Dear Mr. Ross:

On August 27, 2000 an unauthorized installation took place at SFMOMA.
Photos and description of this event are online at:

http://www.geocities.com/~genius-2000/SFMOMA82700.html

I'm interested in hearing your reactions to this installation. In
particular, could you compare this installation to the lecture you gave
with Peter Weibel of ZKM in June of 1999? This lecture was videotaped by
SFMOMA and is archived somewhere. In this lecture, Weibel emphasized the
need for "distributed virtuality" in the form of personal technology
that would render the internet a "proscenium" stage complete with self-
identifying audience and creatives. You happened to mention in the same
lecture that whereas the printing press caused revolutions, in the case
of the internet the revolution would be "internal."

Could you please clarify these concepts of proscenium VR and internal
revolution in the context of the unauthorized August 27, 2000
installation?

Also, should you find the tape of your June 1999 lecture, could you
briefly discuss the audience's questions?

Sincerely,

Max Herman
The Genius 2000 Conference
http://www.geocities.com/~genius-2000/Launch.html

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