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From: manik
To: LIST@rhizome.org
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:34 PM
Subject: Two thumbs DOWN for 01


Jewish people have a wisdom:"When hundred people claim one thing's right,an=
d only one claim opposite-this one's right."
In # art # problem's no one couldn't be right(by the definition)but permane=
nt support to bizarre average 0100101110101101.org represent serious sympto=
m for suspicion healthy sense of those who support them.
MANIK was serious worried after their action "Nike"(&something,because that=
was fucking stupid),but they are famous in net.art world?it could be MANIK=
'S mistake we thought,…Dear friends&comrade,unfortunately it wasn't our m=
istake.This poor,pathetic 01. org is falseness.It's boring to wrote about a=
ppearance like that,but there's main reason they're so popular and so,so(my=
poor friends who don't understand shit)fake.01 continued ideology of Itali=
an Communist Party&United Europe Utopia.Ital.Com.party was relativity stro=
ng when communism was official ideology of 75%world population(Film"Red',I =
think,Nixon ask Kissinger why he|Americans| should be worried about communi=
sm."Because 75% people on this planet live in communist countries." Fat sai=
d and Nixon kill millions of Cambodians).Now this Party with French Communi=
st Party serve as example for totally crash of communist ideology in West c=
ap.system(not social,my friends,not social programs,which cruel capitalism =
gladly replaced with communism).Why?Because they were/are weak,and they' pu=
nished to be capitalist humble slave.So,01 faking fight against globalize,c=
apitalism on American way(only realistic,bloody,inhuman,amoral capitalism w=
hen you can earn serious money,that mean Original Of Original,only one I ap=
preciate,only one worthy to be serious study and destroyed).With weapon(Nik=
e logo,Hollywood movie billboard…etc)o1 try to mix code and show how Amer=
ican hegemony works.But except their own promotion 01 actually advertise Am=
erican way of life,preciseness they ideology of fight against any social ri=
ght(see Black New Oleans after katrin).Instead "Brigate Rose","R.A.F",
01 are "American Flag Brigate"(with pink stripes instead red),and,my dear m=
ammal,that's reason of their popularity,all over the world.Tasteless,stupid=
,problem-delayers are welcome in every pro-American clan(whole West world).

Cheers
MANIK



Two thumbs UP.


On 1/22/06 6:49 PM, "Franco Mattes" <Propaganda@0100101110101101.org> wrote:

>
>
> 22 January 2006, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
>
> Fake European propaganda movie hits Austria and Bologna
> Mattes' grand artwork keeps on spreading in both the public and the
> media space.
>
>
> 'United We Stand' is the title of the much-hyped spy/action movie
> wholly produced by Europe, a large-scale propagandistic stunt that has
> in the past few months stirred much controversy. Too bad the movie
> doesn't actually exist, but it is instead the latest insane provocation
> of the artists' couple Eva and Franco Mattes, better known as
> 0100101110101101.ORG. After Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, New York and
> Bangalore, the gigantic performance has now landed in Austria and
> Bologna.
>
> While the movie itself doesn't exist, the actors and the flashy poster
> do. They portray the inspired faces of the main characters surrounded
> by the blue of the European flag and by gruesome war scenes. The
> movie's Web site also exists - www.UnitedWeStandMovie.com - and it is
> accompanied by an extensive advertising campaign covering half the
> globe, causing extreme reactions in both the streets and the media.
>
> "United We Stand" Eva Mattes explains "mimics the typical Hollywood
> action movie where the US always wins and saves the world. We have used
> their cliched visual elements, but we have replaced their flag with the
> European one. The outcome is quite disturbing, it seems to me that it
> better communicates what we often take for granted, rather than stating
> what it truly represents".
>
> In the past months, the movie's posters have appeared on the remains of
> the Berlin wall, in front of the European Parliament, underneath the
> Empire State Building and on the picturesque walls of Bangalore, India.
> The campaign reaches across small urban centers as well as the
> advertising-crowded streets of global metropolises. Right now, as
> Austria is about to take over the European presidency, the advertising
> for 'United We Stand' is appearing on dozens of large advertising
> billboards along the Austrian roads, visible from hundreds of yards
> away.
>
> Still in Europe, but just further south, in Bologna, Italy, the flocks
> of movie fans that notoriously crowd the city have lately been
> wondering how a blockbuster movie with such big names as Ewan McGregor
> and Penelope Cruz could be released without them knowing it in advance.
> Different reactions were found on the McGregor's official fan site: "If
> Ewan decided to do it, I would definitely see it!".
>
> "The choice of the subject" writes Flavia De Sanctis Mangelli on the
> Italian newspaper l'Unita during the days of the New York campaign "a
> supposed war between the United States and China, with Europe trying to
> solve the case through diplomacy, is soaked with subtle and ironic
> provocation. How will Europe convince the two super powers? How can
> European political culture stand up to the great propaganda
> simplifications of Hollywood? The work is a poignant take on the
> tremendous power that the media has in the formation of consensus, as
> well as a biting political satire against a very small Europe, that
> only united could succeed in having its voice heard".
>
> The enormous artwork keeps on spreading, exploiting any existing
> medium, from the traditional news media, such as TV and the press, to
> word-of-mouth and the Internet. "United We Stand" writes Ben Davis on
> Artnet Magazine "with its focus on rejiggering pop cultural codes in
> social space, is a canny updating of Pop art for the age of viral
> marketing, when the mass media has penetrated firmly into the
> everyday".
>
>
>
> Parallel to the international promotional campaign, the work is
> exhibited until January the 21st at Postmasters Gallery, New York, and
> at Arte Fiera (January 27-30), in the Fabio Paris Art Gallery (Pad. 21,
> Stand B15).
>
>
>
> About the authors
>
> Eva and Franco Mattes - internationally known as 0100101110101101.ORG -
> are a couple of restless European con-artists who use non-conventional
> communication tactics to obtain the largest visibility with the minimal
> effort. Past works include inventing and promoting a nonexistent
> artist; spreading a computer virus as a work of art; challenging and
> defeating Nike Corporation in a legal battle for a fake advertising
> campaign.
>
>
>
> –
>
> To contact Eva e Franco Mattes:
> http://0100101110101101.org/contacts.html
>
> More info:
> http://www.0100101110101101.ORG
> http://www.UnitedWeStandMovie.com
> http://www.postmastersart.com
> http://www.fabioparisartgallery.com
>
>
>
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