ABSTRACT
The practices of network art, new media art, software art, and tactical media were deeply enmeshed to wider network culture that started to spread with the development of the web browser and e-mail platforms. For artists the web browser was cultural readymade ready to be unmade, disturbed, rerouted, remixed, and pushed into the streets and back again. Artists who seek to deploy gestures at the edges of the recombinant theaters of post-contemporary cultures must re-frame or dislocate the meta-ecologies of bio-hyper media with its endless stacks and stacks data-on/in-bodies in relation to others and objects that are enfolding the planet by any means necessary. The state machine is a spook-system that utilizes indeterminacy in its strategies of control and coercion. These strategies move from anticipatory 'pre-emptive strike' police and military action through to 'softer' media strategies that utilize the affective politics of fear.
