Lachlan Brown on Fri, 7 Dec 2001 04:06:02 +0100 (CET) |
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LUXUS CONT The state of art consists of ....the knowledge to cross the information highway sideways. Heath Bunting (london.uk- heath@cybercafe.org) dwelled on its hard shoulder since the mid 80s and knows how to assemble traffic cones into corn circles. His social interventions in ASCII format found 'minimal vr land art'. Some might call it 'onthological anarchism' - modernity is being looked after, which is essential if the city as a search engine crashes. Bunting's work consists of a sum of many digital and analogous parts. Who reads his chalk tags (- www.irational.org/x) becomes part of Bunting's theme park, a trap for art history and city council. Simultaneously, his mails, physical presence, net projects, teaching, and lectures are a 'must' for any press release and actually construct of his work. Sounds good,... in fact self-evident for the way he might be perceived, as an interactive search engine with plug ins for psychogeographical mapping. The interest of the net performer in individualised presence ends in its construction and starts with its privatism: poetical terrorism, self irony, virtual sexpol. Bunting, participated in the graffiti scene, later opened a BBS-based Cybercafe in 1993; now he gives his first public talk in Berlin, including: 'pleasur project', 'pirate radio in the UK', 'how to make a love-homepage', 'travelling without ... and so on ... (-www.cybercafe.org/) michael micz flor -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold