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>>7366406
HAHAHAHAHAHAHH

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billions of your taxpayer dollars go to kike shitholes, and this is the best you can do.

>>7366414
LOL

>>7366406
>to foster new forms of media: an art for the age of the cyborg.
Be specific, state it plainly.

>>7366406
>cybernetic art group
>digital graffiti
>incendiary art
>an art for the age of the cyborg
what did he mean by these?

This is a summary of the ideas The Kollective represents. We will break it into multiple posts.

Art Through The Eyes of A Cyborg:
A Manifesto
The distinction between a real concrete world and a digital one is arbitrary. Instead, the net should be seen as a new vector, a 4th dimension of space. It is a new realm of abstraction with its own psychic. New technological developments such as virtual and augmented reality draw attention to this fact. But we must be careful not to see these new technologies as the only means of realizing an integration of these spaces.
They are merely the latest developments in interacting with the abstract reality of the web. A method existing among many. Furthermore, the potential utilization, existence in, and expansion of this space within the limits of current technology has not yet been realized.
I can illustrate how we have throttled its growth with two constructs. They are as follows, the extension of concrete world personas into cyberspace and the prevalence of commodity in its architecture.
When I speak of personas I am referring more to the idea of an individual than the reality. A put-upon expression of who we are for the outside world that is distinct from our internal reality. In part our external projection of self is influenced by others, as well as society, and the social mores of the time. The dastardly hand of commodity plays its part in forming this projection, but its influence is so large that I’d rather discuss it more in its own section.
It suffices to say that this projection is informed by society, the individual is coerced into the performance of this projection, and it portrays an image differing from the individual's internal world. Sartre defines this type of relationship in Being and Nothingness. (more text quotes from Satre). And I shall leave elaboration to this great thinker. I mention it here because we undoubtedly fall victim to this interplay in the digital world.

.Though we have the potential to reinvent ourselves on the web, express ourselves authentically, and grow in unexpected directions we fail to do so. We instead just further elongate the projection of ‘self’ onto the web. And so, we operate in the same constraints as before. This, too me at least, is a great tragedy. Instead of taking the opportunity for reinvention we merely reapply our chains in another dimension.
We could say we’ve been in these chains since birth. From social contract to our parents' expectations, we have labored to invent ourselves while being bombarded by arbitrary standards. How does one escape these chains? The internet and other technology afford us the opportunity. It accomplishes this through the synthesis of a new being the cyborg.
At its penultimate, the cyborg moves through concrete and cyber dimensions freely. However, as a species, we are still young. Having scantly existed for more than 50 years. That is if we take the advent of the computer and related technology as our birth. However, It could be argued humankind has always been cybernetic. A creature extending its reality through intellect. We as a species constantly reinventing ourselves and the world through innovation. Couldn’t it be said, that the discovery of math and the invention of the spear are early strides in cybernetics? They radically altered the ways we live and their application and concept have become indispensable to our species.

I will leave this train of reasoning about the past, and return to the modern plight of the cyborg. One so pervasive, that most don’t even realize they are cyborgs, and therefore cannot realize their full potential. Perhaps, we’ve chosen to avoid the cyborg label out of fear? The media often portrays cyborgs as insidious, a part of a hive mind. But the reclamation and navigation of life through the lens of this label can potentially free us.
When a person views life through the eyes of a cyborg, one first must confront the challenge of personhood. What constitutes the individual? The Cyborg must define this for themselves. And from there, a cyborg augments themselves at will. Disillusioned with the reality of the digital age, and they can traverse both the concrete and cyberspace freely. This enables the cyborg to affect lasting change.
Viewing the world through the lens of the cyborg will be essential to preserve privacy, civil liberty, and creativity in the digital age. Unfortunately, the vast majority of cyborgs are unaware that they are such, and they continue to perpetuate their concrete personas in digital space.
The most trafficked websites do nothing to reinvent the world but only extend society's current trends to a new space. Most require an account with identifying information starting with the name a person is assigned at birth. This composite has been built on by others since our first steps/ Alternative platforms bucking this trend exist, some having greater or less success, but a majority still enforce our concrete persona. Worst of all we are complicit in perpetuating this system. We could choose to embrace new identities and build new worlds, but we choose not to. This is due to a narrowed scope of view enforced by concepts of commodity.

The 4th dimension of cyberspace has always existed as an abstract. I.E. the potential to interact with it has always existed if only we had the means. With the construction of such networks as the Arpanet we acquired the means. But constructing it from a perspective of utility blinded us to its potential, and the means itself became the end.
A culture of commodity flourished on the net. Themes of capitalism and methods for rendering it more efficiently became the normative architecture. Confronted with this many cyborgs failed to realize their full potential and merely used the E-highway to maintain the status quo. In summary, we did not ask what new experiences the net could provide, only how it could make our current experiences better or more efficient.
Slick store fronts with minimalist logos are not designed for depth but expediency. This architecture only serves to reinforce the prevailing narrative in the intricate psychodrama of the web. If this seems far-fetched, one can look back at the work of Surrealist and Situationist thinkers. These men and women developed the concept of psychogeography. They studied the ways landscapes and architecture affected our mood and behavior. They looked at the effect of symbols on the lived experience in detail and noted how it guided perception.

Wouldn’t we be better served if the internet wasn’t entirely composed of virtual strip malls? What would the internet look like today if we wrung it clear of all possibilities instead of moving on to the next expedient technology? How does a cyborg begin? Although the life of a cyborg is ultimately a personal project, I can still postulate on methods that bring us to a more utopian world. The method I propose mobilizes the collective imagination. It is rooted in situationist theory. It is evocative and confrontational. It forces the viewer to question the reality of their lived experience.
We have seen that Electronic Civil Disobedience and Activism can succeed. Groups such as Anonymous and the Users of Floodnet serve as an example. We can also observe through the spread of memes that art and ideas can proliferate on the web exponentially. These works are reproduced and spread by thousands if not millions. What if this force was consciously wielded? It could usher in a renaissance of digital graffiti. A new net can be built where imagination and liberty is fostered on the tagged storefronts of social networking and e-commerce sites. We can create our own absurd communal spaces. We can challenge the very concept of what the internet can be.

thank you chatgpt I only asked for the lyrics to I am Machine tho

>>7366406
i'll do it for $400

Hello everyone, I am an artist based in Virginia. I just got through personally emailing the entire humanities staff of Boston U, UVA, and PVCC and University of San Diego. I operate as part of The Kollective via the Rhizome net.art discord. People have requested examples of art, so I shall post some. More will come as members of The Situationist and Surrealist international as well as other affiliated artists join in.

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beauty
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the bullets
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>>7366666
Now that is a wasted get.

>>7366406
>To bring attention to food disparity in the U.S. and World Wide
>>7366626
>put-upon expression of who we are for the outside world that is distinct from our internal reality.
>>7366630
>Most require an account with identifying information starting with the name a person is assigned at birth. Worst of all we are complicit in perpetuating this system.

Your cyborg is a coward and you're a bunch of hypocrites leveraging on a real world issue to accumulate support and claw your way out and extend to webspace as free ""cyborgs"" with zero regulation.
You're gonna need to use your real identity in protest for your cause to hold weight. I'll keep tabs of everyone who participates and gather personal details (I'm not alone btw).
This board is mainly for art learning and practice, if any of your members deal with or peddle technology that's meant to shake the ground human artists stand on then there will be serious consequences.
I hope yoh can stop spamming this thread now.

>>7366697
Hello, I'd like to state here and now your threat violence both constitutes a crime, and is an act of political suppression. This conversation has been saved. If any more threats of harm to activists are posted I will involve law enforcement. Artists do not try to silence each other, they try to foster each others growth.

>>7366406
Hell yeah. I love underground art movements.

>>7366756
As do I. Rhizome has a whole archive of net.art if you want to check it out. Who are some of your favorite artists? Mine are klimt and goya

>>7366747
>I will involve law enforcement.
Are you going to use the real world law enforcement or the cyborgs?

>>7366775
Banksy. How do I join. DO you have a discord?

>>7366775
I used to do something similar to you btw. I made completely weird and fake indeed profiles to spam en-mass job postings as a form of protest against the dehumanization of the current job application process. Companies need to be reminded they can't jerk us around without consequences.

>>7366406
How do you get to the comment sections of fast food chains and food distributors/
How does this make an impact?
Are people talking about this? How big/anonymous is your movement? Any funding behind this?

>>7366747
shit man no need to get serious I'm just joking, good luck with that protest

>>7366782
We just reached out tonight, so the buzz will come slowly.

>>7366781
That is beautiful. We'd love to have you involved.

>>7366778
Hello, yes we have discord, in order to filter out some potential spam and griefing however, all interested parties who would like to engage as part of The Kollective outside 4chan please email thekollective.digital@proton.me

>>7366626
>Cyberspace is infinite, and separate from meatspace
>Applying meatspace rules to cyberspace is limiting creativity
>>7366628
>Art imitates life, life imitates art
>Using a computer as an extension of your brain means you're a cyborg, similar to using a spear as an extension of your arm
>>7366630
>We're ghosts in the shell
>Don't put personal info online
>>7366632
>Internet is the beginning of a unified global hivemind
>People and corps buy and sell things online because of capitalism
>Minimalism dulls the mind
>>7366634
>Internet was better back in my day
>Meme magic is real
These are all good points but getting poetic with meandering sentences and a thesaurus is only good for preaching to the choir. If you actually want to reach people like a real cyber-rasta edit this shit down for clarity and drop all the fancy sociology terms frfr

>>7366666
>>7366667
>>7366669
>>7366672
Got any original artwork or is it just more selfies run through img2txt filters, vaguely retro photobash gifs, and copy/pasted html? We like to draw pictures round these parts

>>7366996
It probably won't comfort you that we are working on an expanded version. lol, all joking aside, I don't necessarily disagree with you. But it is difficult to summarize the ideas without them. But like all of life. It's a work in progress.

This is an information sheet based of
“Household Food Security in the
United States in 2023” published by USDA. It can be used for creating materials and art for the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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13.5 Percent of American Households food insecure
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47.4 million people lived in food-insecure households
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About 7.2 million children (9.9 percent of children) lived in households where at least one child was food insecure. About 12.2 million adults (4.7 percent of adults) lived in households with very low food security (table 1a, bottom panel), and 841,000 children (1.2 percent of children) lived in households with very low food security among children”
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In 2023, the typical U.S. household spent $75.00 per person per week for food
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers 16 domestic food
and nutrition assistance programs. The three largest programs are:
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),
The National School Lunch Program (NSLPThe Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC),

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In 2023, an estimated 51.9 percent of households that received SNAP benefits were food insecure, as were 43.7 percent of households that received free or reduced-price school lunches and 37.0 percent of those that received WIC benefits (table 8).
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About 58 percent of food-insecure households reported receiving assistance from one or more of the three largest Federal food and nutrition assistance programs during the month before the December 2023 food security survey (table 9). About 42 percent of food-insecure households participated in SNAP. Children in 28.9 percent of food-insecure households received free or reduced-price school lunches. An estimated 7.0 percent of food-
insecure households received WIC benefits. An estimated 55.8 percent of households classified as having very low food security reported participating in one or more of the three largest Federal food and nutrition assistance programs, with the largest share (43.5 percent) participating in SNAP. Some food-insecure households may not be eligible for these programs, may choose not to participate, or may underreport utilization of these programs.”
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Rates of food insecurity in 2023 were statistically significantly higher than the national average (13.5 percent)
for the following groups
All households with children (17.9 percent)
Households with children under age 6 (17.9 percent);
Households with children headed by a single female (i.e., single mothers, labeled “Female head, no
spouse;” 34.7 percent) or a single male (i.e., single fathers, labeled “Male head, no spouse;” 22.6
percent);
Women living alone (16.2 percent);
Households with Black, non-Hispanic (23.3 percent) and Hispanic (21.9 percent)
household reference persons;
Households with incomes below 100 percent of the poverty threshold (38.7 percent), 130 percent of
the poverty threshold (37.3 percent), and 185 percent of the poverty threshold (33.5 percent);
Households in principal cities (15.9 percent) and nonmetropolitan areas (rural; 15.4 percent); and
Households in the South (14.7 percent).
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The percentage of households with food-insecure children was statistically significantly higher than the nation
al average (8.9 percent) for the following groups (table 3):
Female-headed households (18.0 percent) and male-headed households (12.4 percent);
Households with a Black, non-Hispanic reference person (14.0 percent) or Hispanic reference person
(14.0 percent); and
Households with incomes below 100 percent of the poverty line (25.5 percent), below 130 percent of
the poverty line (24.7 percent), and below 185 percent of the poverty line (20.7 percent).
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The prevalence of very low food security was higher than
the national average in 6 States (i.e., Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas)
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Glue yourself to a road

The combination of Serial Experiments Lain and timid left populism literally no one asked for.

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The line "Cooking mama can't afford food: can't live without valium" popped into my head while reading a book on food disparity. I was worried at first that it could be interpreted as sexist propaganda, but I feel the dark comedy of reality was worth the potential backlash.

trash
change wont come without violence

>>7366666
Checked by Mega-Satan

>>7368386
This.

>>7366747
You're a retarded faggot.

>>7366747
I'll kill all of you niggers. Go get the law enforcement involved with that you faggot.

>>7366666
>>7366667
>>7366669
>>7366672
This "art" is shit

>>7366406
Anon, you had the wormg approach when it comes to promoting this here.
You should have larped as someone interested and post a twitter screencap about it. Smh.

>>7368633
Rip, we will be sure to use a shadow cabal of puppet accounts next time, jk Just a friendly reminder if anyone would like to engage with us on discord email: thekollective.digital@proton.me

2024 Global Report on Food Crises
UNICEF
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Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 — 24 million more than the previous year
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There were over 36 million acutely malnourished children under age 5 across 32 countries in 2023
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There are 36 countries that have been included in the annual Global Report on Food Crises every year since 2016. Those countries represent 80 percent of the world's most hungry.
**
there were over 705,000 people at catastrophe levels and risk of starvation in 2023 — a fourfold increase since 2016 and the most ever reported
**
Conflict remained the primary driver of acute food insecurity — affecting 135 million people in 20 countries, according to the Global Report.
**
Extreme weather events were the primary drivers in 18 countries, affecting 77 million people.

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Cooking Mama is become the unofficial mascot of our campaign, lol.

>>7369813
ok so join with a charity and go look for attention outside of 4chan and discord the 2 places with the least amount of financial or activism potential how stupid do you have to be seriously
i believe in the cause but this is not how you do it

>>7369967
Hello, we are actively networking with organizations and groups such as Rhizome, The Situationist, Surrealist International, and Universities. We are small now, so it takes time.

Update: World Food Programme Responded to our email and directed us to their media team. Hopefully, a partnership pans out.

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>>7366406
I'm more of a poet than a visual artist, but here is some digital graffiti I'm contributing to the cause.

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Was thinking of ideas on how I could contribute, and came up with the idea for useless food.