ASU2: mi2mama..negativland

mi2mama..negativland

time:

early summer 2003
one week - 10 days

locations:

Croatia (Zagreb & Rijeka... maybe extra city)
Slovenia (Ljubljana)
? Bosnia & Herzegovina (Sarajevo) - depends on you
? FR Yugoslavia (Novi Sad) - depends on you and VISA availability

budget:

all travell/loging costs + per/diems will be covered by Multimedia Institute
+ at least 300$ for performance in Zagreb
+ ? fees for Ljubljana /Sarajevo /Novi Sad

tech reader

I would bring LPs and CDs to mix with. You can get me : 2 turntables, a 4 channel DJ mixer that can have all 4 channels in teh mix at once and with EQ kill switxhes, and a dual DJ CD player with loop and jog wheels

program

EgoBooBits artists to join for improvisational session:

Mario Kovac, local Slam Poetry promoter, theater director (professionaly), very eclectic musician and activist tamtam.mi2.hr/EgobooBits/EgoProizvodjaci/DadaJihadwith files + www.geocities.com/rupausistemu/
QWERTY, DJ and author of prikljucak.mi2.hr/ radio show

www.negativland.com

- - - - Senka Blazekovic

know.CulturalJamming

ISSUES for presentation/roundtable:

www.negativland.com/intprop.html

Mark Hosler is a founding member of the infamous American sample collective NEGATIVLAND. The members of NEGATIVLAND have become outspoken artists activists (particularly in the world of intellectual property), providing a soundtrack to the growing global movement against corporate power in our lives. By their use of music and images from mass-culture, they address issues concerning copyright and authorship in a critical and humorous way. Negativland - for instance - got a lot of media attention as a result of the release of their CD with U2 samples. As a reaction to the law suit that followed, they published the book "Fair Use: The Story Of The Letter U And The Numeral 2". The U2 case was not the only time NEGATIVLAND got in touch with the law. They often seek confrontation in order to enhance the debate on cultural heritage and intellectual property. None of the short films shown in this program will ever be seen on MTV, and much of it is visually in the same legal grey area that NEGATIVLAND has explored with sound for the last 20 years. Hosler will also screen videos documenting the many creative projects, hoaxes, pranks and "culture jamming" that NEGATIVLAND has been doing since 1980. The presentation covers issues of media-literacy, anti-corporate art/activism, the role of advertising and corporate power in our lives, and the evolution of art, law and resistance in a media saturated multi-national world.