NET COMPONENT
http:// gui.de (not active)


The website explores the phenomenonon of "tourisms" , "home", " place" and "monument" as a social, psychogeographical , cultural and collective structure and as an experience retrieved trough memory.

The original idea of the project has been based upon the idea of the “American Rushmore” and the monument as rhizome- an activity whose motivation is economic but whose effect is symbolic. Rushmore is a product of what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call an “ abstract machine”- a generative or inventive idea. To convey how the machine operates, the theorists use the metaphor of the rizhome. The tourism is rhizomatic. If tourists use maps,tourists are maps or map-makers. Tourism then becomes a map.


Monumental Accidents and http://gui.de are constantly created and refreshed by the netizens, nomads, dromomaniacs and cyber tourists who navigate through their inscriptions.

Visitors to the site encounter one page which is divided in to three units. They can scroll up and down or click on each individual unit.

Unit 1 - Visitor’s profile. a- A rewriting of server stats pages,keeping the original visual,and textual elements and which offers the model to describe the trails,origins,destination, number of the visitors.The visitors become the map. b- Valuation of tourist’s attraction to monument based on equation used by market analysts to forecast attraction of tourists monuments based on Newton’s law of gravitation. Unit 2 - Monument’s profile. A map of monuments consisting of a 5 x5 grid (forms),reloaded with map graphics as on a postcard. Each loading a referring web site the central location occupied by the monument project itself. Unit 3 - Contribution Area. a - A form where people can enter travel songs,games,and contributions to my gui.de as anecdotes. b - Java script a lert ! Appears as an Accident. Randomly selects a travel contribution from the database and presents it to the viewer as an error message. c - On “OK” forcably and randomly refreshes and moves you back home.