“We
project our illusions of the world into this formless
void and it comes back to us as light and sound..” – Kevin
Teixeira
WASHINGTON, DC - The US Department of Art & Technology
has activated TEL-SPAN Live 24/7 - the telematic channel
providing global access to the artistic process in an increasingly
cybernated society. The channel's first program is Department
Works, Mixologies, and Transformations featuring politically-infused,
socially-engaged music-videos by staff members and artist-associates
of the US Department of Art & Technology.
From August 22nd
to October 6th, TEL-SPAN is broadcasting live from the Digital
Media Center at Johns
Hopkins University
in Baltimore, in conjunction with the Department's Visitor
Center at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Among TEL-SPAN's first offerings is the Pharmakopolis
Broadcasting Services (PBS) of Trace Reddell (Director of
the Bureau
of Pharmakogeographical Surveying), an ongoing series of
animated
political cartoons, amazing dope tales, and detourned superheroics.
Other Department artists include: Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky
(Under Secretary for the Bureau of the Aesthetic Hyperculture),
whose 9-11 Saturation Engine, in collaboration with "47," immerses
the viewer in hypnotic media-driven imagery in which new
meanings are constructed on top of the ruins of the media's
strafing; Rick Silva (Director of the Joint Chiefs of Sound
Warfare and Peer-to-Peer Defense) has curated Overdub:
The Remix of Politics, featuring cut-up works of his own
along
with artist-associates Edo, Atmo, Haik Hoisingtom, Coup,
and Tim Jaeger; Andy Deck (Under Secretary of the Bureau
for the Transformation and Radicalization of Corporate
Culture and Militarism) presents Ad Infinitum, a fast-paced
visual
experience involving the collision of expression, advertising
and promotion; Alex Galloway (Under Secretary of the Bureau
for Rhizomatics, Community & Generative Data) exploits
bugs and glitches in the code to create dirty, jolting
game loops in RSG-THPS4; and Patrick Lichty (Director of
the Bureau
for the Dissemination of Metastructures and Media Metaphors)
puts Socks, former President Clinton's cat, in the center
of the Lewinsky sex scandal with Haymarket's Riot Machine:
- The Engines of Truth.
"
Citizens of the nation and around the world have an appetite
for the kind of high quality, socially relevant, 24/7 public
affairs programming TEL-SPAN provides," said Randall
M. Packer, Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology. "TEL-SPAN
provides media artists who seek to influence the national
discourse, public policy, the political process and the
future of art a direct conduit to its audience without
filtering
or otherwise constraining their points of view."
TEL-SPAN
will also deliver comprehensive, up-to-the-minute proclamations,
remixes, rants, speeches, manifestos, Department
PSA's and more, drawing on the depth and experience of
artists engaged with the US Department of Art & Technology
and its Experimental Party, including: Secretary Packer,
National
Chairwoman Roberta Breitmore (created by Lynn Hershman),
avatar-candidate for President Abe Golam (from Mark Amerika's
Grammatron), WeTheBlog.org founder Jeff Gates, and Jon
Henry, Chairman of the USA Exquisite Corpse. TEL-SPAN plans
to provide
its audience access to live, real-time distribution of
broad forms of cultural content, and to other forums where
critical
artistic issues are discussed, debated and decided - all
without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced
presentation of all radical points of view.
The Department
acknowledges Drazen Pantic and the Open Source Streaming
Alliance for providing Quicktime Streaming
for
TEL-SPAN broadcasting, and Joan Freedman, Director of
the JHU Digital Media Center, and Joe Reinsel, principal
software
designer of TEL-SPAN, for overseeing the live broadcast. TEL-SPAN
- http://www.usdat.us/tel-span
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