Syndicate: Commission Control

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

From: deck@artcontext.com
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 23:07:16 GMT
Subject: nettime-nl: Commission Control


            May 10, 1999

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Commission Control draws upon divergent
representations of contemporary warfare.
Begun before the escalation of war in the
Balkans, this work responds to the anti-
social imperatives of war industry, and to
the relationship between military industries
and the media. With regard to the ongoing
conflict in Kosovo, the authors' perspective
is not neutral, but above all their aim is to
focus attention on the war in Yugoslavia,
encouraging people to investigate beyond
the blind suppositions of 'clean' war that
are so prevalent on television in the United
States. The pattern of remote, high-speed,
pyrotechnic violence must not be understood
only through the sanitized analytical abstraction
of attack chronologies, not only through filtered
announcements from press secretaries and generals.
Having engineered the virtual absence of impartial
reporting from the field, the Pentagon portrays the
grave toll of warfare as inevitable, calculable.
The artists are largely unconvinced by the
rhetoric of moral imperative that is trotted out
for each successive war. It is largely through
the ineptitude and lack of vision of foreign
policy that nations have recently found themselves
in these supposedly noble 'humanitarian' war
efforts.  Notwithstanding the potential
consequences of non-intervention, a pacifist
position must be presented coherently to the
public.

Commission Control is a collaborative effort by New
Yorkers Andy Deck and Joe Dellinger.  Andy Deck is
an artist who has been producing work for the
internet since 1994.  Recent projects include
GrafficJam and Space Invaders Act 1732, both of
which can be found at http://artcontext.com.
Joe Dellinger is a teacher and thesis group leader
at the School of Visual Arts, NYC, MFA Computer
Art Department.  His work deals with the double
edged sword of information and technology and who
swings it.

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