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Vol.5, no.16
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Sunday, August 22, 2004
mBUSH! Performance + Exhibition
AmBush!
Aug. 24-Sept. 18, at Van Brunt Gallery, 819 Washington Street.
"The message of this exhibition is simple: Bush must go!"
Opening Tuesday August 24, 6-9pm
Performance starts at 8pm:
TERRORVISION by Bill Jones & Ben Neill. [image courtesy Bill Jones]
First screened/performed at Exit Art, Spring 2004, it consists of four
linked computers–a "Power Book band"–that merge Neill's three-belled,
computer interfaced mutantrumpet, keyboards, and other instruments with
live MIDI controlled digital video. They play the moving pictures to
create "video remixes" breathing life into real-time and recorded video.
Expect everything from deep ambient soundscapes to funky electronic
breakbeats.
AmBUSH! works by Enrique Chagoya, Critical Art Ensemble, R. Crumb, Joan
Fontcuberta, Leon Golub, David Humphrey, Jon Kessler, Norm Magnusson, Bill
Jones + Ben Neill, Guy Richards Smit and many others.
via Artnet:
Artnet News, 8/5/04
ART WORLD MOBILIZES FOR PROTEST
With the 2004 Republican National Convention rolling into Madison Square
Garden, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, the largely Democratic art world in New York is
mobilizing for an esthetic response. Photographer Larry Fink's satire of
the Bush administration, "The Forbidden Pictures, A Political Tableau" at
powerHouse Gallery in SoHo, opened six weeks ago [see "Weekend Update,"
July 20, 2004]. Herewith, a selection of forthcoming exhibitions, at
venues ranging from major museums to artists' bars:
* Freedom of Expression National Monument, Aug. 19-Nov. 13, in Foley
Square in downtown Manhattan. An oversized red megaphone, originally
designed 1984 as a platform for public expression by Laurie Hawkinson,
Erika Rothenberg and John Malpede, is sited in a plaza by the Federal and
state courthouses. The installation is sponsored by Creative Time and the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
* Propaganda Hospitality Suite, Aug. 21-Sept. 4, at Luxe Gallery, 24 W.
57th Street. "Pre-convention revelry" featuring appearances by Axis of
Eve, Billionaires for Bush, Armed Artists of America and more, in a show
organized by the U.S. Department of Art & Technology, including staff
artists Mark Amerika, Lynn Hershman, Gregory T. Kuhn and others. For more
info, see www.usdat.us
* AmBush! Aug. 24-Sept. 18, at Van Brunt Gallery, 819 Washington Street.
"The message of this exhibition is simple: Bush must go!" Works by Enrique
Chagoya, Critical Art Ensemble, R. Crumb, Joan Fontcuberta, Leon Golub,
David Humphrey, Jon Kessler, Norm Magnusson, Ben Neill, Guy Richards Smit
and many others.
* WAR! Protest in America, 1965-2004, Aug. 26-Oct. 24, 2004, at the
Whitney Museum of American Art. A program of films about the Vietnam War,
including works by Emile de Antonio, Stan Brakhage, Jean-Luc Godard, D.A.
Pennebaker, Carolee Schneemann and Paul Sharits, plus two contemporary
films about protest against the current U.S. war in Iraq. The film series
is organized by curator Chrissie Iles and artist Sam Durant; for tickets
call 1-800-Whitney. Also on view is "Memorials of War," an exhibition of
works from the collection from the 1960s to the present.
* Watch What We Say, Aug. 26-Sept. 2, at Schroeder Romero, 173A N. 3rd
Street, Brooklyn. "Pressing political issues of the moment in poetic,
subversive, emotional and clear-eyed terms," via works by Robbie Conal,
Emna Zghal, Joy Garnett, Ann Messner, William Pope.L, Krzysztof Wodiczko
and 15 other artists, in a show organized by Marc Lepson.
* A More Perfect Union, Aug. 29-Sept. 12, at Max Fish, 178 Ludlow Street.
Protest posters by Cecily Brown, Gary Panter, Fred Tomaselli, Futura and
many others covering the walls of the popular Lower East Side art bar, in
a show organized by Downtown for Democracy. Originals are to be sold for
$200 (or less); five works are to be made into large-edition silkscreens
and distributed. For more details, [email protected]
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 10:35 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
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Anti-Bush Banner
Sunday, August 22, 2004 at 09:33 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/08/antibush_banner_1.html
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Anti-Bush Banner Launched in Grand Central
New Yorkers Launch Huge Anti-Bush Banner with Balloons in Grand Central
Station
(and walk away unhassled, amid cheers)
VIEW IMAGES
This action was conceived as a peaceful, provocative, visual message of
protest against the Bush Administration's manipulation of fear and
repression of dissenting voices and to show that many New Yorkers and
US citizens stand opposed to the Bush Administration's exploitation of
fear
in the wake of 9/11. We are opposed to their lies, and the wars they have
engendered.
Press Release
Images hosted at NEWSgrist
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 08:30 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Cryptome Does the RNC
Check out Cryptome's photos/maps/reports of Manhattan battening down the
hatches (or not battening them down enough) in preparation for the RNC:
Midtown:
Report 1
Nautical Maps/Gas pipelines:
Report 2
Security vulnerabilities?
Report 3
The Empire State Building:
Report 4
for the unitiated:
Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by
governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression,
privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security,
intelligence, and secret governance – open, secret and classified
documents – but not limited to those.
Documents are removed from this site only by order served directly by a US
court having jurisdiction. No court order has ever been served; any order
served will be published here – or elsewhere if gagged by order. Bluffs
will be published if comical but otherwise ignored.
Also interesting is their Aug 17 post about recent dealings with the FBI
and its "chilling effect."
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 01:58 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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The Revolution Will Be Hactivized
At Eyeteeth read the writer's cut of Paul Schmelzer's Adbusters article
Anarchy in the RNC–starting with a quote from Siva Vaidhyanathan's
Anarchist in the Library:
"No self-defined anarchist has ever sparked a revolution. But the
ideologically uninitiated who have trafficked in the habits of
anarchism–chiefly unmediated communication–have toppled dozens of
tyrants."
With a four-day security budget of $76 million and 10,000 police officers
facing protestors, the stage is set for anarchy. And that's just what some
activists will be resorting to during the Republican National Convention
later this month?only they'll be trading black masks for radically
democratic, tech-savvy protest tools.
Transcending beloved old-school methods, this new wave of activists will
use decentralized and distributed technologies to level the playing field
with law enforcement.
He goes on to describe everything from Flash radiojacking to Bikes Against
Bush to WiFi on Wheels…
…there's also an interesting post at networked_performance from July
31st:
From Hactivism to Tactical Media
Hacktivism (electronic resistence within the network) has fed into
tactical media: urban, mobile performance events.
Being 'wired' has become mobile, ubiquitous, sentient, pervasive,
OMNICIENT monitored, computing. As we desire our movies and games to be
more realistic - hyper-realistic - we now inhabit our computer-mediated,
if not computer-generated worlds. We interact through joysticks that exert
pressure to our response. We track oursleves with GPS-equipped devices, we
pass and receive data streams: enveloped, engaged, connected
> snip! <
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 01:40 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink:
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Bruce Sterling: On Being Blobjectified
BoingBoing has posted an exclusive transcript of cyberpunk Daddy-o Bruce
Sterling's keynote speech at SIGGRAPH 2004. Pics and post by Xeni Jardin.
Some snips from When Blobjects Rule the Earth:
"Having conquered the world made of bits, you need to reform the world
made of atoms. Not the simulated image on the screen, but corporeal,
physical reality. Not meshes and splines, but big hefty skull-crackingly
solid things that you can pick up and throw. That's the world that needs
conquering. Because that world can't manage on its own. It is not
sustainable, it has no future, and it needs one."
"So what's a Blobject? And why might they rule the Earth?"
"Blobjects are blob-shaped objects, because of NURBS and meshes and
splines and injection molding and CAD-CAM. They're highly curvilinear
consumer items designed on workstations, and then they're generally
blasted into being in a burst of injection-molded goo.
"Blobjects are the period objects of our time. They are the physical
products that the digital revolution brought to the consumer shelf."
"In my grand vision, there's a history of the relationship of objects and
human beings. It goes like this. Up to the present day, during previous
history, we humans have had. and made, four different classes of possible
objects. These classes of objects are called, in order of their historical
appearance, Artifacts, Machines, Products, and Gizmos.
The lines between Artifacts, Machines, Products and Gizmos aren't
mechanical. They're historical. The differences between them are found in
the material cultures they make possible. The kind of society they
produce, and the kind of human being that is necessary to make them and
use them."
"Today, most consumers know little or nothing about their possessions.
They might know the brand, because brand awareness has been forced on them
for years, at great expense, by massive product advertising."
"Artifacts, Machines, Products, Gizmos, they all die. The material objects
that we human beings use and make, they wear out, get consumed, and get
thrown away. Unfortunately, this process is reaching limits and is doing
us serious harm. We're getting permeated by trash.
We are filling the atmosphere, and the seas, and the surface of the
planet, and our own bodies, with our industrial emissions and our dead
junk. In a world with 6.3 billion people, trending toward 10 billion,
there is no "Away" left in which we can throw our dead objects. Our
material culture is not sustainable. Its resources are not renewable. We
cannot turn our entire planet's crust into obsolete objects. We need to
locate valuable objects that are dead, and fold them back into the product
stream. In order to do this, we need to know where they are, and what
happened to them. We need to document the life cycles of objects. We need
to know where to take them when they are defunct.
In practice, this is going to mean tagging and historicizing everything.
Once we tag many things, we will find that there is no good place to stop
tagging."
"…we need to understand that our bloodstreams are our dumping grounds.
So are our lungs and our livers. If we could visualize that, if we knew
and could prove what had gone wrong inside of ourselves, if we could put a
digital medical imaging screen on our bellies, our lungs and our livers,
and make those invisible problems visible, then everything would become
different. If that knowledge was attached to every object in our
possession, the objects that were killing us would vanish quickly.
That wouldn't be easy to do. But in the year 2004 it is no longer
unimaginable. It could be done.
It's possible to live in a cleaner way. We live in debris and detritus
because of our ignorance. That ignorance is no longer technically
necessary. Those who know, know. Instead, our problem is becoming
obscurantism, which is a deliberate hiding of the facts by vested
interests who know they are injuring us. Such acts of evil must be
combated. Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 01:24 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Spiral Jetty Salt Lick
Remember when we blogged Spiral Jetty Keeps Emerging in early July?
Pictures from our November '02 trip to the Jetty had been included in the
July/Aug Sculpture Magazine feature. Well, salty conditions at the Jetty
have changed considerably since then: it's not only emerged, but the
waters of the Great Salt Lake have receded to leave it land-locked. Todd
Gibson reports on his recent road trip (great photos) in From the Floor.
[thanks to bloggy]
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 01:06 PM | Permalink:
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