[Reader-list] [Announcements] Turbulence Commission: "getawayexperiment.net" by Nathaniel Stern and Marcus Neustetter

[Jo-Anne Green]

January 17, 2005
Turbulence Commission: "getawayexperiment.net" by Nathaniel Stern and 
Marcus Neustetter
http://turbulence.org/works/getawayexperiment/index.php

"getawayexperiment.net" proposes a dialogue between the virtual and 
physical processes of sign and site design and perception. Stern and 
Neustetter have transformed several information-based web pages into 
collaboratively constructed communication sites; they commissioned local 
sign-makers in Johannesburg, South Africa to "re-mix" five websites (Fox 
News, Google Images, joburg.org.za, Solidarity and Turbulence) by 
painting stylized versions of each image on their main pages. The 
hand-painted signs were then scanned, prepared for the web, and uploaded.

Each of the five sites can be seen in three ways: 1) the original site 
(on its original server); 2) the "getaway" site in edit mode; and 3) the 
"getaway" site in non-edit  mode. In edit mode, participants from 
anywhere in the world can click on an image in any one of the "getaway" 
pages and upload their own replacement images. In non-edit mode each 
individual image is randomly pulled from the site's database, thereby 
transforming the "getaways" into dynamic collages that signify something 
completely new.

Concept, Artists/Designers: Nathaniel Stern, Marcus Neustetter; 
Information Architecture: Templar Wales; Programming/Scripting: 
BlinkNewMedia; Core Sign-Writers: Mduduzi Manyoni, Tebogo Phafudi, 
Bongani Nkou, Kasa Thamae, and Nkosana.

"getawayexperiment.net" is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing 
Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made 
possible with funding from The Greenwall Foundation.

BIOGRAPHIES

NATHANIEL STERN (NYC/Johannesburg) is an internationally exhibited 
installation artist, net.artist and performance poet. His interactive 
installations have won awards in New York, South Africa and Australia, 
and his net.art has been featured in festivals all over Europe, Asia and 
the US. Stern's collaborative physical theatre and multimedia 
performance work has won three FNB Vita Awards - including Best 
Presentation of a New Contemporary Work - and has been featured on the 
main stage at the Grahamstown Festival (South Africa). His poetry 
repertoire includes the US National Poetry Slam competition and the RSA 
HIV/AIDS Arts, Media & Film Festival.

MARCUS NEUSTETTER has been developing projects that address the 
relationship between art and technology. These take the form of mobile, 
installation, and web artworks tackling the translation of data through 
different online and offline platforms. In this process he has been 
exploring the digital and analogue ways of representing virtual 
experiences. Neustetter has exhibited and been actively involved in 
developing opportunities and platforms for local digital art through 
projects in South Africa and Europe. These include ARS Electronica 
(Austria), Transmadiale.03 (Germany) and E-tester (Spain). As director 
(with Stephen Hobbs) of The Trinity Session and sanman (southern african 
new media art network) and The Gallery PREMISES, Neustetter is actively 
involved in developing cultural strategies through a range of projects. 
Currently he is a consultant for UNESCO DigiArts Africa.

For more information about Turbulence, please visit http://turbulence.org

-- 
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog and Conference: http://turbulence.org/blog
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