POSSE°S | PROTOCOLS | PERP°WALKS - documents “a walk on the digital sublime”.
“a walk on the digital sublime” was a line of 2011 exhibitions and lectures.
venues were england, scotland, northern ireland, and the united states.
props included videos and graphic tableaus.
“the walk series” bored into a st. louis missouri new media - urban design protocol.
a protocol is a recipe, this recipe was for the street as:
1 an evolving search engine
2 a tableau you drift through, synthesizing as you move
3 a platform to assemble networks to critique the network
4 a probe into how digital kit edits-us.
but the st. louis street was contested.
and the protocol got caught in a street fight, it got snared in litigation.
media guru marshall mcLuhan knew the st. louis street.
he did his foundational work in st. louis, not canada.
mcLuhan got himself a posse in st. louis.
the posse did early code, they did radar.
mcLuhan anguished that the “privileged diet of the elite” would thwart art as radar.
POSSES°S | PROTOCOLS | PERP°WALKS proves him right.
the montage that follows tracks how a bogus idea of community provoked a lawsuit, and how a St. Louis elite forfeited and obliterated mcLuhan's united states legacy. and then snagged a white house award while doing it.
paul guzzardo
jesse codling
July 31 2012
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