Nano-Virtual-Sit-In

This Nano-Virtual-Sit-In is being performed on the 5th anniversary of
the war on Iraq. We have chosen biotech and nanotech corporations and
organizations as our targets, because their science is driven by the war
and drives the war.

While Monsanto’s weapons drop on the people of Colombia, order 81 in
Iraq guarantees their market there. Dupont is developing soldier
nanotechnologies. The Biotech Industry Organization thought they could
meet in San Diego without the massive protests that follow them, but
they were wrong. For more info on your local Nanotech corporations, see
this map.

The Electronic Disturbance Theater and the borderlands Hacklab call for
a virtual strike against these war profiteers on March 19th, 2008, in
solidarity with the Bay Area Direct Action to Stop the War and actions
in the street around the world.

Join the action and learn more at http://bang.calit2.net/5yearsofwar/

More info at:

http://shiftshapers.gnn.tv/blogs/27340/Chicago_On_M20_Shut_It_Down
http://www.unconventionalaction.org/
http://www.newsds.org/march20/

Google will eat itself

UBERMORGEN.COM feat. Alessandro Ludovico vs. Paolo Cirio, Ludovico, Alessandro , lizvlx, Cirio, Paolo , Bernhard, Hans

The artists raise money by serving Google text advertisements on their websites. With this money they automatically buy Google shares which means that they buy Google via its own advertisement. Google eats itself – but in the end the artists own it. They construct the new global advertisement mechanisms by establishing a model and thus reder them into a surreal click-based economic model. Finally they hand the common ownership of “their” Google shares over to the GTTP Ltd. (Google To The People Public Company) which distributes them back to the users (clickers) / public.

Makrolab_Project Atol

Three primary global research fields have been identified within the Makrolab project. These are:

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
MIGRATIONS
WEATHER SYSTEMS

We at Projekt Atol and Makrolab see these fields as the territory, which we will identify, map, cross and investigate in the next 8 years, during the rest of the planned life of the project in all senses and directions. From their physical, to their psychic, social, political and artistic dimensions.

Makrolab is a processual work-machine and will be continuously developed content wise and also in its technological aspects. The designations Makrolab projects will get in the temporal sense are un1, un2, un3, un4, un5, un6, un7 and un8. The different technological improvements and systems updates, will get the designations of mark I, II, III, IV, V and VI. The Makrolab project consists of the Makrolab architecture and modular environments, sensors, sustainability and energy production systems, food productions systems, communications consoles to communicate with it, networks and integration systems, publications and lectures. We want Makrolab to constantly investigate and move between reality and all its complexity and art in all its creativity.

ml_opcom, 1999

transacciones/Fada’iat

Transacciones nació en el marco de UNIA arteypensamiento como proyecto en proceso (de algún modo iniciado con Almadraba, un proyecto multidisciplinar en las orillas del Estrecho de Gibraltar, 1997, producido por Carta de Ajuste/BNV y Carta Blanca) con la idea de trabajar con diferentes narrativas que se están produciendo en el marco geopolítico del Estrecho, concretamente las generadas por la oposición al cable de alta tensión de interconexión España-Marruecos, conocida como la guerra del cable; por el movimiento vecinal a favor de la planificación eólica; y por la inmigración a través de la frontera sur de Europa. Y abordarlas tanto desde las prácticas artísticas como desde el trabajo de los movimientos sociales y el activismo, con la idea de construir conexiones y vínculos, además de difuminar fronteras y categorías genéricas por medio de una determinada práctica de producción errática que colabore a la construcción de tramas de datos y redes a partir de fragmentos tan diversos como afines, que permitan multiplicar trayectos y reconfigurar experiencias, así como la creación de espacios y discursos críticos de encuentro e intercambio.