guestlist: Mike Stubbs on channel hopping.
low-fi list: surveillance/java jems/Keith Obadike’s Blackness [for sale].
http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/kidnap [Blast Theory]
http://absurd.org [absurd]
http://Obadike.tripod.com/ebay.html [Keith Obadike]
http://www.whitney.org/artport/idealine [Martin Wattenberg]
Blast theory’s kidnap site archives their 1998 webcast and chatroom where a voluntary hostage was held for 48 hours. The hostage was the lucky winner of a lottery. The site immerses the user in the world of times, dates, targets, surveillance and safe houses.
Data and information is also the focus of absurd.org. Javva brothers and other collaborators have constructed a monolith that delivers – like kidnap – an enquiry into the nature of data and information. Circumvented and subverted at every turn with witty applets and scripting techniques.
In August, Keith Obadike put his blackness up for sale as a conceptual intervention into ebay’s online auction. After four days ebay stopped the process which it considered to be inappropriate. This is a simulated version of the site, made by Obadike to record the project.
idealine represents net art activity as threaded timelines [mainly 95-01]. the java interface is beautiful and delicately responsive as it reveals more specific layers of information on, and links to projects. idealine initially seemed centred around contextual mapping but has been realised in a more thematic way. It continues to be an admirably open process with submissions invited from the net art community.
[net art locator]
Website: http://www.low-fi.org.uk
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