US Department of Art & Technology
http://www.usdat.us
[email protected]
Washington, DC
Press Secretary
For Immediate Release: January 20, 2004
"Anarchic Entertainment for the Nation"
WASHINGTON - Secretary Randall M. Packer of the US Department of Art
& Technology unveils the Experimental Party's "anarchic entertainment
for the nation" to coincide with the launch of the 2004 presidential
election campaign (www.experimentalparty.org). The site is a
challenge to empower all Americans and a call-to-action to "forsake
this menacing world and its reality by participating in a great
political awakening that promises unfettered creativity."
"We've put a lot of time and thought into developing and launching
this highly interactive, multimedia experience that gives people the
tools to explore shifting paradigms, a journey into an alternate
reality, a magic theater," said an enthusiastic Secretary Packer.
Among the site's highlights: avatar-candidate Abe Golam's pledge to
"stir up controversy throughout the global computer networks, that
place where democracy will be fought and won;" WeTheBlog.org founder
Jeff Gates optimistically encourages all citizens "to view the world
out-of-context in order to stay in touch with the pulse of the human
condition;" Roberta Breitmore (National Chairwoman of the
Experimental Party) vows to "provoke presumptions and constrain the
rational;" and the Homeland Insecurity Advisory System, soon to be
completed by Jonah Brucker-Cohen (US Ambassador to the Global
Virtualization Council) promises to be a much needed surveillance
system that will "broadcast the daily threat condition due to risk
resulting from our government-in-action."
Citing the increasingly frightening tactics of the Bush
administration to mount the greatest totalitarian challenge to open
societies in the last 100 years, Packer said the Department's latest
experiment in anarchic entertainment provides an alternative to the
dangerous rhetoric we've all been hearing - instead, the Experimental
Party encourages "a world without fear and with unfeigned pleasure, a
visionary world inspired by the legacy of the avant-garde, for which
we all yearn…"
The Experimental Party
"Anarchic Entertainment for the Nation"
http://www.experimentalparty.org
The Experimental Party - the "party of experimentation" - is an
initiative 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 Principal Artists
are Roberta Breitmore (created by Lynn Hershman), Jonah
Brucker-Cohen, Jeff Gates, Abe Golam (from Mark Amerika's
Grammatron), Jon Henry, Andrew Nagy, Randall Packer, and Wesley Smith.
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Contact: Press Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology
[email protected]
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.
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