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I am subscribed to this list for a long time already, but this is the first time I post here. Thank you Evelin for forwarding the discussion to me! I wouldn't have noticed it between the many other mails if you wouldn't have forwarded it to me. And thank you Marc and Ruth and Annie for posting and discussing the video here! The video was made by a group of women in 1998. We lost the original DV-tape (Reni should have it somewhere..). It was impossible at that time to save the original digital file on the computer, there were no external hard disks yet at that time big enough to save a video file. All I have is a copy on VHS. In 2009 I finally managed to copy the VHS into the computer to be able to put the video online. It is still in low resolution, but at least it is online now for all of you to see and enjoy. The '42-Video', as we used to call it, has always been a very special project to me, as it marks the beginning of my career as a professional net artist or media artist. (Professional in the sense that I am still not able to make a living from it, but the 42-Video brought me a huge step further into at least trying to one day making a living from media art... ) We made the video on four locations at the same time (Amsterdam, Berlin, Graz, Ljubljana). At that time, in 1998, real audio was still very new and streaming video was still something of the future. We connected together via IRC, so we could communicate together, and were sending each other sounds via real-audio. We were remixing the sounds that we received from each other and were sending sounds back to each other. Somewhat like an online jam session. On each location we filmed the women on that location participating in the project. We later used the video material from these four different locations to make one video out of it. Myself I was very much into 3D and creating 3D-animations at that time, so instead of filming myself I was creating 3D-animations inspired by the sounds and texts that the others were sending. I was sending these animations back to the others as part of the online jam session. The clothes that we were wearing were made by Cloed, aprons made from old 5.25 inch floppy disks (yes, those were already old and not used any more in 1998 :-) ) She sent some aprons to each of the locations in the week before the jam session. So we are wearing similar outfits in each location. We did two evenings with jam sessions via real-audio and IRC and filming everything. One month later we all (almost all of us) came to Ljubljana, to create a five-minutes video from the material that we had recorded during the jam-sessions. Until then I had never met any of the women of this group in real life. I met Sol, Cloed, Kata, Reni and Jogi and later also Margit and Borut for the first time in real life in Ljubljana, when we arranged to meet there, to mix the video. I flew to Vienna and then continued by train to Ljubljana, which was a pretty long journey. I think the 42-Video was the first time for me that I created an art work over the internet, with people whom I had never met before in real life (which was a very special experience for me at that time!). Back home in Amsterdam, where I was living at that time, not many people understood the video that we had made... I was very excited about the project, but there weren't many people in Amsterdam (at least not in my surroundings) who shared my enthousiasm about the video that we had produced. Luckily people in Graz, Austria, were more excited :-) One year later we were invited to Steirischer Herbst in Graz, to a festival called 'net_condition', to present our art group '42', a group of cyber women, working together via the internet. I came to Graz for a period of 6 weeks that summer in 1999. I'd never thought at that time that I would still be there 10 years later :-) Some more info about the projects of our art group '42' is on my website: http://cym.net/42/index.php - A website designed in good old ascii-art :-) Contact me for more info! And enjoy the video! Cym __________________________________________________________________ CYM - recycling net artist - www.cym.net - 00 31 6 23 76 43 95 'Oscar in China' - A film by Cym - online now: www.cym.net/oscar-in-china On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:12 PM, ruth catlow <[email protected]>wrote: > I never heard of 42. > I think I remember cym but can't remember where from. > This video is fantastic - nerve racking > > Does anyone else know mailinglist 42? > > best > Ruth > > > On 30/07/2012 15:00, Annie Abrahams wrote: > > Thanks Marc > > Do you know who were concerned, who participated, and if there was a > folluw up? > > yours > Annie > > ps I hope you are spending nice holidays > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:37 PM, marc <[email protected]>wrote: > >> net art video from 1998 by cyber women. >> >> Video made by the women art group mailinglist 42 in 1998. >> >> The audio and video material for this video was created on four >> locations simultanously connected together via real audio and irc during >> two evenings in October 1998. >> >> The artists met each other for the first time in real life one month >> later, when they all came to Ljubljana, Slovenia, to edit the material >> into this music video. >> >> "The sound of planets colliding on dark nights in distant galaxies." >> >> Recorded in Amsterdam, Berlin, Graz and Ljubljana. >> >> Edited at Ljudmila, Ljubljana in November 1998. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5BlxcG_zmc# >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > [email protected]http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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