"Art, State, Sabotage" by Kim Paice: "In recent years, government has tended to see an ever-narrowing line between art and threats to the state." Article on the exhibition "Incorporated: a recent (incomplete) history of infiltrations, actions and propositions utilizing contemporary art" at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati: "...artists who mine the techniques of the state to challenge the state’s authority and free-reign policing. Viewers leave Incorporated knowing quite a bit about resistance and how to take up tools of the state, such as fingerprinting, document issuance, media manipulation, and surveillance creatively to redefine the nation-state."
Via Interactivist Info Exchange
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]