Upload_Protest: A Netomatic Action
(THE
URL FOR THE UPLOADS WILL BE
POSTED HERE, SATURDAY EVENING)
By Ricardo Dominugez, Diane Ludin and Ang Eng
--Our
tongues are not made of stone.
-The Zapatistas, (2004)
WASHINGTON –– Forget peace signs and burning draft
cards. The malcontents of 2001 are tuning in with handheld
computers, cell
phones and Web cameras ready to broadcast any police abuses to the
world.
- Activists Use Computers in Protests
(By D. Ian Hopper -Friday, Jan. 19, 2001; 2:32 a.m.
EST, Associated
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010119/aponline023217_000.htm
Uploading protest has been happening since the 1980's with the
rise of network
groups such as PeaceNet. By the mid 1990's tactical media, the
Zapatistas,
hacktivism, indymedia and wireless actions emerged. Each
techno-protest action
has been using different platforms to disturb the command and control
of Empire
across the arcs of reality. At the core of each of these gestures
has been a
linking of the harsh realities of our contemporary global
political condition
and the amplification of the voices of invisible people outside
the accounts of
Capital.
Upload_Protest: A Netomastic Action
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(THE
URL FOR THE UPLOADS WILL BE POSTED HERE, SATURDAY EVENING)
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The Diane Ludin, Angie Eng and Ricardo Dominguez will join the
street activist
protesting the Bush Regime and the RNC meeting in New York City.
We will capture and upload images and text of the people
protesting
using the netomat.mobile software.
Each artist will become an anchor for witnessing.
DON'T FORGET TO JOIN
THE VITURAL SIT_IN AGAINST BUSH AND THE RNC
August 29th to September 1st, 2004
By Electronic Disturbance Theater
CLICK=ACTION
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html