FLUXLIST: Re: Virus in Venezia
Press Release, June 1st 2001 49th International Art Biennale of Venice Press opening: June 6th, 7th and 8th 2001; Opening June 9th 2001. Pavilion of the Republic of Slovenia Gallery A+A, San Marco 3073, Venice 30124. Tel/Fax 041 2770466 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Press office: Roberta Lombardo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Virus in the Venice Biennale A group of artists and programmers will exhibit a new computer virus. A virus is usually considered evil, chaos. But what happens when it is a contemporary art temple to spread the chaos? Conceived and compiled for the invitation to the 49th Venice Biennale, biennale.py is the product of the collaboration of two entities, 0100101110101101.ORG and epidemiC, already known for other shocking actions, often bordering with crime. biennale.py is both a work of art and a computer virus. The source code of the virus will be made public and spread on the opening day of the Biennale, June 6th 2001, from the Slovenian Pavilion. The main anti-virus software companies have already been informed about the technical specifications of bienale.py and the disinstallation instructions will be attached to the virus. Computer viruses or self-reproducing programs behave according to the same modus operandi of biological viruses: they attack an organism, that is a file, sometime to settle and install their own habitat, and in other more rare cases, to destroy it. Viruses, thus, spread respecting the species conservation laws and the survival instinct. A virus is. More, a virus wants to exist instinctively and without mediations, and it is just this the main and only function of biennale.py: to survive. The creation of a virus tout court, free and without an end or a goal, is in the worst case a test, a survey on the limits of the Net, but in the best case is a form of global counterpower, generally a pre-political form, but that resists the strong powers, it puts them under a new balance, it shakes and reassembles them. A new idea of a virus that is not just a virus is gaining acceptance, and that it can represent the outbreak of the social into the most social thing of all: the Net. Inside the Slovenian Pavilion it will be possible to read the source code of biennale.py and test its functioning on a infected computer. During the opening days of the Biennale thousands of t-shirts carrying the source code of the program will show up. Paradoxically, such as in biological viruses, biennale.py will spread not only through machines but also through men. The paradox becomes even more clear if you think that the virus, a vague and dangerous entity by definition, is for sale to adventurous curators and collectors. To buy a computer virus is probably on the most exciting investment one could make today. The biennale.py fits perfectly with the context of the Pavilion of the Slovenian Pavilion, that this year will present the Absolute One project. With Absolute One the Slovenian Pavilion, starting from the basic question on how the artist could constructively operate and actively respond to the globalization process, offers a strong and optimistic signal instead of the spreading fatalism and of the idea of inevitability. The artists that will represent Slovenia in the 49th Venice Biennale, besides the forth mentioned ones, will be Vuk Cosic and Tadej Pogacar. The new commissioner of the Slovenian Pavilion and curator of the project is Aurora Fonda. website: http://www.epidemic.ws email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0100101110101101.ORG website: HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jah Judith A. Hoffberg Umbrella P.O. Box 3640 Santa Monica, CA 90408 http://geocities.com/books2eat http://colophon.com/journal tel: (310)399-1146, fax: 399-5070 Let a smile be your umbrella!
Re: FLUXLIST: RE: anti-art
Josh writes: As for Anti-art I think it's a fairly daft term in many ways because one needs to practice art in order to practice anti-art. Well, (hate to write one of those one line responces that everyone seems so het up about) but surely that's part of the fun I'm sure everyone realises that Pollock etc. is both a big load of bollocks and incredible... The fact that whoever's Artist's Shit sold in cans sold for millions is a joke, but that's good, surely? Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FLUXLIST: RE: anti-art
The fact that whoever's Artist's Shit sold in cans sold for millions is a joke, but that's good, surely? Piero Manzoni - merda d'artista manzoni info: http://home.sprynet.com/~mindweb/page21.htm -- twhid http://www.mteww.com /twhid
Re: FLUXLIST: Re: Ben Patterson at Gallery 2211
Judith: Do you have any information on Ben Patterson and/or his work? Do you have an address for him? I have seen little of his work nor corresponded with him but some students of mine met him Chicago several years ago and they asked him if he knew me and he said, Yes. I would like to contact him somehow. Sincerely, -Don _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: FLUXLIST: RE: anti-art
The fact that whoever's Artist's Shit sold in cans sold for millions is a joke, but that's good, surely? Piero Manzoni - merda d'artista Yes, I think it's good, it's just not really anti-art...now if he'd not bothered to can it and just put it on display in a plastic bag that might be closer to the notion of something being anti-art. cheers, Sol.
Re: FLUXLIST: Thanks to Jon
You are soo right Sol, tnx john! A quick thank you to John for sorting out Fluxlist's tech problems over the weekend. It is thanks to Jon keeping scribble.com running smoothly that we have Fluxlist at all so I'm sure you'll all join me in thanking Jon for the great service he does for all of us. cheers, Sol. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
FLUXLIST: from scratch (fwd)
From 1969 and on the Scratch Orchestra was an astonishingly well
functioning social music phenomenon, a whole music culture in itself.
It was founded by Cornelius Cardew, a teacher of composition at the
London Morley College at that time. For the Scratch Orchestra,
Anglo-Saxon experimental music was the most important source of
inspiration, not jazz. The name Scratch Orchestra implies the idea
of starting from scratch. It had between thirty and forty members,
among them were professional musicians, other kinds of performing
artists, and amateurs who went to the rehearsals not only just to
prepare music for concerts, but also enjoyed it as a social event. The
orchestra had it's own special music genres, and everybody
participated creatively. Compositions might be made by non-members.
For instance Christian Wolff who for some time lived in London and
whose ideas were close to those of the Scratch Orchestra.
Scratch Music was a special kind of community music-making taking
place according to the participant's own quite individual recipes. It
constituted an introduction to the rehearsals which was carried on
until everybody had arrived and were ready to go on. Everybody was
playing at the same time according to own verbal or graphic
introductions. In so doing, a quiet music was supposed to be produced
in which everybody accompanied everybody else.
Another genre of the Scratch Orchestra which fused a jolly popular
atmosphere with avant-garde boldness in a singular way was the
Popular Classics. In these a short excerpt, a particle from
well-known, often classical music, was played. The resulting music
sounded like a parody or a joke - but it was in fact a seriously meant
activity in which participants on one side attempted to play the music
correctly and at the same time accepted everything that happened in
the process.
The Scratch Orchestra ended its activities in 1973.
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Re: FLUXLIST: from scratch (fwd)
From 1969 and on the Scratch Orchestra was an astonishingly well functioning social music phenomenon, a whole music culture in itself. It was founded by Cornelius Cardew, a teacher of composition at the London Morley College at that time. There's a wonderful MA thesis on Cardew and his Scratch compatriots by Virginia Anderson available from http://www.users.waitrose.com/~chobbs/ Highly recommended reading for those interested in the UK avant music scene of the time or the difficulties in maintaining a cohesive non-hierarchical group. Definitely similarities between Scratch works (like David Jackman's 12 Pieces 1969/70 http://www.qserve.net/~wrr/Organum/text/12Pieces.html) and other flux inspired musics.
Re: FLUXLIST: Thanks to Jon
indeed, three cheers for jon for keeping the flux spinning. RA! RA! RA! bests, carol :) Sol Nte wrote: A quick thank you to John for sorting out Fluxlist's tech problems over the weekend. It is thanks to Jon keeping scribble.com running smoothly that we have Fluxlist at all so I'm sure you'll all join me in thanking Jon for the great service he does for all of us. cheers, Sol. -- carol starr taos, new mexico, usa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FLUXLIST: Fluxlist Box CD
hi all, how exciting it will be to have the CD and thanks to owen and sol for their generous work on this project. as i recall with the fluxlist box we did send some money to cover the box and postage and i would think that would be a good idea here too. i hope it will be cross-platform so i can play it on the CD in my not very new any more mac. cu, carol :) Sol Nte wrote: Yes, send me the stuff. In many ways the box was never finished without the CD. But also it would be nice as a secondary project. Anyone got any ideas? I remember Heiko wanted it to be mixed mode..audio/data..that's a possible. we could put things like 1 hot min on there (zap, what're you doing with that btw?) plus I've never really found a good way to display the results of the fluxlist midi project...we could just do one big CD filled with as much as possibleafter all we work mainly in the digital domain and these things are so quick to do. One question...if I organise this I would make a CD that was navigated via html/java appsin other words I'd like the thing to be 100% cross-platformi.e. browseable on as many OS's as possible. Do people have ideas regarding this. Normally CDs are tied into pc(windows)/mac but this is limited anyway..ideas welcome..Owen get in touch offlist to send the stuff. I can make you a temp account on one of our servers if you want to ftp me the stuff. cheers, Sol. -- carol starr taos, new mexico, usa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FLUXLIST: Thanks to Jon
A quick thank you to John for sorting out Fluxlist's tech problems over the weekend. It is thanks to Jon keeping scribble.com running smoothly that we have Fluxlist at all so I'm sure you'll all join me in thanking Jon for the great service he does for all of us. cheers, Sol.
FLUXLIST: Fluxlist Box CD
Hi all, Owen wrote: There were a couple of queries about the status of the materials for the planned CD for the Fluxlist Box - the long and the short of it is that I still have all the materials, but due to technical problems and frankly, my lack of time put to the project and the creation of the online version of the catalog, nothing was completed. Sol I believe that you mentioned that you might be interested it taking this on, that is, doing something with the materials? If so let me know and I can gather everything up and either mail the stuff on disk and/or ftp it to you. Yes, send me the stuff. In many ways the box was never finished without the CD. But also it would be nice as a secondary project. Anyone got any ideas? I remember Heiko wanted it to be mixed mode..audio/data..that's a possible. we could put things like 1 hot min on there (zap, what're you doing with that btw?) plus I've never really found a good way to display the results of the fluxlist midi project...we could just do one big CD filled with as much as possibleafter all we work mainly in the digital domain and these things are so quick to do. One question...if I organise this I would make a CD that was navigated via html/java appsin other words I'd like the thing to be 100% cross-platformi.e. browseable on as many OS's as possible. Do people have ideas regarding this. Normally CDs are tied into pc(windows)/mac but this is limited anyway..ideas welcome..Owen get in touch offlist to send the stuff. I can make you a temp account on one of our servers if you want to ftp me the stuff. cheers, Sol.
