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Carlos Katastrofsky >
»Lastwishes«, 2007 - 2008
Co-Workers & Funding:
shellscript on custom made printerserver/printer combination, modified software on server.http://katastrofsky.cont3xt.net/home/?p=96
http://papaya.fruit.za.net/mailman/listinfo/lastwishes
http://katastrofsky.cont3xt.net/home/?p=27
Technology
Hardware
lastwishes materialized (2007-08)title: lastwishes materialized
year: 2007-2008
shellscript on custom made printerserver/printer combination
Descriptions & Essays
Only through two narrow slots white endless paper slides through abrown box, at least every ten minutes a message appears:"No communication on this channel", date and time. Listening but not talking and if talking then only once. that way communication only works if one has to say something tuly meanngful, chattin is impossible. Last Wishes is a modification of a mailinglist-software named "Mailman". By subscribing to this communicatiion -platform on the net users ave the ossibility to receive texts of the other participants. But by deciding to also write their opinion or even to react on one of the previous postings they have to think well over it: only once the send-button an be pushed and by this one is automatially unsubscribed from this service. meanwhile the brown box in he exhibition space is unremittingly rumbling on, at least every ten minutes and in between from time to time a meaningful message, maybe.
Literature
Sützl, Wolfgang and Geoff Cox, ed. DATA browser 04: Creating Insecurity. Data Browser 04, New York: Autonomedia, 2009.
Lentczner, Mark, ed. Community of Variation. Selections from the Context Free Art Gallery,
2005-2007. Mountain View, CA: Lentczner, Mark, 2008.
Hochrieser, Sabine and Franz Thalmair and Cont3xt.Net and Michael Kargl, ed. Curating Media/Net/Art: Circulating Contexts. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2007.
Kargl, Michael and Carlos Katastrofsky. Arbeiten 2004-2006: Works 2004-2006. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2007.
Exhibitions & Events