Re-opened Skin/Strip, the archived version.

We have just re-opened Skin/Strip, the archived version.
http://www.skinstrip.net/index_archive.htm

Here are 3 articles written about SkinStrip:
Charlotte L. Frost
Putting the personal in PC or the dirty in Mac
"When travelling through JFK airport recently, I was made to feel
utterly naked…"
http://www.furtherfield.org/cfrost/review1.htm

Alan Sondheim
"The Internet revolution isn't one of communications and technology
alone - it touches the very social fabric of our world. Sexuality and
desire are foregrounded everywhere…"
http://www.skinstrip.net/docs/reviews_articles_sondheim.htm

Lewis Lacook
"The body looms large in post-modern and contemporary art practice. It's
the symbol of all that's sensual and corporeal–including the artwork
itself. Ever since Andy Warhol…"
http://www.skinstrip.net/docs/reviews_articles_lacook.htm

info about Skin/Strip:
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Skin/Strip Online was/still is, a collaboration between Completely Naked
and Furtherfield.

The global digital community were invited to anonymously express their
naked identity using visual images of their bodies. Individual net users
participate in a collective, live event, confronting social and cultural
representations of the body within the net community, by revealing and
viewing their previously unknown corporeality via net-based technology.

Skin/Strip Online was open for contributors between March and August 2003.

During that time the website received 12585 visitors
Over 1500 people uploaded a total of 2800 images to the artwork of which
400 were removed due to their overt sexual content disallowed under the
conditions of the SLA commission.

Skin/Strip Online was commissioned as an online live artistic project
for Shooting Live Artists, a partnership initiative between the Arts
Council of England, BBC, Yorkshire Media Production Agency's Studio of
the North (SON) and b.tv / The Culture Company, aiming to create a new
axis of digital activity in Britain.

And yes- we do have the raw version on the server but, the last time we
had it up. Over 1.8 million visitors crashed it within 4 days. So it is
closed for now until we can get our heads together regarding what to do
with it.