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Using a combination of humor, critical theory, and the visual motifs of the publicity machine of contemporary consumer culture, Critical Art Ensemble have produced artists' books and pamplets which work as media of strategic intervention. Useless Technology, a newprint sheet which parodies tabloid advertising, circulates in the culture at large outside the world of museums or galeries where its disruptive irreverence could be safely contained by its "art" identity.

Critical Art Ensemble Useless Technology 1994 newsprint insert 10" x11" courtesy of the artists

Neuberger Museum of Art 20 September 1998 - 31 January 1999