Fwd: <nettime> US DAT Executes Empire, 51st Venice Biennale

> US Department of Art & Technology
> Washington, DC
>
> Office of the Press Secretary, press@xxxxxxxx
> For Immediate Release: June 16, 2005
>
> US DAT EXECUTES EMPIRE
> WITH RECLAMATION OF AMERICAN PAVILION
> http://www.usdat.us/secretary
>
> VENICE - The US Department of Art & Technology announces the execution of 
> "Empire Runs Its Course," completed this week at the 51st Venice
> Biennale. Visit the Department Website to view the remains: 
> http://www.usdat.us/secretary
>
> Visitors at the Biennale were surprised to find only the columns and 
> pediment remaining from the former American Pavilion. According to
> Secretary-at-Large Randall M. Packer, "the Department has carried out the 
> wishes of the Pavilion's founder, Walter L. Clark, who expressed in
> 1930 at the first opening: 'if the United States government ever creates a 
> Department of Art, the building will be turned over to the
> supervision of such a governmental department.' Now that we have executed 
> "Empire Runs its Course" and reclaimed the American Pavilion, we have
> completed the first phase of our important task to transform it as the 
> "Virtual Pavilion."
>
> For more information, follow the Situational Tour of the 51st Venice 
> Biennale, reportage from the aesthetic edge:
>
> http://www.usdat.us/secretary
>
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