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The Status Project
Heath Bunting
Broadway Cinema | 18.05.07
Trampoline presents:
Heath Bunting – The Status Project
Heath Bunting’s Status Project is an interactive online artwork that reflects upon issues of identity, data protection and privacy. Future Factory and Trampoline have commissioned the artist to develop this work further. The project will be launched as part of Trampoline’s Radiator Festival for New Technology Art in November 2007. As a precursor to this, a Live Lecture accompanied by a presentation of works will be hosted by Broadway in May 2007.
Live Lecture
Friday 18th of May 2007 at 11am
Broadway, Cinema 1
Admission free
Heath Bunting will give a presentation on his work with focus on the Status Project.
Presented Works
BorderXing Guide – Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, 2001
Broadway Café Bar
Slideshow
Throughout May, starts daily at 4 pm
And BorderXing Guide on computer in Broadway Foyer, 14 - 20 May
Status Project – Heath Bunting, 2004
Broadway Foyer on computer, 14 - 20 May
Broadway Cinema
14-18 Broad St
Nottingham
NG1 3AL
Status Project – Heath Bunting, 2004
“The Status Project is an expert system for identity mutation” says net art pioneer, Heath Bunting. Presently available as an online database, it forces the user to describe themselves through a set of multiple choice questions. While the Status Project currently maps the systems that control our documented identities, Heath is developing software which guides us through the process of building and modifying these official documents. With effects in the real world – ranging from getting a Tesco club card to appearing on the electoral register, the artists’ ultimate aim is to apply for a passport with his new identity.
http://status.irational.org/
BorderXing Guide – Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, 2001
In 2000 Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon crossed 24 of the 26 European borders without a passport using wilderness routes, thus avoiding official border posts. During the several months long project, Bunting and Brandon documented exact details about each crossing’s location, strategy, availability of food and where to get help, resulting in the BorderXing Guide now found on the internet.
The website is not available to everyone who has an Internet connection. People wishing to view the website must physically travel to one of the listed designated locations, or apply to become an authorised client themselves. The project intends a reversal of the way that borders restrict movement and challenge the supposed liberties that accompany the concept of the Internet as a borderless space.
If you are at an Internet terminal authorised by the artist, go to www.irational.org/BorderXing to view the work. The full work can be accessed from the PC at Broadway foyer from 14th – 20th of May, as well as numerous other locations listed on the site.
If you would like your network address to be added to the list of authorised locations, send it to [email protected]. Please note that only static IP addresses will be considered as authorised clients.
While BorderXing comments on the way movement from one country to the next is restricted by governments and border authorities, the Status Project looks at how the construction of our ‘official identity’ – a collection of data – influences how we can move around in social space. What this ultimately shows is how our everyday environment and virtual space - the internet, private or governmental databases and networks – are inseparably woven with each other forming a densely controlled actuality.
http://www.irational.org/heath/
http://www.trampoline.org.uk
http://www.future-factory.com/
Supported by:
Arts Council England
Thanks to:
Broadway, The Gamut
Heath Bunting
Broadway Cinema | 18.05.07
Trampoline presents:
Heath Bunting – The Status Project
Heath Bunting’s Status Project is an interactive online artwork that reflects upon issues of identity, data protection and privacy. Future Factory and Trampoline have commissioned the artist to develop this work further. The project will be launched as part of Trampoline’s Radiator Festival for New Technology Art in November 2007. As a precursor to this, a Live Lecture accompanied by a presentation of works will be hosted by Broadway in May 2007.
Live Lecture
Friday 18th of May 2007 at 11am
Broadway, Cinema 1
Admission free
Heath Bunting will give a presentation on his work with focus on the Status Project.
Presented Works
BorderXing Guide – Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, 2001
Broadway Café Bar
Slideshow
Throughout May, starts daily at 4 pm
And BorderXing Guide on computer in Broadway Foyer, 14 - 20 May
Status Project – Heath Bunting, 2004
Broadway Foyer on computer, 14 - 20 May
Broadway Cinema
14-18 Broad St
Nottingham
NG1 3AL
Status Project – Heath Bunting, 2004
“The Status Project is an expert system for identity mutation” says net art pioneer, Heath Bunting. Presently available as an online database, it forces the user to describe themselves through a set of multiple choice questions. While the Status Project currently maps the systems that control our documented identities, Heath is developing software which guides us through the process of building and modifying these official documents. With effects in the real world – ranging from getting a Tesco club card to appearing on the electoral register, the artists’ ultimate aim is to apply for a passport with his new identity.
http://status.irational.org/
BorderXing Guide – Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon, 2001
In 2000 Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon crossed 24 of the 26 European borders without a passport using wilderness routes, thus avoiding official border posts. During the several months long project, Bunting and Brandon documented exact details about each crossing’s location, strategy, availability of food and where to get help, resulting in the BorderXing Guide now found on the internet.
The website is not available to everyone who has an Internet connection. People wishing to view the website must physically travel to one of the listed designated locations, or apply to become an authorised client themselves. The project intends a reversal of the way that borders restrict movement and challenge the supposed liberties that accompany the concept of the Internet as a borderless space.
If you are at an Internet terminal authorised by the artist, go to www.irational.org/BorderXing to view the work. The full work can be accessed from the PC at Broadway foyer from 14th – 20th of May, as well as numerous other locations listed on the site.
If you would like your network address to be added to the list of authorised locations, send it to [email protected]. Please note that only static IP addresses will be considered as authorised clients.
While BorderXing comments on the way movement from one country to the next is restricted by governments and border authorities, the Status Project looks at how the construction of our ‘official identity’ – a collection of data – influences how we can move around in social space. What this ultimately shows is how our everyday environment and virtual space - the internet, private or governmental databases and networks – are inseparably woven with each other forming a densely controlled actuality.
http://www.irational.org/heath/
http://www.trampoline.org.uk
http://www.future-factory.com/
Supported by:
Arts Council England
Thanks to:
Broadway, The Gamut
