Do you copy?The scarlet E of economic collapse may have soiled the Internet's reputation in mainstream culture, but artists are still hard at work milking the medium's subversive capacities. Some of the results will be on view at "Open_Source_Art_Hack" curated by Steve Dietz of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of artist Jenny Marketou; and Anne Barlow of New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art This article is about New Museum of Contemporary Art. For other Museums named Museum of Contemporary Art, see Museum of Contemporary Art. The New Museum of Contemporary Art , where it opens May 3. Participants such as American programmer-artist Cue P. Doll, the global collective RSG RSG Revenue Support Grant (UK) RSG Recovery Storage Group (Microsoft Exchange) RSG Ready, Set, Go! RSG Regional Support Group RSG Research Study Group (NATO) , Critical Art Ensemble, And radioqualia, a duo based in Australia, are modern Lettristes fusing multimedia, self-criticism, and agitprop agitprop Political strategy in which techniques of agitation and propaganda are used to influence public opinion. Originally described by the Marxist theorist Georgy Plekhanov and then by Vladimir Ilich Lenin, it called for both emotional and reasoned arguments. ; their works combine industry strategies with cultural critique and outlaw agendas, kicking ass and literally taking names. (RSG's Carnivore carnivore (kär`nəvôr'), term commonly applied to any animal whose diet consists wholly or largely of animal matter. In animal systematics it refers to members of the mammalian order Carnivora (see Chordata). , for example, sees the e-mail you write and receive and the Web pages you surf.) What you won't find at this show are works that involve computerized breaking and entering breaking and entering v., n. entering a residence or other enclosed property through the slightest amount of force (even pushing open a door), without authorization. If there is intent to commit a crime, this is burglary. . These "hackers" operate more tactically. Besides addressing themes of surveillance and code transparency (the death of the author updated as the death of the programmer), many projects don witty vaneers that give way to open-ended systems. Cue Jack, by Cue P. Doll in collaboration with distributor[R][TM] ark, plugs into at-home bar-code scanner CueCat to provide data outside the marketing plan (regarding environmental viability, safety recalls, and so on) instead of retrieving sanctioned product details. Its creator aims to erode imbalances of information between individuals and corporations. "Information capital," She says, is "infinitely copyable." Merging product (re)design, programming, and entertainment, "Open_Source_Art_Hack" will show socially conscious Internet art holding its own in the agitprop tradition. |
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