Destroy Evil
Destroy Evil is a fully saturated net artwork created in response to George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech. Visitors click through disturbing depictions of medical procedures and military propaganda interspersed with images of everyday American activities. Bush describes each animation as "a handcrafted tiny soap opera exploding with spasming suburban pixel-bits—lovingly and lightly dusted with a healthy dose of military-industrial complexities that encourage both couch-bound apathy and insatiable consumerism."
Please do your morally upright part and: destroyevil.com. Created the night after George W Bush's 'Axis of Evil' speech. Official launch July 4, 2002. Evil animations added daily. Deliberately on-going. By July 4th 2003 site will contain 365 pages. Urls dated by day: destroyevil.com/january_10 etc.
Excerpt from Artist's Statement/Press Release:
'When asked how long she will work on destroying evil and why on the day of its launch, destroyevil.com was still a 'work in progress', America's Favorite Lady abruptly responded "Look, the American people must understand that I have no timetable in mind. I don't have a calendar on my desk that says by a certain date or by this Super Bowl, all this business has got to end." Bush went on to add, "That's not how it works! That's what the EVIL doers want. They want me to quit, because they think I'm impatient. But it's not going to happen. It can't happen!"
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