Spell Checking
The iconography of the old media-underground has become mainstream, selling soft drinks and accessories, using artists as test pilots for the newer media and as suppliers of public relation and digital manipulation. The accelerating co-opting of cultural expression creates a market for the art of vanishing, and strategies dealing with this phenomenon of ever faster appropriation of artistic expression by corporate business involve tactical invisibility and immersion in the age of biocybernetic self-reproduction. The skilful traveler leaves no traces, through the recombination of signs out of the pink noise of the semiotic ghosts in search of a body. The nets are used by cultural activists as meta-data tools according to a new artistic tradition of inspired interpretation of data within a panopticon of commodified worldviews. Guerrilla semiotics replaces the supposed act of creation with recombinant cultural synthesis of the techno-voodoo telememetic environment.
When on high the heaven had not been named,
Firm ground below had not been called by name,
Naught but primordial Apsu, their begetter,
And Mummu-Tiamat, she who bore them all,
Their waters commingling as a single body;
Enuma Elish, 2000 BC