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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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Born 1957 in Philadelphia (USA). 1978–82 study of art at the Cooper Union of Art, New York (USA), under Hans Haacke, Vito Acconci and Martha Rosler, degree of Bachelor of Arts. Since 1981 in cooperation with Nam June Paik. 1985 starting his own production of tapes and installations. 1990 Artist in Residence at the Video Fest Berlin (D). Lives in [[New York City]].
  
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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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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 work is Free Society, 1988, an intensely processed video using images representative of a police state.
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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.
 
  
  

Revision as of 23:53, 27 September 2007

Born 1957 in Philadelphia (USA). 1978–82 study of art at the Cooper Union of Art, New York (USA), under Hans Haacke, Vito Acconci and Martha Rosler, degree of Bachelor of Arts. Since 1981 in cooperation with Nam June Paik. 1985 starting his own production of tapes and installations. 1990 Artist in Residence at the Video Fest Berlin (D). Lives in New York City.

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 work is Free Society, 1988, an intensely processed video using images representative of a police state.


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