THE BILL OF FAR RIGHTS (AN UNPATRIOTIC REMIX)

September 25, 2003

Does Being A Patriot Mean Having To Say Your Sorry For Speaking Your Mind?

Are Critics of the Bush Administration’s “Miserable Failures” For Us Or Against Us?

Who are the all-inclusive “US” here?

Patriot’s ‘R’ Us?

First Amendment Protecting Artists and Other Concerned Citizens ‘R’ Us?

9/11 is the perfect day to commemorate all of the people who have fought to
save our civil liberties in times of extremist political leadership.

The Experimental Party’s house DJ/VJ band, DJRABBI, has just released their
“Bill of Rights” remix entitled “The Bill of Far Rights”.

What would the U.S. Constitution look like if the Justice Department had their
way?

Check it out - DJRABBI

Mark Amerika

Media Deconstruction Kit

September 24, 2003

We are announcing the World Debut of the Media Deconstruction Kit. The much anticipated and controversial event, will take place Saturday, October 25th, 9:00 pm at the Digital Media Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Secretary Randall M. Packer and Under Secretary for Media Appropriations, Wesley Smith, will perform the Debut.

The Media Deconstruction Kit (MDK), an initiative of US DAT and its Experimental Party, is a stunning defeat for the major commercial Cable TV news networks and a triumph for artists throughout the nation, who will use it to manipulate and remix media coverage of the national election in 2004.

More details to follow.

Randall Packer

10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation

September 22, 2003

There is discussion among my colleagues in the US Department of Art & Technology that a gathering of 10,000 will be staged on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Election Day, November 4, 2004.

This is the dawn of a new nation of artists led by a new President of the United States of Amerika, Abe Golam (digital avatar and info-shaman of the Electrosphere). We intend to rise up and shed the constraints of anachronistic tendencies, the tryanny of the Bush Machine, the lying of inside-the-beltway liars ñ and build a new artist-driven politic inspired by the avant-garde, for which we all yearn.

This is a new reality not to be missed.

The Secretary

Avant-art Practices in the 21st Century

September 21, 2003

Every party and their Presidential candidate needs his or her own house band and for the Experimetal Party, the party of virtualization, as well as the party representing avant-art practices in the 21st century - I can think of no better house band than DJRABBI.

This passionate, political, musical, nomadic, and sexy congregation of DJs and VJs are remixing reality in in “asynchronous realtime.” I am thrilled that they have agreed to be our house band and are remixing images, sounds, text, and code at will, all in the name of artistic revolution and raised political consciousness.

Their combined practices, along with your own and all of the staff at USDAT, embody the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. True patriots all.

Sincerely,

Abe Golam

When Looking Back, Remember to Look Where You're Going

September 09, 2003

For the second year the date of awful remembrance is approaching. The day that for all of us alive today will never be just an ordinary date. September 11th is coming around again.

But the anniversary this year is very different than last year’s. For one thing we’d fought a big war in Iraq—are still fighting it. A war that we would have not have fought had 9/11 never happened. But on the other hand, this year’s memorializing will also be different because we are much further from that nightmare morning in 2001.

For most of us those horrible events are less present than they were a year ago. The intensity has faded. And the memories of 9/11 are becoming simply memories.

Kurt Andersen
Studio 360

So right. A year ago I was planning a memorial across from the Pentagon. This year the dread of the oncoming anniversary is gone. Instead I’ve had to work just a little to keep it in the forefront of my mind. The memories are indeed becoming more distant memories. But their effects are far from simple.