[syndicate] networked performance seeking context

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context ?
is network nogood to you ?
art (if art) is spoom petery !
all the rest is brouhahahaha !

*real artwork* !!! bah,
Fax mes fesses !

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Le 15 août 04, à 19:35, dolmensniper at free.fr a écrit :

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> Hi all,
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> I have a project of a networked performance that I thought might be of 
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> interest to some of you. It uses common bureaucratic-technological 
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> playful and ambiguous way in order to create a rather undefinable 
> artwork. I am
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> currently looking for a festival / artistic event within which this 
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> Find below the description of the project a short biography of me.
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> My project consists in several steps:
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> first, to accumulate via different e-mail addresses, e-letters 
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> mailing-lists, digital networks, a consequent amount of junk-mail, more
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> accurately what is now called "spam-poetry", the accumulation of 
> random words.
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> (process started one month ago)
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> second, to recycle this raw material in the form of a text file, then 
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> recycled paper and each page being stamped and autographed by the 
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> the period of the performance (24 hours).
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> third, to send by fax a copy of each unique artwork to the 
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> the period of the performance, each copy being asked for by previous 
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> request during the same period of time to a temporary web-site.
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> fourth, to delete the original word files, and put back the original 
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> stamped autographed paper sheets into the recycling networks of 
> everyday life.
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> performance which is to be announced on the internet, and broadcasted 
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> a web-cam.
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> the only "real" artworks that remain are the received faxes/duplicatas 
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> participants and a list-archive of the names / e-mail addresses for 
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> willing to do so.
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> Thus, I intend to use bureautic / bureaucratic hardware to create a 
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> community, to promote a re-cycling re-sampling economics, and to blur 
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> boundaries between garbage and "meaningful" content (artworks). My 
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> "Artist" is obviously ironic, both because of the repetitive nature of 
> the work
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> and because of the undeserved emphasis put on the fact that each copy 
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> and signed before being faxed, while I haven't written any of the 
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> sheets I will sign.
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> The aim is also to question the "originality" (as unicity) of an 
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> also to question the notion of veracity - authenticity of 
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> documents in the era of digital reproduction. Is the real artwork the 
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> stamped and autographed but thrown to the bin, the received fax copy, 
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> performance itself?
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> About me:
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> Cyrill Duneau
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> 11 sept. 1972
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> french
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> male
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> Fine Art School of Lorient - France, multimedia
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> video "No Phone Last Night" (5mn)
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> CD audio: dolmen sniper "dead ringers"
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> soundtrack for Xavier Ameller's short movie "Czesco's face"
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> textual works online at: http://www.dolmensniper.motime.com
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> collaboration with Alan Sondheim ">what about mot-valise?"
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> collaboration with Truphti: a bi-headed blog at:
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> http://www.the_text_between.blogspot.com
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> various publications: see http://www.geocities.com/dolmensniper for 
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> Both my textual blog and my video are in the process of being cloned 
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> Rhizome.org database.
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> Feedbacks welcome,
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> Regards,
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> Cyrill.
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