NEGATIVLAND’S VAULT CRACKED, JESUS ESCAPES
This weekend’s Allied Media Conference will feature a keynote speech entitled “Adventures in Illegal Art” by Mark Hosler of Negativland, the recording group famous for testing the limits of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The conference will also feature the premiere of Negativland’s mash-up of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ — which, in a fittingly ironic gesture, was recently stolen by hackers from Negativland’s mainframe computer.
According to the Negativland site, The Mashin’ of the Christ “was created using a combination of decrypted footage ripped from DVDs rented from Netflix and Blockbuster, ‘found’ 16mm film footage, original CGI, films obtained from peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, the ‘found’ vocals of the Rev. Estus W. Pirkle, and original music composed and played by Negativland.”
