Heath Bunting

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Bunting at transmediale , Berlin, February 4, 2011

Heath Bunting (* 1966 ) is a British artist from Bristol who has worked with new media topics since the 1990s . He gained fame in particular through net art work ; he is the founder and operator of irational.org . The aim of his work is the creation of open, democratic communication systems and social relationships. His work often crosses the boundaries of conventional categories, both in physical reality and on the internet. Bunting was represented at documenta X in 1997 with his online work Visitors Guide to London . Another form of his media art is creating fake websites for organizations like CERN or companies like GlaxoSmithKline . This website, developed in cooperation with his mother, an ex- Greenham Common activist, calls on Glaxo employees to make their pets available for experiments and vivisection .

Own, Be Owned Or Remain Invisible

In 1998, Bunting created _readme.html, a work of Appropriation Art , a “simply brilliant project”, a “bizarre little search engine” that “only receives a meta statement through the instructions in the subtitle: Own, be owned or remain invisible” ( Georg Seeßlen : But art is it? , concrete , 2/2011). _Readme.html is a website that consists simply of a newspaper article about bunting written by the British writer James Flint for The Daily Telegraph , with almost every single word linked as a domain name . Example: The first sentence is Heath Bunting is on a mission . "Heath" and "Bunting" are not linked, the remaining four hyperlink to the pages www.is.com , www.on.com , www.a.com and www.mission.com . At the beginning of the project, many of the domains that could be reached in this way had no owners, others have since become free again. Unlinked words are almost invisible (light gray on a white background), this includes

Heath Bunting, graffiti artist, art radio pirate, Kings Cross phone-in, mother, create disbelief u. a.

Words in medium gray are linked domains, after clicking on them they become black and thus visible. The unlinked words point to aspects of Bunting's identity that he does not want to see in someone else's possession. In this way, Bunting thematizes ownership on the Internet.

In an interview with Tilman Baumgärtel in 1997, Bunting named visibility as a decisive criterion for separating public and private on the Internet, whereby visibility only depends on the skills and marketing strategies of the search engines .

King's Cross Phone-In

"King's Cross Phone-In 'is one of Bunting's performance -Kunstwerken and one of the first flash mob promotions. On his website at the time, cybercafe.org, he had listed the numbers of the telephone booths in and around London's King's Cross train station and asked them to take one of the following actions on Friday, August 5th, 1994 at noon:

  • call the numbers in a specific order
  • call the numbers at a specific time
  • Call and, if someone answers, speak to that stranger
  • going to the train station, picking up one of the phones, and talking to that stranger
King's Cross station

Bunting himself went to King's Cross station and took calls. "The train station was turned into an art platform and the unsuspecting travelers and workers in this area became an audience"

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Media.Art.Network. Heath Bunting , 2010
  2. ↑ BorderXing Guide (read: Border Crossing Guide)
  3. ↑ documenta X short guide; Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-89322-938-8
  4. ^ CERN - European Lab for Network Collision
  5. ↑ http://www.irational.org/heath/_readme.html
  6. ^ Greene, Rachel (2004). Internet Art. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-20376-7
  7. ↑ beyond.interface.bunting ( memento of the original from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Steve Dietz  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.walkerart.org
  8. ↑ nettime, Goodbye Classic ?, Olia Lialina
  9. ^ Tilman Baumgärtel: Interview with Heath Bunting
  10. ↑ King's Cross Phone-In
  11. ↑ tiger.towson.edu ( Memento from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ engl. Original: "the train station was transformed into an art platform and the unsuspecting commuters and workers in the area became the audience." Digital Humanities ( September 27, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ), a course taught by Professor Michael Shanks at Stanford University
personal data
SURNAME Bunting, Heath
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English media artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966