C-LEVEL
Multimedia & activist collective
–Robby Herbst, KCET.org
DATE: 2001-2005
MEDIUM: collective
CREDITS: Members of c-level: Karen Lofgren, Christina Ulke, Cyril Kuhn, Eddo Stern, Jason Brown, Jessica Hutchins, Mark Allen, Michael W. Wilson, Marc Herbst, Peter Brinson
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Interview with Isabelle Arvers, 2004
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November 15, 2002
organized by Peter Brinson, Christina Ulke and Michael W. Wilson
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ENTHUSIAST
September 8, 2001
Video Screening
videos by: Karl Erickson, Natalie Zimmerman, Holen Sabrina Kahn, Olga Koumoundouros, and many others
organized by Michael W. Wilson
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DESPOTISM, DEMOCRACY AND/OR PSYCHIC DISOBEDIENCE
October 23, 2004
Performance/Video Screening
Jennifer Nelson and Michael W. Wilson
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PLURALISM IN THE AGE OF MEDIA SURVEILLANCE
Presentation by M.T. Karthik
Thursday, February 24, 2004 @ 8pm
From agit-prop to info-prop, culture-jamming and manipulation of media, how can a notion of “true media diversity” combat monolithic corporate media? In the context of 21st century politics, what does it mean to be effective? What have they learned and absorbed? What are the possibilities for counter-narratives?
M.T. Karthik has conducted performance work as art-in-practice in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans and Austin over three decades of sociopolitical engagement. His most recent performance – as News Director and Elections Coordinator for Pacifica station KPFK is documented in a forthcoming book and audio compilation.
His books, audio pieces, text pieces, limited editions and uniques have been placed by the Booklyn Artists Alliance in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Museum, the Milwaukee Public Library, Smith College, Stanford University, New York University, The Otis College of Art and Design, Occidental College and in other archival, educational and private collections. Karthik lives in Los Angeles.
WACO RESURRECTION
As predicted by his Branch Davidian followers, Vernon Howell (aka David Koresh) has returned to Mt. Carmel for final battle. Revisiting the 1993 Waco, Texas episode, gamers enter the mind and form of a resurrected David Koresh through custom headgear, a voice-activated, hard-plastic 3D skin.
INVICTUS
A speculative account of a Timothy McVeigh’s post-mortem journey through the physically empty yet haunted corridors of the Death Star. The video combines news footage from the 1995 bombing with gameplay footage from a modified Star Wars video game.
MEDIA BLACKOUT
A labyrinth-arena in which the player experiences the The War on Terror as a coordinated in-game psychological operation. Surrounded by artificial intelligence, embedded media noise and a sea of oil, players attempt to maintain psychic resistance while choosing to escape or challenge a military-entertainment-industrial landscape.