on KDM100 (part 1)

MTAA's Karaoke DeathMatch 100 [1] has been live on the web for about a
week. As the project progresses I thought I would do a post now and
then discussing how I think it's going and my thoughts on the project.

As with any creative project, the creator doesn't truly understand it
until it's released to the public.

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Contemporary karaoke has been debased. The point of karaoke isn't to
entertain strangers with talented renditions of popular songs. It's
point is to entertain your friends with drunken humiliating,
destructions of popular songs. Karaoke is best experienced in a
private room, with close friends who are all completely wasted. They
each take their turn destroying a song with their drunken, yet
fervent, attempt at entertainment.

This is Karaoke DeathMatch 100. The web, in general, and net art
specifically, is MTAA's best friend. We want to entertain the web. We
entertain the web by humiliating ourselves in drunken buffoonery. But
the web, if the web deserves this gesture of friendship, it has
obligations. Art obligations. One or two or three rounds of drunken,
ear-piercing foolishness isn't great art. The web needs to commit.
This is pop endurance performance art. The web needs to endure this
performance if we're going to have some art happen here.

It's up to you world wide web. Like 1YPV [2], this thing only works if
you are there for us. You must watch every day. You must vote ever
day. If you do, the art WILL happen. If you don't, the art won't
happen. It's a simple really [3].

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[1] http://www.mteww.com/kdm100/
[2] http://www.turbulence.org/Works/1year
[3] http://www.mteww.com/images/netartdiagram.gif