delocator.net

dear friends,

please join us in the launch of our new web project by visiting and
spreading the word about www.delocator.net

delocator.net is an online database project that creates a comparison
between the amounts of local independently owned cafes and Starbucks
retail stores within a specific zip code. By comparison of numeric
quantity and site-specific detail, the user will see evidence of
unchecked aggression and power that corporate businesses have in our
communities. The site is also a free online space for independent
cafe goers and owners to promote their cafes by uploading local cafe
information to the delocator.net database. The creation of other
delocated database-driven web sites is encouraged. On the delocator
web site, users are able to download the code necessary to establish
a new database, prompting more sites and databases that may focus on
other specific retail stores (fast-food, hardware, clothing, etc.).
delocator.net will be launched with the intention of becoming a
web-meme, sprouting many future de-located corporate stores. This
project is a collaboration between the collective Finishing School
and Vasna Sdoeung.

delocator.net was launched on April 1, 2005 in the form of an
exhibition at San Francisco Art Institute's Walter and Mc Bean
Galleries, located on the main campus at 800 Chestnut Street, San
Francisco, CA 94133, USA. The exhibition will include both the
virtual and physical launch of delocator.net and an installation that
explores concerns with the increased presence and tools to combat
transnational corporations in local socio-economic spaces. Also in
the exhibition, The Anti-Advertising Agency,
(http://www.antiadvertisingagency.com/) will transform the McBean
Project Space into its temporary headquarters replete with a
conference table, desks, chairs, dry erase boards, a water cooler,
fluorescent lamps, and cubicle walls in order to plan the Agency's
counter-advertising projects for 2005