Syndicate: invitation/private view +++ shopping windows

["Armin Medosch" <armin@easynet.co.uk>]

Shopping Windows, Part I

Shopping Windows I is the first part of a two part ongoing online 
exhibition with works newly commissioned by Telepolis. In part 1 
the following works are presented (alphabetically):

* Giselle Beiguelman - <Content=No Cache> 
* Matthew Fuller - BallPool
* Harwood/Scotoma.org - Waste_Words Their Weight & 
Frequency in London's Municipial Rubbish


Shopping Windows index page (English)
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/kunst/nk/shopping/default.html

Shopping Windows index page (German)
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/kunst/nk/shopping/default.html


Shopping Windows - Net art after e-commerce

'Net art after the age of e-commerce and the death of net art' should be 
the full subtitle of the exhibition 'Shopping Windows' which follows the 
intertwining pathways of art on the Internet and the arrival and death of 
e-commerce as we knew it. 2000 will be remembered as the year when the 
I-Bubble burst. For others, disillisionment about the net started a while 
earlier ago represented by manifestos and other declarations about 'The 
End of Net Art'. Both, in the artistic and commercial realm we can only 
look forward while still doing some damage assessment. We hope that 
what can be seen as the end of an era has also cleared the air and gives 
us the chance for a fresh start in 2001. The good old dialectic of 
deconstruction and rebuild allows us to embrace irony in view of near 
disaster and thereby stay optimistic.

Excerpt of curatorial statement. Full text:
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/kunst/nk/shopping/about.html

Curated by: Armin Medosch


Giselle Beiguelman - <Content=No Cache> 
giselle@desvirtual.com

<Content=No Cache> is about the loss of inscription. It talks 
about error messages.
Its point of departure is a curious tag, "content = no cache". 
Placed in
the html code it updates the contents of any on line page, erasing 
what
was written before. It announces a new condition of writing. 
>From now on
it does not inscribe anymore. It just describes. Like Error 
Messages. This
site, <Content=No Cache>, deals with the new dimension of error 
messages and inquires
the paradoxes of on-line writing. It questions the famous html 
publishing
software slogan, the acronym wysiwyg (what you see is what you 
get) by
asking: is it? Integrated into "The Book of Errors", it also 
documents the
relationship between webreaders and error messages. Those 
messages are
aesthetically reworked and exhibited on new pages. By doing this, 
the web
site creates a different context for them and inverts the relation 
between
what is seen and what is read. In a few words, <Content=No 
Cache> works as
if it would be possible to operate on the borderline between 
reading and
vision, in order to explore what is supposed to be 'cyberliteracy'.


Matthew Fuller/Scotoma.org - BallPool
matthew fuller <matt@axia.demon.co.uk>

A figure is trapped inside a children's softplay structure.  No door, 
no window - vinyl and foam.    Moving through the story sentence 
by sentence, the user automatically links the text backwards and 
forwards across its body.  These links are generated by a word 
frequency table mapping the occurrence of words read, shaping 
and mirroring the processes occurring in the trapped figure. This 
text contains 308 different words. 


Harwood/Scotoma.org - Waste_Words Their Weight & 
Frequency in London's Minicipial Rubbish
Harwood@scotoma.org

A street waste basket was cleaned at 8:00am on 8th February 
2001 ( the 414th Anniversary of the beheading of Mary Queen of 
Scots) 24  hours later the cleaner collected all the items left. Each 
item was  weighed and photographed. All of the words occurring 
on every item of 
rubbish were then transcribed. From this table of information the 
frequency and weight of words disposed of per day in London has 
been calculated.



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