1:1

http://c5corp.com/1to1/

A new network project by Lisa Jevbratt/C5. The project has been selected
for the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award Show in the Net Work category.

Physical installation of the project:
The Bay Area Award Show, August 11 - September 25, 1999.
New Langton Arts, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco. (415) 626 5416

Reception Sept 9th 6-8 pm.

The 1:1 project includes the creation, maintenance, and visualization of
the C5 IP database, containing the IP addresses to (potentially) all
hosts on the world wide web. The project uses the database to create
five interfaces for navigating the web, and to generate a new topography
of the web. The interfaces/visualizations explore the formal qualities
of the web in relation to the larger network of which it is part: the
internet.

The database:

The C5 IP database is the result of an ongoing interlaced search of the
network's IP space, recording all hosts that respond to an http request.
Because of the interlaced nature of the search, the database could in
itself at any given point be considered a snap-shot or portrait of the
web, revealing not a slice, but an image of the web with increasing
resolution. Hosts with limited or restricted access, and without a
front-end HTML document, are included.

The interfaces:

When navigating the web through the database, one experiences a very
different web than when navigating it with the "road maps" provided by
search engines and portals. Search-engines and portals show us a thin
slice of the web, not the high resolution image we sometimes think they
do. The interfaces/visualizations are not maps of the web but are, in
some sense, the web. They are super-realistic and yet function in ways
images could not function in any other environment or time. They are a
new kind of image of the web and they are a new kind of image.

The five interfaces:

hierarchical: the web as directory structure
every: a complete mapping of all web servers in the database
petri: clusters of networks and navigational traces
random: randomly generated IP addresses from the database
excursion: provides access to the un-searched places of the web