Conceptual Interventions: New Media in Commercial InfrastructuresWill Justice, Digital Arts and New Media MFA Candidate, University of California at Santa Cruz

SECAC 2007

Internet Art

What is the Internet? What is it for?

UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY, U. S. GOVERNMENT, MILITARY, DARPA, ARPANET

TOPICS:

DARPA

(things DARPA likes taking credit for)

DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY

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Are Technologies Culturally Biased?

(Figure 17: “Networked Operations”)

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Non-HTML Commercial and Governmental Infrastructures

Online Multiplayer Gaming

TOPICS:HALF-LIFE, COUNTER-STRIKE MOD, TERRORISTS VS. COUNTER-

TERRORISTS, GOVERNMENT INTEREST, ‘MILITAINMENT’

This Game is Absolutely Free!

* Subsidized by your tax dollars

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‘Velvet-Strike’

Anne-Marie Schleiner, Joan Leandre, and Brody Condon

by Brody Condon

“HEART” BY A.M.S.“HEART” SPRAYED IN-GAME“SHOOT LOVE BUBBLES” BY A.M.S.

“LOVE1”

“LOVE2” “LOVE3” BY A.M.S.

SELECTED SPRAYS

(A.M.S = Anne-Marie Schleiner)

‘Coaster’

In-Game Taggings

Content from www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike/

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‘Quake/Friends’

Joseph DeLappe, et al., University of Nevada, Reno

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2002-2003

ONLINE PERFORMANCE

Inside the Actors’ Studio

TOPICS:THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES OVER THE INTERNET, SELF-REFLEXIVE

CRITIQUES OF NEW MEDIA KITSCH, ALLAN KAPROW’S ‘HAPPENINGS’, ACTORS WHO ARE PERIODICALLY KILLED AND RE-

SPAWNED, INANE SPECTACLES

“Ross: you know Im just going to go and talk to rachel myself”

“Rachel: Look, she is breast feeding, look!”“Phoebe was pummeled by Wizard_cev”

“Rachel: Oh, she is perfect.”

Keith Obadike’s Blackness

TOPICS: THE COMMODIFICATION OF RACE, RIDICULOUS THINGS ON EBAY, THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM, GETTING

YOUR BLACKNESS ‘WHUPPED OFF YOU’

Totally Inoffensive, 100% Appropriate Item Selling on eBay

EBAY ITEM #320168769042, VIEWED ON OCTOBER 14TH, 2007

“Support Our Troops”“SMOKIN’

CHRISTMAS”

Artist, Hank Willis-Thomas

‘ON BLACKNESS’

Search: ‘blackness’ Response: literal and figurative

“Inappropriate”

“Buyer will receive a certificate of authenticity.”

TERMINATED

Identity Space Politics

TOPICS:FACEBOOK, MYSPACE, SOCIAL NETWORKING, PROFILES

BEFRIENDING OTHER PROFILES, REPRESENTATIONS OF PEOPLE AND CARTOON CHARACTERS

‘The Department of Network Performance’

Cary Peppermint, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, COLGATE UNIVERSITY

Selected Visual Elements

‘Fountain’ by Marcel Duchamp ‘LONELYGIRL15’

‘Introductory Remarks’

also by Cary Peppermint

TOPICS:INFORMATION, SATIRES OF PEDAGOGY, BORING

LECTURES, BUSH’S TWANG

‘The Department of Network Performance’

Cary Peppermint, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, COLGATE UNIVERSITY

Conceptual Interventions: New Media in Commercial InfrastructuresWill Justice, Digital Arts and New Media MFA Candidate, University of California at Santa Cruz

SECAC 2007