[syndicate] No Flesh Guaranteed - Internet net cult hit...

[Eryk Salvaggio]

This is a good question. Maybe you ought to do what I did with "September
11th, 2001" - I took it down. It's a dead link now; only visible to people
who email me to ask to see it. This works in a lot of ways- 1, it covers me
for bandwidth costs, and 2, given the subject matter, it keeps the work from
being utilized for feeding "American Patriot" purposes, which was a huge
problem for me personally after the NYT article and could otherwise
contribute to GW Bush's vampiric rise to power on the backs of 3000 dead
instead of acting as an actual memorial to actual people, which was the
whole idea in the first place.

I suppose, really, that reason 1 is part of why the Rhizome Artbase is
something of a valuable service, but for now I'm still not convinced that
the administrative problems with the artbase have been addressed, (which
makes me wonder if they ever will be) so I won't be contributing that piece
to it. I also had some private investors interested in it, but I am wary of
that, too, for similar reasons.

-e.




----- Original Message -----
From: "furtherfield" <info at furtherfield.org>
To: <syndicate at anart.no>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:26 AM
Subject: [syndicate] No Flesh Guaranteed - Internet net cult hit...


> No Flesh Guaranteed - has suddenly become an Internet net cult hit.
> http://www.noflesh.net
>
> Eyeopener, its creator suddenly had to move the site to a different server
> very swiftly due to the sudden bandwidth growth.
>
> Recently, due to the mass growth of blogs and a more interested net
audience
> who are keen to discover web-art & net-art that commuinicates rather than
> bashing theory down their throats, in the guise of self censorship. 'NFG'
> has become one of the most visited pieces on the Internet. Not because it
is
> art but because it communicates in creative terms.
>
>
> A frenzied influx of visitors emailed the artist with various comments:-
>
> "A Dead Heart Finds the Dark Side"
>
> ''Who needs Art when you have something moving beyond?"
>
> "Fuck the critics, they obviously do not see what it really is"
>
> "This work is so simple yet it's brillaint. Why are we not allowed to this
> sort of work in art galleries?"
>
> "Strange. At first I was scared but then I kind of got addicted to the
> clicking & seeing but not seeing the flesh"
>
> "It's more perverse than sex"
>
> 'No Flesh Guaranteed ' in its various forms 1st entered the Internet
expanse
> in 1998 and has moved on to become part of the Internet vista. A dark and
> Dada-esque collection of images that feature collected sexual images from
> the net, reworked with the flesh extracted. Some are replaced with themed
> inner collages replacing the flesh.
>
>
>
>
>


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