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Subj:         Submission for Bienniale:  the Genius 2000 Project
Date:   1/12/2000 6:04:14 PM Central Standard Time
From:   Nmherman@AOL.COM (Max Herman)
Sender: GENIUS-2000@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (The Genius 2000 Project)
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Dear Ms. Parent:

I would like to submit my January 1 Website at
www.geocities.com/~genius-2000/January_1_Website.gif for consideration by
your panel.

As you may notice when looking at the site, depending on how you focus your
eyes two very distinct spaces appear.  Like the duck who changes into a
rabbit or the old hag who becomes a young girl, the page shifts and
alternates between a fine gridwork in a vast blackness and a white fabric
dotted with uniform gaps.

As you may know, the black circles on January 1 Website represent the symbol
of the Genius 2000 Project (which you can view separately at
www.geocities.com/~genius-2000/DPfifteen.jpg).  This symbol is itself an
inverted reference to the Emperor Constantine's vision of the cross,
superimposed on his God the sun, and hence a focused metaphor for the last
two-thousand years of western history.  An archaic ruler's understanding of
knowledge, permanently ingrained with salvation and martyrdom, is still with
us; it defines the conceptual space history inflicts on us.

Looking at this oversized gif is not strictly possible using a browser, and
if it is selected I would like to display it in full on a large screen sized
to the image itself.  The equipment and coding needed to take the unviewable
file and make it whole again is a further enactment of the space between, so
to speak.

Just as the symbolic representation of each year of the Common Era as an
intersection (of the genius vertical and the 2000 horizontal) requires a
saturated visual field and not a sequential line of images, this convergence
or summation cannot be viewed through any standard interface.  Paradise most
certainly did not arrive eleven days ago, and this site is an image of the
fractured non-occurrence of completeness.

My resume consists only of the Genius 2000 website at
www.geocities.com/~genius-2000 (which includes Yes/No, the Genius 2000
Conference 1999, January 1 Website, and the project archive), the Video First
Edition, and a Master's Degree in English and Critical Theory from Syracuse
University June 1998.  (Yes/No was presented at the Pointproject Exhibition
in Trondheim, Norway in May of 1998.)  The only addition to my current site
of any significance before the Bienniale will be Realvideo versions of the
First Edition and the companion video to Yes/No.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Sincerely,

Max Herman


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