TOMORROW ONLY: Corporate Commands @ Space 200 + Performance: Enjoy Them All

TOMORROW ONLY: Corporate Commands @ Space 200, Boston, MA +
Performance: Enjoy Them All

Please join us this Friday evening, April 29th, at Space 200 from
6-9PM, at an opening reception for the research project "Corporate
Commands" by the Institute for Infinitely Small Things.

There will be a performance of "ENJOY THEM ALL" (The Gap) around 7:30PM
at a Gap around the corner.

The reception will also feature a special appearance by DJ Donna Parker.

This event is free and open to the public.

Due to some unforeseen circumstances this will be the ONLY CHANCE to
see the show so bring your entire extended families, pets, friends,
neighbors, enemies and random people you meet on the way.

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Space 200 is located at Marketplace Center,
200 State Street, Boston, MA - Ground floor.

Space 200 is easily accessible via the MBTA.
Take the Blue Line to Aquarium, and exit on the State street side of
the station Space 200 is also a short walk from the State Street,
Orange Line station.

For more info about this exhibit please visit
http://www.infinitelysmallthings.net

This exhibit is part of the 2005 Boston Cyber Arts Festival
http://www.bostoncyberberarts.org

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"CORPORATE COMMANDS"
http://www.corporatecommands.com
A Research Project By The Institute For Infinitely Small Things

OPENING RECEPTION + MICROPERFORMANCE
Friday, April 29th, 2005, 6-9PM

CONTACT
Pirun
Senior Researcher, The Institute for Infinitely Small Things
Ph: 617-501-6538
Email: [email protected]
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The average person sees over 8000 discrete advertising messages each
day. Many of these messages are CORPORATE COMMANDS - instructions to
the consumer in the imperative: "JUST DO IT", "GRAB LIFE BY THE HORNS",
"HAVE IT YOUR WAY".

What if we actually DID what the corporate commands told us to do in
the LOCATION where they told us to do it?

This is the subject of the latest research project by The INSTITUTE FOR
INFINITELY SMALL THINGS, a Boston-based research organization. Members
of the public are invited to participate in the Institute's research at
Space 200 during the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

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ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FOR INFINITELY SMALL THINGS

www.infinitelysmallthings.net

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things is a research organization
dedicated to the creation, collection and documentation of all things
infinitely small, past, present and future. The Institute's research
projects are concerned with creating a critical cartography through
which to explore notions of political power, social controls, and
collective agency.

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ABOUT "CORPORATE COMMANDS"
Corporate Commands is a research project of the Institute for
Infinitely Small Things.
www.corporatecommands.com

The average person processes 8000 discrete advertising messages a day.
Corporate Commands, though infinitely small in their particular
instances, constitute a powerful force of social production. Their
abstract message functions at the level of the production of a future
image of oneself, future performances as oneself as thin, beautiful,
housewife, racecar driver, living on the edge, being daring, etc.
Messages have ceased to be about just "Buy Coke, It's Good" and are now
functioning to produce desires about oneself, one's lifestyle, one's
whole way of life and engagement with the world.

The Institute's research is productive, not descriptive - we do not try
to describe the world, rather we produce new events in order to test a
social
environment. By compiling, tabulating, concretizing and enacting
literally these commands, the Institute for Infinitely Small Things
seeks to better understand the mechanisms behind this deployment of
power and its larger cultural ramifications.

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ABOUT SPACE 200

Space 200 is located at Marketplace Center,
200 State Street, Boston, MA, Ground floor.

Space 200 is easily accessible via the MBTA.
Take the Blue Line to Aquarium and exit on the State street side.

For more information please visit www.alternatecurrents.com

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ABOUT IKATUN
iKatun is a non-profit 501c3 organization of artists, researchers and
technologists based in Boston, MA, and cyberspace. iKatun supports,
creates and produces works that explore questions of communication,
information, and ideology.