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> one wonders why mr parker is not creating war o protest against mr bush? to think this man has been given oppurtunity by andreas broekmann? robert desnos > >Randall Packer >"10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation" >Tuesday, February 11th, 6pm @ EDA (104 North Kinross) >University of California, Los Angeles > >presented by the >UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts >(310) 825-9007 > >Randall M. Packer, Secretary of the US Department of Art & Technology >in Washington, DC, will announce a new campaign, "10,000 Acts of >Artistic Mediation," intended to mobilize artistic forces across the >nation in anticipation of the National Election in 2004. The >Secretary will also discuss the recent activation of a new >artist-driven political party, the Experimental Party, the "party of >experimentation," in the Department's effort to bring the artists' >message to center stage of the political process. The Experimental >Party intends to recruit, support, and coordinate viable artists to >celebrate the universal spirit of collective expression, to seek >volunteers to help speak oracular truths and the most radically >liberating critique of reason, and to engage students in acts of >appropriation through art and polemic, manifesto and demonstration, >love and politics. > >Calling him "a man of great integrity, a man of great judgment and a >man who knows the arts," President George W. Bush announced his >decision to nominate Randall M. Packer to serve as Secretary of the >United States Department of Art and Technology on November 12, 2001. >Upon confirmation by the Senate, Packer pledged to renew the war on >cultural poverty, reduce the incidence of a one-way exchange of >information between an active agent and a passive recipient, and >combat discrimination so no American feels outside the field of >aesthetic inquiry of the contemporary media arts. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold