call for participation!

viewing distance:
24 hours in front of the screen - a virtual project about realities

just re-member:

1909:
Joyce attempts to project the full 24 hours of a totally normal day onto
a town map of Dublin.

1968:
(1. May 12 00 Hrs) A group of situationists get on the metro with forged
tickets from Berlin.. They travel to a suburb and make merry in order to
try out the method of *targeted wandering around* - a revolutionising of
every-day life.

1969:
(2. May 24.00 Hrs) Andy Warhol buys 24 60 minute tapes in a 24 hour
service station on the Lower Eastside. Jumpy and nervous he throws the
first cassette in his recorder. He records the next 24 hours of his
life. Typed out it makes up the material for his unreadable novel *a*.

1982:
in the project *Die Welt in 24 Stunden* (The world in 24 Hours), at the
ars electronica in Linz, artists from 16 nations in 3 continents are
connected with each other- via a Time sharing net - from 12 O'clock
midday on 27th September, to 12 O'clock midday on September 28th. At
their own local time of 12 O'clock midday or as close as feasibly
possible, the participants from Linz are chosen to carry out an exchange
of work, improvisation and information, using each of the media
available to them.

*The aim was to follow the midday sun around the earth and create a kind
of telematic world map. What was most obvious about this map of course,
was that it only included the industrial, capitalist nations -
two-thirds of the earth was missing. This is a problem that most
telecommunications projects will come up against in the near future.*
(Robert Adrian X.)

1996:
1st May 17.48 Hrs proved inviting enough for Pit Schulz to create a
large net-time placard for the "Tag der Arbeit" (e.g. 12.00 = I will eat
peanuts and do this and do that) It travels around the edge of the Net,
around the badlands where most people spend their time involuntarily
offline or have got other things to do.

* Where's the time, the enjoyment and the energy then?* (Pit Schulz)
Every answer will be anonymised, sorted, mixed, shaken and carried over
onto placards in order to try out various calculations on it. please
reply-to: pit@contrib.de

1997:
(18.03. 17.17)
24 hours in front of the screen - a virtual project about realities

We want to capture life one step in front of the screen with our
project, in order to examine the relationship of virtuality and
realities.
www.uni-hildesheim.de/~distance
(here you will find more details and work-in-progress-
web-documentation)

In the first phase, screen-shots will be collected over the Web and
reconstructed:

A fictitious, twenty-four hour course of a day will be created from
these momentary records of 1440 different screen-shots and reality-shots
from all over the world. That's one for every minute.

At the festival and future live events the material will be complemented
with actual material and broadened out to a kind of art Web soap opera -
an attempt to create a living documentation/fiction of festival events -
a living flow of data.

How to join us:

1.At any moment between the 24.03.97 - 31.04.97 you make a screenshot.

2.Write us what ever happens in this moment;

for example:
What's the time?
Where are you?
Are you alone or is there someone else?
What are you doing in front of the computer?
What are your thoughts and feelings?
Check out your senses?
Are you listening to music?
etc.
Present us yourself in this moment of the screenshot.

3. Please give us the exact time of your shot an the following
informations:

age
sex
your town

4. Send us your text and screenshot -in two separated mails- to
following adress: distance@rz.uni-hildesheim.de

Hei+Co: Heiko Idensen, responsible
Krusty: Stefan Rodenberg, Cultural Educational Theory
@lex: Alexandra Hauer, Cultural Educational Theory
Zhara: Heide Junker, Cultural Educational Theory
Joerg: Joerg Bensch, Cultural Educational Theory
fifi: Axel Zinser, Computer Scientist

@lex, Zhara + hei+co wish you hot fun