This is a poignant and hilarious documentary about a legendary media hoax that grappled with the irresponsibility of the mass media as well as the public’s gullibility–two issues of American life that are just as urgent today as they were then.
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Nello Barile writes: “Joey Skaggs is proof that the post-truth has always existed”, Motherboard, January 26, 2017 …Skaggs, come si è visto, è il supremo trickster del Media Hoaxing. Un folle, un folletto o un joker post-situazionista che con la sua ironia ha creato assurdi pseudo-eventi per
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SLIFF 2016 Interview: Joey Skaggs – Subject of ART OF THE PRANK by Tom Stockman We Are Movie Geeks November 2, 2016 ART OF THE PRANK screened Saturday, Nov. 5 at 5:30pm at .ZACK (3224 Locust Ave.) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival.
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Seasoned prankster Joey Skaggs chides rookie Zaida Pugh for unleashing crickets on packed D train: ‘You gotta realize there are consequences’ by Graham Rayman New York Daily News Sunday, September 4, 2016 As a prankster, Zaida Pugh — who terrified straphangers in August when she released live
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Film documenting media hoax artist opens up LES Film Festival By Spencer Roth-Rose, The New York Observer, June 13, 2016 Good God, we’re easy to fool. It feels a bit counterintuitive to be writing, in the media, about media hoaxer Joey Skaggs. Skaggs, who was interviewed this past week
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ART OF THE PRANK movie to screen three times at the Denver Film Festival in mid November, 2015 Joey Skaggs—artist, satirist, culture jammer, social activist, and fierce proponent of independent thinking—has been playing the media for a fool with a politically evolved version of MTV’s Punk’d since the
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SVA First Person: Joey Skaggs on the ‘Art of the Prank’ Long before social media, hidden camera prank shows likePunk’d and Jackass, and culture-jamming activist groups like The Yes Men, SVA alumnus and former faculty member Joey Skaggs (BFA 1982 Media Arts) had already turned the media
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