December 11, 2004
A Season in Hell
Can the artist save the world? Our mission is clear: We must travel to the ends of the earth to prevent world annihilation; we will deliver a message of reconciliation to oppressed peoples; we will subvert the leading platforms of…
November 5, 2004
Dreaming of a New Bureaucracy
The Election is over. It is time to move on. Clearly, we need to invent new 21st century tactics for experimental social research to awaken the disenfranchised through acts of artistic mediation. We conducted an anthropological experiment at the Black…
October 3, 2004
Bush Hesitates as He Ponders His Future During Presidential Debate
August 18, 2004
The Act of Artistic Mediation
act n. The process of doing or performing something; One of the major divisions of a play or opera. artistic adj. Of or relating to art or artists; Sensitive to or appreciative of art or beauty. mediation n. The act…
August 13, 2004
What Causes Terrorism?
In the Washington Post, today, Dick Cheney made the following comment: “Terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness.” It is precisely this reasoning that has led to terrorism in…
July 30, 2004
Hope Is On the Way?
Last night, John Kerry spoke to the Democratic National Convention, reaffirming what has been a dominant theme… hope for the future. It is clear that the politics of fear and disinformation, as practiced by the Republicans, has taken its toll….
February 10, 2004
Artistic Freedom
True artistic freedom is revolutionary because it opens our eyes to the unknown and forces us to see the world in new ways. Without artists, the human spirit would shrivel in its tendency to close in on itself when it…
January 15, 2004
Billy Kl¸ver Passed Away
My dear friend and mentor Billy Kl¸ver, the Bell Labs scientist who sparked the art and technology movement during the 1960s, died Sunday morning at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. For all who knew him, Billy was someone…
November 28, 2003
Governing Hollywood Style
George W. Bush has performed another one of his Hollywood stunts, this time, on the tarmac of Baghdad International Airport, to give thanks to the troops on Thanksgiving. Read the full article in WeTheBlog.org.
April 22, 2003
An Aesthetic Operation
Please join us in saluting Jon Henry, a great artistic hero: ěSpeech for the End of Timeî Randall M. Packer Secretary, US Department of Art & Technology Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 7:30 pm Johns Hopkins University, School of Arts &…
March 17, 2003
Meaning of Existence
To heed the call of experimentalism, Americans need guidance on how to prepare for the visual and verbal poetry of collective creativity….