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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 98
INFOWAR. information.macht.krieg
Linz, Austria, september 07 - 12
http://www.aec.at/infowar
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Date sent:        Thu, 14 May 1998 17:48:57 +1000
To:               infowar@aec.at
From:             Andrew Garton <agarton@toysatellite.com.au>
Subject:          Re: INFOWAR: Information Weapon Contest

>and disinformation campaigns on the 'content' level. Are we only
>condemned to be passive consumers and protect ourselves against the
>hostile environments of info overload? Can we still act and attack?

Er... is anyone from AE reading this list? Are we "passive consumers",
do we need protection from the "hostile environments of info
overload"? Is "info overload" hostile? What is info overload? Is this
a naive perspective, or am I misreading something?

Andrew


From:             "Douglas Rushkoff" <rushkoff@well.com>
To:               <infowar@aec.at>
Subject:          Re: INFOWAR: 3 responses
Date sent:        Thu, 14 May 1998 07:48:11 -0400

>What kind of technology when you see mural art in caverns? What kind
>of technology when you see Arborigen australian tribes with their
>paintings? What kind of technology when you see tibet monk with
>mandala? What kind of technology when you see tribes trans ? What
>kind of technology in philosophia? (it is also a cultural phenomenon)
> What kind of technology in my mind when I'm conceiving my concepts
>for my artwork? Etc...


Those examples, in particular, are extremely "technological" examples.

We know now that many cave paintings were actually "interactive." That
is, they worked more like movies than paintings, with animals drawn in
slightly different positions, that would literally animate as a
person, holding fire, walked across by them.  (The painters exploited
the irregular surfaces of the caves to achieve this effect.)

A Tibetan Mandala is an extraordinary piece of hi-tech.  It activates
certain optical-neural pathways and leads a meditator into new brain
states (measurable on standard EEG equipment).  Not to get too "New
Agey" on you, but many would understand such a mandala as a portal to
other dimensions. Hardly a low-tech feat.


--
Douglas Rushkoff


From:             "Ramsey, Shafer" <SRamsey@tusd.k12.az.us>
To:               "'infowar@aec.at'" <infowar@aec.at>
Subject:          RE: INFOWAR: Information Weapon Contest
Date sent:        Thu, 14 May 1998 08:52:12 -0700

Let me get this straight.  I've just been asked to make a 'weapon' for
a contest with the grand prize being 1000 dollars?  Before I  even
start questioning the legality of exporting 'weapons' without a
license (just ask Phil Zimmerman about the results of that activity)
I'd like to know who I would be supplying this weapon to and what
their intended target for the weapon is.  

Weapons are things that harm, kill, maim and permanently (often very
permanently) alter the victim's life.  These are not toys.  They are
not a game.  That the weapon is constructed around information and not
directly around biology doesn't change its moral classification as a
weapon and before I release any weapon, information or otherwise, from
my possession I'll need a lot more information than a few names in a
sig file.  

Shafer






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