IMPAKT invites: Mark Hosler

NEGATIVLAND Creative Media Resistance

7 February 2003

€6.50

The short films that will be showcased at the event cannot be seen through mainstream broadcasters. Therefore, anticipate that just as Negativland's music explores the grey area of legality between quotation and plagiarism, so too will this showcase. Hosler will also show examples from many projects and the playful actions that Negativland has carried out since 1980.

A lecture and film program by Mark Hosler of Negativland.

Mark Hosler is one of the founders of the famous American ‘sample’ collective Negativland.
The members of Negativeland are both artists and activists whose work seeks to give a voice to those in resistance to the growing influence of commercial interests in arts and culture.
Through the sampling of music and image material, they raise issues concerning copyright and authorship in a critical, but also often humorous, way.
The CD on which they sampled U2 music led to an infamous lawsuit granting the band widespread recognition.

Mark Hosler

― Artist

Mark Hosler is one of the founding members of the band Negativland. Since 1980, Negativland have been at the forefront of underground audio collage, helping to establish it as a unique and legitimate genre. Their cultural critique landed them in hot water in 1991, when their single U2 – a savage parody of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" intercut with Casey Kasem spewing obscenities about the band during outtakes from his radio show – got them nearly sued into oblivion by Kasem and Island Records.

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