Mindbomb

Work: "Built To F**k Up", "Bummer for Everyone", "There's Buzz On The Street", "There's Buzz On The Street", "We Bring Love to War", "We've Got Balls"
When: 2pm Sunday, March 21, 2004
Where: HCC Ybor Performing Arts Theater

Mindbomb is a collaborative of film, video and graphic artists who make artwork out everyday crap laying around in our minds, the debris from everyday ads.

By utilizing marketing and advertising methods as well as film/video production techniques, Mindbomb amuses and enlightens with spoofs of commercials hacked from national broadcast, cable, and satellite networks.

According to the artists, the advertisements Mindbomb parodies "show little regard for our future health and mental welfare."

"Meanwhile, they exhibit more regard for the transformation of the culture into a blind, obese, oil dependent, pharmaceutical/alcohol/nicotine addicted, sports/video game distracted demographic."

"The Mindbomb pathology is subversion, applying an equal and opposite spin upon advertisements; infusing humor, polished aesthetics and ethical values to form something closer to the truth. Mindbomb hopes to provoke thought and discussion, ultimately to reclaim and protect our littered mental environment."

Donations and proceeds from Mindbomb tapes and shirts help to defray the prohibitively high costs of this type of presentation.

Mindbomb shows in galleries and museums, and will be presenting on public and educational television in the near future. You may contact Mindbomb at jolt@mindbomb.tv or visit their website at http://www.mindbomb.tv.

Mindbomb Recent Works

"Everyone Knows It But Me" Mindbomb, 2003 (1 min., 10 secs.). Appropriated television ad / Mindbomb original graphics, original music and poetry.

Sharp Critique of the single occupant SUV culture. Poetry read by Oliver Stewart, The Barefooted Poet.

"He Really Deserves This Award" Mindbomb 2003 (45 secs.). Appropriated television ad / Mindbomb original video footage, sound and graphics.

Holding the gecko accountable for abuses of attention, over-occupation of our consciousness and general overmarketing with an irrelevant lizard at every break. Mindbomb thought it high-time to f**k the corporate gecko.

"We Just Want the World" Mindbomb 2002 (35 secs.). Appropriated television ad / Mindbomb original graphics, voiceover and ad copy.

Mindbomb's reverse-jam on Wall Street's confidence marketing in a slumping, fear-addled economy.

"Fools for Fuel" Mindbomb 2002 (1 min., 10 secs). Appropriated television and film footage / Mindbomb original music and graphics.

A wake-up yaw from our monoxide tainted culture of glorified fuel-consumption and vehicular fashion. Original music score performed by Nemesis and D’hogga.

"Big Reds" Mindbomb 2002 (25 secs.). Appropriated television ad / Mindbomb original graphics.

Oogling Big Red’s shameless appeal to oral stimulation.

"Greedy Consuming Slug Alert" Mindbomb 2002 (1 min.).

If the average internet consumer is less intelligent than his computer, then computers will someday thoroughly rebuke us for involving them in our glib and wanton consumption.