zHarmony has been chosen as the 2007 Rhizome Community Commission, and will be presented on Rhizome.org and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as archived in Rhizome's online archive, the ArtBase.
zHarmony is an addition to Rhizome.org that combines the Compatibility Matching System of online relationship services, like eHarmony, with Rhizome's existing database of artists to produce a unique artist profiling system that can automatically match artists with like-minded collaborators (or groups of collaborators) based on multiple points of compatibility.
Along with the unique opportunity to meet those otherwise unreachable, zHarmony gives members a new dimension to their working process, as well as a chance to increase their work’s productivity, validity, scope and depth. We strive to provide a private, professional, practical and productive networked environment.
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The Rhizome Commissions program is supported, in part, by funds from the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support is provided by generous individuals and Rhizome members.
CMN is pleased to announce the official beta release of the META[CC]
Sunday, June 25. 2006
META[CC] seeks to create an open forum for real time discussion, commentary, and cross-refrencing of electronic news and televised media. By combining strategies 
employed in web-based discussion forums, blogs , tele-text subtitling, on-demand video streaming, and search engines, the open captioning format employed by META[CC] will allow users to gain multiple perspectives and resources engaging current events. The system is adaptable for use with any cable or broadcast television network.
We hope that you will take a moment from your viewing time to add the RSS feed of a blog you find noteworthy. As more information sources are supplied to META[CC], the more intelligent the system becomes. As such, the META[CC] search engine is apolitical and influenced only by the news and information sources supplied by its viewers/users. We apologize, but at this time podcasts and vlogs are not supported.
Many thanks for your interest and participation,
The META[CC] team
http://meta-cc.net
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We hope that you will take a moment from your viewing time to add the RSS feed of a blog you find noteworthy. As more information sources are supplied to META[CC], the more intelligent the system becomes. As such, the META[CC] search engine is apolitical and influenced only by the news and information sources supplied by its viewers/users. We apologize, but at this time podcasts and vlogs are not supported.
This work was made possible, in part, by Franklin Furnace's Future of the Present program, supported by Jerome Foundation in celebration and in recognition of the valuable cultural contributions of artists to society.
Many thanks for your interest and participation,
The META[CC] team
http://meta-cc.net
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EDITED VIDEO:
videos from "Street Medics Unite" CD, Bloodlink, 2003
produced by c. shive
ARCHIVED FROM SMALLWORLD PODCAST
Interview with Tyler Nordgren of Conglomco. We discuss the subversive nature of Conglomco; social
hacking; The Yes Men; the founding members of Conglomco; matching skill sets for each project; the META[CC] project; providing closed captioning from user input; copyright issues hijacking corporate media; Franklin Furnace; the January 25 launch date for the beta version of META[CC]; the ReTag project; the danger of reinforcing the powers of logos by hijacking logos; world wide recognition of the McDonald’s and Coca-Cola logos; Nike’s advertising campaign; putting money back into the local economy by hiring workers to remove the logos; the public’s reaction to ReTag; how ReTag lead to the Peoples Jeans Co. project; parodying Diesel; the Re-Code project; The Carbon Defense League; HACTIVIST.COM Tactical Media Network.
Interview with Tyler Nordgren of Conglomco. We discuss the subversive nature of Conglomco; social
hacking; The Yes Men; the founding members of Conglomco; matching skill sets for each project; the META[CC] project; providing closed captioning from user input; copyright issues hijacking corporate media; Franklin Furnace; the January 25 launch date for the beta version of META[CC]; the ReTag project; the danger of reinforcing the powers of logos by hijacking logos; world wide recognition of the McDonald’s and Coca-Cola logos; Nike’s advertising campaign; putting money back into the local economy by hiring workers to remove the logos; the public’s reaction to ReTag; how ReTag lead to the Peoples Jeans Co. project; parodying Diesel; the Re-Code project; The Carbon Defense League; HACTIVIST.COM Tactical Media Network.
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Re-code.com Now
Cease and Desist letter from WalMart that forced re-code offline
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RE-CODE COMMERCIAL:
Re-Code.com: Commercial no.1 (now unedited!)
A VIDEO RESPONSE TO WALMART'S THREATS
Re-Code.com:I'm Not Stealing...Don't Put Me Behind Bars
News Flash: Re-Code.com on CNN
News Story: Re-Code.com on ABC
Logos are the most effective method of brand-name recognition.
If you would like to be come a representative of ReTag in your city and to download logos, visit the Offical ReTag Site
They dot the landscape on billboards, adorn the clothing of everyone from pre-schoolers to geriatrics, pop-up in the background of every sporting event, TV show and feature film, and can be internalized and spark thoughts about your product in target consumers without them even suspecting it–or realizing it is happening. They are universal in their communication, negating the need for translation: a toddler in San Diego, CA recognizes and associates the taste of sugary brown soda with Coca-Cola’s red-and-white circles just as easily as a 100 yr.-old shepherd in Yemen. The question is, with the ubiquity of a certain logo–and all that it conjures up–when does the penetration of new markets end? When does your logo effectively reach universal status, as recognizable as a crucifix, and begin to be redundant?
If you would like to be come a representative of ReTag in your city and to download logos, visit the Offical ReTag Site
An interactive video installation and performance
“The Horrors of Advertising� is intended to comment on the way the American public is subtlety manipulated by target marketing on television, but more specifically, it is an interactive video bloodbath that chops, minces, slices, dices, and re-mixes infomercial footage with a horror flick. "The Unisector " is a kitchen blender we have transformed into an interactive video interface. When the blender is switched on, the infomercial is changes into a gratuitously bloody B-Horror shocker. The viewer is free to flip back and forth, viewing the distilled capitalism of infotainment in parallel with murder and gore. The presentation of this piece includes a how-to workshop/performance with hints of musical theater, glitchy malfunctioning pop music, and cocktails made to order.
video documentation and more information
“The Horrors of Advertising� is intended to comment on the way the American public is subtlety manipulated by target marketing on television, but more specifically, it is an interactive video bloodbath that chops, minces, slices, dices, and re-mixes infomercial footage with a horror flick. "The Unisector " is a kitchen blender we have transformed into an interactive video interface. When the blender is switched on, the infomercial is changes into a gratuitously bloody B-Horror shocker. The viewer is free to flip back and forth, viewing the distilled capitalism of infotainment in parallel with murder and gore. The presentation of this piece includes a how-to workshop/performance with hints of musical theater, glitchy malfunctioning pop music, and cocktails made to order.
video documentation and more information
Title: Rolls of Information
Running Time: 6 min. 37 sec.
Produced by CMN at iEar Studios
Cast: Igor Broos, Anna Van Sommeren
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Post-Video Art
L.A. Freewaves
Running Time: 6 min. 37 sec.
Produced by CMN at iEar Studios
Cast: Igor Broos, Anna Van Sommeren
Rolls of Information is a video short dealing with the personification of ordinary objects, and the objectification of people. Its loose narrative form tells the story of an ordinary consumer whose reality is skewed by the target marketing of a corporation known as Digital Technologies.
Watch Rolls online:
Post-Video Art
L.A. Freewaves
Put simply, Peoples Jeans markets clothing that has previously been worn by actual people, whose greatest asset is their lived experience.
Migrant agricultural workers, factory workers, prisoners, and populations in economically stressed urban communities have more to offer than cheap labor. They offer us authentic human experience, which is in short supply in today's fashion industry. We have found a way to capitalize on this underutilized asset in order to give consumers the authentic experience that they can't find elsewhere.
PeoplesJeans Website
Diesel Store - Covent Garden - London, UK - 18/05/03
a collaboration with The Vacuum Cleaner
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a collaboration with The Vacuum Cleaner
Beneath my ideas is a good looking person.
And beneath that, an excellent pair of denim.
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Introducing: the product, “Street Medics Unite!� The first EP from New York’s spazmelodic Denim and Diamonds. A Bloodlink Records 5� enhanced CD with eight songs and threemusic videos pulsing with dystopian imagery, analog savagery, triumphant hiccups of post-corporate calls to action and pop songs buried beneath hundreds of thorny microscopic loops.
Denim and Diamonds may be the first band since Black Flag to have a FBI file. The band is the collaboration of two shadowy anti-corporate, electronic media saboteurs. Both have more aliases than there are names in the Marfa, Texas phone book, but in Denim and Diamonds, they’re Squiggy Diamonds and Marcel Denim.
Squiggy is the vocalist. Onstage, he’s an asexual (but not desexualized), post apocalyptic performance artist who puts the “show� back in performance by challenging the divide between audience and performer. No two Denim and Diamonds shows are ever the same and some have resulted in mass audience confusion. Marcel is the programmer of sound and a whimsical mad scientist who builds digital, mathematical signal processors for studio and performance.
The resulting musique pop is a over stimulated world of megalopic corporations, resourceful, technologically enhanced “street medics,� and glitch ridden transmissions from the future, one possible future.
“We write songs as if we were writing on an acoustic guitar. Squiggy and I come up with melodies and lyrics, then build the rest around them.� Marcel explains.
This could be the reason that music made by men with technology, about technology and man, could be so resonant in both fields. This is not a record of cold hooks, but of a bloodied human socket, out of which peers one glowing electronic eye. This record is a storm on man and machine, one anxious sigh, before one cannot live without the other.
Lest Denim and Diamonds seem like new school philosophers of William Gibson-esque cyberpunk, the imagery they use is a satirical undercarriage for the political, anti-corporate agenda they practice in their other art. Two of the EP’s tracks, “Disneyland in Iraq� and “The Meaning of Things,� directly or indirectly comment (even presuppose) the tone of contemporary media attention to the war in Iraq.
Some music is just made, the creation of divine intervention and blind, stubborn talent. Some music is calculated, designed, and built. The music of Denim and Diamonds is; definitely a construction, but built out of organic need, the need for self-survival and hard, satirical criticism.
-by Jason Amos for Anthem Magazine
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