US Department of Art & Technology
Washington, DC
http://www.usdat.us
[email protected]
Press Secretary
For Immediate Release: March 24, 2004
US DAT Announces New Online
Media Deconstruction Kit (MDK)
to Transform & Deliver Live, Altered
News Broadcasts to the World
MDK Broadband Services Enhance Citizens Experience of Live Cultural
Appropriation (http://www.experimentalparty.org/mdk)
Washington, DC - The US Department of Art & Technology announces
today new network and Internet service capabilities that transform an
array of appropriated live news broadcasts - from advertisements to
political pundancy, live news updates to cable network logos - and
put the altered matter out on the Net. The Department believes these
techniques could swamp the mass media with total illusion in 2004 as
the election rhetoric ramps up.
A project of its Experimental Party initiative, The Department said
it is introducing these new capabilities to deconstruct networks like
Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, and to reliably deliver to its end-users a
range of transformed imagery and fragmented sound to bring about the
systematic reordering of the senses.
Trace Reddell, Under Secretary for the Bureau of Pharmakogeographical
Surveying, advocates systems of varied media ambiences "diverting
[mass media] from its current roadmap to manufactured similitude
through an hallucinatory recycling of composted media content."
"Today's announcement is significant because it illustrates US DAT's
continued commitment to confront corporate control of mass media,"
Secretary Randall M. Packer stated outside his office in Washington,
DC, "so that a new century is spared new horrors of Fox News - the
issue Americans should care most about."
The US Department of Art & Technology, responding to the gravity of
the situation, is collaborating with artists and engineers, including
Under Secretary for Cultural Appropriations Wesley Smith, to discover
new tactics that stand at the cradle of art and science. As Secretary
Packer stated in a recent Washington speech at Johns Hopkins
University, "we must achieve the total deconstruction of media in
order to build new formations, and we will advance this
transformation we've created for purposes of propaganda."
Media Deconstruction Kit Online
A Project of the Experimental Party
http://www.experimentalparty.org/mdk
********
The US Department of Art & Technology
http://www.usdat.us
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.
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.
Contact: Press Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology
[email protected]
# 01-133
Online Deconstruction of Live Broadcast Media
-
Type: discussion