FREE MANIFESTA NEWSLETTER 22.8.02 (SPOTLIGHT ON INTERNET PROJECTS PART 1 OF 2)

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FREE MANIFESTA NEWSLETTER 22.8.02

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The summer of FREE MANIFESTA is coming to a close, and August 25 (Sunday)
will be the last day to stop by the Free Manifesta headquarters and pick up
free art and artists information sheets. However, many of the FREE
MANIFESTA artists projects are ongoing, especially work accessible through
the internet. The FREE MANIFESTA website will remain online indefinitely as
a catalog of the show and an access point to all of the artists and their
works.

The next two issues of this newsletter will focus on the wide array of
internet artworks which are part of FREE MANIFESTA. I'd like to send
particular thanks to RHIZOME for creating and sustaining an amazing
community of artists, so many of whom have contributed generously and
enthusiastically to this project.

RHIZOME
http://www.rhizome.org


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EVENT TOMORROW: THURSDAY 23 AUGUST AT THE TRESSPASSING SPACE, 18:00

DANCING PAINTINGS BY MAYA KALOGERA

Maya Kalogera will be in Frankfurt at the Manifesta 4 Trespassing Space
showing several of her short video pieces, DANCING PAINTINGS, which are
based on her abstract and geometrical online work at
http://www.wowm.org/picture/gil3.htm and http://www.kalogera.net/violence/
. Thursday 23 August at 18:00

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/kalogera.html


HOW TO LOCATE THE TRESSPASSING SPACE:

IN THE SACHSENHAUSEN AT THE MANIFESTA 4 VENUE "FRANKENSTEINER HOF"
EVENT IS FREE - NO MANIFESTA TICKET REQUIRED

Adresse / Adress: Trespassing Space,
Frankensteiner Hof, Grosse Rittergasse 103,
Phone: +49/69/60 60 88 71
Email: [email protected]
map: http://www.freemanifesta.org/maps/lgmap.gif


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SPOTLIGHT ON ONLINE PROJECTS (PART ONE OF TWO):

Internet works, net art, flash & javascript movies, sound streams,
interventions, downloads, compendiums, collectives, etc.


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9 BEET STRETCH: LEIF INGE

Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours, leading it closer
to eternity than ever. Streamed from http://www.notam02.no/9/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/inge.html

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THE 12-HOUR ISBN-JPEG PROJECT: BRAD BRACE

The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A `round-the-clock
posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from Brad Brace. Download a new
one every 12 hours from: -> http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/12hr.html ->
http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/12hr.html

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/brace.html

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.IO-N (INPUT & OUTPUT NETWORK): GREGORY CHATONSKY

IO-N.NET is a cooperative project in FLASH which presents artistic proposals
whose starting points are "neutral" technological elements (HTML code,
iteration, synthesis, downloading, screensaver, etc.) and whose point of
arrival is the constitution of new perceptions: technologies far from being
instruments subjected to our will, restructure our being-in-world, our
identity, our imaginary and our esthetics.
You are invited to submit new projects. http://io-n.net/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/chatonksy.html

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!C!: REYNALD DROUHIN

action attack attempts blind bombs city civil ephemeral global guide illegal
immediate landscape now omnipresence operation plan planning plot power
protection random strategy surveillance system target terrorism threat
ubiquity violence webcam http://ici.cicv.fr/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/drouhin.html

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*DECAY: CHRIS BASSETT

*decay makes visible the underlying technologies in many of the images and
transactions across the internet. This isn't as simple as code
deconstruction though, its more about making something beautiful in its
self-destruction. 5 famous images are borrowed from the Louvre and subjected
to destruction as they are viewed across the internet. Much as light fades
and varnish collects dust, these digital versions crumble into patterns of
noise with each passing set of eyes. http://decay.robot138.com/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/bassett.html

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_][ad][Dressed in a Skin C.ode_: MEZ

_][ad][Dressed in a Skin Code_ holistically documents select phases of the
mezangelle language system and its evolution/revolution [1995-2001]. This
mezangelle system is devoted to the exploration and push and pull of new
media and avatar/collaborative layering via a networked medium. The emphasis
of _][ad][Dressed in a Skin Code_ revolves around the use of mezangelle,
which evolved/s from multifarious email exchanges, computer code flavoured
language and net iconographs. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/netwurker/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/mez.html

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]and_scape[: AGRICOLA DE COLOGNE


Interactive moving picture created in Flash inspired by poetic texts of
Liubov Sirota, an Ukrainian Tchernobyl survivor. The work is telling
something about landscapes, imaginary landscapes, flourishing landscapes,
landscapes of illusion, landscape of hope, landscape of innocence,
landscapes of being home, landscapes of unscathed genetics landscape of
giving home to all beings of the Creation.
http://www.nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume3/and_scape1.html

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/agricola.html

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THE ACCENT OF THEIR SKIN/EL ACENTO DE SU PIEL: GUERRERA DEL INTERFAZ

<META NAME="keywords" content="racism, net.art, emotions, cultural
stereotypes, virtual reality, representation, anger, machine, interface,
digital, semiotics, cinema, linguistics, memyselfandI, technology, personal
narratives, avatar"> In the audio clips, the foreigner's voice articulates
fragments of her experience in Canada as an outsider, and rehearses foreign
languages pronunciations in order to master them. However, the background
music points to ethnic segregation in her country of origin - Spain -
throughout history, with the inclusion of flamenco sounds (inherited from
the Gypsies, originally from India), as well as Sephardic cantos . . .
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/%7Eabuigues/entra0.html

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/guerrera.html

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ADDICTION: MAYA KALOGERA

'Addiction' is a small, intimate cluster of pages where I've presented the
things I miss the most in the wake of this whole net and net.art situation:
touch, warm voice, and smell…." Chaos, rhytm and mind escapes of an
ordinary working week…The mental picture you should get about it will tell
you which week is pictured. http://www.kalogera.net/addiction/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/kalogera.html

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ANTI-SMOKERS-SP01: ALEXANDRA REILL

anti-smokers-sp01 is a selfportrait of the author relating to a smoker's
conditioning in an environment conditioned on anti-smoking and the
conditioning of a non-smokers' environment by a smoker's dispostions.
interactivity focuses on the personal use & view of the user.
anti-smokers-sp01 can be viewed as a classical photo series or - by moving
the scrollbar up & down in an individual rhythm - as animated movie in 8
parts, each developing a different rhythm through the user's emotional &
sensual approach. Is there more to health than health- and anti-health
questions ? More to moral than moral- and anti-moral questions ? Truth- and
anti-truth questions ? Do individual approaches to perception maybe contain
more authenticity & reality than theories & classified approaches of
perception ? alexandra reill 2002 http://www.kanonmedia.com/sp01/self01.htm

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/reill.html

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ART-DEATH INTERNATIONAL SURVEY: TAMARA LAI

Is Art Dead? For a number of years, some theorists have been asserting that,
with the advent of the internet and wild reproduction (sampling, copy-paste,
etc.), we are witnessing the death of art. If we are to assume that art is
dead, what would you replace it with? More than 150 artists and
intellectuals replied to this call for participation. They each submitted a
"representation" of the concept of "art" - image, photo, text, etc.
http://users.skynet.be/tamara.lai/art/art.htm

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/lai2.html

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AUTOMATIQUE: ARMELLE AULESTIA

"Automatique" is a rhythmic, continuous stream of a voice repeating the same
double meaning words.
This piece requires no interaction from the viewer. Keywords: audio,
automatic, language. http://www.aulestia.net/automatique/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/aulestia.html

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BABEL: ROBERT COTTET

210 moving colors and 12 broken aphorisms in the fragmentation of your
screen. The click of your mouse change the colors, either by sharing them
out, or by cancelling former fractionation. On some compartments appear a
word…. http://www.crob.ch/art/BABeL/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/cottet.html

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BANNER ART COLLECTIVE: BRANDON BARR (FOUNDER)

The Banner Art Collective (http://www.bannerart.org/) creates, collects, and
distributes web.art and poetry within the limitations and context of web
advertisements. Artists can add works to the collection, and viewers can
host works from the collection on their own websites by pasting a few lines
of code into their own HTML code.

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/barr.html

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CAUTION: EMILIE PITOISET

Larsen is a sound effect which generates itself its own accidents. Its
operation is established in connection with a positive feedback whose Reason
exceeds 1. Thus, this acoustic phenomenon becomes an autonomous system which
to perhaps control by a negative feedback, implying an interaction for
example. CAUTION announces any participative means. This site functions on
the model of Larsen essentially. It is geared down, regenerating itselfby
the intermediary of an invasion of the screen, of 44"popup" windows
(simulating a labyrinth) each one comprising 44 individual larsens. That
reduces the memory of the navigator and the fact bugger. This work functions
with the manner of an autonomous system which loops unceasingly on itself
and creates the accident. http://l.artsen.free.fr/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/pitoiset.html

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CONSTRUCTION: DORON GOLAN

http://computerfinearts.com/construction/index1.html
quicktime net installation.

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/golan.html

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Cult of the Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist] - Shoot the Bird: JOSEPH
FRANKLYN MCELROY & DONNA MCELROY

Performance has become a key term that in turns applys to experimental art,
worker productivity, and functionality of technical, corporate, and military
systems. Extrapolating from the purist corporatist bent, when we call
Performance artistic, it references a cultural production that is meaningful
and has defineable roles in relation to the subjects of experience. In Allan
Kaprow's book of essays "The Blurring of Art and Life", he is interested in
an intersection between art and life…mainly, does a line have to exist at
all … maybe it is possible to bend art space to the Life Standard or life
space to the Art Standard. The Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist] explores
this line, and extends the line into virtual space or Virtual Standard.
http://www.electrichands.com/sketches/cult/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/mcelroy.html

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DAILY HEADLINE DEATHS: RICARDO MIRANDA ZUNIGA

A web page will be populated by 1000 individual icons resembling human
figures. Each icon represents a human being. From June 15th to August 25th
one icon will disappear for each death reported on the front page of the New
York Times Online. The space from which the icons disappear will be
populated by a new icon representing how the reported death(s) occurred. If
the deaths occurred due to an act of aggression, the new icon will be
accompanied by a flag or emblem representing the nation, organization or
individual claiming responsibility. Below the icons are listed each day's
death headline(s). http://www.ambriente.com/today/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/zuniga.html

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DEFINING LINES: CRISTINE WANG

Online exhibition. From the computer DESKTOP, to DOWNLOADABLE COMPUTER
VIRUSES, OPEN SOURCE
AND CODE CRACKING SOFTWARE, and E-BOOKS, to ALTERNATIVE NETWORK BROWSERS,
OPERATING SYSTEMS and SHAREWARE/FREEWARE, DOMAIN NAME SERVERS, to GAMING
PATCHES, LISTSERVS, ONLINE THEATER (in the form of activism, or ELECTRONIC
PROTEST)–what constitutes "ART" is being re-defined as EMERGING
TECHNOLOGIES and
mediums are giving artists the "TOOLS" and a new means of expression.
http://cristine.org/borders/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/wang.html

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LES DETAILS: ARMELLE AULESTIA


"Les Details" deals with interactivity and delay time, visual and sound
reversal or accumulation. The piece is a play with words, sentences and
sounds. Keywords: audio, language, animation.
http://www.aulestia.net/lesdetails/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/aulestia.html

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THE DIGITAL POCKET GALLERY: KANARINKA, PIRUN, JESS LOSEBY, JEREMY TURNER

The digital pocket gallery effort began in March 2002. The digital pocket
gallery was inspired by the real-life Pocket Gallery at 536 gallery in
Vancouver, Canada. The 536 Digital Wallet Gallery in Helsinki, Finland, is
a related effort which is also accepting submissions. Pockets contain
miniature biographies and testaments to our lives and forgotten stories. The
crumpled train ticket speaks of journeys taken, the handful of confetti in
your 'best' jacket of a wedding years before or the telephone number on the
back of a matchbook given by a someone who's name and face is long
forgotten. Files and folders are the 'digital pockets' of the internet
artist. The hard-drive is an autobiography in coded form. Dreams, ideas and
waste lie hidden in these cryptically labelled pockets that have become the
maps and landscapes of our virtual lives.
http://www.ikatun.com/digitalpocketgallery/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/kanarinka.html

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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY: JUDSON

Binary digital technology as applied to the current user remains
asynchronous. Are we prepared for what our disturbingly expensive
hardware/software, internet connections bring us. The machines currently
marketed are still rather primitive and yet the industry has been
drastically "upgrading" for approximately 15 years. This piece serves as
commentary, as well as a demonstration of the hi-end state of our machines'
processing ability. http://plasmastudii.org/techno/techno.html

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/judson.html

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ENANTIOTROPIA: BUGS (ALIAS LUCILLA LODI)

Enanthiothropeia (turning): the reversible transformation of a substance
between different lattice form. In the chaotic and contradictory complexity
of the "dailiness", its constrictive rules, is almost impossible the
abstraction leading us to a spiritual, human dimension. It's common
conception that machineries induce to a loss of perception of the "Reality".
But, what's this "Reality"?
http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/artimage/Enantiodromia2.swf

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/bugs.html

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ENREGISTER 1: ARMELLE AULESTIA

This proposal functions on the rhythmic alternation of appearance and
disappearance. An object, and a voice whispering uncertain words, dissolve
into each other or superimpose onto each other in an imprecise way, in an
incessant back and forth. "Enregistrer 1" is elaborated on the idea of
unrolling, of visual and resonant wavering, the game of the compulsive
gesture that starts the circle/cycle of repetition, of the loop again,
indefinitely free from alteration of meaning.
http://www.aulestia.net/enregistrer1/

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/aulestia.html

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EURO STARS: ANDREJ TISMA

Euro Stars web site is an ironical view of Europe and its history full of
wars, destruction and barbarism which continues to our days. It is a
reaction to the big EU's campaign for united Europe in which many countries
from the region would like to become members of. This is a web site which
shows how most of European countries came to their wealth and today's
status, and why are they still striving for power and globalization. Every
yellow star from the EU's circle symbol is linked to an image which
illustrates my message through documentary scene, from the past and present.
Welcome to Europe! http://www27.brinkster.com/justart/EU/eurostars.htm

http://www.freemanifesta.org/artists/tisma.html

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EXAPES: FLOE TUDOR, NICOLAE COMANESCU, MONA VATAMANU, ANGELA BONTAS

exapes / escapes http://www.exapes.org/

http://freemanifesta.org/artists/exapes.html

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FILMSCAPE: NICOLAS CLAUSS

Filmscape, an interactive video triptych (in shockwave and on the web), is a
formal research. The purpose is to let the sight explore a short film
extract like it would explore a landscape, leaving imagination travelling.
Each piece is a endless loop in which you can move by zooming. By moving
the scene from one corner to another, the viewer will launch narrative
(visual and sound) elements which give different interpretation of the
scene. Finally Filmscape is the use of founded filmed scenes (like founded
objects) which found a second "life".
http://www.flyingpuppet.com/filmscape/filmscape.htm

http://freemanifesta.org/artists/clauss.html

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Freeware JIKANKEI and other Interactive Time Works: KENJI KOJIMA

NEW: Updated Project JIKANKEI is version "Chapter SUNDIAL". Free Download
for Windows, and Mac OSX
http://www.kenjikojima.com/ JIKANKEI