Digital Agitprop of the Bush Era
Opening Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Live performances at 7pm & 9pm
Porter Faculty Gallery, UCSC

Digital Agitprop of the Bush Era presents a live video mashup of agitational propaganda disseminated during and against the postmillennial Bush rule of American society. Spanning the combined output of artists, the corporate media, and the US government, this remix/ lecture by DANM graduate student G. Craig Hobbs presents compelling video and audio works addressing matters of political power, engagement, and ideological resistance.

Digital Agitprop juxtaposes web-distributed works and archive sources to survey manipulation, destruction, and redemption in this tumultuous period of world history. The show and subsequent gallery installation attempts to recover the original meaning of propaganda - the dissemination of ideas -  as a symbiotic form of media activism inherent to new distribution models provided by compressed digital video and the world wide web.

The presentation will be followed by a discussion and gallery opening. An installation of the performance mix will be on display from 02.25.07- 03.01.07.

For more information on the series: http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/events

Parking
Enter the Main Entrance to the campus and proceed directly to the parking kiosk on the right. Purchase an “A lot” parking permit. Then drive to the West Entrance to the campus. Follow Heller Drive until you reach Porter College on your left and park there. Walk into the main entrance of Porter College and take a left at the end of the administration building on your left. Follow the stairs to the second floor where the Porter Faculty Gallery is in Rm. D222.

Map
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