Andreas Broeckmann on Wed, 3 Sep 1997 21:33:19 +0100 |
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[the Remote C project can be found at http://remote.aec.at ] X-Sender: andreas@194.151.30.130 (Unverified) Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 07:43:34 +0100 To: ingrid@aec.at From: Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl> Organization: V2, Rotterdam Subject: Remote C - Control, Command, Communication http://www.aec.at/97/~RemoteC/ontrol.htm A HREF - Linking, looping, crashing - the sociology and the aesthetics of the networks. OPEN - While parts of the Net are being Pushed into TV, net.artists practice narrow-but-far-casting. GOTO - Remote C provides a view of the Internet in a nutshell. It highlights the Net's quality of a distributed, translocal space of cooperation and communication. CONNECT - The limitations of technology, design and connectivity are a far cry from brush and paint. ERROR 404 - We are travelling the interstitial spaces of the matrix. RELOAD - The speed is slow - only in the mornings the Net is a highway in Europe. REFRESH - The Refresh project of October 96 - an experiment in the topology of the Net. WARNING - Not the Good Times of the viruses, but content is the killer application of the net. Mind the parasites, enjoy the parasites. QUOTE - In what I am doing on the net nobody cares if the signal comes from Moscow or from wherever. I can put my files on an Amsterdam server or in New York, it doesn't matter. http://www.aec.at/97/~RemoteC/ommand.htm PUT FILE - REPLACE? - YES - Websites offer endless possibilities for modification and transmutation. Nothing ever gets ready, none of this will last. SAVE AS - There is always something beyond the screen - ASCII, Binhex, social action, theory, film language, community coziness - all of these are transient. RENAME - The parasitic aesthetics of the Net: copy, fake, and spam. QUOTE - the net is invisible. anything complex is invisble. that doesn't mean that you cannot have a sense for it. you can communicate with complexity. QUOTE - Net art might be a domain assuming as a program some techniques of nomadism. Random appearances, tactical disappearance, low resolution, ubiquity, distrust of historic values (posterity, stability, economic growth), data pessimism (bury the information, save your discourse for a rainy day), strategies of destruction (symbolic viruses), etc. Question: If the >web< is a floating graveyard, what is the format of the funeral monuments? ASCII? QTVR? http://www.aec.at/97/~RemoteC/ommunication.htm FORWARD - This is a digital gift economy, a potlach on and off the net. CC - net.art is an open channel. It is not a group, but an informal, temporary, fluctuating gathering based on sympathy and mutual respect for work and personality, as well as for the spirit of the work. It is definitely not ironic, a long wait, sometimes a waste of time, and mostly fun. BCC - A string of public and private meetings, of secret conferences and individual appearances straight across Europe. A travelling circus with intense intermediate exchanges of messages. WHO - Namen sind Schall und Rauch. What counts is the convivial heterogeneity of interlinked projects. LOG - As media art installations enter the museums and websites are prepared for gallery presentation, we take a CDed snapshot, pin it to the wall and continue elsewhere. QUOTE - > The term net-art should be quietly ditched. no, it's not time yet. we have to wait until: - big international net art stars (whose works and behaviour meet art institutions' demands) will emerge; - living legends of net art will appear (poor, but accepting no compromises); - some names will be forgotten (to be discovered in the future by net art historians as key figures of the beginning of the movement); - net art galleries, magazines, associations and museums will be established; - as well as net art departments at universities; - few net art histories (contradictory, each describing completely different picture) will be written; /BYE - The host has a home, it is a home. The parasite has no home of its own, it chooses temporary homes, it is always a lodger. The multiplication of entrances, the multiplication of homepages and 'faces' of the net.art websites produces a multiplication of selves. net.artists are never one. The net.artist is a collective that becomes stronger and more beautiful the further distributed and discretely interconnected it is. The gesture of multiple homepages means neither: this is my home, this is my face, this is me, nor: be my DoppelgÅ nger, but it means: be my triplegÅ nger, quadruplegÅ nger, my septuplegÅ nger, and then: visitor, guest, parasite, be welcomed, enter the remote machine through the passages of our multiple selves. What we witness is not a dissolution of borders, but a distribution and interconnection of potentialities. Friends inviting each other to their homes, getting together in conviviality for festive meals and the distribution of gifts, forgetting who is the host and who is the guest. QUIT - >>I like the term net.art, especially because of that little dot in it. net.art - what is it? it was always seasonal, temporary, ironic. it will disappear with elegance again. >this is the year for 'net art' you forget that the . will remain. QUOTE - The medium that was not mentioned in all these texts is the most important ... the telephone! Without the telephone none of this would be possible. ATTACH - ....................gif"...................*...............................txt.. *://:::::::::::::::self;}function MakeArray() { var lngth = MakeArray.arguments.length; for ( i = 0 ; i < lngth ; i++ ) {this[i]=MakeArray.arguments[i] } }functi> Transfer interrupted!> Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:RemoteC.txt (TEXT/ttxt) (0000AF87)