Emergency Broadcast Network was a performance art and video group who did work in the 1990's. Now with Youtube, their work is coming back online. You can do a search for EBN on Youtube, and find dozens of videos.
The original EBN folks met at Rhode Island School of Design. They were Joshua Pearson, Gardner Post and Brian Kane. Later on, others joined, include Greg Deocampo (founder of Company of Science and Art (CoSA). Incidentally, CoSA Effects later on turned into After Effects, a well known image processing software currently owned by Adobe.
More detailed information can be found on the group on Wikipedia and you can see samples from Telecommunication Breakdown at http://emn-usa.com/ebn
EBN's work was "culture jamming" in media culture. Culture jamming (in the words of Wikipedia's definition "...often entails transforming mass media to produce ironic or satirical commentary about itself, using the original medium's communication method." One of EBN's clear influences was Fluxus media artist Nam Jun Paik, who was culture jamming with analog television before TV had really come of age.
I could say more, but here's an intro look at EBN.
-sam smiley
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These guys rule!
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