Syndicate: "DISCODER" by exonemo is on!

[yshikata@crpg.canon.co.jp (Yukiko Shikata)]

hello syndicalist,

here i would like to inform you "DISCODER" by exonemo,
the latest project i curated at Shiseido CyGnet
(http://www.shiseido.co.jp/cygnet).  this is the second
one i did for CyGnet, after "Tyrell.Hungary"(EastEdge).

exonemo is consisted of a coulple, yae akaiwa and kensuke
sembo, expecting young artists, and one of the few to work
to this direction of the net.(profile is below).

the work is for you to destroy the html codes of web pages
by typing keyboards.  you are welcome to participate..!

yukiko shikata

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 [DISCODER] by exonemo

        Accessing websites all over the world has become commonplace. And
yet, most who browse the web only engage what is presented in the pages
that they visit, not the mechanism of their realisation -- the realm of the
HTML code.

        A "DISCODER" is a device "which destroys HTML informatic CODE and
its CODEs of behavior, a contradiction provider for the web." (exonemo) In
this project the user "messes" with the web's HTML internet metastructure.
The tags in HTML slip, and the integrity of HTML source code is
compromised, as if eaten by bugs. The user is liberated from not only the
assuring mathematical illusions of the HTML interface (in the dismantling
of the code) itself, but also from the subtle suggestions of normative
behavior presented to the individual by the computer.

        The DISCODER has two modes, a <Private Mode> and an <Open Mode>. In
the former, the user inputs the URL of the page the he or she wishes to
destroy (all pages on the WWW are DISCODEable) and proceeds to wreak havoc
to their little heart's content. In the latter, the user can decimate a
page socially, with friends. With either, the keyboard, this mundane part
of our text-based lives, becomes an instrument of destruction, while typing
on the keys produces sounds like a typewriter. HTML code suddenly becomes a
breeding ground for inserting bugs (ASCII text, which eats HTML source code
like a bug, creating an great many changes in the structure of web pages)
who change the face of the virtual terrain.

        The user is not limited to random attacks on websites, they can
shoot at targets too. Because the bug's influence on the site can be
monitored numerically in real time, the user can devise strategies for
their assaults. The numbers, alphabet, symbols, backspace (delete) and
other keys each carry a new function in DISCODER, and their categories and
point of introduction into the HTML bear relation with previously planted
bugs so that the bug's "growth" (into capital letters) and then into HTML
tags in their own right, reconstructing the broken pages.

     There are anynumber of unpredicatable effects produced by the
DISCODER, especially when, in the <Open Mode>, an unspecified number
of users participate, and bugs engage the sedimentary layers produced by
bugs that have gone before them, the DISCODER produces some of its
most surprising conclusions.

     DISCODER, through the invasion of unreasonable elements (= bugs),
and a process of destruction, becomes a mechanism for new writing.
exonemo's sites aren't set on HTML. DISCODER's cross-hairs are fixed
on the vectors of mundane standardisation, and increased codification in
our lives. (Yukiko Shikata)


<exonemo>

In 1996 Kensuke Sembo and Yae Akaiwa formed "exonemo" when they detonated
on impact with the WWW, feeling the infinitely great possibilities in new
senses of distance and dynamics. They have continued to publish their art
on the web, still after that new feeling, ever since.

* Kensuke Sembo
1972 Born in Tokyo Japan. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University.
Kensuke worked mainly on the planning, production, including Java Script,
Perl and HTML programing in DISCODER.

* Yae Akaiwa
1973 Born in Fukuoka Japan. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University.
Yae worked mainly on the planning, production, including Java Script and
HTML programing, as well as the interface design in DISCODER.

Check it out!  -->  http://www.exonemo.com/




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