'Julies Journey' at 'Beyond the Screen' part of ISEA 2000.
His current work and research deals with online / virtual
environments and the network in all its forms and uses. Creative use
of online spaces to create, organise (curate), document and house new
media art especially with regard to net.art. Not alone is the vast
majority of his artistic work created within the framework of the
network, its encoding and protocols, placing it firmly within the
domain of net.art but his research also backs this up in both
technical and experimental ways.
By searching new forms of presentation and modes of collaboration
between artists online, the ultimate goal is to enhance the presence
of his own work and that of others to a position that is both as
respected as 'traditional' gallery art yet retaining much of the
openess ('free', 'copyleft', 'shareware', 'freeware' etc) net.art has
encouraged since its begining.
The first major exploration's of these issues is 'bannerart', a step
towards allowing net.artists / new media artists to dictate and
control the conditions under which their art is viewed and
distributed. Further work is currently in development which will
allow the development of works online by net.artists. These are to
be tools to do everything from the early planning of projects right
through to the final documentation and archiving.
Educated to degree standard in 'Visual Communication - specialised in
Multimedia' in England and masters level in France ('Post Diplome en
Recherche Interactive' at the 'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts
Decoratif', Paris), Garrett has previously lectured on new media
courses at both Birmingham Institute of Art and Design and the
University of Hertsfordshire, England.--
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Garr-*at*asquare.org
http://www.asquare.org/
http://www.bannerart.org/
http://www.zendco.com/
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