encounter
March 16th - April 14th
http://www.furnace.org/encounter

"encounter" is an experimental project exploring online relationships.
The aim of the project is to examine the potential and development of
relationships initiated within a remote environment, where physical
presence and personality are interpreted through a computer screen and
identity can be re-created on a whim.

"encounter" will take the form of a conversation between two anonymous
people, the artist initiating the project (anon1) and another artist
invited through a call for participants (anon2). The artists will not
use their real names, focusing all knowledge of each other purely on
what is said as part of the conversation and allowing the relationship
to start from a blank slate, not knowing the other's gender, location or
previous work.

The conversation will open up to involve more participants through a
weekly IRC chat at http://www.furnace.org/bubble.html to which there is
an open invitation.

The dates and times are as follows:

March 20th 7pm
March 27th 7pm
April 3rd 7pm
April 10th 7pm

Please see http://www.furnace.org/encounter/irc.html for more
information.