Great to read this history! Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 2, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Cym Net <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Netbehaviour List > > > 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 list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [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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