Radical Software
28 Nov 2006 - 31 Mar 2007
Radical Software
Nov. 28, 2006–Mar. 31, 2007
At the first Hackers' Conference in 1984, Stewart Brand—former Merry Prankster, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation—made his often-quoted claim that "information wants to be free."
Radical Software, which is cosponsored by Wired, will combine artworks, experimental film and video, documentary material, and artifacts that trace the (counter)cultural discourse that made Brand's assertion possible: from its early manifestations in the postwar bohemian underground to its adoption as a basic principle by a new generation of artists, hackers, and activists.
Charting previously unexplored connections between art, technology, radical politics, and the psychedelic underground, the exhibition will bring together radical and experimental work by internationally known and emerging artists, plus commissioned projects, public works, historical artifacts, and new research.
Featured Artists:
Ant Farm
Amy Balkin
Artists' Liberation Front
Berkeley Community Memory
Wallace Berman
Victor Burgin
William Burroughs
Copenhagen Free University
Dean and Dudley Evenson
The Diggers
Nancy Holt/Robert Smithson
Ferdinand Kriwet
Timothy Leary
National Center for Experiments in Television
Josh On
Optic Nerve
Raindance
Dan Sandin
San Francisco Mime Troupe
John Stehura
Superflex
University of Openness
VideoFreex
Curated by Will Bradley
Nov. 28, 2006–Mar. 31, 2007
At the first Hackers' Conference in 1984, Stewart Brand—former Merry Prankster, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation—made his often-quoted claim that "information wants to be free."
Radical Software, which is cosponsored by Wired, will combine artworks, experimental film and video, documentary material, and artifacts that trace the (counter)cultural discourse that made Brand's assertion possible: from its early manifestations in the postwar bohemian underground to its adoption as a basic principle by a new generation of artists, hackers, and activists.
Charting previously unexplored connections between art, technology, radical politics, and the psychedelic underground, the exhibition will bring together radical and experimental work by internationally known and emerging artists, plus commissioned projects, public works, historical artifacts, and new research.
Featured Artists:
Ant Farm
Amy Balkin
Artists' Liberation Front
Berkeley Community Memory
Wallace Berman
Victor Burgin
William Burroughs
Copenhagen Free University
Dean and Dudley Evenson
The Diggers
Nancy Holt/Robert Smithson
Ferdinand Kriwet
Timothy Leary
National Center for Experiments in Television
Josh On
Optic Nerve
Raindance
Dan Sandin
San Francisco Mime Troupe
John Stehura
Superflex
University of Openness
VideoFreex
Curated by Will Bradley