WE
THE BLOG
"In order to form a more Artistic
Union"
wetheblog.org
Washington, D.C. - The Experimental Party
today announces "We the Blog," a bold, new initiative
to re-activate the ideals of democracy through discussion
among artists, cultural critics and other creative people
who are "repositioning themselves as new leaders in
the governance of this planet, particularly in these times
of crisis," according to Founder Jeff Gates.
"We the Blog" offers information
and dialogue - from artistic expression to political activism
- as a tool for facilitating the artist's need to extend
aesthetic inquiry into the broader culture where ideas become
real action.
"As technology fuels new ways of communicating,
the blog (web log) is resulting in certain kinds of human
actions that were never possible before," said Gates,
a Principal Artist of the Experimental Party. He adds, "'We
the Blog' will offer an artistic alternative to the spin-doctors
of the Republican and Democratic parties. 'We the Blog' will
be the virtual community to participate in as the War rhetoric
ramps up."
Under Secretary of the Office of Freedom of
Speech, Mark Amerika, comments, "True blog, then, is
not blog as we know it, but as we un-know it. It incites
creation - more invention - so that you yourself have to
get down and dirty into the developmental process activating
the network with your own mixillogical discourse. This is
blog as inventive remix machine placing value on what it
sees, what it links to, how it appropriates the Other and
strips it of its isolation."
Abe Golam, Director of the Office of Economic
and Homeland Insecurity of the US Department of Art & Technology
has declared, "Under the banner of the Experimental
Party, 'We the Blog' is guaranteed to stir up controversy
in the global computer networks, that 'non-place' place where
the true battle for democracy in America will be fought and
won."
Since September 11, an existential darkness
has possessed our government, grips its soul, threatening
the American way of life. In defending our homeland, artists
must now fight to protect the democratic ideals and principles
of freedom on which our nation was founded. People increasingly
are forgetting what shaped their past. When a people fails
to know why it exists and what it stands for, it cannot be
expected to long endure.
According to Secretary Randall M. Packer: "We
are artists united by common purpose - freedom of expression.
Our strength lies in our shared artistic ideals. The Experimental
Party is activating "We the Blog" for the very
survival of participatory democracy. As James Madison said
'the diffusion of knowledge is the only true guardian of
liberty.'"
"We
the Blog" Founding Statement
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