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. The Weekender ................................................... . a weekly digest of calls . actions . websites . campaigns . etc . . send your announcements and notes to announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be . . please don't be late ! delivered each weekend . into your inbox . . http://simsim.rug.ac.be/announcer/ for subscription info & help . . archive (separate msgs) http://www.egroups.com/group/announcer/ . ................................................................... 01 . occupation@infonie.be . Street Party contre la guerre 02 . Dellbruegge & de Moll . hamburg-ersatz 7.0 03 . Yukiko Shikata . "DISCODER" by exonem on CyGnet 04 . Cary Peppermint . //PEPPERMINT EXPOSURE NYC:) 05 . Reception . SOUND OFF Acoustic Shadows Workshops and Talks SITE GALLERY, SHEFFIELD, UK 06 . ir-heath@mail.netnames.net . RADIO 90 STREAMING MEDIA FESTIVAL 07 . savvynews@bmd.clis.com . ART: New Art by Rick Doble 08 . Ryan Whyte . Aporia #2 Now Available 09 . teo spiller . net.art sold 10 . Igor Stepancic . POW project 11 . brian carroll . architexturez: query 12 . Luther Blissett . open_source_hell.com ................................................................... 01 From: "occupation" Subject: Street Party contre la guerre Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:59:52 +0200 ---------- Street Party contre la guerre ---------- Le centre social de Bruxelles et la caravane intercontinente organisent une Street Party contre la guerre le vendredi 28 mai. Le lieu de rendez-vous est fixé à 18h00 au parvis de Saint-Gilles (A cinq minutes de la gare du Midi). Pour ceux qui comptent aller à la manifestation de Cologne du Samedi 29, nous vous proposons de passer d'abord par Bruxelles pour participer à la Street Party. Il y aura du logement pour tous. Le samedi matin (vers 9h00) nous prendrons le train "gratuit" pour aller ensemble à Cologne. L'idée est de pouvoir être le plus de monde possible. Pour plus d'infos: centre social de Bruxelles : occupation@infonie.be ................................................................... 02 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:24:22 +0100 From: "[iso-8859-1] Dellbr¸gge & de Moll" <modell@berlin.snafu.de> Subject: hamburg-ersatz 7.0 ACHTUNGACHTUNG! Alle Etagen im HAMBURG ERSATZ sind nun eingerichtet. Was ist neu? Ebene 6: Weg der Philosophen Ebene 7: Ausguck ins Universum Auþerdem ist das Sprechzimmer (in der Vollversion) komfortabler, der Stadtgarten gewachsen und die Agora wird immer belebter. Besuchen Sie: <http://hamburg-ersatz.trmd.de> Ihr modell * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Der HAMBURG ERSATZ ist das erste Internetprojekt des Hamburger Programms Kunst im –ffentlichen Raum und wird als work in progress bis zum 31.12.1999 im Internet angesiedelt sein. ................................................................... 03 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 12:52:33 +0200 Subject: "DISCODER" by exonem on CyGnet From: Yukiko Shikata <yshikata@crpg.canon.co.jp> hello all, here i would like to inform you "DISCODER" by exonemo, the latest project i curated at Shiseido CyGnet (http://www.shiseido.co.jp/cygnet). this is the second one i did for CyGnet, after "Tyrell.Hungary"(EastEdge). exonemo is consisted of a coulple, yae akaiwa and kensuke sembo, expecting young artists, and one of the few to work to this direction of the net.(profile is below). the work is for you to destroy the html codes of web pages by typing keyboards. you are welcome to participate..! yukiko shikata ------------------------------------------------- [DISCODER] by exonemo Accessing websites all over the world has become commonplace. And yet, most who browse the web only engage what is presented in the pages that they visit, not the mechanism of their realisation -- the realm of the HTML code. A "DISCODER" is a device "which destroys HTML informatic CODE and its CODEs of behavior, a contradiction provider for the web." (exonemo) In this project the user "messes" with the web's HTML internet metastructure. The tags in HTML slip, and the integrity of HTML source code is compromised, as if eaten by bugs. The user is liberated from not only the assuring mathematical illusions of the HTML interface (in the dismantling of the code) itself, but also from the subtle suggestions of normative behavior presented to the individual by the computer. The DISCODER has two modes, a <Private Mode> and an <Open Mode>. In the former, the user inputs the URL of the page the he or she wishes to destroy (all pages on the WWW are DISCODEable) and proceeds to wreak havoc to their little heart's content. In the latter, the user can decimate a page socially, with friends. With either, the keyboard, this mundane part of our text-based lives, becomes an instrument of destruction, while typing on the keys produces sounds like a typewriter. HTML code suddenly becomes a breeding ground for inserting bugs (ASCII text, which eats HTML source code like a bug, creating an great many changes in the structure of web pages) who change the face of the virtual terrain. The user is not limited to random attacks on websites, they can shoot at targets too. Because the bug's influence on the site can be monitored numerically in real time, the user can devise strategies for their assaults. The numbers, alphabet, symbols, backspace (delete) and other keys each carry a new function in DISCODER, and their categories and point of introduction into the HTML bear relation with previously planted bugs so that the bug's "growth" (into capital letters) and then into HTML tags in their own right, reconstructing the broken pages. There are anynumber of unpredicatable effects produced by the DISCODER, especially when, in the <Open Mode>, an unspecified number of users participate, and bugs engage the sedimentary layers produced by bugs that have gone before them, the DISCODER produces some of its most surprising conclusions. DISCODER, through the invasion of unreasonable elements (= bugs), and a process of destruction, becomes a mechanism for new writing. exonemo's sites aren't set on HTML. DISCODER's cross-hairs are fixed on the vectors of mundane standardisation, and increased codification in our lives. (Yukiko Shikata) <exonemo> In 1996 Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa formed "exonemo" when they detonated on impact with the WWW, feeling the infinitely great possibilities in new senses of distance and dynamics. They have continued to publish their art on the web, still after that new feeling, ever since. * Kensuke Sembo 1972 Born in Tokyo Japan. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University. Kensuke worked mainly on the planning, production, including Java Script, Perl and HTML programing in DISCODER. * Yae Akaiwa 1973 Born in Fukuoka Japan. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University. Yae worked mainly on the planning, production, including Java Script and HTML programing, as well as the interface design in DISCODER. Check it out! --> http://www.exonemo.com/ ................................................................... 04 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:39:09 -0400 From: "Cary Peppermint" <cpeppermint@web.nydailynews.com> To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be> Subject: ann! ... //PEPPERMINT EXPOSURE NYC:) ****************----/// CN_9 (EXPOSURE): TO FORGET YOURSELF YET REMEMBER FORGETTING REAL-TIME EXERCISES FROM SYMBOLIC AMERICA ****************----/// --------------------------------------- //-(!)-PREVIEW NOW-(!)--// --------------------------------------- MP3 ftp://ftp.progirl.com/pub/mp3/XV3.sit REALAUDIO http://www.progirl.com/simsin.ram CN9 SITE http://www.progirl.com/cn9 --------------------------------------- ****************---/// --------------------------------------- //-(!)-REAL-TIME VIEW-(!)--// --------------------------------------- POSTMASTERS GALLERY THURSDAY MAY 20th 1999 7PM EST 459 WEST 19TH STREET NYC (BETWEEN 9TH & 10TH AVE) ................................................................... 05 [partially obsolete...] Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 23:41:50 +0200 From: Reception <reception@artec.org.uk> To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be> Subject: ann! ... AudioRom SOUND OFF Workshop & Talk @ Site, UK tomorrow SOUND OFF Acoustic Shadows Workshops and Talks SITE GALLERY, SHEFFIELD, UK ---------------------------------------------- coming next........... Shift Control by AudioRom Talk tomorrow Friday 14 May 6.30 pm Workshop Saturday 15 May 11.00 - 3.00 AudioRom are known for their experimental work exploring and developing interactivity which pushes the boundaries of audience participation. The distinguishing and innovative feature of their work is the equal emphasis on music and visuals within the overall form of the work. Developing interactive multi-media installations and CD-Roms, each project defines a different formal approach to the fusion of visuals and music through the use of various sensory interactive devices and musical styles and samples. Interaction with music uses such forms as typing or game play, equipping the user with hundreds of possible reconstructions while maintaining harmony and rhythm and this will be explored in the workshop. Shift Control will be installed in the Site gallery foyer from 10 April - 15 May 1999 <http://www.audiorom.com/> ---------------------------------------------- coming soon........... Weightless: the readymade in electronic space by Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead Talk Friday 25 June 6.30 pm Workshop 26 June 1.00 - 4.30 In Weightless Thomson & Craighead use gif animations, midi files and text fragments taken from web based chat lines as the main components of a fluid on-line environment. They will explore issues around the production of Weightless and the use of the vast amounts of available online data to create new artworks. Weightless was commissioned by Channel <http://www.channel.org.uk/weightless> and is the latest in a series of web artworks by Thomson & Craighead <http://www.thomson-craighead.net> ---------------------------------------------- info........... Sound Off Programme has been organised by Site in association with Channel / Artec, London as part of the Cached series of artists events. <http://www.channel.org.uk/cached> More info from: Site Gallery . Sheffield . UK e: gallery@site-map.u-net.com . <http://www.site-map.u-net.com> ---------------------------------------------- Apologies if you have received this posting more than once channel . commissions . residencies . network projects . information . debate . webcasts . channel CHANNEL news: .....Channel was hacked yesterday morning with an anti-War statement..... no damage was done to work on Channel and server security has been reviewed..... nevertheless, whilst absolutely condeming all agressive acts committed against people in Kosovo by Serbian troops and militia and the censorship of independent media reporting, we at Channel would like to state that we do not support the current NATO bombing strategy as a means to restore peace and secure living conditions in Kosovo..... apologies to all those who tried to access the Channel site yesterday..... CHANNEL is is a unique home for collaborative and experimental networked arts projects, debate and resources. CHANNEL is funded by the Arts Council of England and managed by Artec who provide production resources and artists' residency programmes. For more information about Channel projects contact: Programme: David Sinden / Technical: Andi Freeman . Artec . t:+44 171 477 2775 . e: david/andi@artec.org.uk <http://www.channel.org.uk> channel . commissions . residencies . network projects . information . debate . webcasts . channel ................................................................... 06 Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 05:36:10 +0100 (BST) From: ir-heath@mail.netnames.net To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be> Subject: ann! ... RADIO 90 STREAMING MEDIA FESTIVAL RADIO 90 STREAMING MEDIA FESTIVAL To coincide with: Synch or Stream: A think-tank on networked audio visual media The Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada May 15th - 17th 1999 http://www.banff.org/netav Radio 90 is holding a festival celebrating the culture of net.radio. The World Service Scheduler <http://www.irational.org/radio/world_service> is currently being filled with audio content, live and archived, reflecting the spaces that have opened up for audio culture on the Internet. The Festival will be based around the following loose themes: ................................... saturday 15 may 'tactical radio': net.radio used in political contexts. The Festival will rebroadcast Net Aid: the freeB92 birthday live stream, aswell as other tactical radio material ................................... sunday 16 may 'avant garde radio': net.radio as a forum for alternative music culture The Festival will stream the sounds of DFM, RadioOZOne, r a d i o q u a l ia, CKUT + others ................................... monday 17 may 'bedroom radio': producing/listening to audio in the bedroom intimate audio pleasure from the playlists of orang and elsewhere ................................... also - 'under the influence of ether' an audio / radio transmission installation by Ken Gregory ................................... Radio 90 and the Streaming Media Festival crew celebrate the following netradio producers: American Indian Radio http://airos.org/ CJSW http://www.cjsw.com CKUT http://www.ckut.com CIUT http://www2.ciut.utoronto.ca/groups/ciut/ CFUV http://cfuv.uvic.ca/ Ozone http://ozone.re-lab.net ConvexTV http://www.art-bag.net/convextv Interface http://interface.pirate-radio.co.uk Radio 100 http://desk.nl/~radio100 DFM rtv http://desk.nl/~dfm/ r a d i o q u a l i a http://radioqualia.va.com.au the womb http://www.thewomb.com pararadio http://para.c3.hu/ FreeB92 http://www.freeb92.net/netaid/index.html L'audible http://laudanum.net/fl*live/ Backspace http://bak.spc.org/radio ccs http://www.irational.org/ccs pseudo.com http://www.channelp.com radio90 http://www.irational.org/radio/radio90 Radio International Stadt http://orang.orang.de farmers manual http://www.farmersmanual.co.at Radio FRO http://www.fro.at kunstradio http://thing.at/orfkunstradio MZX http://www.radiostudent.si/mzx/menu.html tune in to the World Service >- http://www.irational.org/radio/world_service ................................................................... 07 [eh?] Date: Fri, 14 May 99 02:55:58 EST From: savvynews@bmd.clis.com To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be> Subject: ann! ... ART: New Art by Rick Doble Hi Art Lover, This is a general announcement of new work by Rick Doble for the hundreds of people who have written me about my art sites. Send me an email and I will be glad to respond personally. If you do not want to receive future announcements, please send me a copy of this message with the SUBJECT = NEW ART: REMOVE. NEW WORK ========================================== Home Page Address With Links To All New Work: DIGITAL VISUALS URL: http://www.clis.com/savvynews/digi_art/ This page links to all my art work exclusively on the Internet. There are now almost 200 digital images that link to this page. Links to new work is posted here. You may want to bookmark this page as work is being added on a regular basis. Digital Photography Essay: SPRING STORM ABSTRACTS: URL: http://doble.interspeed.net/spring/ Colorful abstractions during a 5 day "Nor'Easter" on the Outer Banks of North Carolina USA (near Cape Hatteras) ---25 digital photographs Digital Photography Essay: IMPOSSIBLE PORTRAITS: URL: http://doble.interspeed.net/self/ Before digital photography these self-portraits were virtually impossible. ---24 digital photographs, 6 photographic animations, 4 contact sheets of multiple images, plus notes about the images and a review of the animations. Digital Photography and Other Artwork: PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS: URL: http://doble.interspeed.net/preview/ Tantalizing peeks of new digital art in the works. See thumbnail and full displays of work in progress. This site is an exhibit in itself. ---20 still images, 5 animations. Essay: WHY CREATE ART? URL: http://doble.interspeed.net/whyart3.htm Observations from a 55 year old artist who has been making art for 35 of those years. It's a lousy thankless job, but some one has got to do it. Essays & Multi-media presentation: THE BIG PICTURE: URL: http://doble.interspeed.net/bigpic/ This is the story that asks the big questions: where did we come from, where are we going, and what do we do now? This is a set of very short essays which attempts to answer these questions using modern scientific understanding as a basis. "The story of how humans came to live on the Earth, as told by modern theories, is beautiful and mythic. I believe we owe it to ourselves as a culture to tell this story in simple terms that can be easily understood." NOTES ========================================== ATTENTION EZINES, WEB SITES, ARTISTS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS, SCHOOLS, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, ETC.: I am very open to sharing my work. Please send me an email if you would like to use any of my work at your site or in the classroom or for any other purpose. You may link to my sites without permission. However, please send me a notice of the link and I will in turn link to your page. RICK DOBLE TO BE IN WHO'SWHO IN AMERICA (MILLENNIUM EDITION) Rick Doble will be included in the next edition of Marquis Who'sWho in America, the original Who'sWho since 1899. NEW FASTER WEB SITE Thanks to a new program, JPEG Wizard, I can now reduce the size of my JPG pictures by about 70% without any loss in quality. Check my main page for a link to this software. (No, I don't own this company or have anything to do with it; I just like their software.) FUTURE EXHIBITS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS WILL START WITH EACH SEASON: I have decided to put work up on the Internet and to send out announcements on a quarterly basis at the start of each season. Look for new work at the start of summer (July 1), fall (October 1), winter (December 1 - snowflakes and Christmas lights), and spring (April 1). Announcements will be sent out about a month later as time permits. GENERAL SITE UPDATE: Since June 1, 1998 (when I started tracking my traffic) my combined art sites have received over 20,000 unique hits. Work from my sites has been featured at: --The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia --CBS Radio, the Internet Minute, featured site --Pif Magazine (ezine) - "cover" --The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL - sites included in the Art + Technology 98 exhibit --DigitalNation - link --Featured artist, Enculturation Film/Image site See the links page at my site for the specific URLs. ================= RICK DOBLE Internet Artist URL: http://www.clis.com/savvynews/digi_art/ Email: savvynews@mail.clis.com ================= ................................................................... 08 Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 16:10:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Ryan Whyte <da549@freenet.toronto.on.ca> To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be> Subject: ann! ... Aporia #2 Now Available Aporia #2 "Time" Text and images: Andy Patton Monique Ladurie Rachel Levitsky Gordon Lebredt Tyler Stallings Mark A. Cheetham Alan Jennifer Sondheim Kent Johnson Rachel Daley Ryan Whyte Nestor Kruger Thomas Zummer Review: Tennessee Rice Dixon Interview: Brad Brace ISSN 1480-9389 40 pages color offset and photocopy All correspondence: Individual issues $3 Can $2.50 U.S.A Aporia Two-issue subscriptions: $5 Can. in Canada Ryan Whyte $4 U.S. in U.S.A P.O. Box 124 $6 U.S. overseas Station 'C' Toronto, ON Canada M6J 3M7 da549@torfree.net Upcoming: Aporia #3: winter 1999: "The Avant-Garde" with Aporia #3a "Poetry 'Supplement'" Aporia #4: ETA? "Color" * * * * * , to delay ( from ) the world ................................................................... 09 Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 05:20:58 PDT From: "teo spiller" <tspiller@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be> Subject: ann! ... net.art sold Maribor, Slovenia 12 noon, Wednesday, May 12,1999 5th International Festival of Computer Arts Live Panel concluding the online forum to discuss the sale of net.art (http://www.teo-spiller.org/forum/) Participents: Teo Spiller, Brian Goldfarb, Alexander Bassin (director of the Ljubljana Municipal Gallery, and the Buyer of the net.art project "megatronix"), Jaka Zeleznikar The panel began with Spiller providing a summary of the one month online discussion of net.art commerce and negotations over the sale of Spiller's recent online artwork "Megatronix" http://www.teo-spiller.org/megatronix/ . Spiller announced that a deal had been struck and that the general terms for a contract of sale were finalized within the final 24 hours before the close of the forum. The work will be purchased by the Ljubljana Municipal Gallery for 85,000 SIT (approximately US $500). The work will be maintained on the artist's server until the Gallery secures its own domain name and server. Spiller has agreed to add a small banner to the opening page of the project aqnnouncing that the project is now owned by the Ljubliana Municipal Gallery. The artist has committed to updating the site as necessary in collaboration with the Gallery's technical support personnel. The Gallery and Artist have agreed to split any future proceeds from reproduction and distribution of the work. The Gallery may put banner ads on the introductory screen of "Megatronix" but may not alter the piece in any other way. Significanly, the Gallery must maintain the presence of the project on the Web. However, they may restrict access to it if this is part of a revenue raising strategy that they are applying to the rest of their art collection (ie, similar to a museum entrance admission). Among the terms of the contract which are still unclear is whether the artist is entitled to a percentage of any advertising revenue gained from banner ads or other promotional use of the artwork. Also it is still to be determined who will be responsible for updating the work should, for example, it become incompatible with future browsers or internet protocol. Spiller suggests that this will most likely be something that he would undertake for a fee negotiated under an additional contract. The negotiations over the sale of megtronix raised a number of critical issues concerning the changing role of artists, curators, galleries, museums, and other art world constituencies in a digital age. Many artists are concerned that traditional collecting and exhibiting institutions take up a role in preserving art works which may not actually be presented within the white walls of their galleries. If museums and galleries don't begin collecting and preserving these works now, it may be difficult to access these "early" net.artworks later as platforms and software formats change multiple generations. It was agreed that net.art is shifting the audiences for art and will likely affect the economics of artistic production and exhibition. Equally we will see a shift in the constituancies who see it as in their interest to support, promote and preserve net.art. Bassin discussed the varying motivations of commercial and noncommercial collecting institutions and individual patrons of the arts. While he noted that collectors are clearly aware of the growing importance of this art they have yet to determine which avenue provides the best means for their participation. Spiller, Goldfarb and other forum participants suggest that in the next few years we will see art on the Internet beginning to conform to two general approaches. On the one hand there will be a proliferation of works which are platform independent that can be acessed and downloaded from the net, but which are essentially removable from it (much like CD-ROMs and DVD). These works will be supported though the global entertainment industry's commitment to development of multimedia standards and methods of distribution and exchange. On the other hand, we will see more specialized genre of work that builds upon the communicative aspects of the net. These latter works will be more difficult to collect or preserve as they are tied to the specific, and rapidly evolving context of digital networks. They will most likely be supported through other means than sale. Goldfarb suggests that they might be supported through the works ability to deliver specific constituencies through affiliation with a commercial or corperate patron--much like the model of radio or television programming being supported through advertising revenue. With this last point in mind Spiller and Goldfarb have determined to extend the current project by announcing a competition for a banner.net.art project. The award for the winner will be presented in Ljubljana in the first days of the coming Millenium. Entry and submission details will be forthcoming on www.teo-spiller.org and will be posted broadly to appropriate net.art forums and discussion groups. Teo Spiller and Brian Goldfarb (more about selling net.art in New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/indexartsatlarge.html ) ................................................................... 10 Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:18:22 +0200 Subject: POW project From: "Igor Stepancic" <igor@blueprintit.com> HI, POWs are writting to inform you that a new project is installed on www.blueprintit.com/pow and should you choose you are free to visit it. We would be happy to hear from you and your opinion about the site. We are sending transcripts of intoductiory textes for POW project. First texte is about project itself and the other is abuot Beuys vs Warhol. The other projects to be installed are titled: PERSEU'S SHIELD DOLLY'S LAMBS ART AT THE END.... Also at the end of Beuys vs Warhol piece there is a DISCUSSION BOARD with topics to be updated regulary. We welcome all the artists to participate and also produce some work to be installed on the site. Should you request any other information or want to comment on the project please mail to the following addresses: pow@blueprintit.com brigates@tin.it "POW CAMP SITE" This is an interactive project initiated by artists from Beograd as it is being bombed. It is about art being a prisoner of war, so every artist is a prisoner of war. Being confined to the isolation of the "CAMP(WEB) SITE" artists make work as an reaction to it. It welcomes all artists, throughout the world, who feel like POWs to take part and exhibit their work. In this sense it is open to different approaches to ART AGAINST RAT (WAR) and the position of an artist living life during war time. The initial thesis will be installed on the "site" in the form of art work using images to communicate and artists can directly install their works on the site. We hope it will become a discussion group for artists/POWs on the "CAMP(WEB) SITE"." "BEUYS vs. WARHOL underlines two positions in art, one American and other European, by confronting two icons of 20th century art. It explores the power of images and concepts in a battle for individuality for all wars negate individual differences. The same mechanism is found in mass production and propaganda though the outcomes are so different. Western art values individuality and tries hard to promote it but in essence it negates it. Beuys uses collective actions to strengthen and underline individuality. Warhol shows that individuality is insignificant." Best regards, POW ................................................................... 11 Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 20:32:44 -0800 From: brian carroll <human@architexturez.com> Subject: query http://www.architexturez.com is back online after two motherboard crashes, and looking to link to your independent research regarding the relationship between humans, nature, and the built environment... content ranging from semiotics to solar houses, war, and the politics of privacy protection are desired. architectural r-evolution. bc ................................................................... 12 Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 02:49:49 +0200 From: Luther Blissett <12345@net27.it> Subject: open_source_hell.com open_source_hell.com www. HELL.COM was born in 1995 as a conceptual art piece, an anti-web that sold and promoted nothing and was not accessible to the public: a sheer b(l)ack hole of the web. For almost three years, HELL.COM, a site with no content, never listed in any directory nor linked anywhere, averages of a million hits per month from people typing the name in search engines. It becomes therefore a conteiner for net.art sites and art galleries in which is possible to get in only if you are invited and whom list of member s is kept secret; it's what themselves call "a private parallel web." The idea behind HELL.COM is to create a launching pad for cyber-artists extremly elitist and with badly hidden venal ambitions... a fuckin' museum! During february 1999 HELL.COM organized "surface": a show with several superstar net artists like zuper!, absurd, fakeshop and many more. Like all the events by HELL.COM also this one was not available to the public, but was opened exclusively to RHIZOME subscribers. During the 48 hours opening 0100101110101101.ORG downloaded all the files of the site; the clone has been put on line, this time anticopyright,visible, reproducible and freely diffusible and, thanks to some technical devices, even more easily downloadable. According to 0100101110101101.ORG "the convinction that information must be free is a tribute to the way in which a very good computer or a valid program work: binary numbers move in accordance with the most logic, direct and necessary way to do their complex function. What is a computer if not somthing that benefit by the free flow of information? " At the moment the site is on line at the url: http://www.0100101110101101.ORG/hell.com The situation is constantly changing and nobody knows if and how long the site will remain active; actually HELL.COM has already threatened legal proceedings for copyright violations. open_source_hell.com: http://www.0100101110101101.ORG/hell.com HELL.COM: http://www.hell.com _____________________________________________________________________ Subject: [7-11] [fwd] WARNING1.0|||COPYRIGHT VIOLATION Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 21:14:37 +0200 From: 011101001010110100101111100001001000110101@0100101110101101.ORG Reply-To: 7-11@mila.ljudmila.org To: 011101001010110100101111100001001000110101@0100101110101101.ORG Subject: WARNING1.0|||COPYRIGHT VIOLATION Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 21:42:33 -0700 From: JUSTICE@HELL.com re: open_source_hell.com http://www.0100101110101101.ORG/hell.com cute... please immediately remove this material from your server you are in violation of international copyright laws which are clearly posted in the copyright information contained in our source code. also of note, it appears as though you have violated the copyrights of quite a few of our members individually::::::::::::::: http://www.0100101110101101.ORG on behalf of these individuals we request that you also remove these materials from your server as well |||| it would make sense to use your "abilities" to attempt something *original* JUSTICE@HELL.COM Security\\\\ http://HELL.COM ||||||||||| --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl