| Inke Arns on Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:45:02 +0200 |
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:28:35 +0200 From: Konrad Becker <[email protected]> Subject: <nettime> Applied Autonomy on a Spray / Ars Electronica Applied Autonomy on a Spray Linz, September 4th 2000 US based Institute for Applied Autonomy embarasses the electronic arts IAA was the only one to address the political situation in Austria during the Live-TV Prix Ars Electronica Gala and transferred the award to Public Netbase and the Austrian resistance movement during the ceremony. The intervention of the group caused considerable irritation while the "GraffitiWriter" robotic device sprayed the URL of Public Netbase www.t0.or.at on the stage in huge red letters. The presenters who included a national anchorman (who lost his job in the past for being too critical), were both stunned out of their routine for several seconds before they tried to contain the situation. A total blackout of the simultanaous translation turned into incoherent gibberish after a while but that seems to have been less a case of censorship than of complete helplessness in respect to this change of "script". Public Netbase will invite a jury that will hand out the award money to the best resistance websites in Austria. ************************* Award of Distinction for The Institute for Applied Autonomy (USA): "GraffitiWriter" The function of the remote-controlled "GraffitiWriter" consists of writing graffiti texts at a speed of 15 km per hour on horizontal surfaces. In addition to a smaller model the size of a remote-controlled model car, a larger version has also been developed for jeeps. The texts written by the robot can be entered directly by Internet users via Internet chat. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] - http://www.v2.nl/~arns/ ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <[email protected]> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe [email protected]