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For Immediate Release:
Grab your VR goggles and your palm pilots, kids. This introduction to "the People vs. the Man
via the Machine" makes it easy to visual smashing the state from the comfort of your own
home! Think of it as tele-rioting.
Mike Kavanagh from Agitspin Productions will be curating this Whiz-Bang Night of hacker
videos and will give a presentation on the latest hacker criminal prosecutions, the encryption
battles, the cashless society, surveillance, privacy, micro-chip implants, and the FBI¼s new
DNA database. Including a discussion on the emerging HACKTIVISM MOVEMENT.
®TMark : ("Artmark") Bringing It To You - (USA, 10 Minutes, 1997)
A Public Service Announcement from a real corporation sponsoring Industrial Sabotage.
Also Showing Excerpts from:
Hard Drive: A Race Against Time - (UK, Channel 4, 1998)
Examines the impact of the use of the Internet by the Zapatista Rebels in Chiapas, Mexico.
CyberPunk - (Australia, 1992)
Documents the emerging rebellious digital subculture of Cyberspace.
High $takes in Cyber$pace - (USA, PBS Frontline, 1996)
An examination of the issues of privacy and commerce as the Internet becomes part of the
cultural mainstream.
Plus, other surprise digital video goodies!
TIME/DATE: Screening at 8:30 p.m. / Thursday, February 4, 1999
PLACE: Artists' Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia @ 21st Street, San Francisco
ADMISSION: $ 5.00 donation requested. No one turned away for lack of funds.
CONTACT: Mike Kavanagh / Video Activist Network, 415.789.8484 or visit the Artists' Television Access calendar
The Video Activist Network (V.A.N.) is an informal association of activists and politically
conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice
campaigns. Recent local political demonstrations and works by V.A.N. members highlight
many screenings. All screenings start at 8:30 p.m. at the Artists' Television Access, 992
Valencia @ 21st Street in San Francisco. Open to the general public.
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