SEIZING THE MEDIA

Subject: SEIZING THE MEDIA [ this is a resend I originally sent this to cypherpunks@toad.com on 28 Sep, but I haven't seen it yet, so apologies up front if you see it twice... Fen ~~~ ] FYI... from PeaceNet ACTIV-L: Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 23:33:10 CDT Sender: Activists Mailing List

From: "(Rich Winkel)" Subject: PAX: SEIZING THE MEDIA: A NETWORKER CONGRESS To: Multiple recipients of ACTIV-L

/** gen.media: 141.0 **/ ** 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 ** End of text from cdp:gen.media **