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Street Action on
the Superhighway is a series of live/net events and public conversations
about the(relatively) new
spaces between art and activism, and between the streets and the net.
The events feature hybrid works and actions that use the With an eye on worldwide
networked anti-globalization actions, and with links to electronic disobedience,
net.art, hacktivism, data
dandyism and borderhacking,
"Street Action" participants pilfer hardware and software as
shareware and launch it in the public domain. Copyright
infringement is encouraged, and when possible, unwittingly sponsored by
boundless silicon valleys, nooks and alleys. Performance, conceptual
and public art are re-released in open source formats, updated and distributed
for pro-art, anti-corporate multi-platform compatibility and reconfigured
on the street level, in an attempt to upgrade freeways into a broad-bandwidth
streets.
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