[Nettime-bold] Announcement of Experimental Party

[US Department of Art & Technology <press@usdept-arttech.net>]

US Department of Art & Technology
PO Box 32265 Washington, DC
http://www.usdept-arttech.net
press@usdept-arttech.net

Press Secretary
For Immediate Release:  March 13, 2002


US Department of Art & Technology
Announces Experimental Party

Washington, DC. -  On April 13th at the Thaw 2002 Festival of Video, 
FIlm, and Digital Media in Iowa City, Iowa - the heartland of the 
nation and a hotbed of American politics - the US Department of Art & 
Technology will announce the formation of a new artist-based 
political party, heralding a new era for the nation. The party will 
be officially named the Experimental Party - the "party of 
virtualization" - to be built on the inherent strength of the 
artists' message.

"There is no stopping the Experimental movement," said Randall M. 
Packer, Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology and 
National Co-chair of the newly formed Experimental Party Steering 
Committee. "The new Experimental Party of the United States of 
America is an artist-driven caucus from which will fuel the momentum 
against the corporatization of media that is building on a global 
scale."

The US Department of Art & Technology has decided to form the 
Experimental Party in order to activate citizens across the country 
in its effort to bring the artists' message to center stage of the 
political process. According to Packer, "This is a great political 
awakening, 'Representation Through Virtualization' is the major 
political thrust of the Experimental Party, it is the driving force."

"In making this announcement in America's heartland, the Experimental 
Party is working for the things that will make a positive difference 
in the lives of average citizens, " Secretary Packer said. "We are 
working towards new ways of thinking, freedom of association, and 
extreme states of subjective experience. We propose an end to 
corporate control of mass media, so that a new century is spared new 
horrors of CNN - the issue Americans should care most about."

At the University of Iowa, Packer will announce a two-part strategy 
to build the party in the coming years.

(1) The Experimental Party intends to recruit and support viable 
artists who will virtualize both Republicans and Democrats at every 
level of government. The party will subject these two parties to 
artistic forces of appropriation, virtualization, and transformation.

(2) The Experimentalists will aggressively register new  members 
across the country to create a party that will truly engage the 
voter, to catalyze the artist's need to extend aesthetic inquiry into 
the broader culture where ideas become real action.

Packer's announcement, scheduled for 12:00 PM at the Shambaugh 
Auditorium at the University of Iowa, will be open for press 
coverage. The speech will be taped for delayed broadcast over 
Tel-SPAN, the telematic broadcasting channel of the US Department of 
Art & Technology. Throughout the day, Packer will be available for 
questions and for the recruitment of party members.

The Department's "Media Deconstruction Kit" Preview will also be on 
view at the University of Iowa Art Museum. The "Media Deconstruction 
Kit" seemlessly integrates data, analytics, theory, electronic art, 
virtual reality and straight through processing in a single, 
extraordinarily robust and complete solution delivered in real-time 
to the desktop, gallery, artist studio, or outdoor media sculpture.

Media representatives may cover this event upon presentation of 
either (1) a US Government-issued identification card (Department of 
State, White House, Congress, Department of Art and Technology, or 
Foreign Press Center), (2) a photo ID issued by the employing media 
organization, or (3) a letter on official letterhead from their news 
organization verifying their employment as a journalist, accompanied 
by an official photo ID (drivers' license or passport).


URLs:
US Department of Art & Technology: http://www.usdept-arttech.net
Tel-SPAN: http://www.usdept-arttech.net/tel-span
Thaw 2002: http://www.uiowa.edu/~thaw/

Contact: Press Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology
press@usdept-arttech.net

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