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The Long Range Acoustic Device was used for the first time
Robocops Come to Pittsburgh – watch here
It’s been used on Iraqis for the last couple of years in places like “Camp Bucca” Iraq and are being tested in regions of Baghdad, Fallujah, along with other regions by Coalition Forces. The LRAD device was on hand [...]

In 1968 Paris, one of the best-known graffiti messages on the city’s walls was “Structures do not walk on the streets!” In other words, the massive student and workers demonstrations of ‘68 could not be explained in the terms of structuralism, as determined by the structural changes in society, as in Saussurean structuralism. French psychoanalyst [...]

Dr. Furst demonstrates with a wealth of cross-cultural and historical data and some of his own first-hand experiences the often decisive role hallucinogens have sometimes played, and continue to play, in the maintenance of social systems in the traditional world, and their positive role in ritual..
read and download the text here

This article appears in the book: “Digital Illusion: Entertaining the Future with High Technology,” Clark Dodsworth, Jr., Contributing Editor © 1998 by the ACM Press, a division of the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
INTRODUCTION
I’m an interactive artist; I construct experiences. Since the early 80’s I’ve been exhibiting my installations [...]

“Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of ‘justice’ but because all that is instructive, wholesome and [...]

[Trashing the Neoliberal City: Autonomous Cultural Practices in Chicago from 2000-2005]
Edited by Daniel Tucker and Emily Forman, Learning Site, 2006:  With contributions by Ava Bromberg, Rachel Caidor, Emily Forman, Dara Greenwald, Nicolas Lampert, Pauline Lipman, Josh MacPhee, Micah Maidenberg, Laurie Palmer, the Pink Bloque, Laurie Jo Reynolds, and Daniel Tucker. Design by Dakota Brown and [...]

Since the early days of Modernism, the interplay between art and music has given considerable impetus to the development of new art forms. [1] This essay by Barbara John examines the pre-history of this modern synergy.
Artificial images and sounds have been created since the dawn of human culture. Therefore it is quite right that many [...]

Little Sister» describes itself as «The World’s First Online Surveillance Soap» and is made up on an Internet page with live webcams. The interface is a circle of black-and-white photos arranged perspectivally to form a semisphere reminiscent of a surveillance mirror in the supermarket…. read more  here

here’s a new mix from harrynjane for the Summer that was   καλός χειμώνας

It’s Not a Rave, Officer, It’s Performance Art:
Art as Defense from the Law and as Offense to Society
in the Break-In Era of Rave Culture
by – tobias c. van Veen
Despite a contemporary understanding of rave culture as a hedonist, if not consumerist, capitalist, and escapist activity, the movement’s early days were a strange brew of practices, [...]

Public Art as Publicity-Miwon Kwon

Public
 Sphere,”
signals
 a 
double 
reading.
In
 particular,
the 
use
 of
 the
 word
 “place,”
or 
rather 
the
 place 
of 
the word
”place,”
in
 the 
title 
asserts 
two 
different
 conceptions 
of 
the 
public 
sphere.
 
In 
one 
reading 
the 
public 
sphere 
is 
a 
place, 
a
 kind 
of 
arena 
or 
location 
defined 
by 
spatial 
boundaries 
with 
an 
inside 
that 
can [...]

The Palais de Tokyo’s  exhibition, Spy Numbers, takes as its starting point the mysterious and vaguely distressing Numbers Stations. These shortwave radio stations have been broadcasting for several decades, yet their precise function and origin are an enigma. Artificially generated voices are reading streams of numbers, words, letters, tunes or Morse code. Are they [...]

Can artistic practices still play a critical role in a society where the difference between art and advertizing have become blurred and where artists and cultural workers have become a necessary part of capitalist production? Scrutinizing the ‘new spirit of capitalism’ Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello have shown how the demands for autonomy of the [...]