An interview with Marc Garrett.
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Plutonian Striptease is a series of interviews with experts, owners, users, fans and haters of social media, to map the different views on this topic, outside the existing discussions surrounding privacy.
Marc Garrett is Co-director and co-founder, with artist Ruth Catlow of the Internet arts collectives and communities - furtherfield.org, furthernoise.org, netbehaviour.org, also co-founder and co-curator/director of the gallery space HTTP Gallery in London, UK. Co-curating various contemporary Media Arts exhibitions, projects nationally and internationally. Net artist, media artist, curator, writer, street artist, activist, educationalist and musician. Dedicated in collaborating with others to create self-built artists communities on-line and off-line, focused around the fields of art, technology and social change.
More about Naked on Pluto.
http://pluto.kuri.mu
Naked on Pluto is a Massively Multiplayer Text Based Sandbox Adventure Game on Facebook. When you enter the game, you find yourself on Pluto, in a city under the rule of Elastic Versailles revision 14 (EVr14), an Artificial Intelligence functioning as an entertainment colony. It is the Las Vegas of the Solar System, a true paradise for consumers and corporations alike.
The game explores the limits and nature of social networks from within, slowly pushing the boundaries of what is tolerated by the companies that own them, carefully documenting this process as we go. Story and play are combined with an investigation on how exposed we are on social networks, and how our data are being used.
The project will be developed during a shared residency at NIMk, BALTAN Laboraties and Piksel, between June and November 2010, by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. The project is licensed Copyleft. The research and development process will be documented and can be followed on http://pluto.kuri.mu and the game can be played on http://naked-on-pluto.net (teaser only a.t.m.). Thanks to servus.at for hosting kuri.mu.
