Tsunamii.net
tsunamii.net (founded in 2001 by Woon Tien Wei (* 1975) and Charles Lim Yi Young (* 1973)) was a Singaporean artist group that disbanded in 2005.
The infrastructure of the internet is their topic. "Technical devices such as cell phones and the Internet have radically changed and expanded our conception of space, time, distance and the relationships between bodies that they create."
"Alpha 3.4" is one of the actions tsunamii.net uses to draw attention to the technical conditions for worldwide networking. Cables and servers are the basis for cyberspace . The quality and availability of the Internet for the user depends on the respective geographical location and the socio-cultural , economic and political contexts specific to these locations .
Charles Lim and Tien Woon hiked on foot from Kassel, the location of the documenta, to Kiel, about 600 km away, where the documenta server is located on a server farm . The movements of the performers were recorded with a GPS satellite navigation device and transmitted by mobile phone to a base station, which converts this position information into navigation steps on the Internet. For example, in order to “go” to a certain website, you actually have to move to the real location of the server on which the page is stored. With the “Webwalker” program specially designed by the artists, walking in real space becomes the only way to move around the net. In this way, the physical distance that is normally hidden on the Internet is reintegrated into the spatial experience.
The concept of "Alpha 3.4" was visualized at Documenta11 in the form of four horizontal LCD screens. The first screen displayed the IP address of the pages that the user was navigating to through his or her steps. The second showed how a browser scans the Internet and makes the website corresponding to the IP address visible. On the third monitor, the geographical position and route of the walker were shown on a satellite map. The fourth screen showed a “ Whois ” program that updates the “second-level domain” name of the website (and thus the geographical position of the respective page) and the movements in the web in the form of GPS coordinates on a schematic world map.
"We want to think of the internet as a physical place. It is not about making the virtual physical, but rather to argue that the virtual also exists physically. "
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- ↑ tsunamii.net accessed on January 13, 2019 (English)
- ↑ Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition / Exhibition. Short guide; Page 226, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002 ISBN 3-7757-9087-X
- ↑ Taz, Tilman Baumgärtl Tsunamii.net with "Alpha 3.4" accessed on January 13, 2019
- ↑ words in space tsunamii.net accessed on January 13, 2019
- ↑ Net Art Anthology Alpha 3.4. Accessed January 13, 2019
- ↑ Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition / Exhibition. Short guide; Page 226, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002 ISBN 3-7757-9087-X
- ↑ alpha 3.4 accessed on January 13, 2019 (English)