Media Free Times

Periodical Multi-Media Random Sampling of Anarchic Communications Art

One of the worlds first experimental interactive multi-media periodicals and a prototype for what are now commonly called Web Pages, E-Zines and like YouTube without the ads, was started by g~k~ and associates at the University of California San Jose in 1972 and continued via the University of British Columbia 1973-1975, as a community public media access project entitled Media Free Times and is now still the official E-journal of

The PeaceMaker Virtual Free University

This is a VFU* - Archive Page - Media Free Times 1972 - digitized reconstruction of MFT Vol. 1-Vol. 3

update 100207 - work in progress :

 

Media Free Times multi-media periodical experimental communications de-design, was dedicated to promote public access, to public media and for the preservation of Free Speech and Free Thought through universal de-schooling . "THIS" was an individual attempt to orchestrate the mind numbing cacophany of "Information Overload" and the constant bombardment of psychological and chemical anti-nutrients, into a meaningful interactive assemblage. "THIS" the fragmented journal of the avant-garde media artist / writer / director, was a seeking of an effectual understanding of the new media technologies of domination, rapidly becoming procurable in the seventies and towards emancipation from the bondage of "THIS" the industrial matrix .

From the authors discovery that the early Dadaists were speaking the same language as himself and that he was basically in agreement, in principle, with the thinking of others like Kandinsky, who demanded a "total art, that would unite theater" and that art had a duty to be spiritual in nature, emerged his own unique form of "NADAism" ...not as abstraction that indicates a departure from reality, but a direct look at the "meaningless Data Piles" with the grainy textures and micro details of a technologically dehumanized culture. Of making "something out of nothing." NADA!!!

Note: These works were originated as conceptual rough drafts, arranged in an embryonic information architecture, under conditions of extreme penury, physical and social duress, in inner city environments, with very limited resources. It will probably be difficult for people to comprehend that "THIS" in 2010, could now be assembled in a few hours with today's technology, but it took several years to "make it for the first time" with the media available to the public back in the '70's. "THIS" work conceptualized back in the 20th CE, is now being actualized through the digital technology of the 21st CE.

"THIS" is Progress???

Please keep an open mind:

Transatlantic Interview, 1946 Picasso said, 'You see, the situation is very simple. Anybody that creates a new thing has to make it ugly. The effort of creation is so great, that trying to get away from the other things, the contemporary insistence, is so great that the effort to break it gives the appearance of ugliness. Your followers can make it pretty, so generally followers are accepted before the master. The master has the stain of ugliness. The followers who make it pretty are accepted...'

Picasso, the great clown and art thief, recognized that the stolen primitive Polynesian art, that he was 'making pretty' was done by masters ...

 

 

Media Free Times Vol. 1 no. 1 [1972-1974]:

Microfiche:

v. 1, no. 1A (PDF - Digitized, 2009):

and

MFT Vol. 1, no. 1B ( PDF - Digitized, 2009):

 

What is Nada? a 16 mm. film collage - a pre production rough sketch

(digitzed unedited reconstruction from a NYC Image Bank demo reel - 2010):

Part 1 (WMV)

Part 2 (WMV)

see: *[George Kasey: file of miscellaneous uncatalogued material]

See Also: National Film Archives of Canada - George Kasey Film Collection

 

also :

Nada archives (not Available)

DESCRIPTION: reels. all ill. Microfilm (negative) 16 mm. no. [1974?- ] reels. 16 mm.

PUBLISHER: [Vancouver] Media Free Times. . Available in positive and negative microfilm.

There is also a collection of related Post Art on microfilm entitled Nada Archives no.1

AMICUS No. 13862

that needs to be digitized in order for the collection of MFT vo.1 no.1 to be complete.

 

 

Audio:

1 audio tape cassette MFT Vol. 1, no. 1C (MP3 - Digitized, 2009)

 

Media Free Times Vol. 1 no.2 - This: the experiment in anarchic communication

Print:

MFT Vol.1 no. 2 (PDF - Digitized, 2009)

 

Media Free Times Vol. 1 no.2 Supplement:

The Programmer [Vancouver : Nada Foundation], c1974.(PDF - Digitized, 2009)

 

Media Free Times Vol. 1 no.2 Posters and Post Art:

 

Video and Films :

MFT Vol. 1, no. 3 consists of an 8 mm. film (missing)

 

Media Free Times Vol. 3 no. 1 [1974-1975](PDF - Digitized, 2009):

An unnumbered and undated supplement describing non-print issues, accompanying material and supplements was issued in 1975. Issued also online.

 

Film Title: What is NADA - Anarchy Evidence Documentation - Comedy 1972

Logline: - A violent psychotic is given the opportunity, by a novice pacifist underground film director and his intellectual production assistant, to transmute his uncontrollable anger into the performing arts, in a decadent inner city environment.

Cast: anonymous

Location: San Jose CA.,

( WMV - a partial reconstruction of a segment of pre-production clips from elements digitized in 2009)

 

 

 

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