Re: Syndicate: | The HISTORY of TECHNOLOGICALLY-ASSISTED ART SINCE WORLD WAR I and YOUR appropriate place in this history |

[{ brad brace } <bbrace@wiredmag.com>]

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> > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994.
A `round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery by Brad
Brace. The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the
recognizable; it suspends identity, relations and history.


                       The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project
                       -----------------------------
                          began December 30, 1994


Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... a
stellar, trajective alignment past the 00`s! A continuum of minimalist
masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative
metaphors for the everyday... A poetic reversibility of events...

A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of
imagery...  genuine gritty, greyscale...  corruptable, compact,
collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey
imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual visual
impact; an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless
present of the Net.

An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically
unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and
re-sequenced over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The
12hr dialtone...

                  [ see  ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace/netcom/books ]

KEYWORDS: >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered,
de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous,
reckless... >> Multi-faceted, oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate...
>> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous,
provocative, poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic,
pathological... >> Evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, exciting,
entertaining, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring...

Every 12 hours, another!...  view them, re-post `em, save `em, trade
`em, print `em, even publish them...

Here`s how:

~ Set www-links to ->  http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/12hr.html. Look
for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files
more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher...


~  Download from ->  ftp.pacifier.com  /pub/users/bbrace
   Download from ->  ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace
   Download from ->  ftp.rdrop.com   /pub/users/bbrace
   Download from ->  ftp.eskimo.com  /u/b/bbrace
* Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg

~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail
to do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help'
to the server address nearest you:

ftpmail@ccc.uba.ar               ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au
ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuttgart.de     ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.edu
ftpmail@ieunet.ie                ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftpmail@archie.inesc.pt          ftpmail@ftp.sun.ac.za
ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se             ftpmail@ftp.luth.se
ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw          ftpmail@oak.oakland.edu
ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu          ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
ftpmail@census.gov
bitftp@plearn.bitnet             bitftp@dearn.bitnet
bitftp@vm.gmd.de                 bitftp@plearn.edu.pl
bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu        bitftp@pucc.bitnet


~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too!
  The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg
  Average size of images is only 45K.
  *
  Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories:
  src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror
  *

~ Postings to usenet groups:
  alt.12hr
  alt.binaries.pictures.12hr
  alt.binaries.pictures.misc
  alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc

* * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups! (There
are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent,
PictureView, Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant, Newsfeeds)

~ This interminable, relentless sequence of imagery began in earnest
on December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been over
twenty-four years in the making. While the specific sequence of
photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 12 years`
worth of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the
ongoing publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each
12-hour posting is like the turning of a page; providing ample time
for reflection, interruption, and assimilation.

~ The sites listed above also contain information on other
transcultural projects and sources.

~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and
occasional commentary related to this project has been established at
topica.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg

--
This project has not received government art-subsidies. Some
opportunities still exist for financially assisting the publication of
editions of large (36x48") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees) inkjet
quadtones bound as an oversize book. Other supporters receive rare
copies of the first three web-offset printed ISBN-Books.
<< http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html >>

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ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types
of image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view
or translate these images. [ftp ftp.idiom.com/users/bbrace/netcom/]

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