[Zeelio is an anthropomorphized program operating within the Art for Humans architecture. Zeelio reveals by several means the tactical and strategic interventions of oppressive unfriendly agents, agencies or entities intended to disrupt or otherwise harm free expression within the AFH network. Zeelio also helps identify interventions outside the system, such as activities designed to artificially limit the progression of AFH-generated data or memes through the external environmental and social topology. A Google search of “Zeelio” produces a very small number of results. Obviously, more now, than when we started. Zeelio tests are ongoing and dimensional.]

On January 27, 2009, I posted two links on my Facebook page. One directly linked the World Economic Forum, and included the comment “RETHINK. REDESIGN. REBUILD. THE WORLD.” The second linked to the New York Times blog on the WEF, “Davos 2010” on the DealBook Blog, and included the comment, “WITNESS: Now that the USA is financially/politically bankrupt, the NY Times looks to Davos for news & talking points! Gosh!”

The following posts were published in the comments section of the link to the WEF forum link, January 27 and 28.

Shortly after posting these Davos notices, a backside Facebook hack rendered admin-side usage of the site unusable. I don’t know if this is a system-wide freeze [& therefore just a coincidence], or if this is particular to my site and the result of a pinged response mechanism… but will figure it out & share the info through the various AFH sites as soon as I do. If this has happened to you, or if you have any info on it, pls drop me a line. I’m always testing for such hacks associated with free expression on the various social network sites, and over the past couple of years of working in FB, I [and friends] have discovered or activated some behaviors that indicate unstated parameters in the FB schema, possibly even
onerous or oppressive hierarchies or architectures in play. This may be one of those [or not], and if so, particularly disturbing.

[Developments] that Davos is explicitly a response to [from their website {ABOUT US}]: “The world’s key challenges cannot be met by governments, business or civil society alone”

… I.E., the organization purports that the 3 Drucker-designed sectors of social ecology are not sufficient, and a 4th [dimensional] element must be introduced in order to produce the desired outcomes… So, the Davos dimension is proposed as the global governance mechanism to supersede governments, such as the United States of America, as THE dominant force for leadership on all issues - from political, to economic, to cultural - across the planet.. Over the several decades that the forum has existed, memes advocating “global” solutions to local>global problems have been forcefully introduced through powerfully placed individuals, corporations and organizations throughout the domains of administration and discourse, in what amounts to a quiet coup. Because the tactics and strategies are dimensional, the broad majority of those affected by them will not be aware of the direction from which the changes originate, the intent of the movement, the outcomes implementation will incur or the values driving the campaign. Key players are acquired through a variety of means to implement Davos-supporting initiatives or memes. Long-range and short-range objectives are balanced through response and objective-oriented structures by the organization. The profiles of prospective candidates for ad-duction into the Davos schema range from accomplished and underrepresented, to immediately powerful to potentially useful, supported by an organizational infrastructure that is massively funded and well-conceived. To use the United States as a test model for manipulation with regards the globalist campaign for dominance, we see how from the President to the intern, by following their transmissions on global economic vision, in concurrence with Davos-focused initiatives or proposals, the aims of the New Order are defended and furthered in actual practice. Two notes: 1] Davos is a straw man form, and not to be confused with previous [non-dimensional] models for centralized power. The New World Order is actually structured exactly like Al Queda is, as described by intelligence specialists; which is interesting. 2] The United States’ current economic woes, political gridlock, social polarization, and dimensional control by corporate interests and mechanisms, empowers the Davos brand to suggest its preeminence comparatively in world affairs, by comparison. I would suggest that this condition or circumstance is intended and manufactured, a positions supported by evidence available in the public record, and able-to-be-assembled into a coherent dimensional analysis by any DA practitioner of moderate means and experience.

A simple exploration or study of the development can begin with a scan of “cross-pollination” in organizational rosters. For your scan of interpolarity say, between “U.S.”>”W.E.F.” you can review individuals operating within both sets/systems. Start with the most obvious linkages and then expand your search. Leaving out some steps [which I’ll remark on in a moment], I hit Peter D. Sutherland    [Chairman, Goldman Sachs International, United Kingdom; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum]. As a notation for the dimensional researcher, I selected his name based on auto-historical references to the Scottish Clearances. You should always feel empowered to draw from your set of cultural or tribal antecedents for inspiration, during a dimensional scan! A plausible secondary question worth further exploration would be [for the dimensional scan through the “U.S.” set/lens or field], “How does Goldman Sachs’ role in U.S. affairs relate to Goldman Sachs’ role at WEF, and where to the respective activities of the two entities connect, via individuals, media, initiatives, etc.? For instance, yesterday U.S. Sec’y of Treasury Timothy Geithner was explaining the involvement of Goldman Sachs [as a counter-party, receiving $1 on the $1 for worthless properties, in the AIG bailout, that - supposedly - nearly initiated a worldwide Depression with catastrophic implications. Quite a few of the Congressional panelists questioned Geithner about the motivations, activities, behaviors, etc., of Goldman Sachs in this episode. Some Congresspersons explicitly questioned Geithner as to his prioritization of Goldman Sachs’ interests over the American people’s. To date, to my knowledge, the Obama administration has not prosecuted any Goldman Sachs officer or employee for any offense connected to the economic calamity caused by to a great degree, and certainly benefitting to a great degree, the firm and employees of Goldman Sachs. A dimensional inquiry might continue with the question, “Was Peter D. Sutherland at any time or in any way involved in any of the activities [strategic review, planning, implementation, consultation, facilitation] of the Goldman Sachs operations leading to the economic collapse in the United States, which began in the fall of 2007? In what ways did the US economic collapse advance the goals or strategic operations of the WEF or Goldman Sachs International? A proposed answer, as an example, might be something like this: WEF-connected leadership may have been concerned that the populist political and economic groundswell in America that propelled Barack Obama into office might result in the catastrophic reversal of decades of globalist progress and power-accumulation; American nationalism, combined with strong financial performance, and an empowered middle-class
focused on reform, including the cessation of American/globalist/corpratist Imperialist war in the Mideast and elsewhere, under the auspices of a worldwide “War on Terror,” might cause immediate damage to long- and short-term projects, such as the continued development of international corporate mercenary and intelligence sectors, funded explicitly or through clandestine means by American taxpayers; or as a secondary effect, the interruption of advances toward a global currency; or advances toward siting global manufacturing infrastructure in countries other than the United States, such as China or India; the reconstitution of American public utilities and unions for collective bargaining, disrupting WEF-inspired advances toward a comprehensive American management society, administered remotely; and so on. To speculate on whether there is legitimacy in this line of inquiry, consider the “BUY AMERICAN” movement poised to re-emerge in the immediate aftermath of Obama’s election. Consider the political and media responses [strategic and tactical] that precluded that movement from taking hold [e.g., Caterpillar’s role]. A scan of opposition reveals operatives who would promote globalism rather than nationalistic priorities for Americans, in terms of U.S. political, economic and cultural self-interest. Or consider opposition to prosecution of international firms, individuals, governments, who actively contributed to the economic duress of the United States from 2000-present, or who benefitted from policies and actions undertaken by the nation, which produced destabilization or weakening effects, such as the costly privatized, publicly funded wars in Iraq, or the re-distribution of huge American economic surpluses [treasure] to non-U.S. or quasi-American/transnational entities [governmental, social, business and individual], sited for convenience, appearance, legal reasons or otherwise in the U.S., or not, depending on risk assessment.

To comprehend the array is to comprehend the scope and scale of globalist operations, as well as the inherent weaknesses thereof. The primary weakness of the globalist management scheme is its reliance on a few individuals centered in high-technology nexus positions and therefore capable of fast horizontal operations, tactically designated for maximum strategic impact. For reference, see former US Sec’y of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s US DOD design for dimensional military campaigns, as implemented in Afghanistan and Iraq. As a field test, these operations demonstrated conclusively the failings of the theory in practice, especially when applied to a highly motivated, organically-structured tribal resistance. Although militarily the operations have been abject failures, the operation as a whole - in dimensional terms - has served the purposes of the globalist agenda immensely well. America has been relegated to a secondary position on the world stage. It’s powerful military apparatus has been effectively de-centralized and privatized. Many of its technological advances in weapons design, surveillance, operations theory and so on have been compromised, and now are in the hands of globalist-friend entities, or the enemies of the U.S. and its representative democracy. The political landscape of America has been, for practical purposes, gridlocked. The nation’s world identity or image has been significantly undermined to huge segments of the planet’s populations. That is, America is now easily characterized by unfriendly parties as a “torture regime,” an “Imperialist society,” a “corporate-controlled, bankrupt system,” “reckless and greedy,” or, to echo the propaganda of Fascist, Communist or Nazi memes of the WW2/post-War eras - a “decadent” culture. The educational domain of the United States is being reconfigured - privatized, de-centralized, de-unionized - by powerful globalist allies, from within the nation’s power elite, by individuals like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Eli Broad and the DeVos family among others. Educational programs, such as those enacted by President Bush, shift control of the United States’ academic infrastructure from local, regional, national - democratic - administration, to corporate administration [see the profile of McGraw-Hill for interest, as a behind-the-scenes party-to or beneficiary of “No Child Left Behind,” or explore the role played by other members of the Bush family and their allies in the campaign]. Certainly, no one can argue persuasively that a society’s educational architecture is a vital component for sustainability. Practically any American can now inspect his local school system to witness the effects of the globalist agenda on the community’s educational choices and framework. As a culture producer, America is now marginalized in comparison to the transnational media conglomerates that dominate the media spectrum, such as SONY. The procedural stifling of dissenting voices is conducted as routine within this dimensionally pervasive system of communication, distribution, manufacture, technology, and narrative [content in context]. Demographic approaches towards targeting strategic and tactical initiatives throughout the realm of social discourse on a transnational scale is orchestrated through a dimensional program [wovenform + waveform] driven significantly by aspirational economics and managed through means such as distortion, reverberation and obfuscation introduced in conventional and unconventional channels. “Reality TV” and the tightly-restricted political commentary circuit are prime examples. Finally, the social networks of Americans, and most importantly, the American family structure, are profoundly marginalized and disenfranchised through a host of dimensionally-configured forces, applied continuously and relentless so as to effectively paralyze the institution, the very foundation of social, economic, political and spiritual or motivational [dimensional] power of the nation. To name only a few of the factors:

* Restriction of movement [through transportation costs, fear propaganda, infrastructure degradation, needless regulation and radical enforcement measures]

* Constriction of communication [through funneling effects, into easily controlled {usually electronic or electric-based} administrative pipelines;  by distance [through the promotion of system-wide migrant worker/student architecture, displacing family members and subjugating them to prohibitive circumstances that ensure dispersion outcomes] - compounding dimensionally the effects of movement restriction; [also through the phenomenon of inter-generational, inter-sexual, inter-cultural, inter-political, inter-economic alienation by the promotion of polarizing memes, the so-called “wedge issues, leading to cultural breakdown among family members, but also between the family and society, society [as cultural/economic/political entity or set, which is equally true of the family set] and government, throughout the operational hierarchy of the civilization(s), resulting in constant opportunities for debilitating or distracting individuals, communities and governments from adequately counteracting enemies or responding to real-world conditions; at root, free speech/communication is the ultimate bond between family and the rest of humanity in its forms; the Supreme Court ruling provisioning corporate money with political speech freedoms is a prime example of the Davos program harming American family power

* Societal militarization [placing the family on a wartime footing displaces all forms of mobilizing powers emanating therefrom in times of actual conflict: such as willing sacrifice, frugality, nationalistic patriotism articulated through cross-sector contributions of material and motivational resources; the Davos brand seeks to displace and then redirect those considerable energies in service of the WEF agenda; on a practical level, one need only analyze the Obama program presented last night in the President’s State of the Union address to witness how the methodology functions - military budgets remain intact, while all social programming is made available for rendering, at the legislative level.]

* The Prison Society [While this serves WEF purposes dimensionally, in many significant aspects, the prime function is still as an inhibitor of citizen resistance to the curtailment of American Constitutionally-ensured freedoms and basic human rights, in the service of WEF agendas for social domination, management and control; combined with media programming and other forms of propaganda, such as the memes promoted by ideological proponents of torture, suspension of Habeas Corpus, indefinite imprisonment, imprisonment for profit and other tyrannical practices - in conjunction with government-protected or implemented policy/operations - the oppressive power of the penal system on the American family is incalculable; to begin a study on this topic, review cable TV programs focused on crime or punishment;; consider the affiliations of Dick Cheney with private prison corporations.]

What follows is a short list of other factors unduly affecting and oppressing the American family, in furtherance of globalist aims. While the list is not expanded on here [in most cases it has been elsewhere by the author], the relevance for each of these is no less than those listed above.

* Media control
* Anti-family cultural bias, propaganda and operations throughout the spectrum of cultural agencies holding power in the United States, especially in the corporations’ HR offices; the government’s many regulations and enforceable legislative enactments, as well as in government bureaucracies and agencies policies and daily operations; the pulpits of religious bodies; in corporate media; in arts and entertainment; and the educational complexes.
* Economy
* Health care
* More

Probably the most important problem confronting the United States is the culmination of decades of systemic dismantling of the nation’s manufacturing infrastructure. This problem directly impacts America’s defense capabilities, as well as the country’s capacity for adaptation to new economic models that are not carbon-based fuel-centric, that do not require a consumer driver to sustain, that help the nation transition from a permanent war framework into a permanent peace framework. The economics of wealth disparity, with optimal servicing of needs for the few wealthiest “Americans,” as opposed to egalitarian or merit-based wealth dispersal, underpinned by a network of health and welfare guarantees to ensure quality of life for all Americans, is a function of the systemic destruction of the country’s industrial/manufacturing infrastructure. Focus on manufacturing is not enough. The nation’s independence is dependent not only on a healthy manufacturing complex, to which the health of the middle class [really all classes] is inextricably linked, but to the existence of a diverse and sustainable agrarian ecosystem. Given that the identity of the U.S. - the country resulted from the first successful agrarian revolution in the history of nations - is profoundly shaped by America’s farm-based economy, which has been radically altered with the emergence of the Industrial Robber Baron, the rise in power of the stock market system and the financial sector, and the emergence of the globalist multinational food corporation: we cannot consider the impact of devaluation/diminishment of American industrial power without considering the similar impact in the domain of American agriculture. The questions of illegal immigration, the near-complete eradication of the American family farm, the health of the food chain, the domination of the American diet by corporate food manufacturers, the dependence of nearly all citizens on food purchased from corporate food distributors, and the attendant pressures evidenced throughout the political, economic and social sectors cannot be resolved, until the United States reclaims its agrarian heritage and independence. As a people, Americans are currently living in an unsustainable bubble, in which our very sustenance, the food we depend on to live, is controlled by forces that do not exhibit alignment with our democratic freedoms. What is true for the oil business, the financial sector, the social or cultural domain, is definitely true for the food industry. Americans are more vulnerable now to attacks focused on disrupting our food supplies, than we have ever been since our founding. Again, no other entity benefits more from this situation than the WEF. The corporate transnational agricultural economy - as demonstrated by recent disease/product problems arising from the import of dangerous foods from Mexico and China - highlight this fact. While murmurs of terrorist threats to food supply - from poisonings to WMD - wind through the political/media discourse, the nation’s attention is generally diverted, and threats minimized, from the reality that the United States exists as a veritable hostage to corporate food suppliers. Under its list of initiatives, therefore, it should not be surprising that the WEF lists first “Agriculture and Food Security.” The Davos collective is fundamentally aware that to command the production and movement of food within and across borders must be the WEF’s primary objective. To define the global food economy is to invest the locus of power in the New globalist management. Again, it should be entirely unsurprising that the WEF, the WTO, the IMF and the various anagram collectives emphasize, publicize and fund programs to this end. The propaganda recently attached to efforts by Davos man Bono, the activities of billionaire micro-lenders, and the rescue efforts in Haiti, sheds light on the strategies and tactics of the globalist in assuming international prominence as the chief provision manager for humanity. It is impossible not to consider the discourse on global climate change in relation to the question of global food supply or the issue of potable water. As the WEF engages in a supposedly serious discourse on the dimensional manifestations of these separate but relative factors [agriculture, food supply, water, climate change], the consortium’s industry partners present an obvious conundrum. What interest, for instance, would EXXON, DuPont, ALCOA, BP of the other multinationals [A veritable who’s who of corporate multinationals] have in overturning the progress they’ve made in assuming world dominance? In actuality, PR describing these entities, either singularly or as a co-operative or global governance machine, as concerned parties focused on advancing the interests of citizens or nations falls into the domain of Corporate Social Responsibility, a very new term, helpful in avoidance of nation-originated or local regulation, or prosecution, where malfeasance is present. What, for instance does Chevron perceive to be the advantage in reducing carbon emissions, or pollution, when these are the by-products of the products Chevron sells and produces? It is pointless to list the grievances of humanity and nature, consequential to the actions of the globalist titans. That is the point of Davos, Salzburg and the existence of the corporations who provide the WEF its power base. The attempts to extract accountability from the financial sector over the past several weeks by the U.S. Congress is a case study for how the system is currently configured. Privatized and extravagant gain for an exclusive set of individuals and corporations, and socialized losses for the rest of us. With regards the Supreme Courts’ corporate speech/money decision, the business sector claims its free market necessitates that the government of a nation never intervene in its operations no matter how harmful they may be, but the business sector is free to intervene in the most essential element of democratic governmental process [the election of public officials by free citizens] with no limits. The contemporary compartmentalization of civilization into distinct sectors is simply and clearly being used to divide and conquer free, enlightened, progressive democratic liberty. With history as our guide, we can rest assured that if globalist forces succeed in their aims, there will follow an inconceivably dark and horrible era of tyranny on an incomprehensible - global - scale. If there is one aspect of the global array that has not been addressed yet, it is because the discussion require punctuation. The heretofore unmentioned facet of human society is science. The globalist unicorn of science is selective reproduction and regeneration. To cite a recent article from arabianbusiness.com [ http://www.arabianbusiness.com/575612-cloning-process-to-help-preserve-elite-breeds-of-camels ], entitled “Cloning process to help preserve elite breeds of camels” is to clarify the central thrust of the globalist perspective on the future of mankind:

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by Gavin Davids on Wednesday, 09 December 2009

Following the formal unveiling of the world’s first cloned camel; the Camel Reproduction Centre in Dubai has announced plans to use the cloning process as a means of preserving certain elite breeds of camels.

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You may be wondering, “Against such powerful forces, what can I do?” The answer is dimensional. For instance, you can boycott every member of the WEF partner list, and everyone who attends and presents at any WEF or WEF-sponsored or -allied forum. You can confront any individual who in any way contributes to WEF programs, or otherwise supports any WEF agenda. For the “extremist” there is no need for encouragement. You will of your own accord seek to disrupt in any way possible the activities of the WEF or its agents and agencies, wherever they exist. For Americans, we must identify and defeat our true enemy, within and without, by whatever means at our disposal, either until we are no more, or we are victorious. Begin today.

- ZEELIO

TECH NOTE ON HACK: A friend was able to post to my wall as me, so the admin swipe effect is limited to the computer I’m currently working on. NIFTY! This seems like a “cloud computing”-based hack. Which is especially relevant, given Apple’s announcement of the iPAD’s release, a gadget designed for optimum/elegant CC mobile media/computing. Given Apple’s excellent position in the domain, which really began in earnest with .MAC apps, the corp should be in fine shape when the system-wide/corporate biz push occurs {guessing, here} in the next 18 months. At any rate the hack was at most an annoyance, and an incentive to activate the AFH system response to the unfriendly party’s virtual “home” invasion… We’re just going to have to think of this as permission to press “GO” - as in the Japanese game [a nod to Peter Drucker, management “guru” and famed predictor, who also if I recall failed to mention that culturally vital facet in his essay on Japan through Japanese Art.] … By the way. At my gym, the Claremont Club, there’s a poster with photos of Mrs. Drucker going through her workout paces as directed by her qualified trainer. She looks to be in great condition for a 98 year-old lady!

The Decade in Review

ZEELIO: A scan of surveys is possible, now. Did you watch the television over the Holidays.

PJM: We did. It was hella painful, ALMOST TORTURE.

MILO: Didn’t someone interview John Yoo, who was identified as funny?

V: I think I saw that on Salon.

TR: …Which is a laugh a minute.

MILO: Jerry [Artist Lover] Saltz pegged Jeff Koons as his “Artist of the Decade.” He doesn’t even make an effort anymore.

PJM: No pretense of integrity.

V: Saltz’s sellout is complete.

ZEELIO: So, Paul - who’s your artist of the decade?

PJM: Has to be Richard Tuttle. His traveling retrospective was the champ. Collectors of the Decade award goes to the Vogels. It is more than fitting that the decade closed with the release of the documentary about them.

TR: Tim Burton not on anybody’s list?

ALL: [——]

V: Wait - what are the criteria? If it’s “success,” the “winners” would most certainly be  Andy Warhol, followed closely by Damien Hirst.

ZEELIO: “200 One Dollar Bills” [$43.7 million] makes a strong argument for Warhol, not to mention the exploits of the Warhol Foundation and Creative Capitol, its art management apparatus.

MILO: Whatever happened to Hirst’s skull.

TR: Patrick Courrielche not on anybody’s list?

PJM: Yes. Satan’s, right below Glenn Beck.

V: What about Eli Broad?

PJM: Just above Glenn Beck and below Glenn Lowry.

ZEELIO: Remember PASTA? That’s how the decade began, with Lowry union-busting at MoMA. It ended with Broad gaming Santa Monica, Beverly Hills and LACMA/MoCA to cement his gains.

V: The LA art scene is now the barony of Broad. AIG forever!

MILO: On New Year’s Day I found a very relevant short essay by Charlie Finch [Artnet, 12-29-03], entitled “Will MoMA Lose Its Soul?”

PJM: We can surely answer in the affirmative, now.

MILO: Finch, the Scot Hater, closed with a lament or prediction, depending on your POV/timeline.

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And let’s guess what we might see: A room of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills; Koons, the new century’s Pavel Tchelitchew, muscling into the rooms of Pablo and Andy; acres of repetitive Impressionist painting and less Cubism; Pollock bowdlerized with his inferiors and less Mondrian; Brancusi scattered about, among Miró, Leger and Giacometti, in short a disjointed ride through the Postmodern tunnel of horrors, in which every artwork shouts for attention and every dead artist rolls over in his grave.
Every sacred space may become a pleasure chest trying, for a few visual seconds, to amuse.

Such is the triumph of the curator at MoMA, the dealer in Chelsea, the producer in music, the book chain in publishing, the spin and the sound bite in politics.

Is that what MoMA will become? One more American Idol?
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PJM: Again, we can surely answer in the affirmative, now.

ZEELIO: Eerie how that first line came true at Broad’s BCAM.

V: Eerier still, the line about Koons, given Saltz’s “Artist of the Decade” choice. Do Finch and Saltz even talk to each other?

MILO: Every line is prescient. OMG. But none more than the last.

ZEELIO: You’re referring to the upcoming open artist call hosted by Lowry’s PS1 and those wackadoodles at Creative Time.

TR: The artist Death Panel.

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(December 16, 2009; New York, NY) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Creative Time, the New York public art organization, announce Creative Time Open Door at P.S.1, an open call for New York–based artists to propose projects for the public realm, as part of P.S.1’s Free Space program. Artists are invited to submit proposals at http://creativetime.org/programs/opendoor/index.html through January 15, and will be notified if they are scheduled for a review by January 21. After an initial review by the Creative Time curators, 35 artists will be offered 15-20 minute, private portfolio reviews conducted by the curators from both institutions, on January 23 and 24, at P.S.1. The program offers an opportunity for artists to get feedback on specific projects for the public realm.
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MILO: I smell a Reality Show in the making!

V: Isn’t this similar to your New Art in Action framework for selecting NEA individual artist grantees, Paul?

PJM: Exactly, except PS1/Creative Time set no standards for “artist” and “art.”

ZEELIO: Hold on. The competition *is* for NYC-based artists.

PJM: Correction noted.

MILO: There’s that “C” Word again: Creative is as “creativity” does. Do any of the curators mention “innovation?”

TR: This is from the Creative Time/PS1 blurb page:

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Creative Time Open Door at P.S.1 is a platform for artists who work in the public sphere to engage in constructive dialogues about their work. Without question, artists working in this vein of aesthetic practice face unique challenges with few forums existing to address them. Open Door was founded in the belief that art production is not simply a final product, but a process dependent on critical input, working through pragmatic constraints, and developing a growing artistic community.
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MILO: What artist doesn’t work “in the public sphere?”

PJM: What does engaging “in constructive dialogues about their work” mean?

V: I think this is a reference to the curator’s mandate, that they be recognized as “collaborators.”

ZEELIO: They must have forgotten what that term meant in the early 40s in Paris.

TR: Maybe that’s why so many curators have shaved heads and are single parents.

PJM: I have a question. What is “this vein of aesthetic practice?”

V: It is the one without paint or stone.

ZEELIO: No heavy metals mingle through that vein’s bloodline. This is thought-blood, which isn’t bloody at all.

MILO: What are those “unique challenges” these bloodless artists face in making not-paintings and not-sculpture, that is - not-art? Is there no not-art forum for such work?

PJM: I believe this is the point, which is confusing, given that the host of this artist Death Panel is one of the premier exhibiting institutions, at least by proxy, in the Hemisphere and the world.

V: I say. That must be the “public sphere” indicated in the text. Don’t they mean “privatized sphere,” as opposed to the “public sphere” you proposed in your NEA/NAIA prospectus, Paul?

PJM: Right. Well, I just thought that the public option might be advanced through the government’s central art agency, as opposed to the DeVos Foundation’s ArtPrize, or one of the other Robber Baron-funded Art Idol award machines emerging over the past decade. After all, America is still a democracy.

V: Not for long, if union-busting Lowry and his “Base” can help it.

ZEELIO: On a side note, what does Lowry’s earn at MoMA?

MILO: Compared to Warhol’s $200, not much:

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Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) — Glenn D. Lowry earned $1.32 million in pay and benefits running New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the year ending in June, down from $1.95 million the year before, as the museum cut costs amid the recession.

Lowry, 54, took a voluntary pay reduction as he pared spending by 10 percent across departments and froze hiring, said Kim Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the museum.

The prior year, Lowry received a 13 percent raise, according to the museum’s tax return. His $1.95 million in salary, bonus and benefits earned him a place as the best-paid director among the half-dozen largest U.S. museums by budget that have filed returns for 2008, according to Bloomberg research.
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PJM: Charlie Finch compared him to Robespierre during the PASTA crackdown, but that’s not correct. Lowry and the Board of MoMA, including Broad, would have had to put their heads on the block for the MoMA scenario to be democratic, French and Robespierrian in its revolutionary dynamism.

V: Too bad, and I mean that literally.

PJM: Back to Creative Time! So, the CT/PS1 “platform” is designed to help not-artists show not-art in a premier art venue. Doesn’t this mandate strike you all as terribly problematic?

ALL: YES!

TR: WHAT OTHER INDUSTRY DOES THIS? What other business devotes so much of its working capital to fabricators who don’t make *products* for presentation and sale?

ALL: THE STOCK MARKET!

TR: Which makes sense.

PJM: How else to explain Saltz’s compulsive obsession with Koons’ monstrosity, the Hedge Hound? This is nothing, if not a disgusting insider joke on the gaming of America and American art by the international moneyed elite. Note how Saltz in his lavish celebration of Koons’ pathetic not-art monument “Puppy” lathers the prose with awed descriptions of cost and manufacture.

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There were 70,000 separate decisions involved in Puppy. Every flower had to be placed exactly right. It was mad! (Puppy remains a demanding pet: Its owner, the megacollector Peter Brant, spends upwards of $75,000 per year maintaining it.)
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It couldn’t be any clearer, but an insider like Saltz could never get away with full disclosure and keep his sham “artist friend” reputation and professional status quo defender position within the elite. Koons dog was placed at GE HQ, at the Rockefeller Plaza, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao - did this not provide any clue to the “ditzy” Saltz?

TR: Not apparently - Saltz described Koons as not going “in for the savvy art-about-art gestures,” which technically is true. Koons goes in for the savvy art-about-art-business and -megacollectors gestures. Here, Saltz, who is a genius at contriving critical sins of omission in service to the Super Class art world, fails as usual to clarify the distinction, or to explain that it is just that distinction that drives Saltz’s fascination with Koons as an anti-art star phenom.

V: So, the Creativity Time people at Lowry/PS1 are in fact implementing the tactical abolition of art.

ZEELIO: Of course. And they are doing so through a very effective marketing campaign designed to garner maximum buy-in from the affected constituency.

MILO: The hungry and suffering artist!

ZEELIO: It is the basic premise of Reality TV/American Idol-style exploitation.

PJM: Did you see the ads running on cable listing the achievements of American Idol contestants? What impact! Grammies, Academy Awards, etc.: - the consolidation of the talent machine in a FOX-owned corpratized vehicle!

V: Was it Idol or America’s Got Talent?

ZEELIO: What’s the difference? All of the Death Panels operate the same, more or less. A few talentless clowns, snobs and prima donnas make snarky remarks about a parade of willing-to-do-anything people trying desperately to “live the dream.” In other words, a made-for-TV model of the Super Class vision of a New World Order.

TR: Same as it ever was.

PJM: But how about that last line at Creativity Time Death Panel 2010:

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Open Door was founded in the belief that art production is not simply a final product, but a process dependent on critical input, working through pragmatic constraints, and developing a growing artistic community.
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MILO: Code words include “art production.” Also, “not simply a final product.”

V: “Creative production” is a euphemism for artist management, the antithesis of the lead artist in the dimensional art production, or the studio artist in the traditional model. In the Creative framework, curators, bureaucrats, dealers, collectors - everyone but the artist - is essential in producing a good “outcome,” which isn’t the same as a “final product,” which is code for “artwork,” as in a painting or sculpture.

TR: Curators can’t paint. That’s why they become curators. They can’t write. That’s why they aren’t critics. They are managers, solvers of artistic problems by the lowest common denominator.

ZEELIO: Tim Burton is the lowest common denominator.

PJM: Which is why we musn’t be too harsh on curators. It is the Lowries of the market who sign off on these abominations. Even the Lowries, can’t be completely singled out, since they are serving at the behest of the Trustees, and the Boards, whose agendas are really what drives the nefarious global art machine.  

TR: Do you think Koons chose a Scotty as his puppy to reference the Masons?

MILO: I, for one, wouldn’t be shocked, if he had. That would make the insider joke a bit more daring, wouldn’t you say?

PJM: What is Creative Time/PS1’s “process dependent on critical input?”

ZEELIO: It is the epitaph of both artist and art.

PJM: And “pragmatic constraints?”

ZEELIO: Otherwise known as the cost/benefit analysis, the hammer and sickle of the arts administrator. Again - it is the death knell for art and artist.

PJM: Finally, what is Creativity Time/PS1’s mandate for “developing a growing artistic community?”

ZEELIO: I would venture this to be a heavily encrypted message about expanding local attendance, by transforming the museum into a media entertainment center focused on consumer portable “art,” with an eye toward globalist “inclusivity.”

TR: Tim Burton.

ALL: TIM BURTON!

TR: Any Artist of the Decade votes for Ran Orter?

ALL: Who?

TR: What about Ryan Trecartin?

ALL: WHO?

TR: Last chance - Mark Bradford?

ZEELIO: Only in this decade could an “artist” be identified, lauded and defined as a GENIUS for swishing gaily through Compton.

We are lounging by the pool at the Claremont Club with our laptops (connected to web via satellite). Milo is my guest today. It is sunny, and the smoke is gone, though the chemical soup that is Southern California air is our medium. Today a Wall Street Journal opinionator called concerns about human-caused climate change a “religion.”

PJM: Do you wonder, Milo, whether chemistry is the cause of skin cancer, and not the Sun, at least not directly, or not-contingent?

MILO: Actually, I’ve been thinking about George Will lately, and reconsidering his hit piece on the Obama administration in September, arising from the Yosi Sergant faux scandal, the much ballyhooed episode, framed by the Right and its trolls as an attempt by the NEA to mobilize creative professionals to advocate for the President’s reform agenda.

PJM: Funny, I have, too. As you know, I integrated the scandalous episode into my NEA panel responses. Do you recall how down and out, like Orwell in London and Paris, Glenn Beck was then, how close only a few months ago that Tens of Millions of Dollars man of Ailes was, to losing all the sponsors over blatant racist comments, not to mention those mad rants, when Beck mustered all his might, against the tide of accountability, and took it upon himself to save America from the Endowment? Beck seems to have rebounded nicely, and I doubt accept the challenge of Jerry Saltz, that poser, and curate a couple of shows in New York.

MILO: Yes. What do you think about the tempest, the anti-NEA surge, now? …Aside from the obvious fact that George Will is in dire need of a hair stylist.

PJM: I love that George Will mentioned 15th Century Florence in his syndicated article. You might not realize it, Milo, but Florence is a dimensional city. Lula spent a year there, so we have books about it, plentiful data. Plus, the Italian jewel of a city travels around the world in her mind, in her memory. We could consider George and his putrid pedantry through the faceted lens of Florence.

MILO: …Which would certainly be more pleasant than confronting that gnome directly. It’s bad enough to have watched him mumble his fateful anti-cultural control message at the tables of the media monopoly, to the nodding painted faces of the himbo/bimbo info managers.

PJM: Agreed, though I personally would love the opportunity to confront G____ more viscerally and immediately directly than is possible through a keyboard. You know, I’ve been working the heavy bag again. I imagine I’ll be fit enough for a substantive exchange with a windbag in short order.

MILO: Yes, that would be satisfying on so many levels, dimensionally. Gangsta Will G and I are roughly equivalent in age, but I don’t know whether age is a gauge of fairness, in competition. Probably vitality and experience are more suited to qualifications, in a representative and accountable (free) social arena. Plus, George wears spectacles.

PJM: Your orbs are as keen as hawks’. He puts specs on his Gangsta nose, and wears spectacles on his sleeve, the way I used to wear a strip of my labor historian Mother’s dress on my arm in the ring. Speaking of labor, Massey is blasting away again at Coal River Mountain, close to the Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment - 8.2 billion gallons of toxic coal slurry waste in an enormous retention pond, which, if it fails as we’ve been warned it might, would kill hundreds and wreak horrid and catastrophic damage on the countryside.

MILO: …And these hands make and break things, they are familiar with those dimensions. Do you fancy that Will aligns himself with the Medicis or the artisans?

PJM: You’re being rhetorical.

MILO: I am.

PJM: I would suggest that George Will aligns himself with the Council on Foreign Relations, and Robert Hughes, the great paunchy wag. Both and all align with fantasies of Manifest Destiny, and other excuses to murder and steal in the name of progress, advocacy for oppression as bloody stability, and God’s blessings on efficient redistribution of wealth upwards towards the stoic Protestant avatar class, no matter the cost in suffering and waste and horror. Does this have anything (I almost said aught) to do with Florence.

MILO: Certainly, there are disparities, as with any comparison rooted in malice. For instance, in 1950 - which as a year contains some of the same numbers as 1500, or 1492, with Columbus sailing that ocean blue to find gold adorning kind natives (who would soon be dying by the millions to mine gold for Europe’s kings and queens) and build a stockade. He was from Genoa, not Florence. Look here! Lorenzo Medici died in 1492, in Florence. Did George Will confuse American representative Democracy with the reign of the Medicis, in the golden age of Florence?

PJM: 1950. George was evoking Florence to suggest, and Hughes was cited to this end, that there is a glut of artist labor currently, from the manager’s perspective. Neither Hughes nor Will evidently read my proposals for a New Art in Action initiative, the neo-New Deal to remedy the artist glut. Do you know you can fly directly from Columbus, Ohio to Florence? Did you know there is a Columbus Hotel in Florence. I see here it’s a 3-Star. I wouldn’t want to fly Northwest there, though.

MILO: Ah, yes! 1950: the Florence agreement is drafted by UNESCO “to ensure the free flow of cultural products, especially books” - the Universal Copyright Convention. Thought property. Manifestly destined, as such. Just ask poor liar Shepard Fairey, whom the AP now has by his proverbial golden nuggets. You know, in 1492, according to answers.com, “Granada’s Muhammad XI surrenders the keys to his city January 2 to Castile’s Isabella and Aragon’s Ferdinand II, who take the last Muslim kingdom in Spain and end the Nasrid dynasty founded in 1238, completing the Christian Reconquista.”

PJM: So, there were wars against the Muslims then, too, just like today! Weren’t those royals the great patrons of Columbus’ magnificent voyage of discovery?

MILO: Quite so! I believe our rhizome is starting to shape itself, as all-at-once history.

PJM: Not if John McCain and ATT/Verizon can help it! Wait are we getting mashed-up in all-at-onceness? I just transported to the Sunlight Foundation’s Real Time Investigations website, and discovered that Congress received nearly $10 Million in Telcom donations over the past two years! Think that affected the anti-warrantless wiretapper investigations by our elected representatives, old friend?

MILO: Indubitably, amigo, and how about that Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz, and Keep America Safe? I feel less safe already! “About” is telling me that “The Taíno culture encountered by Columbus in Cuba will be wiped out within 30 years by disease, forced labor, and Spanish musketry, leaving almost no trace of its existence beyond a few words that will survive in the English words barbecue, canoe, hammock, hurricane, and tobacco.”

PJM: Ah, tobacco! Now that sounds like a dramatic mashup - the only things that don’t go together are the hammock and the canoe, unless you picture it on a timeline. “I was paddling to the barbecue in my canoe, smoking good tobacco, when a hurricane appeared, forcing me to take to a cove, where I set up my hammock and slept through the storm tides. I wonder why McCain would be so against the free flow of ideas, even post-Florence agreement. I wonder what George Will thinks of the free flow of ideas?

MILO: I don’t know that either has experienced the free flow of ideas. Is this assuming too much?

PJM: Yes, like all tyrants, they may have had a deep spiritual experience, or an open mind, at some point, but they may have decided there ought to be very strict rules about who should share in that experience - since realization is only superficially individual -  and how the experience should be managed or administered. The Drucker Centennial is slated to blast off next week, the day after all Saints, two days after All Souls. I wonder what Claremont looks like now, through a window in Hell?

MILO: Remember last year, about this time, we were discussing your Platonic Cave rapture. You were preparing for the Content show, and executing the precursors for your Thesis. Are you any less tired?

PJM: No, Milo, I am still tired of the Druckers and the Wills, and their penchant for arrogant inhumanity disguised as moral clarity and operational precision. When G-daddy called lobbying ‘“expressive behavior,” and therefore it is …art,” he must have known how truly he spoke, given that Corporate Money is now about to become John Robert’s Bane, and be transformed by ink and stain to Free Speech, and therefore… of the same genus as Art!

MILO: So, George Will is not a coward and a liar at all!

PJM: Far from it, Milo! George is the sorcerer’s apprentice, a conjurer of a lesser scale. He is like the moon unto Robert’s sun.

MILO: So, John McCain is not a corrupt politician! The Telcoms are not Enemies of the State and leeches needing of annihilation with extreme prejudice!

PJM: Not at all, Milo! They are simply practicing their dark arts, like Cheney before them and Cheney after, at one with the everlasting corporation, it that never dies, possessing the timeline of God. These practitioners have aligned their deep and profound realizations unto their maker, their sustainer, their voice their corporation, universal in its copyrightness, its ownership, its riches and promise. And they looked at what they had wrought and saw it was good, through the monoptical eyes of a golem, the Drucker window.

MILO: But what of Florence? I would suggest G-raser or (Hughes) in context hadn’t considered the European art markets of that age carefully, or one or both might have cited Bruges or Amsterdam, instead, though probably not Venice. These haters of makers, of life, would despise the Venetians, especially the artists, who controlled the market entirely, for no one there and then could sell a painting, but an artist. Bruges (does it rhyme with Hughes?) was a better market, value-wise, than Florence, though G_______ purports to be a free-marketer and is anything but that. Amsterdam, at any rate, employed taxation liberally and was the richer for it.

PJM: As Duchamp, that wild lion, chanted: “In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of the spectator in order that his declarations take a social value and that, finally, posterity includes him in the primers of Artist History (ibid).” He said so in ‘66, probably from a Pasadena couch, to a room of adoring old ladies - not far from here.

MILO: When will the NEA define art, so Georgey Porgy, and that genius Courrielche, and Nissan or Scion, or Roberts and ATT and McCain can no longer do so? Hairpiece George quoted the NEH, mocking the notion that the lives of “ordinary Americans” might be worthy content for great arts. I wonder what reply Studs Terkel might have handed Corporate Will, on this subject.

PJM: Probably a stout combination, or series of them, high and low, and so brutally hard as to disgorge George’s expensive hotel breakfast.

MILO:. George Will is entwined in “rhetorical cotton candy.” It is his conjugation. The offspring is Martha Stewart’s “Good Thing,” which he projects like Kristol the Younger into the carnival of greed and excess that is the nation’s Capitol of Will’s royal kingdom. Kristol the Elder may now share a view with Drucker in Hades, but their seed is fertilizing yet. Perhaps the wingnuts and teabaggers are right, and it is time for a new American Revolution, only they have just that right and nothing else, except that maybe guns will be necessary to execute it.

PJM: Oh? Will they hang banksters from the street lights in Claremont, instead of Drucker Centennial banners, then? Will failed CEOs swing freely above Wolfe’s Market?

MILO: Zeelio suggests that all must be nationalized into Commonwealth shares - Health Care, Land, Art, the Telcoms… I can see his point and his concept is revolutionary. Once again, American innovation - in the political realm - would change the world. We could unify the mutants and hybrids afflicting Democracy. Capitalism and Marxism and the others would hear the final bell toll.

PJM: Look here! George Will suggested mockingly that public spending on art is a Good Deed, and ironically presented a dimensional conjecture by accident! He suggested that we “(Try this: For the word ‘art,’ substitute ‘surfing’ or ‘religion.’)” Do you think this glorified peckerwood has seen Geoff Cordner’s most recent photo series?”

MILO: No chance. And look here! See how in touch with Beuys and Warhol George Will is! Unfortunately, he - as is usual among the corporatists - he fails to get the attribution correct. Will attributes the Beuys/Warhol combinative definition of art to the government, although as anyone knows our government is simply representative. We are it, and it is us. So he is wrong in the artist, but very good in his summary of the State of the Arts of Creativity, as espoused across all fields (until the NEA champions a definition of art that drives the money-changers out of that temple to the beaches): “…because in this egalitarian era, government reasons circularly: Art is whatever an artist says it is, and an artist is whoever produces art. So, being an artist is a self-validating vocation.”

PJM: I am self-validating. I am a genius, and I am Spartacus!

MILO: I am Spartacus!

PJM: The figures GW cites, the big numbers pushing the guns off the battleship deck of government interventionism - why doesn’t George explain why the government is so deeply embedded in those aspects of ordinary American lives, like a media monopoly reporter on his way to Baghdad?

MILO: 1980. George Will mentioned 1980. What happened that year in America?

PJM: Did you see The Warning on NPR’s Frontline?

MILO: No, but I did see Capitalism: A Love Story. That scene: Don Regan and Ron Reagan at the Stock Exchange, and Regan leaning over to tell his monkey to speed things up! Wow. In that moment, I foresaw in hindsight Bush-Cheney.

PJM: Milo, old friend, I have to get in the water. Will you watch my laptop, so McCain and ATT don’t steal it?

MILO: I’ll be napping, but I shouldn’t fear. The life guard is a Cameron, and his arms are coiled.

PJM: Do you want to know why the National Public Discourse has devolved over the past twenty-five years, into an ugly polarized hate cycle 7/24/365, televised and in all media unleashed?

MILO: The fools killed public art for the US and put down the artist.