Artists/Collectives/Etc

Artists making action:

• FutureFarmers- digital/new media. representations of individuality, social networks. games, virtual exploration of real issues. ecology, relationships, opinions. making maps of culture.
• YOUgenics
  travel office?
• ArtOfficial Construction Media
• Center for Land Use Interpretation
• Center for tactical Magic - interventions like the cricket-activated defense system, and the jacket signfy a simultenaeity between action/fabrication and symbolism/metaphor.
• Furtherfield - not sure
• Critical Art Ensemble- producing/distributing information as a revolutionary act. theories that are tied to interventions, where the intervention may be only located at a specific moment in time and the theory continues to spur new thought.
  (cf. Foucault on knowledge and power.)
• subRosa- women artists dealing with issues like the digital divide.
• On Ramp Arts
• Institute for Applied Autonomy - digital networks, psychogeography, public space/access, surveillance
• Carbon Defense League
• Next 5 Minutes - tactical media conference, addresses commercialisation and design issues.
• Glowlab - remember them from such moments as flash mobs, etc
• FeelTank Chicago - not a thinktank but a feeltank
• My Dad's Strip Club - they also participated in conglomco's diesel action.
• Trevor Paglen- Multimedia artist working with questions about community, public sphere/space, and militarization. Known for his piece "goatsucker".
• Versionfest - Invincible desire is the theme for 05. Collectives coming together, gathering as in the form of an (gallery) opening, a (academic) conference, a (activist) demonstration. ideally, participants share strategies, notes on what's worked, what gave them trouble, and emerge engergized/inspired.
• beatriz da costa has ben working this field for a while
• also, unsure
  
• temporary services- as their name implies, specialists in tactical intervention. love the irrigation/seeding devices
  cf ryan griffis
• red76 don't know too much yet. their samizdat-factory at the RNC is perfect though.
• praba pilar- seems pertinent, will need to check her stuff out more closely.
• the JAP
• Summit of Interventionist Art - at the anti-g8 protests in Evian, was that 02 or 03?

building a working glossary: hypercommodity

so this essay is one of the results google provided for a search on "hypercommodity" courtesty of Professor Edbauer at the UT in addition to this slightly complicated-to-nativigate site ... edits to this post will all ref "hypercommodity" or Baudrillard in some way