Category: Art

Just saw Control Room, an excellent documentary examining the nature of subjectivity in news reporting. From the co-director of startup.com, it is an investigation of staff at al-Jazeera, the now well known Arabic satellite TV channel. It is telling how this gulf war has repeated the rise in position of a TV network in the…

Courtesy of Jill, I’ve been checking out Adbusters a print and web publication which is perhaps one of the best examples of culture jamming advocacy. One of the sites they reference is the historically informed MediaCarta, a declaration and petition for intellectual rights in our sea of corporate controlled media.

My friend CJ Lee has just launched her new site containing documentation of her excellent installation exhibitions and projects. Her latest project in progress is a Homeland Security Garden, which incorporates 200 “security kits” submitted by the public (full disclosure: including one of mine). This will definitely be a great project to see in exhibition…

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised gives a unique look at the degree to which corporate media not only backed the side of the coup attempt against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, but actively participated in creating the illusion of propriety of the coup, to serve their corporate masters. The film is unique in that it…

Thanks for the memories – a flash movie of Saddam’s involvement with the CIA. A good history of Iraq I recommend is Tariq Ali’s book Bush in Babylon. It gives a detailed review of the history of Iraqi populist struggles against imposed regimes, situating the current conflict and the insurgent movement as yet another chapter…

In light of the recent head of the Iraq Survey Group, David Kays revelations that he believed no weapons programs had been in operation since the end of the first gulf war, a flash movie reminding us of the White Houses claims. Thanks to Judy for the link.