German artist Oliver Bienkowski, who projected the words ‘United Stasi of America’ together with a picture of Kim Dotcom on to the wall of the US embassy in Berlin, may face criminal charges.
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Writing on the wall?
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A Christmas Picture Book Bashing Obama, for Tea Partiers of All Ages
From Gawker comes word of a scurrilous but unintentionally hilarious volume called The Liberal Clause, which employs the typical rightist wing-nut agenda of conflating Obama with Stalin, Mao and Rev. Wright, questions his place of birth, shows him using a teleprompter and bowing - to the Chinese, not the Saudis. It attempts a satirical Animal Farm-type approach with a gimlet-eyed Nancy Pelosi, a snarling Harry Reid, evil trade unionists, truculent elf-commissars and other flatfooted narrative devices in a cautionary tale of ConservaChristmas almost lost.
I might decry this book as a sinister attempt to pollute young minds with hateful, partisan indoctrination. But considering the mental capacity of many adult Tea Party brownshirts, as revealed in their hand lettered signs and corresponding sloganeering, it is apparently intended as a Christmas story appealing to Tea Partiers of all ages.
Insurgency Tourism
http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/in-the-village-of-the...
“Your passport,” said the man standing guard, his voice muffled by a ski mask.
I handed over my passport, and he walked into a nearby shack, emerging a few minutes later to escort me in. Inside the shack, two men sat at a table, ledgers open, while three others stood around them. All wore ski masks as well, not — as I’d first thought — to ward off the chill but to hide their identities.
After October @ Elizabeth Dee Gallery, October 18 - November 22, 2008
After October
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, 545 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
http://www.elizabethdeegallery.com/
212 924 7545
October 18 - November 22, 2008
Andreas Bunte, Duncan Campbell, Thea Djordjadze, Matias Faldbakken, Claire Fontaine, Luca Frei, Cyprien Gaillard and Pia Rönicke
Organized by Tim Saltarelli
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 18, 6-8 pm
Review of DEEP TRANCE BEHAVIOR IN POTATOLAND
Review of DEEP TRANCE BEHAVIOR IN POTATOLAND
(A RICHARD FOREMAN THEATER MACHINE)
by Joseph Nechvatal
DEEP TRANCE BEHAVIOR IN POTATOLAND Photo @ Paula Court
Book Review of Digital Contagions
IF/THEN
A Book Review of “Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses” by Jussi Parikka (Peter Lang Books, 2007, 327 pages) by Joseph Nechvatal
{loop:file = get-random-executable-file;
if first-line-of-file = then goto loop;
prepend virus to file;}
2007 Almanac of Political Art download
2007 Almanac of Political Art is ready to download at
http://www.reunionprojects.org.uk
Editor at large: Sophie Hope
Guest Editors: Leigh French, Adam Jeanes and Simona Nastac
Production Team: Valentina Gottardi, Ann Harezlak and Lucy Parker
Ivan Moudov in "Lifting. Theft in Art"
Bulgarian artist Ivan Moudov shows his "Fragments" project in this exhibition, as seen at the Venice Biennale.
Lifting. Theft in Art
Peacock Visual Arts
21 Castle Street
Aberdeen AB11 5BQ
25 August - 29 September, 2007
Curated by Atopia Projects
Lifting is a show at Peacock Visual Arts exploring instances when art gets in the way of what is considered "legal". The show creates an archive of historical and contemporary works of radical appropriation- how theft and vandalism are "lifted" from criminal behaviour and into the art sphere. The results are humourous and poignant revelations on the absurdity of the legal and social ideas of ownership, originality and copyright.
