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Anne-Marie Schleiner at Postmasters Gallery

September 2, 2004; 7:00 pm;
Postmasters Gallery - 459 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
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September 2004

The evening took place at Postmasters Gallery wrapping up five days of activities.

The gallery operated as a physical node of an ad-hock public broadcasting system of online, real-time protest performances, alternative news actions, a transatlatic, multimedia protest jam during the Republican National Convention, from August 29 to September 2. Read On »

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Cory Arcangel

November 21, 2001; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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November 2001

Cory Arcangel presented and entertained to a most enthusiastic crowd during the November 2001 gathering.

Cory Arcangel divided the tale of his beginnings in music and the digital medium into three parts. Begining with a 10 minute breakdown of his past projects starting with a video animation created with Apple IIGS image writer paper at the age of 9. The audience was then treated to an impromptu display of Cory’s guitar playing skills (with a piece by Bach: Allemande from Suite n. 1 in E minor, BWV 996).

In addition, Cory discussed his work in college with computers, which began with the Commodore 64, the Apple IIGS, the Macintosh 68k LCIII, the Macintosh Beige G3, and then trips to the thrift store to buy things he had as a kid. He reconfigures these obsolete computers to make unique projects not possible with the hardware and software on the market today. Read On »

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Ricardo Dominguez

March 29, 2001; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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March 2001

Donning a ski mask in a darkened room lit by one bright interrogating lamp, Ricardo Dominguez appeared costumed in the tradition of the Zapatistas.

Ricardo Dominguez discussed the Electronic Disturbance Theater project in relation to Digital Zapatismo, network_art_activism, the rise of International Hacktivism, and the questions that it raises for our current/future state under the “For Sale” signs of globalization.

Throughout the evening Ricardo switched characters, reading from a scripted conversation between the three fictional characters of Almost Not Me, Almost Me, and Almost Another Me as well as the story of El Durito, a fictional Zappatista. The narratives described theories behind the influences of the internet on social activism, and served to provide a comprehensive perspective of such activism via historical and current examples of poetic intervention, semantics, micro and macro gestures, and the information wars of the mid to late 1990’s. Read On »