From: openmedia@igc.apc.org (Open Media)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: SEIZING THE MEDIA: Networker Congr
Date: 26 Sep 92 02:16:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!openmedia    Sep 25 19:16:00 1992


SEIZING THE MEDIA: A NETWORKER CONGRESS
A weekend of activity to discuss, self-educate,
and put into practice the creation of subversive media.

1:30pm Saturday 24 October to 6pm Sunday 25 October 1992

Media and resource exchange; slides, fax, posters,
pamphlets, computer files, ideas, proposals, tactics

Practical action on billboard improvement and removal;
Big Art and postering

E-mail and fax facility to receive material to be discussed
and implemented during the weekend

Documentation to all participants

Materials supplied:
photocopier reproduction/ enlargement and the streets
of Oxford

Bloomin Arts, Princes Street, Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4, U.K.

If you cant make it in person, you can take part
in the Seizing the Media Congress by post, fax, E-mail.

Send documents, comments, proposals, art, ideas, and posters.

Post to: BM Jed, London WC1N  3XX, United Kingdom

Fax to: (011 441) 0865 72 4317 
E-Mail to:  Eastoxcomcen@GN.APC.ORG

ACCOMMODATIONS
Accommodations are available
from Friday night onwards.
To make arrangements or get more information,
get in touch with Oxfin
between 1-4pm Mondays to Fridays at: (0865) 240545 
From the United States: 011 41865 240 545

Background:

SEIZING THE MEDIA is the title of pamphlet written by the
Immediast Underground and first released in Amsterdam,
New York City, and Seattle in early 1992. The 26 pamphlet
combines theory, graphics, research and proposals that
examine:
Information control
Propaganda and advertising
CIA
Mind control
Immediast counter-offensives
tactics, subversive networking, public empowerment
multi-media
Public production libraries
the liberation of public space

...Just when Jesse Helms thought he made the world safe from
poetic terrorism, along come the Immediasts, a cadre of
media hackers who are fed up with the ecology of coercion
that surrounds them. Their booklet SEIZING THE MEDIA proposes
an all-out artistic assault on coercive communication,
cultural monologue, and media control. They want all media
insurgents to take back the airwaves with pirate radio, cable
access TV, altering ads and billboards, and otherwise hacking
the datasphere to break the spell of State/corporate media
control.  ...from Gareth Branwyns STREET NOISE, Mondo 2000  #7

SEIZING THE MEDIA Version 1.1 is available for $3 from
Open Media PO Box 2726  Westfield New Jersey 07091 USA

THE IMMEDIAST UNDERGROUND is a centerless network of artists,
writiers, hackers, culture jammers, pirate broadcasters, and
posterists who connect with one another through information
systems, mail art, networker congresses, and the underground
press, and who communicate with the public through actions
against all forms of coercive communication, space
infringement, and media control.
For more info contact:
Immediast U. PO Box 2726  Westfield New Jersey 07091 USA

DECENTRALIZED WORLD-WIDE NETWORKER CONGRESSES
Since the beginning of the year, members of alternative
info-nets, artists, insurgents, and cultural workers have
been holding networker congresses, transnational
engagements in cultural production, dialogue, collaborations,
open exchange, subversive brainstorming, and collective
disruptions of dominant culture.

THE NETWORKER, A NEW PERCEPTION
In societies where information is money and media is power,
public access is as controlled as the corporate states
grip on communication law, censorship, commerce, covert
action and surveillance. In this context, uninhibited
public communication, expression, and cultural production
are acts of freedom, sovereignty, and defiance. Rooted in the 
drive to connect and exchange with others, Networker Congresses
engage in culture and media as the battleground for greater
openess and freedom.

MORE INFORMATION about NETWORKER CONGRESSES contact:

H.R. Fricker
Buro fur kunsterische Umtriebe
CH 9043 Trogen Switzerland

Retrofuturism
PO Box 2278
Iowa City, Iowa 52244

Peter Kaufman
Bergenwissenstrasse 11
CH-8123 Ebmatigen
Switzerland

Decentralized Networker Congresses
Netshaker
PO Box 978
Hanover, New Hampshire 03766.
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