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About zHarmony
Overview
Our Team
Timeline and Budget
Work Samples

CONGLOMCO MEDIA NET

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
Artist Residence (short term), The Aesthetic Technologies Lab of the Ohio University College of Fine Arts (@Lab), summer 2007
Franklin Furnace Future of the Present Grant, Fall 2006
NYSCA S.O.S.- Individual Artist’s grant, Februrary, 2005
Finalist Transmediale.04, Software Art Award
Winner Memefest 2003, Festival of Radical Communication, Slovenia, July 2003
Fellowship(s)awarded from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2003
Finalist for the Roy W. Dean Video Grant, 2002
Grant for study of 3D Imaging technologies, Office for the Vice President of Research, University of Texas at Austin, December 2000

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
Round Film Festival Rimini Italy, May 2006
Circolo delle Belle Arti Madrid, Spain, May 2006
Festival Internazionale Incanti Torino, Italy, May 2006
Festival Intern. Confluencias Huelva, Spain, April 2006
Season Art Frankfurt Germany, April 2006
Waterman´s Art Centre London, UK, April 2006
Ambasciata di Spagna Japan / Aoyama Cultur Salon – Tokyo – Japan, March 2006
Maison de l'Italie - Cité Universitaire, Paris, March 2006
Rhizome Web Exhibiton, CERTIFIED FREE RANGE, May 2005
Eyebeam, Digital Daycamp, NYC June 2005
FILE, (Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica), Sao Paulo, Brazil, from November, 2004
Werkleitz Biennale-COMMON PROPERTY, Berlin, Germany, September 2004
BananaRAM, International Art Network, Ancona Vanvitellinana, Italy, July 2004
ISEA2004 CRUISE, Baltic Sea, August 2004
10 Commandments, Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, June 2004
Millenium Dialogue: 1st Bijing International New Media Arts Exhibition, China, June 2004
Fly Utopia, Transmediale 04, Haus Der Kultren Der Welt, Berlin February 2004
Third Place Gallery, website exhibition, www.thirdplacegallery.org 2004
ArsElectronica 2003, Vienna, Austria
Blows against the Empire: Jamming Tactics from Direct Action to Media Intervention,curated by Craig Baldwin, December 2003
17e Rencontres Vidéo Art Plastique, Museum Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse- Normandie, France, November 2003
Prix Ars Electronica 2003-CyberArts, Net Vision / Net Excellence, ORF-Austria Sound Kitchen Festival Princeton University, Nov 2003
Perspectives '03, Computer Space Festival 2003 Sofia/Bulgaria
Next Five Minutes 4, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sept 2003
FACT Centre, Liverpool, UK, August 8, 2003
Memefest 2003, International Festival of Radical Communication, Slovenia Winner (interactive), July 2003
Mayday Mobilizations: Anti-Globalization Guerillas, Other Cinema, San Francisco, Ca, May 2003
ARTBAR 291 - Royal College of Art at 291 Gallery, London, UK, March 2003
TRAILERPARK'03, UGC cinema, Cardiff, Wales, March, 2003
Zoo, Rootx, Hall Time Based Arts, UK, Nov 2002
CCA Kitakyushu, Japan, Nov 2002
Socket Saliva, The Soap Gallery, Japan, Nov 2002
Videotage, Hong Kong, Nov 2002
Dahlonega International Film Festival, Dahlonega ,GA, June 2002
The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, June 2002
Indymedia Center Television (Hudson-Mohawk), March 2002
post-videoart.com ,Website Exhibition, March 2002
Film Conditioner, Siberia Bar NY, NY March 200
2 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, (w/ Nao Bustamante) Dec 2001

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