Jiri Jiracek on Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:34:43 +01 |
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------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:14:58 -0800 Subject: press release - encounter From: "Furnace" <webmaster@furnace.org> To: <cyberspace-and-society@mailbase.ac.uk> Reply-to: "Furnace" <webmaster@furnace.org> Press Release - encounter March 16th - April 14th http://www.furnace.org/encounter "encounter" is an experimental project exploring online relationships. The aim of the project is to examine the potential and development of relationships initiated within a remote environment, where physical presence and personality are interpreted through a computer screen and identity can be re-created on a whim. "encounter" will take the form of a conversation between two anonymous people, the artist initiating the project (anon1) and another artist invited through a call for participants (anon2). The artists will not use their real names, focusing all knowledge of each other purely on what is said as part of the conversation and allowing the relationship to start from a blank slate, not knowing the others gender, location or previous work. The conversation will open up to involve more participants through a weekly IRC chat at http://www.furnace.org/bubble.html to which there is an open invitation. The dates and times are as follows: March 20th 7pm March 27th 7pm April 3rd 7pm April 10th 7pm Please see http://www.furnace.org/encounter/irc.html for more information. "encounter" will be documented as a website at http://www.furnace.org/encounter and updated daily during the project. On the final day of "encounter" the two artists will meet in person for a public dinner in Lancaster. Any enquiries please contact: encounter Furnace C/o Folly Pictures 26 Castle Park Lancaster LA1 1YQ Tel: 44 1524 388550/ 840500 encounter@furnace.org _____________________________ E C O N N E C T Easy Connection Network ______ Since 1991 _________ ______________ APC memeber Ceskomalinska 23 160 00 Praha 6 Czech Republic Tel.: +420-2-24311780 Fax : +420-2-24317892 E-mail: support@ecn.cz http://www.ecn.cz/ http://www.ecn.cz/apc/