Postmasters Gallery
**The Hole**
Postmasters Digital Projects

November 16 - December 21, 1996

In The Hole - our monthly project - MACIEJ WISNIEWSKI will present a
computer installation "Good Luck !" a slot machine of internet sites.
The internet browser divided vertically into three equal parts, if the
large button above the screen pushed the browser will connect to three
randomly selected sites. Their address designation (com, edu, mil, gov,
net, etc.) is displayed above each. The viewer cannot influance or
engage the sites but except them as they are. The sites (over 500) are
selected by the artist. "JACKPOT" if the address designates line up.
Prizes for the audience!

Posmasters Digital Program
Preview of "The Sub-Division of the Electric Light"
by Perry Hoberman

Published as part of "artintact 3" by ZKM/Center for Art and Media
Karlsruhe with essays by Annika Blunck and Peter Lunnenfeld CD-ROM
production: Volker Kuchelmeister, assisted by Kevin McTavish Special
thanks to Al and Ruth at the Outpost and Toni Dove

"The history of the production of images with light, first by
electricity and then by electronics, leads back and forth between the
public and the domestic. Before Edison's incandescent lamp, the
sub-division of light was thought to be impossible. Similarly, the early
history of computing is defined by massive, centralized, mainframe
computers. But eventually, light and power are sub-divided,
domesticated. The screen of the computer is treated here as an
undifferentiated light source that can be parceled into discrete images.
At one extreme, each phosphor of the cathode-ray tube is a miniaturized
lamp; at the other, the computer screen is a flood of light that is
constantly articulated by the computing machinery. The user manipulates
image projectors and projected images, redirecting and altering them.
Interaction here does not involve choicemaking, but instead an active
intervention into the flow of time itself."

"bigtwin tv 1988-1996"
by Bigtwin

bigtwin's work and many other titles on floppies, CD are AVAILABLE.
Please ask for list and prices.

Postmasters Gallery, located in SoHo at 80 Greene Street [New York], is
open Tuesday through Saturday 11am to 6 pm. Please contact Magdalena
Sawon with any questions that you might have.