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| + | Born 1957. Politically active video artist from the 1990s. One of his works is Man with a Video Camera (Fuck Vertov), 1989, in which he videotapes a riot in Tompkins Square Park in New York City's Lower East Side. The video records police officers with covered badge numbers beating protesters, and Garrin himself being pulled off a van and assaulted for shooting video tape. In the video, Garrin proposes a new revolution is coming; a reverse Big Brother state in which citizens armed with camcorders are continually watching the government. Another well known work is Free Society, 1988, an intensely processed video using images representative of a police state. | ||
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| + | Garrin lived in the Lower East Side. His work straddled a gap between the highest technology available and hands-on street video, all for a common political cause. Later on, Garrin collaborated with video art Nam June Paik, producing numerous works between 1982 and 1996. | ||
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| + | Since the 90s, Garrin has carried his politicized style of action artmaking onto the internet, founding companies and projects that work to free the internet from corporate and government control. | ||
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* [[Pit Schultz]]. ''Interview with Paul Garrin''. 1997. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9706/msg00094.html | * [[Pit Schultz]]. ''Interview with Paul Garrin''. 1997. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9706/msg00094.html | ||
* [[Geert Lovink]]. ''Art and the Tactics of the Cyber-Economy. The Improvements of Same.Space. Interview with Paul Garrin''. 1998. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9805/msg00058.html | * [[Geert Lovink]]. ''Art and the Tactics of the Cyber-Economy. The Improvements of Same.Space. Interview with Paul Garrin''. 1998. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9805/msg00058.html | ||
Revision as of 23:51, 27 September 2007
Born 1957. Politically active video artist from the 1990s. One of his works is Man with a Video Camera (Fuck Vertov), 1989, in which he videotapes a riot in Tompkins Square Park in New York City's Lower East Side. The video records police officers with covered badge numbers beating protesters, and Garrin himself being pulled off a van and assaulted for shooting video tape. In the video, Garrin proposes a new revolution is coming; a reverse Big Brother state in which citizens armed with camcorders are continually watching the government. Another well known work is Free Society, 1988, an intensely processed video using images representative of a police state.
Garrin lived in the Lower East Side. His work straddled a gap between the highest technology available and hands-on street video, all for a common political cause. Later on, Garrin collaborated with video art Nam June Paik, producing numerous works between 1982 and 1996.
Since the 90s, Garrin has carried his politicized style of action artmaking onto the internet, founding companies and projects that work to free the internet from corporate and government control.
- Articles
- Pit Schultz. Interview with Paul Garrin. 1997. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9706/msg00094.html
- Geert Lovink. Art and the Tactics of the Cyber-Economy. The Improvements of Same.Space. Interview with Paul Garrin. 1998. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9805/msg00058.html
