calling dr. galloway/ pentagon's new net art

I am sad to report this update to Rhizome;

In another blow to net art, the PAM project was canned this morning…

"Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, said today that he had conferred with the program's director at the Pentagon, ``and we mutually agreed that this thing should be stopped.'' "


M. River wrote:

> On a bright note for the genre, the Pentagon seems to
> have jumped into the net art game…
>
> "The Pentagon office that proposed spying
> electronically on Americans to monitor potential
> terrorists has a new experiment. It is an online
> futures trading market, disclosed today by critics, in
> which anonymous speculators would bet on forecasting
> terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?hp
>
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Okay, one last post and then I'll stop. I promise…

The PAM site seems to be blank now.
http://www.policyanalysismarket.org/

It looks like they got my email about a HCCA comeback.
http://tinjail.com/promise.html

M. River wrote:

> I am sad to report this update to Rhizome;
>
> In another blow to net art, the PAM project was canned this morning…
>
> "Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who heads the Senate
> Armed Services Committee, said today that he had conferred with the
> program's director at the Pentagon, ``and we mutually agreed that this
> thing should be stopped.'' "
>
>
> M. River wrote:
>
> > On a bright note for the genre, the Pentagon seems to
> > have jumped into the net art game…
> >
> > "The Pentagon office that proposed spying
> > electronically on Americans to monitor potential
> > terrorists has a new experiment. It is an online
> > futures trading market, disclosed today by critics, in
> > which anonymous speculators would bet on forecasting
> > terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups."
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?hp
> >
> > =====
> > http://mteww.com
> > http://tinjail.com
> >
> > __________________________________
> > Do you Yahoo!?
> > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
> > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

wow, two conceptual art works by the gov't in a weeks time.

first, the congressional report on 9/11 that that wizard of pomo Dick
Cheney turned into a conceptualist masterpiece and now this!

maybe Bush isn't as much of a cretin as we thought.

maybe it's all been a carefully orchestrated performance.

maybe He's calling it "International Cowboy Conceptualist Crowd
Control (AKA Empires-Is-Us)"

At 15:43 -0400 7/29/03, M. River wrote:
>Okay, one last post and then I'll stop. I promise…
>
>The PAM site seems to be blank now.
>http://www.policyanalysismarket.org/
>
>It looks like they got my email about a HCCA comeback.
>http://tinjail.com/promise.html
>
>M. River wrote:
>

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