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*Where is Year 2000?* - on-line text and web art piece (Work in Progress) about the looming millennial event. It explores the relations between time, space, accidents and exposure. http://www.dromology.com | |
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Where is Y2K?* Tick tock, tick tock... Year 2000 may prove to be the general accident at the end of the millenium... or it may be a sign of the general social accident... ...the sudden uniqueness of the world time of instantaneous telecommunications also implies the emergence of a very new type of accident: until now, with the supremacy of local space-time, each of us was still exposed only to a specific accident, one precisely located; with the emergence of world time, however, we will all be exposed (or, more precisely, overexposed) to the general accident, the delocalization of action and reaction (interaction) necessarily implying the delocalalization of all accidents... ... we will soon see the emergence of The accident to end all accidents, in other words, the traffic of the the generalized accident which will then largely outdo the limited traffic accident of the transport revolution... But when and where is this going to happen? In a universe of real-time communication, we can't pinpoint on the location or on the calendarial moment of the y2k event since the real-time aspect replaces historical duration and the interconnectedness of sites makes it truly global and thus, locationless. y2k already happened and it's here and there, we are already exposed to it, we will be overexposed to during January 1, 2000 and also, as this piece suggests, after it. Forecasts and reports try to break the event into discrete concrete dates and to label each and every one of them, but they are really just climax points in a continues phenomena. The traditional media will make sure that we will be overexposed to the events that are part of it before it may be too late to use it in magazine covers and news items. The magical calendarial date - "Year 2000 " looks good in print and can perform as a catchy ad phrase for most products. The media will try to wrap and sell us the event as a product, In some sense they also claim hegemony over it. Year 2000 is being promoted more or less as a Hollywood event. Hopefully The y2k art movement will make sure it won't happen. The piece you are about to be exposed to is presented in a locationless space which was born as a global military accident - the internet... ...we are thus seeing the commercialization of multiple-user software enabling simultaneous use by a set of subscribers to computer networks such as the internet, the World Wide Web of computer networks launched nearly fifteen years ago by the Pentagon.. The piece you are about to view exposes the calendarial peak points of the west looming Social Crash in a serial timed manner, to re-expose yourself to a peak, hit your browser 'back' button.. So where and when are you going to be in Year 2000? ( Begin Exposure ) --- http://www.dromology.com --- Where is Y2K? *Where is Year 2000?* - on-line text and art piece (Work in Progress) about the looming millennial event. It explores the relations between time, space, accidents, and exposure. *Grey text - excepts from Paul Virilio, Open Sky. Black text - Aviv Eyal and Shirley Shor. |
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| Eyal, Aviv. aviveyal@dromology.com Techno-Artist, Artistic Technologist Software developer and Artist. Holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Philosophy for the University of Tel-Aviv, Israel. Currently develops multimedia-authoring tools at Microsoft. Recently moved to Seattle, WA. Shor,Shirley. shirley@dromology.com Techno-Artist, Artistic Technologist Artist, Art Critique and Journalist. Deals with Art and Technology subjects. Holds Bachelor degree in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Tel-Aviv, Israel. Graduated from The new Seminar for critique and curatorship, Camera Obscura, School of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Currently lives in Seattle, Washington. Writes articles and exhibition reviews about digital art and technology for Studio - The primer Israeli art magazine on a regular basis and contributes articles for ART-BYTE, Inelegant Agent, Art papers and other publications.Projects and Exhibitions. 1998, Dromology.com, web art, projects and writings site. 1998, "Babylon", Exhibition catalog text, Herzelia Museum of Art, Herzelia, Israel. 1997, "The Bus - Spatial Dialog, Tel-Aviv, nodes traversal", Art Project, text and Alternative tour-guide, editor 1997, "Flyer Iconography", single exhibition of flyers collection and text, The Millenium, night club, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 1997, Design and implementation of a web based art-history study project for Camera Obscura, School of Art. 1996, "Party" - Live internet installation event. 1996, Magnet, Israeli Net Magazine, Editor of Arts section. 1996, "Lull" - Founder and Editor. Art and Critique webzine. Now a node in Dromology.com |
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