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Photo: M.Sonnesen ®TMark: Art As Action by Ben at 9/30/2001 - 5:16 am The 21st century has seen a rise in corporate subversion of the democratic process which, in turn, has forced artists to boldly address abuses of power and the general lack of public interest in critical social issues. In this new aesthetic wrestling ring, rtmark.com is the saturday night slam master. This net based art/ activism collective is the creation of five (un?)official and anonymous members hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area. The group's spokesperson goes by the name of Ray Thomas (who recieved both Creative Capital's 2000 "emerging fields artist" award and a space for ®TMark in the 2000 Whitney Biennial -see Editor's note.) ®TMark is an honest-to-goodness corporation; an internet-based brokerage benefitting from a state of "limited liability" that supports (financially and otherwise) corporate sabotage (or as they call it, "informative alteration") and other poetic acts of art activism that do not harm humans or physical property. As stated on their site, the group leans toward acts that "improve culture" and seek "cultural profit, not financial" unlike their corporate counterparts. The listing of past "projects" on the site reveals an exciting array of success stories where the ideas of one or many artists were given funding and/or time so that a specific cultural goal could be achieved. The sites projects are organized into categories called "Mutual Funds" which are headed up by persons with relevant knowledge and substantial bureaucratic power (see DJ Spooky heading up the Frontier Fund and Andrei Codrescu on the Media Fund.) Perhaps the most successful, and certainly one of the classic, ®TMark-funded actions was that of the Barbie Liberation Organization's "Operation NewSpeak." The BLO switched the voice boxes of Teen Talk Barbie's and Talking Duke G.I. Joe's. In addition to the high profile nature of Barbie doll's that yell "Vengeance is mine!", the altered dolls garnered significant media attention thanks to a video news release from the BLO and cleverly placed "call your local TV news" stickers on the backs of "liberated" toys. In fact, an educational video is available in RealTime format on the ®TMark website for those interested in making their own video news releases. While current projects number well over a hundred with new entries being accepted every month, the success of past projects can be examined and/or critiqued for future reference. Many of the funds such as the "deconstructing Beck" CD and "Phone In Sick Day" have recieved write-ups in highly circulated periodicals both in print and online (P.I.S.D. caused over 2,000 British Airways employees and 80% of the Irish Police force to call in sick on May 1, 1998 and soon became a bargaining tool for worker's rights.) Currently, the notion of the object is still important. While the world deteriorates into a state of flowing electron representations, the idea of a precious "thing" begins to hold more weight than ever before. However, artists still (and especially now) have a direct responsibility for guiding the public's eye towards the increasing absurdity and under-handed fascism of our bureaucratic state. ®TMark does exactly this, and does so with the skill of an insane bank manager. -Any interested parties should immediately visit: http://www.rtmark.com/ for further information. Editor's Note: The ®TMark web page entry for the 2000 Whitney Biennial would only occasionally land the museum-based web surfer on ®TMark.com (the official site.) Most of the time, the browser would randomly display a web page from a list of pre-ordained sites (chosen by the group's members and also by requests.) Please visit the biennial exhibit at http://www.rtmark.com/exhibit for more details.