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tyler jacobsen - tyler[at]conglomco.org kim schnaubert - kim[at]conglomco.org The Conglomco Media Network (CMN / conglomco.org) is a collective of computer artists, programmers, and cultural producers, working in the tradition of the hacker, members lend their expertise to collectively throw a wrench in the gears of the corporate machine. CMN is both expansive and expanding, with members strategically scattered throughout the US, UK, and the EU. CMN's tactical bent against the infiltration of public space by major corporations is the brandishing of a gratuitous display of technology in subversive actions, exploiting said technology's shortcomings while simultaneously putting these shortcomings on display for public critique. Conglomco adopts the media facade of a patriarchal corporation, satirizing a corporate/capitalist pastiche of homogenized culture, financially motivated politics, and monetary greed. Utilizing the expanding potentials for copying, appropriating, sampling, and synthesizing provided by the internet, CMN seeks to create projects that explore the possibilities of social commentary and creative activism in a networked and techno-savvy environment. GRANTS AND AWARDS
Software/Net Award finalist, Museum of Voivodina, Novi Sad, Serbia, Jan 2007 SELECTED SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
Adding Insult to Imagery, Artistic Responses to Censorship and Mass-Media, Central Missouri State University and Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, May 2006
SELECTED PERFORMANCES, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
End/Begin.org, panel, NYU ITP, February 2005 The Fifth Hope, NYC, Jun 2004 Open End Gallery, Version 04, Chicago, IL, May 2004 Heaven Gallery, Version 04, Chicago, IL, May 2004 Indiana University, Bloomington, April 2004 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, April 2004 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, April 2004 Transmediale '04, transmediale.de, Berlin,Germany, January 2004 Select Media Festival 2, Lumpen.com, Chicago,IL, November 2003 Creative Rights Conference, Illegal-art.org, Philadelphia,October 2003 Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, Brooklyn NY, October 2003 Creative Resistance.us, Workshop, Brooklyn NY, August 2003 Folly Gallery, Lancaster, UK, Re-code Workshop, August 2003 Impakt Festival 2003, Central Museum Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 2003 FACT Centre, Liverpool, UK May 13th 2003 Waygood Gallery, 39 Highbridge, Newcastle, UK , May 2003 ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London, UK, May 2003 The Lost Film Festival 8, Philadelphia, April 2003 MACROCK, Mid Atlantic College Radio Conference, Richmond Va, April 2003 Q Gallery, Derby, UK, April 2003 Versionfest 03, Museum of Contemporary Art, March 2003 Sonoteque, 1444 West Chicago Ave, Chicago, March 2003 Open End Gallery, 2000 West Fulton, Chicago, March 2003 LA Freewaves 8th exhibition of Experimental Media: TV or NOT TV, Nov 2002 Conference for Interfaced Culture, Yale University, May 2002 Streams, Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY January 2002
SELECTED CURATION
CinemaTexas ’04, Parallax Views: Social Engineering and Hacking, Video Program, September 2004
RECORDINGS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chapter in Economizing Culture, Published by Autonomedia, 2005 Denim and Diamonds videos licensed to Remote DVD Magazine, remoteondvd.com Re-code.com videos licensed to Free Speech Television, Bolder, Co, 2004 Denim and Diamonds, Enhanced CD-EP, Bloodlink Records, 2004 The Meaning of Things 7in Single, Asking for Trouble, Glasgow Scotland, 2004 DVision DVD magazine, Re-code Videos, 2003 SELECT 4 DVD, RETAG: Retroactive Logo Distribution Video, 2003 SELECT 4 CD, Denim and Diamonds, 2003 , www.lumpen.com 'The Secret Of Elena's Tomb' EP, Interscope, 2003 'Relative Ways' EP, Interscope, 2001 Insound Tour Support CD Series No. 13 w/ The Faint. 2000 Insound Recordings Lost in a Scandal 7in Single, 1999 Paintcan Chandlier, Distribution by K Records
RELATED PRESS
NotAnAlternative (Article Dec 2006 http://www.notanalternative.net/wordpress/?p=116 ) Furtherfield (London) http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?From=Index&review_id=171 Neural.it, http://www.neural.it/nnews/version3e.htm Meta[cc] included in Rhizome.org’s Quarterly Report on Net Art, January 2005 Media emergenC /radioActive, Radio Interview SanDiego, Oct. 2004 http://mediaemergenc.org/conglomco-interview.mp3 French News, The Liberation, http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=178525&AG Switch Magazine, Sept 2004- http://www.switchmagazine.com/skateboard_music/Denim_and_Diamonds.html Anthem Magazine, #014, August 2004 Indie Workshop, October 2004, http://indieworkshop.com/reviews/1214/ BBC TV spot (Liverpool)- http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/culture/2003/09/fact_pdp/index.shtml CNN Headline News, Wired, Salon.com, ABC News, NBC News, BBC World, AVN News, MichaelMoore.com, New York Post, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Pacifica Radio, MSNBC, Boston Globe, Miami Herald. For a more complete listing with links to specific stories see: http://www.re-code.com/press.html NME , April 3rd, 2003, Pitch Fork Media , March 31st 2003 Stop Shopping Tour: BBC News , The Independent, May 4th, 2003 Retag: Adbusters (July / Aug 2002), Daily Texan, March 17, 2003
PROJECT URLs
Conglomco Media Net (CMN) – http://www.conglomco.org/ CMN PROJECTS-conglomco.org/serendipity/index.php?/categories/1-PROJECTS Meta[cc] – http://meta-cc.net Meta[cc] PROMO VIDEO- http://www.meta-cc.net/promovid/ Denim and Diamonds – http://myspace.com/denimanddiamonds audio work-http://www.conglomco.org/demos Re-Code.com – http://www.re-code.com People’s Jeans –http://www.peoplesjeans.com
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