antiorp, or =cw4t7abs–s/he wants to remain anonymous–is an extremely
fresh and radical appearance in todays internet art scene, which for the
rest seems to be flooded by a huge amount of mediocre projects, mostly
commissioned by smaller or larger institutions–thus entirely bypassing,
among others, the rather evident opportunity of increasing autonomy and
necessary change of the social role of the artist.

=cw4t7abs, as a refreshing alternative to this, is a troublemaker.
working independently ever since s/he started on the net (and when was
that precisely? no-one really knows, for s/he never used the usual
self-promotion channels), antiorp makes cd-roms, director applications,
electronic music in mp3 compression format, video experiments and very
scary webwork. her/his works can be downloaded on some of the many
distributed web pages s/he worked on meticulously, but finding them is
not an easy job; it takes patience and a low frustration level. antiorp
is not easy, not a piece of sliced bread.

apart from that, =cw4t7abs is a notable appearance on a number of
white-male-protestant-american-centered mailing lists that deal with
technical matters related to electronic music. antiorps critical,
elaborated, mostly highly intelligent and well-informed
interferences–written in a consistent, at first sight illegible, techy
manner–have evoked hatred, threats, breakdowns; they radically
ridiculize these lists as social spaces with very strong unwritten rules
of inclusion and exclusion, nerdism and expertise; =cw4t7abs (ab)uses
email as a grotesque, powerful, anonymizing tool. a few weeks ago an
interesting discussion regarding fascism on the net has emerged on one
of those lists; part of that thread can be retraced from the 7-11
mailing list archive.

i will not say much more about this–for i trust your ability to judge
for yourself. part of antiorp's stuff can be found from
http://www.tezcat.com/~antiorp/ you can read quite a lot of her/his
mailing list postings and writing in the 7-11 list archive at
http://king.dom.de/7-11/ s/he didn't seem to like this very much, but
antiorps work was hell.com's special exhibit this
month–http://www.hell.com/

antiorp@tezcat.com for more info