Soup
New country, crossed monopoly,
and neo-slavery
Appearing at the same time (dictatorship in 64 and the TV channel in
65), Rede Globo has been loyal to the projects of the elite,
substituting authoritarianism for a controlled democracy and regulated
citizenship: forming a mass of spectators, not protagonists. But it was
during the election of 1989, when the first post-militar president was
elected, that everyone could see with their own eyes, that the same
Brazil maintained by the slavocrats, transmuted in uniforms and
censorships, was then neo-slaved by the sumptuous images of the city
life.
The system called Rede Globo is one of the biggest media conglomerates
in the world, the only network with a hegemonic domain of a large
society, formally democratic. The Brazilian legislation and the public
concessions are still done "by obscure and slant criteria that attend
the interest of individuals and groups of power before collective
interests" (Teixeira Coelho, Indústria Cultural no Brasil). TV
Globo is also the biggest private world producer of programs, forming
what is called a “crossed monopoly” (newspaper, radio, online services,
tv, cable tv etc). (4)
Conceded by public, state given concessions, commercial media
conglomerates operate a social construction and deconstruction of the
public space, inter-feeding repressive public politics with abusive and
racist content, especially towards children (consumerist) and women
(sexist). Substituting the multiple Brazilian identities and possible
forming ideologies for stereotypes and specific patterns of consume and
entertainment, following the logic of the market, its sponsors. This
economic logic was since the beginning of Brazilian history naturalized
as external and reinforced nationally by political manipulations that
come forward to “protect (familiar/nepotistic) values”.
It is estimated that roughly 30% of our current senators, descendants
from our modus politicus, own or are from-a-family-that-owns a
communication medium.
part I
A perfect colonization and a TV channel
brazilian background
the soup-opera republic
part II
An alternative to change realities
what is mimoSa
part III
People, technology and machinery involved
people
technology
prior works
contact
“mimoSa: Urban Intervention and Information Correctional Machine” is a
2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore)
for its Turbulence
web site. It was made possible with funding from the
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.”