Monday, March 23, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
culture jam
What I found most interesting about Mark Dey's article was the ending section, in which he discusses the future of culture jamming, especially in the context of "cyberculture". In our society, where it seems like new inventions and innovations are appearing faster than we can understand how they should fit into our world, the future is a potentially terrifying mystery. I'm not sure if I can pinpoint a specific direction the future will take, since there are so many options. I am fairly confident that Dey's outlook may not be far off from the soon-to-be truth, since there is already of evidence of it today. The possibility of everyone having a spot of their own, published on the internet, is easily imaginable, the way things are going. However, an important question to ask is how important will these spots be? I do not see mulitnational corporations being defeating by the mere cyber-presence of a few thousand dissenters. Convincing the general public that the status quo is not the way things should be will take more than just that.
More than anything though, this essay made me feel paranoid and afraid. Not in a way that makes me want to culture jam in order to change the way things are, but in a way that makes me want to hide.
Two interventionist artists:
In May 1985, a Demented biology professor broke the noses off of eighty stone statues found in the Villa Borghese Gardens in Rome. He attacked a variety of different figures from Italian History. When caught, he claimed "The KGB are after me". He also gave the police a slip of paper that he had with him, which stated "I am a UFO".
In 1993, Pierre Pinoncelli urinated into one of the eight Urinals that Marcel Duchamp recreated after the original was lost, while it was on display in Nimes, France.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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