ART 80F Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Alternative Media, Critical Art Ensemble, Media Activism
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P. o. p. (print, organize, protest) open call to action: nov 20, print t-shirts and posters. Santa cruz general strike committee jan 20th, protest against trump inauguration. Activism and artivism: digital art as antibody to art and culture. 2 pressing things happening on campus: protecting undocumented members, finding ways to respond to hate crimes and harassment. Human augmentation lab (1960s) computers can change of what we think of as the human species. Researchers believed it could alleviate present problems of the time. (starvation, pop growth, political confrontation) lab invented the mouse, cursor, telecommuting, laid the groundwork for hypertext. You can do anything from short films to comics. Going back to lecture 15 for a bit. Putting coyolxauhqui in the back shows attempt to recover heroine role models. Toyporina (1996) toyporina, a twenty-four-year-old tongva woman in the nineteenth century who led a revolt against the san gabriel mission, the site where la would be eventually built.
