November 1, 2004
Eve of the Election
Jenny Holzer’s act of artistic mediation in the Nation’s Capital. A Xenon projection at 1515 14th St., brought to Washington, DC by Andrea Pollan and Giorgio Furioso….
October 27, 2004
An Artist’s Endorsement
I am an artist: an information provider and interpreter. I am part of a group of people who are masters of the search, often drawing on intuition and practice to reveal the ambiguous and the inexplicable. As an artist…
October 26, 2004
Will Rational Exuberance Prevail?
You might be wondering, how could George Bush be tied or possibly even leading in the polls as the nation teeters in this post-apocalyptic era? How could there be so many Bush supporters when every day the front page of…
October 7, 2004
Do You Still Own Your Reality?
The Republicans are heightening the attack, ramping up their spin strategies to reinforce disinformation in order to fool the country into re-election. Straight out of the playbook from Orwell’s 1984… They continue to retool their highly refined doublespeak tactics to…
October 6, 2004
Seeing is Believing
A picture tells a thousand words and this photo of Dick Cheney joined by John Edwards at a Prayer Breakfast in 2001 refutes the Vice-President’s charge that he had never met the Senator until the debate last night. Have we…
August 28, 2004
What if Bush wins?
Bush has been a boon for many members of the creative class. Not that people needed a war on terrorism to find a reason to deride him creatively. Once he became the appointed president, all creativity broke lose. There’s the…
August 17, 2004
“10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation”
As the US Department of Art & Technology rolls into New York City to open its Experimental Party DisInformation Center at LUXE gallery, artists from all corners of the nation are assembling to stage “10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation” at…
July 26, 2004
They Need a Divided America
Tonight Bill Clinton opened the Democratic Convention with the following words: “They need a divided America, but we don’t.” Division is the tactic used by the Republicans to instill fear in Americans in order to create the illusion they are…
June 27, 2004
Burn, Baby Burn: Fahrenheit 9/11
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 has descended upon us, a gripping portrait of the Bush Kingdom that smokes with the flames of these apocalyptic times. Moore documents how, since 9/11, even going back to the Florida election scandal, George W. Bush…
June 17, 2004
Daft Unresolution on Partisan Hero Worship
Recalling the reverence for Kings, Popes, Pharoahs and Fuhrers past, Reaffirming that the collective amnesia of the American people mirrors that of their former president, Reaffirming the right of the mass media plutocracy to force their version of history down…
May 16, 2004
A Convention Intervention
We have selected New York City to stage a ‘convention intervention’ in order to subvert the ensuing propaganda of the Republicans with our own techniques of media and illusion. Our decision will show that if you want to carry out…
April 22, 2004
Four More Years?
Last night we staged the first Interface / Experimental Party in Washington, DC to rally support in the artist community to engage artistic mediation in this crucial election season. We showed works by a number of artists who have contributed…
February 8, 2004
Gay Sin
One of the key issues of the 2004 election is whether or not gay marriage is legal, and furthermore, whether or not being gay is a sin. Apparently, the politicians have taken it upon themselves to tackle and resolve this…
November 3, 2003
The War of the Words
Trying to eliminate Saddam…would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible… We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq…. there was no viable “exit strategy” we could see, violating another…
October 30, 2003
Let’s Follow the Logic
“The virtual condition continues to hold us hostage for its own uses, forced to watch an ersatz world decomposing in a market of terror.” - from Society of the Spectacle (A Digital Remix) performed by DJRABBI. Let’s follow the logic: Phony propaganda riles up a nation in need of killing something deep inside the national psyche as a way to avenge 9/11. Bad intelligence fuels the phony propaganda so that it turns into a wildfire of lies out of control. In the blink of an eye, going against the will of the rest of the world and insisting on a new doctrine that essentailly turns America the Beautiful into Amerika the Empire, the United States of America launches a pre-emptive strike against Iraq. On May 1st, the President declares moral and military victory on the U.S.S. Lincoln even though he himself was the worst kind of draft dodger, that is, one that pretended to be enlisted in the National Guard even though that was a cover for his other, more party oriented, cavorting ways. The post-War aftermath is full of chaos, rebellion, disdain, and danger. Even the U.N. and Red Cross are in the cross hairs of those resisting the American occuptaion. The President says he sees this all as a GOOD SIGN that his policies are spot on and that the resistance fighters are desperate. But who is really desperate, as polls show both Democrats and Independents questioning the war policy in the first place? How desperate does one have to be to so blatantly lie to the American people about a quagmire that we should have never found ourselves in? How desperate is the corporate-driven oilgarchy running Washington D.C.? Desperate enough to break Federal law by leaking the names and status of undercover C.I.A. officers? Is the level of desperation so intense inside the Bush White House that they knowingly and willingly commit this kind of “treason”? [the word “treason” in relation to leaking the names of CIA operatives is borrowed from George Bush, the President’s father] How much desperation can one feel before blowing the hatch? Abe Golam Avatar-candidate for President (Experimental Party) Director of the Office of Political and Economic Insecurity US Department of Art & Technology
September 25, 2003
THE BILL OF FAR RIGHTS (AN UNPATRIOTIC REMIX)
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…
September 9, 2003
When Looking Back, Remember to Look Where You’re Going
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…
September 2, 2003
Outraged Bush Conspires With DC Art Critic
WASHINGTON, DC - The US Department of Art & Technology (US DAT) has learned from senior White House officials that an outraged President George W. Bush directed the Justice Department to conspire with a DC art critic to discredit the…
June 15, 2003
Lying: A Government Institution
There is an alternative to governmental lying. It is to tell the truth. Or, if need be, to remain silent. David Wise I, for one, believed Bill Clinton, when he publically stated he did not have sex with “that…
June 10, 2003
Explain Yourself, Mr. President
Regarding the situation in Iraq, it appears to this Senator that the American people may have been lured into accepting the unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation, in violation of long-standing International law, under false premises. Robert ByrdUnited States Senator…
May 1, 2003
We are the Shadow Government
According to today’s article in the Washington Post, “To Packer and company, the Internet is the right place to plant propaganda and fantasy.” See the full transcript of the article. This is precisely why we have announced that Abe Golam,…
April 28, 2003
Freedom of Expression Proof of Purchase
I’ve been following the saga of outspoken Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks. Freedom of Expression is a hobby of mine. So I was particularly interested in Thursday’s 20/20 Primetime interview with the trio by Diane Sawyer. That same day,…
April 12, 2003
Prime Time in Baghdad
The Bush administration took over Iraqi television last week in order to broadcast greetings from the President and his British sidekick Tony Blair. How thoughtful of them. The shows were beamed onto Baghdadís Channel 3, one of the deposed governmentís…
April 7, 2003
Bombs over the Embassy
What started for me and my fiancee (the mexican cyberfeminist Cindy Flores) as a warm sunny sunday, where we didn’t have any plans beyond enjoying a viennese coffee at CafÈ Snob (a nice family place at the turistic Zona Rosa…
April 3, 2003
Architects of Our Situation
Assuming the grave responsibility of my post as Under Secretary of the Bureau for Surveying the State of Art and the Medial State of Mind, I remain tuned in directly and remotely (visioning) to the media. Last night I heard/felt…
March 27, 2003
Operation American Freedom and The Call to Empire
In his speech on March 21, Gunter Grass invokes Albert Camus and the myth of Sisyphus. The patient and enduring forces of culture and civilization push the boulder up the mountain. Slowly, slowly. Only to have it roll down again….
March 26, 2003
On Being an American in America
The authority of a king is physical and controls the actions of men without subduing their will. But the majority possesses a power that is physical and moral at the same time, which acts upon the will as much…
March 17, 2003
Future of Democracy
We are redefining the role of the artist as a mediator and political player whose reflections, ideas, sensibilities, and abilities take significant action on the world stage….
February 17, 2003
Activation Part I
The artists of the state must assemble in order to prepare for the aesthetic hyperculture and its virtualization of space.
February 17, 2003
Preamble
We the Blog, in order to form a more Artistic Union…