BLU contributed to shape contemporary street art and define its distinguishing marks.
Improv Everywhere was founded in 2001 under the slogan “we cause scenes”. Since then, they have carried out more than 70 "missions" in public spaces.
Swoon's interventions appeared on NYC walls since 1999 and since 2006 she promoted projects of floating "mobile utopias" that circulated across the Mississippi and Hudson rivers and the Adriatic sea.
Julius Von Bismarck is the author of the "Image Fulgurator", a hacked reflex photo camera with a hidden reversed functioning.
Staehle pioneered on those artistic practises that explored the computer networks as a new territory for creation and other unheard electronic practices.
Formerly active in the Luther Blissett Project, Wu Ming is a band composed by four writers that open-sources forgotten and distorted stories of resistance against and through power.
Ztohoven planned intrusions in mediated communication flows, be it manipulating public sculptures, hacking subway ads or infiltrating weather tv programs on national television.
Swoon
BLU
Julius Von Bismarck
Wu Ming
Improv Everywhere
Ztohoven
Wolfgang Staehle
2008
A writer, filmmaker and actor, Alan Abel is mostly known for being one of the fathers of media falsification, having professionally tricked all types of media for 50 years.
Founders of the Neue Slowenische Kunst aesthetic movement, Laibach are considered as one of the most powerful and controversial artistic experiments of recent decades.
monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science and political activism, whose mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment.
An expert in guerrilla housing, Cirugeda stretches the limits of legality in order to find “illegal” loopholes and develop strategies for survival, changing architecture into social art, as well as an intervention into the collective imagination.
Trevor Paglen was eloquently defined as “a geographer by training, a conspiracy theorist by instinct and an investigative reporter by avocation”.
Brody Condon is a pioneer in the use of videogames as a starting point for the creation of sculptures, performances and video-installations.
Alterazioni Video works as a media production unit aimed at getting the necessary resources to carry out radical interventions in the world of art and at the points of intersection with cultural industries.
Santiago Cirugeda
Brody Condon
Trevor Paglen
Laibach
Alterazioni Video
Alan Abel
monochrom
2006
"Assembly is the invisible language of our time and DJ'ing is the forefront artwork of the late 20th century"- wrote Paul Miller. "For me, as an artist, writer, and musician, it seemed that turntables were somehow imbued with the art of being memory permutation machines".
Now considered one of the landmarks of European arts experimentation in the last twenty years, NSK began working in 1984 as an umbrella for various radical groups that shared a similar style in different media. Irwin were NSK's visual biographers.
Molleindustria is a collective of artists, designers and programmers who have reappropriated videogames as a popular form of mass communication.
Oscar Brahim makes a living by driving a taxi 12 hours every day. Ever irritated by the constant bombarding of advertisements, he carries glue, paints and cut-outs in the trunk of his Peugeot 504 and uses them to transform and "improve" his visual environment.
Chicks on Speed is a multidisciplinary art project that takes a DIY attitude and turns it loose on pop music, performances, clothing design, a TV-shopping program, and much more!
Vuk Cosic, cosmopolitan retired artist with Balkan roots, is one of the pioneers of net.art and a "hacker of ideas", totally incapable of showing reverence towards the formalities of the art world.
Oscar Brahim
Vuk Cosic
Molleindustria
Irwin / NSK
Chicks On Speed
Paul D. Miller / Dj Spooky
2005
Based in Vancouver, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.
Cesky Sen (El Sueño Checo) ha sido un hipermercado atractivo y a buen precio que no fue sino un experimento antropológico a gran escala.
The Yes Men is a group of pranksters-activists that gained world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on the Internet, on television and at business conferences around the world.
Dragan Zivadinov is the founder of the Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet, an art project that explores non-human and non-gravity theater. Zivadinov was the first guest of a series of talks with former members of the Neue Slowenische Kunst art collective.
Eddo Stern es un artista multidisciplinar cuyo trabajo se extiende desde las modificaciones de videojuegos o las instalaciones hasta el "machinema" (cine realizado con secuencias de videojuegos).
Josh On is the maker of web projects such as The Anti War Game, Communiculture, Exxon Secrets and especially They Rule, an interactive mapping system that provides a glimpse of power within the US ruling class.
Makrolab is an autonomous communications, research and living unit and space, capable of sustaining concentrated work of 4 people in isolation/insulation conditions for up to 120 days.
The Yes Men
Cesky Sen
Dragan Zivadinov / Noordung
Josh On
Adbusters
Marco Peljhan
Eddo Stern
2004
The Institute for Applied Autonomy was founded in 1998 as technological and development organisation concerned with individual and collective self-determination.
The Reverend Billy is the front man of the Church of Stop Shopping, a New York-based anti-consumerist congregation that catched the attention of America's through their "preach-outs" in the very heart of mass consumption all over the United States, such as distribution chains and entertainment and leisure franchises
The Evolution Control Committee performs with custom-built equipment to give the audience a truly original experience: fun without being comedy, sample-based without being techno, and brainy without being arty.
Using guerrilla tactics and public relations techniques to make social commentary, Joey Skaggs is an artist who uses the media as his medium to make a statement.
Carbon Defense League is a collective of media artists, technologists, activists and critical theorists working to explore the intersection between radical theory, traditional activism, and technology subversion through the creation of tactical media projects utilizing communication system technologies.
Neoist, (m)usician, performer, writer and swim champion, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE has been defined as "Mad Scientist / d-composer / Sound Thinker / Thought Collector".
Guerriglia Marketing is a progressive dissipation of consumer confidence in the economy in general, in favor of confidence in a particular company: yours.