nique ! # After The Storm : about Spam Art and related practices =?ISO-8859-1?B?4CBsYSBmcmFu5w==?=aise

[iatsu.pavu.com]

well not convinced this short informative text is that enlightening and
interesting but as fred request it for here, here's a slightly modified
version of it.

jean-philippe

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# After The Storm : about Spam Art and related practices =E0 la fran=E7aise
(05/09)
Since autumn '99, singular email machines have been created by french
netsters and artists. Starting point was an announcement sent on lists by
clement thomas (cofounder of pavu.com) for an exhibition in which a large
number of email addresses appeared in error in carbon copy (and not in BCC)=
.
Quickly this list of art world people would be used again and again by
artists (it reappears from time to time still in CC like an internet moby
dick).

In the same time, fr=E9d=E9ric madre, editor of pleine-peau - had set the
palais-tokyo list which parallelled an international exhibition of net art
personalities in a french museum - ZAC99. Shortly after the show closed and
the list got less active, fr=E9d=E9ric would launch his "spam" machine and begi=
n
talking of "SpamArt" (although the term may not be really accurate). Other
powerful spam machines would follow such as "probable bad words" by BTM
(based on the words forbidden by the australian legislation), asco-o
deconstructed ASCII messages and a bit later, fbwn's machines.
The palais-tokyo list on which most of these would post quickly developped
into a deliberate unmoderated space for massive email communication and
chain reaction.

In the same time but with a very different point of view, pavu.com would
launch its media actions and its "tactical communication pads" : the
i-Boosters. Created to react on the fly to online events, call for proposal=
s
and others and to promote them, these low-tech communicating machines would
send user's messages and event-related hidden texts (in the source code) to
both organisers and the palais-tokyo list which became shortly assimilated
as an online mail gallery.

this is netart too yes, this is french touch, annoying for some yet fully
original, not the one which displays just on websites but one in which the
"user value" is the key factor.
Just participate and experience!

> De=A0: Frederic Madre <fmadre@wanadoo.fr>
> R=E9pondre =E0=A0: palais-tokyo@pleine-peau.com
> Date=A0: Tue, 09 May 2000 20:15:10 +0200
> =C0=A0: palais-tokyo@pleine-peau.com
> Objet=A0: Re: nique !
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> At 19:52 09/05/2000 +0200, -/iapu. pavu.com/- wrote:
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>>> retentissante :)
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>> et bien voila, comme sa c fait.
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> clement, c'est clair que tu n'as r=E9pondu =E0 rien
> c'est dommage que vous preniez la peine d'ecrire un texte int=E9ressant et
> =E9clairant pour netaffects mais pas pour ici (a few words on french spam
> art, list casualties and user)
> c'est tout
> sans plus
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> ni moins,
> f.
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> palais-tokyo \\ + qu'hier et bien - que demain
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