The Last HOPE Talks: Dirty New Media: Art, Activism, and Computer Counter Cultures

Dirty New Media: Art, Activism, and Computer Counter Cultures

Jake Elliott
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This talk presents a short history of electronic art by illustrating connections between artists, activists, and hackers. The connections and histories presented include: the demoscene and its origins in software piracy; video and conceptual artists in the 1970s and their activist work; contemporary artists working with circuit bending and other detournements of modern technologies; the Chicago “dirty new media” community; contemporary artists, hackers, and activists creating software and electronic art with a punk/anticapitalist ethos. Excerpts of work from these different artists and communities will be screened and discussed.

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