Negativland

The experimental-music and art collective known as NEGATIVLAND (David Wills, Mark Hosler, Jon Leidecker, and more) has been recording music/audio/collage works since 1980, producing a weekly 3 hour radio show ("Over The Edge") since 1981 until, hosting a World Wide Web site since 1995, and performing live on occasional tours throughout America and Europe. Other members of the extended Negativland family include live cinema artist SUE-C (Sue Slagle), film maker Ryan Worsley, film maker/animator/OTE archivist Tim Maloney, digital artist Dan Lynch, designer Shawn Wolfe, Seeland Records HQ traffic controller Jennifer Bennett, and angel archivist Taylor Jessen. Negativland's particular musical practice incorporates found sounds and musical samples into their collage compositions. Their contemporary interest in collage (a hallmark of 20th Century art of all kinds) is prompted by the fact that art and commerce have now merged to a degree where corporate commerce now finances, grooms, directs, filters, manufactures and distributes almost everything we know of as "culture."