Re: <documenta X><blast> visual commodity

{ brad brace } (bbrace@wired.com)
Mon, 7 Jul 1997 08:36:56 -0700 (PDT)

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> > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A
`round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery by Brad Brace.
The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it
suspends identity, relations and history.

The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project
-----------------------------
began December 30, 1994

Classic Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... perfect
trans-avant-garde memes for the 90`s! A continuum of minimalist masks in
the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors for the
everyday...

A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of
imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact,
collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey
imminence: the art of making the other disappear.

An extension of the printed ISBN-Book series... critically acclaimed...
imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced over time...
ineluctable, vertiginous connections.

[ see ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace/books ]

KEYWORDS: >> Promulgated, de-centered, ambiguous, homogeneous,
de-composed... >> Multi-faceted, excentric, oblique, obsessive, obscure,
opaque... >> Personal, permeable, reckless, provocative, poetic, plural,
perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological... >> Evolving, eclectic,
egregious, exciting, entertaining, entropic, erotic, indigenous,
entrancing, enduring...

Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em,
trade `em, print `em, even publish them...

Here`s how:

~ Set www-links to -> http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/12hr.html
Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files
more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher...
Or -> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace/bbrace.html

~ Download from -> ftp.pacifier.com /pub/users/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.netcom.com /pub/bb/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.teleport.com /users/bbrace
Download from -> ftp.rdrop.com /pub/users/bbrace
* Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg

~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to
do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to the
server address nearest you:
*
ftpmail@ccc.uba.ar ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au
ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuggart.de ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.edu
ftpmail@ieunet.ie ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk
ftpmail@archie.inesc.pt ftpmail@ftp.sun.ac.za
ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se ftpmail@ftp.luth.se
ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw ftpmail@oak.oakland.edu
ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
ftpmail@census.gov ftp-request@netcom.com
bitftp@plearn.bitnet bitftp@dearn.bitnet
bitftp@vm.gmd.de bitftp@plearn.edu.pl
bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu bitftp@pucc.bitnet
* *

WWW by email: agora@www.undp.org w3mail@gmd.de webmail@www.ucc.ie
agora@dna.affrc.go.jp agora@info.lanic.utexas.edu

~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too!
The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg
Average size of images is only 45K.
*
Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories:
src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror
*

~ Postings to usenet groups:
alt.binaries.pictures.12hr
alt.binaries.pictures.misc
alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc

* * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups!
(There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent,
Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant)

~ This interminable, relentless sequence of imagery began in earnest on
December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been over
twenty-three years in the making. While the specific sequence of
photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 10 years` worth
of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing
publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour posting
is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection,
interruption, and assimilation.

~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural
projects and sources.

~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and
occasional commentary related to this project has been established. Send
e-mail to: listserv@netcom.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg

-- 
This project has not received government art-subsidies. Some
opportunities still exist for financially assisting the publication of a
CD-ROM archive of sequenced 12hr-ISBN-JPEG imagery. Other supporters
receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed ISBN-Books.

-- 
Jpeg and gif are types of image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq'
to learn how to view or translate these images. 
[ftp ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace]

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