"Speech of the Rockies"

"Speech of the Rockies"
Randall M. Packer
Wednesday, February 26th, 1pm @ Hale 270
University of Colorado, Boulder
presented by the TECHNE Digital Artist Series

Randall M. Packer, Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology
in Washington, DC, continues his nationwide tour at the University of
Colorado, Boulder, where he will deliver the "Speech of the Rockies."
He will be announcing a bold new campaign entitled "10,000 Acts of
Artistic Mediation," intended to mobilize artistic forces across the
nation in these extraordinary times of crisis. The Secretary will
also discuss the recent activation of the new artist-driven political
party, the Experimental Party, the "party of experimentation," in the
Department's effort to bring the artists' message to center stage of
the political process. The Experimental Party intends to recruit,
support, and coordinate viable artists to celebrate the universal
spirit of collective expression, to seek volunteers to help speak
oracular truths and the most radically liberating critique of reason,
and to engage students in acts of appropriation through art and
polemic, manifesto and demonstration, love and politics.

Calling him "a man of great integrity, a man of great judgment and a
man who knows the arts," President George W. Bush announced his
decision to nominate Randall M. Packer to serve as Secretary of the
United States Department of Art and Technology on November 12, 2001.
Upon confirmation by the Senate, Packer pledged to renew the war on
cultural poverty, reduce the incidence of a one-way exchange of
information between an active agent and a passive recipient, and
combat discrimination so no American feels outside the field of
aesthetic inquiry of the contemporary media arts.

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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.