200 OK part of the Internet Error Messages project Horticultural unit and live video webcast
FIELDS Exhibition and Art+Communication Festival, Riga curated by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch May 15 August 3, 2014 200 OK is a horticultural unit made of Sesleria plants in size 2 x 7 meters. A live internet video stream shows the site of the installation embedded in natural and social (inter)actions over three months. The installation is made in form of a low-resolution screen reading the text 200 OK. The surroundings of the art installation are captured in such a manner by the camera that the plant-shaped letters 200 OK acting as a film subtitle. 200 OK is part of the Internet Error Messages series of artworks that has been developed by Darko Fritz since 2001. In particular, the message 200 OK is a status code showing that the request has succeeded. The information returned with the response is dependent on the method used in the request. The interpretation of the work 200 OK is open, and doesnt necessary fit into any single interpretation frame. Horticulture unit 200 Ok is supervised by landscape architect Inga Langenfelde, Botanical Garden - University of Latvia. venues: webcast: http://5.179.11.8/ Username: user Password: user FIELDS Exhibition Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art http://rixc.org/fields/ Botanical Garden - University of Latvia http://www.botanika.lu.lv/eng/ --- Darko Fritz http://darkofritz.net ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre