Presented at
The Fifth HOPE (2004),
July 11, 2004, 5 p.m.
(60 minutes)
The Carbon Defense League (CDL) and Conglomco are two tactical media arts collectives engaged in both technical and social hacking processes. Their first collaboration with each other was a website that facilitated barcode relabeling for "user defined pricing." The site was live at re-code.com before it was shut down by pressure from Wal-Mart, Kellogg's, Price Chopper, and the FBI. CDL and Conglomco will present details of their past and present projects (including peoplesjeans.com) and discuss alternative tactics for media intervention.
Presenters:
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Tyler Nordgren
Tyler Nordgren is a media artist who uses the application of the malfunction (or glitch) in technology as a theatrical tool and performance tactic. His work forms a discourse that is constitutive of an obsession with the intersection of human and machine and an ironic, but critical, analysis of the mass media and corporate control. One of his projects, Re-Code.com gained the attention of the mainstream media in such places as USA Today, CNN, and BBC World.
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Nathan Martin
Nathan Martin is a new media artist, collective experimenter, technologist, designer, writer, and programmer currently living in Pittsburgh as a Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University's Studio for Creative Inquiry. Nathan is a founding member of the media arts collective Carbon Defense League (CDL) and the hactivist.com network. Nathan is currently working on the CDL project MapHub and is writing a book called Parasites, Splinters, and Thieves.
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