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The Electronic Disturbance
Short pieces and essays examining the changing rules of cultural and political resistance: The current technological revolution has created a new geography of power relationsas data, human beings confront an authoritarial impulse that thrives on absence. As a virtual geography of cognizance and action, resistance must assert itself in electronic space.
Critical Art Ensemble
»Meine Krankheit ist meine Kraft « . Dieses Notizbuch ist aus der Sicht eines zweihundertjährigen Menschen geschrieben, der in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts seine Jugend erlebt hat und damals zeitgenössischen Denkern wie Francis Galton (1822–1911), einem Cousin Darwins, und Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) aufgesessen ist. Nun, im 21. Jahrhundert, korrigiert er seine damaligen Irrtümer und beschreibt, dass sein Denken nunmehr eher auf » Skepsis denn auf Gewissheiten« beruht. Durch dieses erfahrene Medium verkündet das Critical Art Ensemble eine ernste Warnung: Gegenwärtig zirkulieren Rhetoriken, die ähnlich problematische Argumentationsmuster aufweisen wie die Evolutionstheorien von damals. Das aktuelle Grundproblem hat zwei Ebenen: Erstens werden die Gründe für eine » Krankheit« stets auf das Subjekt oder eine »anfällige « Bevölkerungsgruppe geschoben, zweitens wird durch diese verleumderische Politik der Symptombekämpfung der Blick auf die tatsächlichen Ursachen verstellt. Das Critical Art Ensemble (CCA) wurde 1987 von fünf Medienpraktikern gegründet . Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch
Postanarchism and Critical Art Practices
"Engaging with contemporary debates about the political role of art in an era of total market subsumption, this book shows how artists respond to the challenges of political authoritarianism, police violence, right-wing populism, 'post-truth' discourse, economic inequality, pandemics, and the environmental crisis, transforming the public sphere in new and unexpected ways. It argues that the best way to understand these new critical discourses and practices is through an updated political theory of anarchism - or what we call postanarchism - where the insurrection against power and the politics of singularity are central"--
Disturbances
Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and political activism. The award-winning group of tactical media practitioners has exhibited and performed in a variety of venues internationally, from the street to the museum to the internet. Disturbances is the first book to assess the group's 25-year history, examining the environmental, political and bio-technological themes of their various initiatives. In the publication, each project is presented by the group itself, from their early live multimedia productions; to their development of models of electronic civil disobedience, digital resistance, and contestational biology and ecology; to their most recent tactical media projects. Disturbances is a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, science and politics.
Digital Resistance
Cultural Writing. "Required reading for any one concerned with disrupting authoritarian power in all its hideous forms. Once again CAE has produced an essential kit for the intelligent cultural hacker, artist, and hacktivist. Read this book for smart tactics to fight the encroaching giant of corporate culture and other antihuman forces vying to control in the 21st century" - Natalie Bookchin. "In this latest volume CAE brings to a climax a series of brilliantly illuminating texts, in which, over the last decade, they have succeeded in forging one of the few lexicons powerful enough to theorize the issues and technologies at the heart of today's activist cultures" - David Garcia, organizer, Next Five Minutes.
The Last Pictures
Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and process our credit card transactions experience no atmospheric drag. Their inert hulls will continue to drift around Earth until the Sun expands into a red giant and engulfs them about 4.5 billion years from now. The Last Pictures, co-published by Creative Time Books, is rooted in the premise that these communications satellites will ultimately become the cultural and material ruins of the late 20th and ear...
Flesh Machine
Having elsewhere explored the dimensions of social and political control in electronic culture, the Critical Arts Ensemble here turns full frontal towards the body, arguing that utopian promises of virtuality are simple distractions from the real project: the deployment of biotechnologies upon the bodies of citizens in the service of the transnational order.
Tactical Biopolitics
Scientists, scholars, and artists consider the political significance of recent advances in the biological sciences. Popular culture in this “biological century” seems to feed on proliferating fears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences at a time when such basic concepts as scientific truth, race and gender identity, and the human itself are destabilized in the public eye. Tactical Biopolitics suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, science, and art are best addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical theorizing, and reflective practices. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, contributions to this volume focus on the political s...
Message to Our Folks
This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique performance practices—members played hundreds of instruments on stage, recited poetry, performed theatrical sketches, and wore face paint, masks, lab coats, and traditional African and Asian dress. The group, which built a global audience and toured across six continents, presented their work as experimental performance art, in opposition to the jazz industry’s traditionalist aesthetics. In Message to Our Folks, Paul Steinbeck combines musical an...
