yes, thanks for that, cym. great project :)
On 2/08/12 4:14 PM, Perry Bard wrote:
Great to read this history!
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 2, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Cym Net <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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'Oscar in China' - A film by Cym - online now:
www.cym.net/oscar-in-china <http://www.cym.net/oscar-in-china>
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