Hi Luis, I must of missed the info regarding the discussion.
Will it all be presented as an exhibition at all, as well on the net? marc > For immediate release: > > Kurator and LX 2.0 are pleased to announce the two selected projects for > INFECTED, part of the Anti-Bodies contemporary art programme coordinated > by Relational. > > During the Anti-Bodies launch and discussion event, held > at Arnolfini, Bristol, on February 19, carlos katastrofsky and Heath > Bunting were presented as the winners of the viral call for viral work. > The INFECTED selection panel included Zoe Shearman, Curator, Relational, > Luis Silva, Curator, LX 2.0, and Franz Thalmair, Curator, cont3xt.net > <http://cont3xt.net>, > Joasia Krysa and Geoff Cox, Curators, KURATOR. > > carlos katastrofsky submitted vir.us.exe, a windows program which, once > executed, will delete itself. On a website, communicated and spread by > e-mail announcements, mailinglists and other networked (viral) press > activities, the program/site is promoted while the freedom of decision > to download vir.us.exe or not is up to the users. > > According to the artist's proposal, a virus lives upon the reproduction > of itself with the aim to survive as long as possible. However, the most > dangerous parts of such an infection are not always the harmful cells a > virus is based upon; it is the psychological concept of fear acting > invisibly in the background. The project will thus strip down the > mechanisms of a viral infection and transfer its core priniciples into > the digital realm. By avoiding everything a virus should do, only the > virus itself (without the harmful cells or malicious commands) will be > left. This way it will become a meta-virus spreading not because it is > an actual virus but because it is perceived as such. > > Heath Bunting proposed a new reiteration of his Status Project, through > which the artist intends to make visible our collective regulatory > systems for the purpose of broader and more precise understanding of > their shape and function plus our place and scale within them. > > According to Bunting's proposal, the key intention for the project is to > provide greater individual mobility and freedom within often confusing > and often intentionally obstructing organisational substructures and > systems. The work is triangulated from the Buddhist idea of feeling that > we are only the summation of our environmental factors, from the cyber > punk hacker fantasy of self power and freedom by finding the password or > key phrase and from the techno mysticism of finding the spirit within > the machine. > > "Navigating the system requires skill and patience. People often risk > frustration, humiliation and criminalisation just to survive within such > a disorientating terrain. I intend to develop tools to not only > alleviate these risks, but to also enable people to fly. Identity > manipulation, mutation and creation are enshrined in UK law, but is > obviously under constant enclosure from corrupt elites. Within this > project I intend to locate these fences and create gates in them" > > These projects will be developed during a short residency with the Art & > Social Technologies Research group at the University of Plymouth, in the > UK, later this year. > > +++ > > Biographies: > > carlos katastrofsky is a Vienna-based artist working primarily in the > field of new media art. His work examines the politics of Internet-based > art production, distribution and consumption, and considers how dominant > practices of the artistic modus vivendi - curating, dealing, showing, > and reviewing - function in the virtual realm, where the immaterial has > replaced the object. His works explore characteristic features of the > Internet such as software, interfaces, language, and discussion forums - > to question the current development of the Web. > > Heath Bunting was born a Buddhist in Wood Green, London, UK and is able > to make himself laugh. He is a co-founder of both net.art and sport-art > movements and is banned for life from entering the USA for his anti GM > work. His self taught and authentically independent work is direct and > uncomplicated and has never been awarded a prize or been bought or sold. > He is both Britain's most important practising artist and The World's > most famous computer artist. He aspires to be a skillful member of the > public and is producing an expert system for identity mutation. > > +++ > > KURATOR is collaborating with LX 2.0 to develop a programme of new work > to infect the Olympics. > http://www.kurator.org/ > http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20/ > > The overall Anti-Bodies programme is curated and co-ordinated by > Relational, > Bristol, with support from Arts Council England. > http://relational.org.uk/ > > http://www.anti-bodies.net > http://open.kurator.org > http://www.art-social.net > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
