Creative Electric Studios presents Negativlandland, a group exhibition by the "cultural jamming" and collage group, Negativland, who use high and low tech approaches to make art and media that pose questions about the nature of perception, media control, ownership, and propaganda. This exhibition will take place in conjunction with the group's 25th anniversary and will feature the collective's recent visual work as well as their trademark sonic work.
Specifically, this show features the old, infamous U2 LP album cover as well as a Abraham Lincoln audio aquired from Disneyworld, reciting (Negativland versions of) his original studio takes.
Over the years Negativland's "illegal" collage and appropriation-based audio and visual works have touched on many things - media hoaxes and pranks, anti-corporate activism, the banality of suburban existence, file sharing, intellectual property issues, media literacy, and artistic critiques of mass media and culture.
Negativland performs, lectures, writes and tours both in the US and in Europe. Their work is not only included in college curricula throughout the US, but it has been discussed in over 30 books (including NO LOGO by Naomi Klein, MEDIA VIRUS by Douglas Rushkoff, and various biographies of the band U2) and cited in many legal journals.
This show originated in New York (Fall/Winter 2005)at Gigantic Art Space.
For contact information:
Creative Electric Studios
2201 2nd Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418
612-706-7879
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