Exodus

© Michael Bielicky. Screenshot. URL: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/werke/exodus/ (08.08.2013).
Source: © Michael Bielicky. Screenshot. URL: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/werke/exodus/ (08.08.2013).

Michael Bielicky

Exodus , ongoing
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Description
The Exodus Project was a "virtual tele-performance" during Ars Electronica 1995 and brainchild of Michael Bielicky, a Czech-German New Media artist determined to replicate the biblical trail of the prophet Moses. This site is the Net result of Bielicky's creation, a series of virtual images beamed from the Israeli desert using a Global Positioning System and a cellular phone. Bielicky's unusual cartography is accompanied by more conventional maps, and a history of the trail once known to ancient Nabateans as the "spice route." Though the four-day tele-performance is over, the artist's images remain, along with other projects like "The Spiral," a video installation which examines historical communication methods. It's an unusual and provocative use of the Web.

(Michael Bielicky)
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  • genres
    • net art
    • performance art
      • computer performances
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
      • cartography
    • Religion and Mythology
      • Bibles
      • religions
        • Christianity
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