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www.dfi.org.uk

Degrees Feet and Inches. Launching the second in the dfi series,
selected by Pauline van Mourik Broekman.

1. Muntadas, ON TRANSLATION

2. Michael Samyn's Zuper.com

3. Francesca da Rimini, Michael Grimm and Ricardo Dominguez, dollspace

Muntadas' initial plan for ON TRANSLATION was to create a chain of
translations of a short text through 23 different countries/languages,
an idea which is based in part on children's games such as "telephone",
"Stille Post" or "Chinese whispers". The work also bases itself on the
translation process while utilising the internet as a system and
network. In it's finished state, ON TRANSLATION can be visited and used
as an archive, with the work itself an artefact.

Zuper.com. "Computers are not books. Computers are not televisions. A
clickable book is a book without suspense. A clickable film is a boring
film. There is no point in translating. Hypertext is dead. Hypertext, a
poor excuse for mistaken nostalgia or just a toy for nerds. Who reads on
a computer screen? If one fights excess with soberness, every simple act
seems improbably grotesque. We need to re-invent everything over and
over again. No one will know us. There is no defence against the
baroque. The human of the future is a playing one. He or she will not be
satisfied with bad toys. He or she will not be satisfied with mere
information. Information is not a goal, it is a means. Information
overload is not a problem, it is a consequence. Information does not
want to be free. Information wants to be forgotten."

dollspace is a web environment, a deep labyrinth for doll and her
ghostgirls and riverboyz to haunt. As dollspace was being created,
Ricardo Dominguez, zapatismo hacktivist in New York, built a
complementary site, hauntologies, where our ghosts would inspire and
infect each other. 'soundtrack for an empty dollspace' was created for
dollspace by Michael Grimm, an Adelaide-based sound/artist. Perishable
sounds for the web, delineated by dollspace and small time large space.
Twenty one-minute dollspace sound characters, dissipated. Decayed. Not
in progress, nor throwaway. No time, always perishable. Post/pre mirror
states.

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specifically and exclusively on-line. The site will change on a
quarterly basis with a lifespan of two years ending March 1st 2001. dfi
is funded by the University of Westminster and is coordinated by Alison
Craighead. Alison Craighead is a researcher at the University also
working as an artist in collaboration with Jon Thomson. The dfi site
structure is the design work of avco productions Ltd.