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From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lars_Wikstr=F6m?=" <wkstrm@kuai.se>
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 17:44:44 +2
Subject: Good Luck
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Trodde att konferensen var avblŒst, men efterson det fortsŠtter att 
droppa in post tŠnkte jag šnska lycka till med a:t utstŠllningen, 
samt passa pŒ att informera om ett projekt som jag Šr med i.
Vad som kan vara intressant med utstŠllningens form Šr att den bl a 
inbegriper webchat mellan deltagande konstnŠrer och publik pŒ  
Experimenta multi-media Art festival i Sydney.
UtstŠllningen šppnas den 7 november.

hŠlsn.
Lars Wikstršm


TOOL2.0b

http://www.artoz.com/exile/tool20b/index.html

This project was assisted by the Art Research Development Fund of the
Australian Network for Art and Technology, a devolved grant program of
the Australia Council, the Federal Government's Art Funding and
Advisory Body.

In November (5th-30th) Exile will be launching a combined hardspace
and virtual exhibition on the theme of Avatars. The exhibition will be
titled "TOOL.2.0b" The exhibition will take place at Artspace Sydney
(which is the main conceptual gallery here, & in Melbourne at the
Lonsdale St Power station (as part of the Experimenta multi-media Art
festival).

In brief, artists have been asked to construct virtual installations
(plus hardspace manifestations of these if possible), for exhibition
on the World Wide Web. These installations should explore the concept
of Avatars....@ one end of the scale: divine embodiments of
principals, @ the other: Neil Stephenson's (Snowcrash) variety of
commercially packaged virtual identities. 

An analysis of the concept of one's Avatar ( or the Avatar of a body
of phenomemes.... such as environmentalism, feminism, pan-capitalism)
puts the spotlight on individual subjectivity. A human subject might
be comprised of Agents, united by a meta-program of priorities that is
the conscious self. Yet this conscious self is recruited into and
infested by ideological bodies which Deleuze labelled "Subjective
machines". In the post industrial mediatised environment, it may not
be possible to subvert/hack this machinery and break it into smaller
more personal codes. If we wish to seriously consider the
possibilities of post human digital evolution, we must question the
existing network/economic environment's capability to produce
bio-diverse codes. 

Our aim is to see what relationships develop between discrete
Avatars....at best, to construct a Tool that maps the territories of
Deleuzian subjective machinery..... at the least, provide a common
point of reference to kick off a simultaneous exhibition in at least
five countries. 

"TOOL.2.0b" is to be an exhibition which frames a diversity of
identity codes: Avatars. Each artist's website will be linked to an
initial menu and a CGI script will move the links between URLs about
according to site traffic. If a page is not accessed (fed) it will be
placed behind the initial menu page, still reachable, but not
immediately. The meta-work becomes a dynamic info/ecosystem, based on
the hits=$ ideology the web seems to be (unfortunately in our view)
moving towards."

Graham Crawford Webmaster/Curator
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