Several hundred young people gathered at a San Francisco loft last
Friday to celebrate Remedi.al, the winter 2000 installment of The Remedi
Project. They came from as far as Italy and New York for the event, the
first time the art collective has hosted an "off-line" opening in its
two-year history.

"I never thought Remedi would have this type of effect," said Josh Ulm,
the group's 27-year-old founder, as he eyed the dense crowd around him–
packing the Mission-district loft and overflowing into a nearby
driveway. Inside, web sites and videos were projected onto three large
screens as a DJ spun moody electronica off MP3s.

A middle-aged man pressed his way through the crowd to tell Ulm that he
came all the way from Seattle for the party. "The things I've seen on
Remedi are the only things I