Ricardo Dominguez on Fri, 5 Aug 2005 13:27:11 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> A Short Interview with artist Shannon Spanhake about the DoEAT group. |
[header reformatted @ nettime] Q: So, let's start with the basics of Who, What, When, Where and How. How did The Department of Ecological Authoring Tactics, Inc. (DoEAT) group start? A: It began with some food projects I had started, thus the acronym, but it grew out of wanting to relieve myself from the institutional burden of being solely responsible for my thoughts and actions and to offer others this same shelter. It is not total anarchy, it is actually quite organized, it is simply adopting a methodology that many artistic, governmental, and corporate entities use to decentralize authorship. Q: Who are the members at this time? A: Rather than thinking of DoEAT as a group of individuals, I think it is more interesting to consider DoEAT as 'space' to be inhabited, not a physical space, but a conceptual plane that intersects with other planes (both physical and conceptual) in different ways to create alternate spatial ecologies and conceptual geographies. I am more interested in the idea of a template that is fixed around an ideology and a process rather then a group of people collaborating, where the realizations and articulations embodied by this template are variable. In much the same way that Rtmark, Al Qaeda, or even the Zapatistas statements regarding the name "Marcos" and his claims that the name doesn't inhabit the individual but rather, many individuals can inhabit the name. Our names aren't a secret or anything, currently at this very moment there is Shannon Spanhake, Camilo Ontiveros, Roberto Freddi, Jason Moore and Steve Rioux, but this could change in ten minutes or in two weeks, I like to think of DoEAT as an open-source twiki notice the "t", because its not about anonymity, its about collaboration. <<MORE>> http://post.thing.net/blog/rdom ----- End forwarded message ----- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net