ASINO . A ip / network nomads on a realtime journey through elsewhere / now camping at Biennale Venezia 1993Artists a8 Nomads ‘We willbe travelling for one or two months through the south east border region of Europe. ‘A joumey through Hungary to Bulgaria and ‘Rumania ends at the Black Sea (like most "road movies" -at the beach), During the trip we will fax entries from our running travelogue - phofographs and collected pictures and texts ~ to the Casino Container in Venice. Although the infrastructure of the ‘countries in which we arc travelling is still incomplete, we can approximate a live rans- ‘mission using a relatively uncomplicated and ‘mobile system: a digital camera, a portable ‘computer anda faxmodem, which opens the line to the Container by any telephone outlet. ‘An episodic story atives at the Container, texts and pictures arranged on tree levels time lines =o be installed as a fax-collage. Felix Stephan Huber Philip Pocock Time Lines, Tourist Bubbles and Transmission Error Viaggeremo per uno o due mesi auraverso ta regione di confine sud-orientale del Europa. Sara un viaggio attraverso ' Ungheria che ci ‘portera in Bulgaria e Romania per terminare sul ‘Mar Nero (come la maggior parte dei road ‘moyies” - sulla spiaggia). Durante questa escursione trasmetteremo le ‘annotation del nostro programma di viaggio in corso Ie fotografie ele immagini raccoltenon- cheitest-perfaxal Casino Container aVenezia. Sebbene!"infrasruturadeipaesiincuiviaggere- ‘mo non 2 ancora stata completata, saremo in ‘grado di approssimare una trasmissione live ‘usando un sistema relaivamente incomplicato ‘mobile: una macchina forografica digitale, un ‘computer portarile eun fax-modent che, da una ‘qualsiasi unitatelefonica, si mettera in collega- ‘mento telefonico con il Container: network partner: Veneza the to ast, med: Preble compute, dl camera, fanader. performance: Faxcotage. tne diference: 0+ rave ane: June/JuNomads, Networks and Containers A Way of Life was the year 1988 when the Biennale die Venzia invited the network pioneers Don Foresta, Ray Gallon, Robert Adrian and Roy Ascot to perform a telephone-based network art event on the subject of concrete poetry. ‘The electronic network in use was formerly defined as the ectronie Café Intemational (ECD by Californian artists Sherrie Rabinowitz and Kit Galloway and forthe first time realized as @ ‘community project in Los Angeles during the Olympic Games in 1984. Since then the ECI has developed continuously through the collaboration of universities, museums, institutions and artists round the world toa handsome possibility for interactive projects innetwork art. Once installed, the technique iseasy touse andopen to everybody who has access toa telephone In 1992 the Casino Container was built as a mobile, futuristic Café des Anistes by German designers Reinhard Miller, Meyer‘Voggenreiterand Uwe Wagner. Incollaboration with Axel Winhs and Sabine Voggenreiter, who ‘workin the field of media art and exhibitions, and by the belp of Don Forest the architectural structure ofthe Container changed intoanetwork hhobo for the ECI. During a five years jouney through Europe the Casino Containerhas started to work on experimental solutions for public ‘spaces inthe media age by redefining them as an extended virtual area and elaborating electronic nomadism as an upcoming way of life. ‘The 1993 Biennale di Venzia has invited the Casino Container as an outdoor-contribution to the main show "I Punti Cardinale dell’ Ante ‘Sited at Riva dei Sette Marri the Container will ‘open a window from Venice tothe world for all anists of the Biennale, About 30 projects are ‘developed forthe 120 dayswithnetworkpartners in Los Angeles, Toronto, Pars, Lyon, Helsinki, ‘Aarhus, Cologne, Graz, Sydney, Fukui, Tokyo and others. "Asa meeting point and Café des Artistes the Casino Container will give hospitality to the travellers, the artists and the people of Venice, bringing them together in a space which is completely new for all of them. ‘To remember the historical part ofthe nomad as a cultural transmitter, as the stranger, the ‘adventurer and the alien with connotations to the ‘enemy, hes the one who seeks for hospitality by donating ithimselfand some secrets ofthe world to the settled, who - instead of remaining in anxious enmity - offers to the nomad the ‘opportunity to change from guest to host by ‘ving him a transitory space. In times ofa global information society with itsgrowing tyranny ofprivacy inclosed chambers ‘of one-way-communication the neccessity for ‘breaking through the bariers of fear against the ‘lien into a real travelogue is as evident as never before. ‘Paul Viriio, the analyser of speed and accele- ration, mentioned that there are at least (wo possible solutions for socal and global ite: ifife ‘will not become ar, it will be fascism. Poipot, we say and go ahead,