Greg Lundgren has
another really great idea, call it
"virtual bombing."1
His coming website, vital5productions.com,
will sponsor an arbitrary
art grant. Applicants are invited to
submit photos which they have re-
touched to include subversive or
otherwise countercultural
messages.
One winner will be selected via the
following process: all submissions
will be printed out and laid
wall-to-wall on the floor of a room. A
par-
akeet will be released, and whichever
image it poops on first will earn
the contributor $500. I love this idea
because it is a risk-free way for
people to send their message by
co-opting icons and public space in
a way which will never be erased.
Imagine the White House tagged
with graffiti, billboards with their
sales pitches thrown back in the ad-
vertisers' faces. Take a look at www.billboardliberation.com
and you
will get the idea. The only difference
is the ones there took place in 3-D
space/time, but in our day of mediated
experience, the image is the reality.
1Dear Meriam-Webster,
there's a 3rd usage of the verb
"bomb" which is current with
today's DIY subcultures. Bombing means
leaving one's mark in public, whether in
the form of graffiti, posters, signs, or
other signifiers which say, I Was Here
and/or This Is What I Think.
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