The Yes Men and The Vacuum Cleaner - Wednesday 27th june 2007 @ CCA Glasgow, 7 – 9 pm

   

wednesday 27th june 2007 @ cca Glasgow, 7 – 9 pm igor vamos (the yes men) and the vacuum cleaner

	Igor Vamos (also known as Mike Bonanno) is one of the leading members of The Yes Men, a culture jamming activist group. Their exploits in "identity correction" are documented in the film The Yes Men. Known as Frank, he is a co-founder of RTmark. He is a winner of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship for his film about an abandoned military base in Wendover, Utah. His first successful action was to replace the voice of Barbie dolls with that of G.I. Joe dolls: The soldiers ended up saying "want to go shopping?", while Barbies said "dead men tell no tales"! Vamos is currently a teaching fellow on the time based art course in the School of Media Arts and Imaging at the University of Dundee, teaches Media Interventions and New Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. the vacuum cleaner is a cultural resistance collective of one fashioning radical social and ecological change. By employing various creative legal and illegal tactics and forms the vacuum cleaner attempts to disrupt concentrations of power and reverse the impending ecological collapse of planet earth. the vacuum cleaner have intervened, disrupted and ocassionally shutdown corporate and public spaces like Selfridges, Starbucks, Virgin Megastores, Barclays Bank, House of Fraser, John Lewis, Brent Cross Shopping Centre, Asda, Sainsburys, Tesco, Waterstones, The City of London, Wall Street and the Nokia HQ's. Admission is free, but please email rsvp@mediascot.org to make sure of a seat
	The Upgrade! Scotland is a monthly gathering of artists, curators and others interested in art and technology in Scotland organised by New Media Scotland and hosted alternately at Dundee Contemporary Arts and CCA Glasgow