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{{Short description|Anti-consumerist activist collective}} {{multiple issues| {{Notability|date=April 2021}} {{More citations needed|date=April 2021}} }} '''RTMark''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɑr|t|m|ɑr|k}} (stylized as '''®™ark''') is an [[anti-consumerism|anti-consumerist]] activist collective, whose stated aim is to subvert the "Corporate Shield" that "protects" [[United States|American]] corporations. The name is derived from "Registered [[Trademark]]". RTMark is itself a registered corporation which brings together activists who plan projects with donors who fund them. It thus operates outside the laws governing human individuals, and benefits from the much looser laws governing corporations.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}} RTMark claimed as its first prank the "[[Barbie Liberation Organization]]", in which the voiceboxes of talking [[Barbie]] and [[G.I. Joe]] toys were swapped, and the toys then returned to the store (1993). The first prank documentable as being truly RTMark-sponsored was the [[SimCopter#Controversy|SimCopter]] "hack" (1996), carried out by founding member [[Jacques Servin]]<ref>{{cite web |date=8 December 1996 | title=PIXEL GAIETY COSTS JOB | url=https://www.nydailynews.com/1996/12/08/pixel-gaiety-costs-job/ | access-date=7 November 2024}}</ref> Other RTMark stunts were ''gwbush.com'' (a faked campaign Website for [[George W. Bush]]). They were also involved in the [[toywar]] and they brokered a deal so James Baumgartner, the original inventor of ''[[voteauction]]''<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 June 1999 |title=Bush Shows How Not to Handle the Internet, Experts Say |url=http://www.rtmark.com/more/nytimesbush0608.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000307173046/http://www.rtmark.com/more/nytimesbush0608.html |archive-date=7 March 2000 |access-date=22 April 2021 |website=[[New York Times]]}}</ref> could sell the raw project to [[Ubermorgen|UBERMORGEN]] in [[Austria]]. The group's website was part of the [[Whitney Biennial]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2000/fyi/news/04/19/whitney/index.html |title=Net art brings 'geekdom' to the Whitney |work=CNNfyi |publisher=CNN |date=20 April 2000 |access-date=11 May 2021}}</ref> ==See also== * [[Decadent Action]] * [[Jacques Servin]] * [[Igor Vamos]] * [[The Yes Men]] ==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite book|last=Baumgärtel |first=Tilman |title=net.art 2.0 - New Materials towards Net art |publisher=Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg |year=2001 |pages=106–113 |isbn=3-933096-66-9}} ==External links== * [http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/1693/index.html RTMark] website mirrored at the [[Rhizome (organization)|Rhizome]] [[Rhizome (organization)#Web archiving|Archive]] * [http://www.sniggle.net/barbie.php Barbie Liberation Organization] * [http://archive.rhizome.org/artbase/1693/more/articles/crackingthemaze.htm SimCopter hack] * [https://www.vdb.org/artists/®tmark ®™ark] at the [http://www.vdb.org/ Video Data Bank] * [http://gwbush.com G W Bush campaign parody website] {{Authority control}} [[Category:American artist groups and collectives]] [[Category:Anti-consumerist groups]] [[Category:Anti-corporate activism]] {{activism-stub}} {{business-org-stub}}
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