U.S. Department of Art & Technology
Press Secretary
press@usdat.us
For Immediate Release: October 7, 2003
MEDIA DECONSTRUCTION KIT DEBUT
Washington, DC - The long awaited debut of the Media Deconstruction Kit, created and performed by Secretary Randall M. Packer and Wesley Smith, will be presented by the US Department of Art & Technology and the Digital Media Center of Johns Hopkins University, Saturday, October 25th, 9:00 pm at the Mattin Arts Center on the JHU campus in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Media Deconstruction Kit (MDK) enables artists to appropriate with magisterial fearlessness, transforming CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News into magical images to bring about the systematic reordering of the senses through the deconstruction of broadcast media. The Media Deconstruction Kit reconfigures, disorients, and amplifies the mis-information of broadcast media into an immersive, sensorial, multimedia experience.
According to Secretary Packer, "We will confront corporate control of mass media, so that a new century is spared new horrors of CNN - the issue Americans should care most about."
Through widespread media deconstruction across the nation, US DAT encourages the remix of live news stories, TV sitcoms, stock market quotations, manifestos, and advertising - to scramble fabricated propaganda in with actual live news broadcasts. The Department, along with its Experimental Party, intends to use these techniques to swamp the mass media with total illusion in 2004 as the election season heats up.
Media Deconstruction Kit (Debut)
- Created & performed by Randall
Packer & Wesley Smith - Saturday,
October 25, 9:00 pm
- Digital Media Center at Johns Hopkins University,
Mattin Arts Center, Baltimore
- The Mattin Arts Center is located at
the East end of campus
at the intersection of Charles and 33rd streets in Baltimore
- Broadcast
live over TEL-SPAN (http://www.usdat.us/tel-span)
- Admission free,
for more information call 410.516.3817 \
For more information on the Media Deconstruction
Kit:
http://www.experimentalparty.org/corporate.html
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The
US Department of Art & Technology
http://www.usdat.us
The US Department of Art and Technology is the United States principal conduit for facilitating the artist's need to extend aesthetic inquiry into the broader culture where ideas become real action. It also serves the psychological and spiritual well-being of all Americans by supporting cultural efforts that provide immunity from the extension of new media technologies into the social sphere.
The Experimental Party
http://www.experimentalparty.org
The Experimental Party - the "party of experimentation" - is
an artist-based political party that has been formed to activate citizens
across the country in an effort to bring the artists' message to center
stage of the political process. This is a political awakening, 'representation
through virtualization' is the major political thrust of the Experimental
Party, it is the driving force.
The Digital Media Center
http://digitalmedia.jhu.edu
410.516.3817
The Digital Media Center is an environment where students can express
themselves creatively and expand the sphere of possibilities that are
created when art and technology merge.
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Contact:
US Department of Art & Technology | Washington, DC Fax: 202.342.1293 | E-mail: press@usdat.us
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