mtaa apologize for cross-postings +++ mtaa's current project, called [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the 3mb Annexation), is a site specific and website specific work created for a group exhibition entitled 'BI Virtue' taking place at star67 gallery in brooklyn. with this project we wish to engage a number of issues: 1) the commercialization of a formerly non-commercial and private area of cyberspace. specifically the simple email box. 2) the limits of the interface. 3) the relation of net art to the traditional gallery. 4) the update of a pop art strategy to the online world. with the 3mb Annex we transform the commercialized private space of a yahoo email box into a public space, yet one may be filled with doubt as to how one may function within this space. Yael Kanarek - "I wasn't sure if i should do it, but since they gave out the name and password I did. now I feel guilty. did I ruin the piece?" one can do whatever yahoo allows in this space, mriver and twhid don't make the rules, they follow the rules. the installation of the 3mb Annex in the star67 gallery space is ugly. it consists of a large-format ink-jet print of a netscape browser window on the macintosh 8.6 platform displaying the email interface of the yahoo.com website displaying an email message from the vieweratstar67 account. the content of the message is the original proposal to the curator at star67 gallery. sitting on the floor under the print is a large gray base (one you would see in any art gallery) with an old macintosh performa sitting on top of it. the performa is running os7.6 and a netscape navigator 3 browser connected to the vieweratstar67 account so that gallery visitors may browse through the online portion of the project. the paragraph above lists a number of self-imposed limits which mtaa (and our collaborators) need to operate within in order to create this work; things that exist out of mtaa control. is the design of the computer, the yahoo interface, the os part of the artwork? limits to the artwork? assets to the artwork? do they define exactly what can be said? or does the information as artwork exist freely, unencumbered by all the imposed rules it needs to follow? [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an experiment. mtaa invite you to send email as artwork to [EMAIL PROTECTED] access this net artwork at http://mail.yahoo.com username: vieweratstar67 password: annex mtaa would like to thank those that have taken part in vieweratstar67 thus far: robbin murphy one38 (eryk salvaggio) jenn and kevin mccoy yael kanarek reinhold grether cary peppermint and other anonymous users and pranksters = = = <<<<t.whid>>>> http://www.mteww.com
