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This 6 page report discusses the multimedia theater group, Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) and two of its best-known publications and the intent of both t he organization, its publications, and its philosophy. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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This has led to the development and proliferation of countless business opportunities, new social and cultural groups in which members of the grouop may have never met but they know
each others deepest secrets, and a forum for political discourse and information. People are able to pursue their hobbies, personal interests, and even feed individual capital lusts (not to mention
the more prurient sort of lusts), all from the comfort of their "home office." But the darker side of the enormous amount of electronic data transfer technology available to virtually
(pun intended) everybody in the developed world is that it also offers the opportunity for the proverbial "powers that be" to expand their own technological capabilities for surveillance and control.
The multimedia theater group, Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), has been doing what it can to combat such actions and the publics mindless acceptance of what such control can mean
since 1986. In 1992, CAE published its first text titled The Electronic Disturbance. Four years later they released Electronic Civil Disobedience, as a companion text for The Electronic Disturbance. Then,
in 1998, The Flesh Machine was published and work began on Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media which was released in 2000. Throughout their publishing efforts, CAE has continued to
present numerous multimedia events throughout the United States and Europe. Defining/Describing the CAE and Electronic Civil Disobedience In order to understand what Electronic Civil Disobedience is all about,
it is also important to understand what Critical Art Ensemble is all about. According to McKenzie and Schneider (2000), CAE describes itself as: "a collective of five tactical media artists
dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, critical theory, and political activism" (pp. 136). They also explain that each of the members of the group has unique and specialized
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