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USCO

In 1962, the USCO formed as a radical collective of artists and engineers dedicated to collective action and anonymity. Some of the artists involved were Gerd Stern, Stan Van Der Beek, and Jud Yalkut. As Douglas Davis describes them:

“USCO’s leaders were strongly influenced by McLuhan’s ideas as expressed in his book Understanding Media. Their environments – performed in galleries, churches, schools, and museums across the United States – increased in complexity with time, culminating in multiscreen audiovisual “worlds” and strobe environments. They saw technology as a means of bringing people together in a new and sophisticated tribalism. In pursuit of that ideal, they lived, worked, and created together in virtual anonymity.”

-- David Dunn: A HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC PIONEERS, in: Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt, 1992 (p.57-58)

src: http://artscilab.org/eigenwelt/pdf/021-062.pdf

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