Dear Friends,
In 1980, I formed OK Research to investigate of the role of technology
in our society using its own documents as source material.
In celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of OK Research -- which
was followed from 1983-1985 by OK Genetic Engineering; and from
1986 - 1990 by Bad Information -- a paper describing these
information art projects, including the OK GENETIC ENGINEERING COMPANY
CAR, HUMAN LUST INDUCING VIRUS, (HLIV) and the BAD INFORMATION BASES
is now available on the web.
Published in 1988 in LEONARDO, the paper contains some of my ideas about
the role of technology in our society, about information art, about
computer technology, about biotechnology. It details how as president of
Ok Research and of OK Genetic Engineering, I documented the activities
of technology and biotechnology corporations -- using information from
their own literature as iconography.
"OK Research, OK Genetic Engineering, Bad Information: Information Art
Describes Technology" is available at
OK Research, OK Genetic Engineering or Bad Information were also
documented in THE UN/NECESSARY IMAGE, Peter D'Agostino and Antonio
Muntadas, eds; (New York: Tanam, 1982) several issues of ART COM
MAGAZINE; and were shown in installations including Site in San
Francisco; (partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts)
EXPERIMENTAL BOOKS, curated by Margaret Stainer at Works Gallery in San
Jose; and Monumental Women curated by Joe Babcock and Michael Bell at
SOMAR. Other venues for this work included the Berkeley Art Center;
(ART) WORD (ART) at Trojanowska Gallery; and the Smithsonian Institution
which included a copy of HLIV in its biotechnology collections.
Best,
Judy Malloy
