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April 22, 2005
Version '05
Version>05 takes place in Chicago April 22-May 1, 2005
Randall Packer will perform a Situational Tour:
"The Industrial Heartland & the Decay of America."
A presentation at the festival will take place on Sunday, May 1, at 5:00pm.
Zhou B. Center
1029 W. 35th St (35th and Morgan)
Chicago, IL 60609 (One mile west of US Cellular Field)
Randall Packer,Secretary-at-Large,US Dept. of Art & TechnologyA Season in Hell The US DAT was created in 2001 as an artist-led, virtual governmentagency for facilitating the need to extend aesthetic inquiry into a social sphere where ideas become action. During Version>05 Packer will conduct a live daily blog broadcast from Washington, DC; an underground reportage on the invisible activities of politicians usingonly a cell phone and laptop to transmit live imagery, audio and commentary. His multimedia transmission will be made freely available to artists in Chicago for incorporation into any project. Today Packer will present the week’s mobile blog as a springboard for dialogue and critique.
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Version '05 is a hybrid form of festival, conference, arts fair and online project. The fourth annual Version convergence is an experimental approach at navigating the activities of emerging cultures that combine visual arts, activism, social practices, creative use of new technologies as well as tactics and strategies of intervention.
We will convene in Chicago for a ten-day open laboratory to explore a diversity of tactics and strategies for activating our communities, amplifying our ideas, and ultimately creating viable permacultures parallel to consumer society – and capable of superceding it. The city itself will be used as a map to stage microactions. Blueprints for strengthening emerging alliances and counter-institutions will be unveiled. Alternative spaces will be open for staging actions. Public space, corporate and otherwise, will be our terrain of intervention.
Posted by Randall at April 22, 2005 10:55 AM