Some say culture-jamming fails to flip the script on our consumer culture. Adbusting, artivism, detournement or just plain parody—call it what you will. You can screw with Google searches; you can sample advertising soundtracks for your new CD and get it played on a pirate radio station. Some say all your cleverness just feeds more product to the beast, and the beast just turns around and feeds it back to you—I mean, even if you’re making TV that poke fun at itself, you’re still asking people to watch TV. Right? If this sort of conversation hooks you, then so will Mark Hosler’s short videos addressing issues of media-literacy, creative and humorous anti-corporate art/activism, the role of advertising and corporate power in our lives, intellectual property issues and the evolution of art, law and resistance in a media-saturated, multi-national world. Hosler is co-founder of Negativland, which has been sampling and subverting the corporate culture’s sounds, images and texts since 1980. Hosler will present his videos in person at Hallwalls, an event co-sponsored by the Experimental TV Center and the Central New York Programmer’s Group.

Saturday, April 8 at 8pm. Hallwalls at the Church, 341 Delaware Ave. (854-1694).

$7 general, $5 students/seniors, $4 members.