Rob Myers
Since 2003
Works in United States of America

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BIO
Rob Myers is an artist and hacker based in the UK.

I have been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through programming, design software and visual remixing since the early 1990s. My work is influenced by popular culture and high art in equal measures. My interest in remixing and sampling has led to my involvement in the Free Culture movement. I have been involved in the public consultation regarding the Creative Commons 2.0 and CC-UK licenses. All my visual art is available under a Creative Commons license.

My interest in programming has led to my involvement with the Free Software movement. I developed the Macintosh version of the Gwydion Dylan programming language compiler. All my software is available under the GNU GPL.
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Publishing opportunity - YLEM journal


On 15 Nov 2004, at 18:47, Plasma Studii - uospn

DISCUSSION

Re: NY-Times - Pentagon Envisioning a Costly Internet for War


On 13 Nov 2004, at 17:51, Lee Wells wrote:

> Looks like the new govt sanctioned internet is around the corner.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
>
> The Pentagon is building its own Internet, the military's world wide
> web for
> the wars of the future.

Remind me where the original internet came from. ;-)

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

The Power Of Nightmares


The BBC on how the NeoCons created a mythology for Al Queda. Via
PopBitch (of all places):

The final episodes of Power of Nightmares are
now on bittorrent:
Ep 2:
http://img.suprnova.org/template/undefined/torrents/2921/
The%20Power%20of%20Nightmares%202%20of%203%20VCD-mpg.torrent
Ep 3:
http://img.suprnova.org/template/undefined/torrents/2946/
The%20Power%20of%20Nightmares%203%20of%203%20VCD-mpg.torrent

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: opportunities abound


On 6 Nov 2004, at 16:33, Jason Van Anden wrote:

> Interesting concept ... any suggestions? Besides maybe Picasso's
> "Guernica", I cannot think of examples of fine art that accomplish
> much of anything when it comes to inspiring political change.
> Graphic art yes, but fine art?

IMHO:

Art is inspiration for change, a provider of new ways of seeing and
visions to follow. Or it is at least a map of what's wrong. It's unfair
to require that art on its own effect change; I wouldn't try to stop a
riot with a De Kooning. Indeed I don't know what immediate change
"Guernica" effected. "The Raft Of The Medusa" is probably a better
example of a work that swung public opinion.

Political art that doesn't just illustrate Oscar Wilde's dictum can be
found throughout history. Sticking to ~modernity, we have work by
David, Manet, Millet , we have Futurism and Constructivism, Dada and
post-Great War German expressionism, Warhol's Death & Disaster series,
much conceptualism, happenings, land art and process art, the feminist
art of the 1970s and 80s and I don't know what else.

It is only really the last two decades that have seen any kind of
eclipse of effective political art at all. Even Jeff Koons had a
coherent and biting social critique at the heart of his work.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: fuck Bush


On Thursday, November 04, 2004, at 09:42AM, David Goldschmidt <david@personify.tv> wrote:

>To demonize the enemy is to become the enemy.

How come this never turns conservatives into liberals? ;-/

- Rob.