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[crossposted from nettime; -inke] From: "Steve Dietz" <stevedietz@yproductions.com> Subject: <nettime> Universal Page: bookchin_shulgin Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:27:06 -0600 Sender: owner-nettime-l@bbs.thing.net The Universal Page Natalie Bookchin + Alexei Shulgin http://universalpage.org >From the start of the new millennium onward, all public content on the World Wide Web has come together for the first time in history to form the single largest collaboration ever known to humankind. This collaboration, known as The Universal Page, is the objective average of all content on the Web merged together as a one. Internet citizens are invited to join together to witness the consummation of global collectivity. A special script crawls and searches the entire Web, analyzing and processing current data and generating an average according to precise algorithms. In order to keep up with the pace of the always changing Web, the Universal Page is continuously updated in real time. A proclamation and manifestation of the utopian dream of world unity and the realization of democratic global communication, the Universal Page articulates the historic and momentous effects of constant flows of creation, communication, exchange, collectivity, connectivity and interactivity where no one with a computer and a modem is excluded, no one with a web server is unheard, and no one with a software client is ignored. This ultimate commemorative living magnum opus utilizes the work, play and input of ever single participant, human and robotic, of the World Wide Web, and mandates a universal commitment to a unified peaceful new millennium, where subjects of the world will live together in shared harmony. The Universal Page is a pulsating, living monument commemorating no single individual or ideology but instead, celebrating the global collective known as the World Wide Web. The Universal Page offers the world a once in a lifetime opportunity to join together in honoring and observing our networked past, present and future as it boldly initiates our entry into the new millennium. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Universal Page is open for public viewing on the occasion of the Walker Art Center exhibition "Art Entertainment Network/Let's Entertain". Funded by the Jerome Foundation and the Walker Art Center, the project was first envisioned and is now being orchestrated by Natalie Bookchin and Alexei Shulgin. Both are artists, theorists of the Internet and professors of contemporary art and new media. Bookchin is an American based in Los Angeles, in the United States of America and Shulgin is a Moscow based Russian Artist. Programming: Alexander Nikolaev, Fund of Perspective Research, Moscow. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.universalpage.org http://calarts.edu/~bookchin/ http://www.easlylife.org http://aen.walkerart.org http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/jerome/ http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/universalpage/ ---------------------------------------- Steve Dietz Director, New Media Initiatives Walker Art Center subscribe Webwalker: http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress