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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 23:33:10 CDT
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** Topic: SEIZING THE MEDIA: NETWORKER CONGR **
** Written 6:39 pm Sep 25, 1992 by openmedia in cdp:gen.media **
SEIZING THE MEDIA: A NETWORKER CONGRESS
A weekend of activity to discuss, self-educate,
and put into practice the creation of subversive media.
1:30pm Saturday 24 October to 6pm Sunday 25 October 1992
Media and resource exchange; slides, fax, posters,
pamphlets, computer files, ideas, proposals, tactics
Practical action on billboard improvement and removal;
Big Art and postering
E-mail and fax facility to receive material
to be discussed and implemented during the weekend
Documentation to all participants
Materials supplied: photocopier reproduction/enlargement
and the streets of Oxford
Bloomin Arts, Princes Street, Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4, U.K.
If you can't make it in person, you can take part
in the Seizing the Media Congress by post, fax, E-mail.
Send documents, comments, proposals, art, ideas, and posters.
Post to: BM Jed, London WC1N 3XX, United Kingdom
Fax to: (011 441) 0865 72 4317
E-Mail to: Eastoxcomcen@GN.APC.ORG
Accommodation and other information are available from Friday night
onwards. To make arrangements or get more information, get in
touch with Oxfin between 1-4pm Mondays to Fridays at: (0865) 240545
>From the United States: 011 41865 240 545
Background:
SEIZING THE MEDIA is the title of pamphlet written by the
Immediast Underground and first released in Amsterdam ,
New York City, and Seattle in early 1992. The 26 pamphlet
combines theory, graphics, research and proposals that examine:
* Information control
* Propaganda and advertising
* CIA
* Mind control
* Immediast counter-offensives
* tactics, subversive networking, public empowerment
* multi-media
* Public production libraries
* the liberation of public space
...Just when Jesse Helms thought he made the world safe from
poetic terrorism, along come the Immediasts, a cadre of media
hackers who are fed up with the ecology of coercion that
surrounds them. Their booklet SEIZING THE MEDIA proposes an
all-out artistic assault on coercive communication, cultural
monologue, and media control. They want all media insurgents
to take back the airwaves with pirate radio, cable access TV,
altering ads and billboards, and otherwise hacking the
datasphere to break the spell of State/corporate media control.
. . . from Gareth Branwyns STREET NOISE, Issue 7 of Mondo 2000
SEIZING THE MEDIA Version 1.1 is available for $3 from
Open Media PO Box 2726 Westfield New Jersey 07091 USA
THE IMMEDIAST UNDERGROUND is a centerless network of artists,
writiers, hackers, culture jammers, pirate broadcasters, and
posterists who connect with one another through information
systems, mail art, networker congresses, and the underground
press, and who communicate with the public through actions
against all forms of coercive communication, space
infringement, and media control.
For more info contact:
Immediast U. PO Box 2726 Westfield New Jersey 07091 USA
DECENTRALIZED WORLD-WIDE NETWORKER CONGRESSES
Since the beginning of the year, members of alternative
info-nets, artists, insurgents, and cultural workers have
been holding networker congresses, transnational engagements
in cultural production, dialogue, collaborations, open
exchange, subversive brainstorming, and collective
disruptions of dominant culture.
THE NETWORKER, A NEW PERCEPTION
In societies where information is money and media is power,
public access is as controlled as the corporate states grip
on communication law, censorship, commerce, covert action
and surveillance. In this context, uninhibited public
communication, expression, and cultural production are acts
of freedom, sovereignty, and defiance. Rooted in the drive to
connect and exchange with others, Networker Congress engage
in culture and media as the battleground for greater openness
and freedom.
MORE INFORMATION about NETWORKER CONGRESSES contact:
H.R. Fricker
Buro fur kunsterische Umtriebe
CH 9043 Trogen Switzerland
Retrofuturism
PO Box 2278
Iowa City, Iowa 52244
Face of the Congress
FaGaGaGa
Po Box 1382
Youngstown, Ohio 44501
Peter Kaufman
Bergenwissenstrasse 11
CH-8123 EbmatigenDecentralized Networker Congresses
Switzerland
Decentralized Networker Congresses
Netshaker
PO Box 978
Hanover, New Hampshire 03766
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