Announcing "10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation"

The Experimental Party National Committee
Washington, DC
http://www.experimentalparty.org
[email protected]

For Immediate Release: January 21, 2003


Experimental Party Announces
"10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation"

Washington, DC - The Experimental Party, the recently activated
artist-based political party, is announcing a new campaign to sponsor
"10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation" across the nation in anticipation
of the 2004 electronic campaign - in what is being heralded as the
"Artist's Call to Service."

The Experimental Party will call on artists from all 50 states, as
well as nations and communities around the world, to join the Party
and help overcome society's anxieties and heightening insecurity by
participating in this ambitious campaign to stage "10,000 Acts of
Artistic Mediation."

An initiative of the US Department of Art & Technology, the
Experimental Party, whose motto is "representation through
virtualization," was first announced as a national party in Iowa City
at the Thaw Festival of Media less than one year ago by Secretary
Randall M. Packer.

The most comprehensive clearinghouse ever offered to help citizens
celebrate the universal sprit of collective expression, the
Experimental Party is a Total Artwork - united, whole, intensive. The
Experimental Party has embraced the power of culture, independent
thinking and artist-driven government in an effort to empower the
experimental and the disenfranchised.

According to Secretary Packer, "We believe that virtually every
problem in America and the world can be resolved through the
reflections, ideas, sensibilities and abilities of the artist. There
are already countless artistic initiatives working successfully to
subvert the status quo. However, these initiatives are too often
isolated and unknown to others. They must be replicated over and over
and over again by artists and art collectives until everyone is
connected to someone - many-to-many, peer-to-peer, soul-to-soul.

The new Experimental Party website (experimentalparty.org) unveils
the Party's ambitious platform, confronting political and social
conditions that threaten to engulf our nation today. According to Abe
Golam, one of the Party's principal artists, "only art is capable of
dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that
continues to totter along the deathline."

The website also invites artists to participate directly in the
transformational properties of the ceremonies of art, by joining the
USA Exquisite Corpse Volunteer Network. In spearheading the USA
Exquisite Corpse, National Chairwoman Roberta Breitmore, another
principal artist of the Experimental Party, has "vowed to provoke
presumptions and constrain the rational."

Explore the Experimental Party website as a resource for helping your
neighbor, your community and your nation. Activist artists are
encouraged to use the Experimental Party platform and website to
stimulate
interventionist change in their own communities, whether they be
local, regional, international, or virtual.

The website is an opportunity to become acquainted with the
Experimental Party - a stratum of reality that has become rarefied to
the extreme - anarchist entertainment we have long dreamed.

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10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation
http://www.experimentalparty.org/10,000acts.html

The Experimental Party believes in the readiness and ability of every
artist in America and throughout the world to carry out an act of
artistic mediation, particularly the young and disenfranchised.
Meaningful many-to-many engagement in the collective lives of artists
is now required to overcome our most serious national and world
problems. The growth and magnification of the "10,000 Acts of
Artistic Mediation" campaign has become the mission of the US
Department of Art & Technology and its newly formed Experimental
Party.

The Experimental Party
http://www.experimentalparty.org

The Experimental Party - the "party of experimentation" - is an
artist-based political party that has been formed to activate
citizens across the country in an effort to bring the artists'
message to center stage of the political process. This is a political
awakening, 'representation through virtualization' is the major
political thrust of the Experimental Party, it is the driving force.

The US Department of Art & Technology
http://www.usdept-arttech.net

The US Department of Art and Technology is the United States
principal conduit for facilitating the artist's need to extend
aesthetic inquiry into the broader culture where ideas become real
action. It also serves the psychological and spiritual well-being of
all Americans by supporting cultural efforts that provide immunity
from the extension of new media technologies into the social sphere.

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Contact:

Experimental National Committee | Washington, DC
Fax: 202.342.1293 | E-mail: [email protected]