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name: 0100101110101101.ORG
web: HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG
mail: 01001@0100101110101101.ORG
Presentation
They have a hard time remembering the name of their domain and their
identity is even more obscure. The action that made them famous
was the “theft” of the most renowned net.art gallery, Hell.com,
which has always been closed to the public and accessible only
with a precious password. When Hell opened the web site for
48 hours on the occasion of the ‘Surface’ exhibition, 0100101110101101.ORG
downloaded the entire content of the gallery and created a perfect
copy, making it available to anyone in its web site. Despite
the threats of legal action by the owners of Hell.com, the web
site is still there to be seen. After Hell.com other scandals
followed, like the pirate version of the famous gallery Art.Teleportacia,
the numerous remakes of the works of other net.artists or the
false “official” web site of the Holy See. 0100101110101101.ORG
work on what they consider contradictions of the modern cultural
system and particularly the concept of authenticity and authorship,
taking advantage of the manipulation potential offered by the
Internet. It should be clear to anyone that it no longer make
sense to speak of originals or duplicates in the world of digital
art. The struggle for freedom and accessibility of information
only underlines this fact in spite of the fact that the art
market obviously tries to enhance and maintain the “aura” of
a work or art and consequently its high commercial value.
 0100101110101101.ORG
/ life_sharing
life_sharing is an anagram of “file sharing”. life_sharing is
a computer sharing its hard-disk with the whole world, making
all its contents accessible via Internet. “All” does’t mean
a directory of the hard-disk but the whole content of the computer:
programs, system (all the software used is open source), desktop,
archives, tools, ongoing projects, mailboxes and so on. From
the moment life_sharing started, every Internet user has free
access twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year to 0100101110101101.ORG’s
computer: they can rummage through archives, search for texts
or files they’re interested in, check the software, watch the
“live” evolution of projects and even read 0100101110101101.ORG’s
private mail. Users can access the contents through their browser,
thus no particular technical abilities is required, only the
basic notions necessary to surf the web. The computer contents
are not periodically uploaded - thing that is usually necessary
to update a web site - because 0100101110101101.ORG is working
directly on the shared computer - the web server - so that users
follow the development of the work in real time, they are always
present and up-todate. The idea is both simple and full of implications
that go beyond the concept of a work of art being an object
of contemplation, and raises political, sociological, philosophical
and informational issues. life_sharing determines and underlines
problems and contradictions that are no loner aesthetic, they
are ethical. The first of these problems is evidently privacy.
life_sharing represents a radical subversion of the concept
of privacy, a clear inversion of the perspective from which
it has always been considered and discussed. life_sharing is
the “empirical” demonstration that on the Internet is possible
to experiment new forms of interaction and networking, on the
condition that we are willing to leave evidently obsolete practices
behind us.
Commissioned by Gallery 9/Walker Art Center through a grant from the Jerome Foundation
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