Online Tristero

[John Bailey]

Hi List,
Recently arrived home after a long absence and hope not to be repeating 
anything here, but just now alerted to this...

Not personally a big fan of net art so it doesn't mean much to me.

P.S. Am off to see the 'Journey into the mind of [p.]' doco tomorrow:
http://www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au/programme/programme_detail.asp?title=Thomas%20Pynchon:%20A%20Journey%20into%20the%20Mind%20of%20[p.]

Would love to discuss it later with those who've seen it. Show of hands?

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TRISTERO
A Film and Video Umbrella online project
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http://www.tristero.co.uk

A 'mail-art' project in which online artists-in-residence are creatively
're-cycling' unwanted digital material deposited by subscribers to the
Tristero website.

Thomas Pynchon's late-Sixties state-of-America novel 'The Crying of Lot 49' 
revolves around a phenomenon called the Tristero: a clandestine mail system 
which operates under the radar of the US Postal Service, whose initiates 
covertly inscribe and re-direct apparently innocent letters as a way of 
sending coded messages to each other. The Tristero is a kind of hacker 
underworld before the fact, a secret network of marginalised, dissident 
elements who take pride in the creative re-purposing of overlooked or 
discarded material, transforming dead-letters and junk mail into 
multi-layered carriers of meaning.

At a time when junk email is reaching epidemic proportions, this Film and 
Video Umbrella online project attempts to put some of the Tristero's ideas 
into practice.

Marketing communications agency, The Big Group have developed a customised 
digital image depository to which subscribers to the Tristero website can 
donate waste material from their mailboxes or hard drives in the hope that 
it will be transformed into ready-made, Merz-style artworks by artists.

The first artist-in-residence, Nick Crowe has been creating work throughout 
July, and will be replaced by Simon Biggs on 5th August.

Forthcoming artists include Jacqueline Donachie and Michael Landy.


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