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The Chicken Wire finds an informant – Many thanks to Karen Atkinson
Hello Globatron citizens. I am happy to announce that we have received our first official completed survey from our Welcome Mat/Chicken Wire project. Karen Atkinson, a CalArts Faculty member, wrote a set of beautiful, provocative, and convincing answers to our survey. She is obviously a person who lives very thoughtfully and consciously and represents exactly […]
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION!!!!
if artists cannot be free to speak their mind, then we are in dire shape. the academy was built as a safe haven for free-thinking, not as a factory, a machine demanding obedience and labor. but that is what it has become. we are all being absorbed by a machine consciousness. every time we are […]
News from the Front – Akbar and Globatron to resume search for art’s laws.
Dear Globatron, In a recent interview I asked Byron King, founder of Globatron, how he felt about all the hateful emails he had received as a result of this Chicken Wire project. He responded, “Vikings didn’t sit around and cry because someone didn’t like them.” And I was not surprised when he explained later in […]
Welcome Mat #2
We would like to welcome the faculty of the following six schools whom we invited to participate in the art survey (click here). Yale University California Institute of the Arts Maryland Institute College of Art University of Alaska – Fairbanks University of New Orleans William Patterson University of New Jersey These 6 schools were chosen […]
Terror attack on Globatron!
Today, in an act of blind cowardice, former contributors James Greene and Mark Creegan logged in and deleted years of content containing his name and the name of Valuistics. This act makes clear that when a few artists speak openly about art and its relationship with society, in an open and challenging way, those whose […]
The Chicken Wire – Season One
Welcome to The Chicken Wire, Globatron’s first digital exploration of the relationship between art, truth, academia, freedom and everything else that gets wrapped up with it. We start our season with direct engagement with universities and their art professors, looking for feedback on art’s purpose and properties. As we provoke them concerning their complicity in […]
Welcome Mat #1
The Welcome Mat is part of an investigative report that Father Mapple Moab Adzu III is conducting. He sent this letter to this university whom we had contact with recently and invited them to discuss a variety of topics. What you will find in this post is a comment thread that represents the feedback from […]