mark cooley
Since 2002
Works in United States of America

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BIO
Mark Cooley is an interdisciplinary artist interested in exploring the intersections of art, activism and institutional critique in a variety of contexts. Subjects of particular interest are U.S. foreign policy, corporate culture, and the political economy of new technologies. Recently, Mark has focused his attention on food production and consumption and the ways in which artists may mediate in these processes.

http://www.flawedart.net


The New American Dictionary


The Boston-based performance group Institute for Infinitely Small Things has published a book called The New American Dictionary.

The dictionary highlights the terminology of fear, security and war that has permeated American English post 9-11. It includes 68 new terms i.e. Preparedness and Freedom Fries as well as terms that have recently been redefined i.e. Torture.

The dictionary also has an interactive dimension. 58 terms are left undefined for the reader to pencil in their own definition. Furthermore, readers are invited to submit their additions to the institute for a possible inclusion in the 2nd edition.

The New American Dictionary is available at several online stores.

www.newamericandictionary.com

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exhaust emissions balloons


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a huge balloon, tied to a car�s vent-pipe, depicting the amount of exhaust emissions a car releases a day.

the "bursting earth" project is similar, but more dynamic. activists attach world globe balloons on exhaust pipes of cars in Berlin. the exhaust gas inflates the ballons. after the message becomes readable, there is a big "bang".

[link: frederiksamuel.com & adsoftheworld.com & 20to20.org]

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WoW!


Aram Bartholl is a german artist renowned for making physical abstractions of the digital world, particularly game-worlds.

One of Aram's not-to-be-missed performances is inspired by the popular computer game World of Warcraft (WoW).

In WoW, the nickname of the player's avatar is constantly hovering above the head of the player so that the identity is visible for everyone else in the game.

Aram took this little feature out of cyberspace to see how it would look if people's names would float above their heads in the physical world too.

WoW has been performed at different locations around the world. Luckily, it is well-documented!


Getting coffee WoW style Workshop in Ghent Project Site

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REALIZING THE IMPOSSIBLE: ART AGAINST AUTHORITY


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Aesthetics and Politics

REALIZING THE IMPOSSIBLE: ART AGAINST AUTHORITY by Josh MacPhee, Erik Reuland, editors :: There has always been a close relationship between aesthetics and politics in anti-authoritarian social movements. And those movements have in turn influenced many of the last century's most important art movements, including cubism, Dada, post-impressionism, abstract expressionism, surrealism, Fluxus, Situationism, and punk. Today, the movement against corporate globalization, with its creative acts of resistance, has brought anti-authoritarian politics into the forefront. This sprawling, inclusive collection explores this vibrant history, with topics ranging from turn-of-the-century French cartoonists to modern Indonesian printmaking, from people rolling giant balls of trash down Chicago streets to massive squatted urban villages and renegade playgrounds in Denmark, from stencil artists of Argentina to radical video collectives of the US and Mexico. Lots of illustrations, all b&w.;

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Discussions (102) Opportunities (8) Events (39) Jobs (2)
EVENT

Re: Re: The Distorted Molotov


Dates:
Wed Mar 03, 2004 00:00 - Fri Mar 05, 2004

i agree with t.whid - there doesn't seem to an investment or profit issue here. i've spoken with a few photographers that have a REAL problem people reproducing, in any form, their work, even completely outside a commercial context. it seems to be rested on pure ideology or irrational fears or whatever. people have similar ties to other possessions. i'm relating to it through my experience growing up in a rural area where people are often incredibly protective of their land (also the case in urban areas, but played out differently), often without reason, or feeble. i have memories of stopping on a back road in the woods to take a photo (of a particular long line of "No Trespassing" signs, and, before long, was confronted by a shotgun totting land owner. in colonial America, the punishment for stealing a potato was a public whipping. today, you can get sued (a different kind of public punishment) for the unauthorized use of a picture of a potato. we've come a long way.

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> Liza wrote on her blog:
> > Joy Garnett Riot show are oil paintings of images sampled from
> > newswires and other public news media. Now she is not only being
> sued
> > by the photojournalist whose picture was sample in Molotov but she
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> > being asked to never show and never sell the artwork. This is
> > obviously not a case of an artist protecting his speech rights but
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> > one artist using his copyrights as a way to censor another artist.
> A
> > sad case of Stockholm Syndrome if there ever was.
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> I would like to add to Liza's thoughts.
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> I'm not sure it's censorship... Why would the photojournalist want to
> censor Joy? There really is no reason. Does the photoJ think that she
> will be financially harmed by Joy sampling her work? I doubt it. That
> would mean that someone would choose to use Joy's image instead of
> the
> original. Joy's not trying to sell repro rights of the image, Joy's
> trying to sell the painting.
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> I think it comes down to simple pride and something similar to as the
> Stockholm Syndrome. She feels she owns this image (tho her subject
> would probably like to light her on fire with a pepsi molotov if he
> knew what she was doing with his image). It's not simply 'legal' with
> her, she probably really feels that Joy is stealing from her, it's
> become ethical with her. The twisted copyright laws of the USA have
> been internalized by her, she confuses legalities with ethics. It's
> the
> Disney Syndrome.
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> +To crit Joy+
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> I find it strange that there is a copyright on the original Molotov
> page which I mirrored here:
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> http://www.twhid.com/misc/joy/molotov/
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> If you are going to sample imagery for your own work you should at
> the
> very least release your work with a cc license which allows
> unattributed sampling, no? Or it should be released with no strings
> attached whatsoever. I mean, technically, all of our joywar pages are
> illegal.
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> Seems a bit --let's say-- inconsistent?
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> take care,
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> On Mar 5, 2004, at 12:53 AM, liza sabater wrote:
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> > http://www.culturekitchen.com/archives/000555.html
> >
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> www.mteww.com
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Re: the fashion of


Dates:
Wed Mar 03, 2004 00:00 - Wed Mar 03, 2004

for those of you who weren't able to see it last time - i got rid of the onload pop-up - you will also need flash and volume turned up. after clicking the "logo" - the question is stated on the new window status bar. it's probably more trouble than its worth at this point. but anyway...

http://art-design.smsu.edu/cooley/wal/passion

mark

mark cooley wrote:

> http://art-design.smsu.edu/cooley/wal/passion
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> The Passion of


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Re: Re: the fashion of


Dates:
Tue Mar 02, 2004 00:00 - Tue Mar 02, 2004

i haven't heard anything like that. however, it is Gibsons hand that holds the spike that is driven into Christ. all that aside, maybe my response to the film is seated in my living environment at the moment - bible-belt USA. Obviously, there has been all this controversy, there is not much of one here. i just can't figure why "god-fearin' Americans" want to see a hyperreal simultaion of thier God tortured and pay eight bucks to see it. many around here see this as the ultimate evangelical film - apparently they are trying to teach something - it's sort of scary to contemplate what that might be.

nicholas economos wrote:

> hello Mark,
> does Mel Gibson really have a scene where his pec implants are slowly
> removed in that flick?
> nicholas
>


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the fashion of


Dates:
Mon Mar 01, 2004 00:00 - Tue Mar 02, 2004


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