For Immediate Release: February 2, 2000
Disinformation, the Web's Leading Subculture Portal and Search Engine Announces Additions to Disinfo.Con 2000 Program
Set For February 19, 2000 Disinfo.Con Will Explore the Future with Marilyn Manson, Kenneth Anger, Mark Pesce and More!
New York, NY ^ Richard Metzger, Creative Director for The Disinformation Company Ltd. (www.disinfo.com) has announced several new participants in the much speculated upon Disinfo.Con today. Disinfo.Con will be the first event of its type in New York since the legendary Nova Convention, honoring author William Burroughs, in 1979. Featuring a line-up of speakers drawing from the best of the underground media, new science and far fringes of the art scene, Disinfo.Con 2000 will turn New York City's majestic Hammerstein Ballroom into an 11 hour Technicolor dream house of revolutionary thought, visionary art and lysergic lectures. The event will be "one part rave, one part performance, and one part mind fuck,o/oo according to Metzger.
The new additions to the already exciting program include: controversial glam icon Marilyn Manson in a satellite presentation, OEHollywood Babylono/oo author and magical filmmaker Kenneth Anger, Michael Crichton's co-writer and visual effects pioneer Michael Backes, VRML creator Mark Pesce, and Sanskrit expert Vyaas Houston. The event brings these speakers together with many of today's most important thinkers including Cyberculture pioneer RU Sirius, comic book legend Grant Morrison, elder statesman of conspiriology Robert Anton Wilson, future culture "queeno/oo of all media Genesis P-Orridge, visionary artist Paul Laffoley, outsider artist Joe Coleman, new media visionary Douglas Rushkoff, and Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey.
The event will also feature a Conspiracy Theory Roundtable featuring publisher and researcher Kenn Thomas, Robert Sterling, editor of The Konformist, Excluded Middle publisher Greg Bishop, and conspiracy theorist and academic Jodi Dean. Paleo-psychology and mass behavior expert Howard Bloom will present a special video lecture. There will also be an exclusive US preview of the new Disinfo Nation TV series now breaking time-slot records on Channel 4 in the UK, featuring a behind the scenes look at the Montauk Project, a biographical short about Timothy Leary, the brain damaged snuff film carnage of "Uncle Goddamn," Salvador Dali advertising Alka Seltzer and more!
Disinfo.Con 2000 will take place on Saturday February 19, 2000 at the Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street off of 8th Avenue in New York City. Doors open 10 am; the event starts at 11 am and finishes at 11 pm. The Ballroom is walking distance from Penn Station and The Port Authority Bus Station. There are also a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate reserved at the New Yorker Hotel, next door to the Ballroom. Passes for the 12-hour event cost $99.95 Attendees can register online at http://con2000.disinfo.com.
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For more information please contact Susan Mainzer or Lynn Hasty at Green Galactic, 323-466-5141 or info@greengalactic.com. Please also check out the Disinfo.Con website at http://con2000.disinfo.com.
The Disinformation Company Ltd.
The Disinformation Company Ltd. owns and operates the Disinformation Web site (www.disinfo.com), the leader in alternative information on the Web since its launch in September 1996. TDC recently completed production on a six program television series to air on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom beginning in January 2000. TDC also recently released the compilation CD The Best Of Moog as part of a joint venture with Loud Records, a Sony Music company. TDC is a part of the RSUB Network of content offering.
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