Conceptual Interventions: New Media in Commercial Infrastructures Will Justice, Digital Arts and New Media MFA Candidate, University of California at Santa Cruz SECAC 2007
Internet Art What is the Internet? What is it for? UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY, U. S. GOVERNMENT, MILITARY, DARPA, ARPANET TOPIC S:
DARP A (things DARPA likes taking credit for) DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY * *[STRATEGIC PLAN APPROVED FOR PUBLIC USE, MARCH 2007]
Are Technologies Culturally Biased? (Figure 17: “Networked Operations”) * * *[DARPA STRATEGIC PLAN FOR PUBLIC USE, MARCH, 2007]
Non-HTML Commercial and Governmental Infrastructures Online Multiplayer Gaming TOPICS: HALF-LIFE, COUNTER-STRIKE MOD, TERRORISTS VS. COUNTER- TERRORISTS, GOVERNMENT INTEREST, ‘MILITAINMENT’
This Game is Absolutely Free! * Subsidized by your tax dollars *
‘Velvet- Strike’ Anne-Marie Schleiner, Joan Leandre, and Brody Condon
by Brody Condon “HEART” BY A.M.S. “HEART” SPRAYED IN-GAME“SHOOT LOVE BUBBLES” BY A.M.S. “LOVE1 ” “LOVE2”“LOVE3” BY A.M.S. SELECTED SPRAYS (A.M.S = Anne-Marie Schleiner)
‘Coaste r’
In-Game Taggings Content from
‘Quake/Friend s’ Joseph DeLappe, et al., University of Nevada, Reno / ONLINE PERFORMANCE
Inside the Actors’ Studio TOPICS: THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES OVER THE INTERNET, SELF-REFLEXIVE CRITIQUES OF NEW MEDIA KITSCH, ALLAN KAPROW’S ‘HAPPENINGS’, ACTORS WHO ARE PERIODICALLY KILLED AND RE-SPAWNED, INANE SPECTACLES
“Ross: you know Im just going to go and talk to rachel myself”
“Rachel: Look, she is breast feeding, look!” “Phoebe was pummeled by Wizard_cev”
“Rachel: Oh, she is perfect.”
Keith Obadike’s Blackness TOPICS: THE COMMODIFICATION OF RACE, RIDICULOUS THINGS ON EBAY, THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM, GETTING YOUR BLACKNESS ‘WHUPPED OFF YOU’
Totally Inoffensive, 100% Appropriate Item Selling on eBay EBAY ITEM # , VIEWED ON OCTOBER 14TH, 2007
“Support Our Troops” “SMOKIN’ CHRISTMAS”
Artist, Hank Willis- Thomas ‘ON BLACKNESS’
Search: ‘blackness’ Response: literal and figurative
“Inappropriate ” “Buyer will receive a certificate of authenticity.” TERMINATED
Identity Space Politics TOPICS: FACEBOOK, MYSPACE, SOCIAL NETWORKING, PROFILES BEFRIENDING OTHER PROFILES, REPRESENTATIONS OF PEOPLE AND CARTOON CHARACTERS
‘The Department of Network Performance’ Cary Peppermint, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, COLGATE UNIVERSITY
Selected Visual Elements ‘Fountain’ by Marcel Duchamp ‘LONELYGIRL15’
‘Introductory Remarks’ also by Cary Peppermint TOPICS: INFORMATION, SATIRES OF PEDAGOGY, BORING LECTURES, BUSH’S TWANG
‘The Department of Network Performance’ Cary Peppermint, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, COLGATE UNIVERSITY
Conceptual Interventions: New Media in Commercial Infrastructures Will Justice, Digital Arts and New Media MFA Candidate, University of California at Santa Cruz SECAC 2007