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l'objet: Cassandra Fax Project
La date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:35:04 -0400
De: "mashica" <cassandra@mashica.com>
Répondre à: "mashica" <cassandra@mashica.com>
Société: mashica
à : <pavu@pavu.com>
Dear Pavu,
As you already know, mashica is inviting you to participate in the Cassandra
Fax Project. This is it.
You are reading now the explanatory email that anticipates the actual
faxing. Get ready to fax. The project is as follows: we send you one fax
and you send us one fax, everybody rocks out.
The printed faxes will be included as part of the multimedia exhibitions for
Observatori2000 (www.observatori.com) in Valencia, Spain November 3rd and
4th.
Motives:
The Cassandra Fax Project is created as a recognition and response to the
use of, or simple identification of, electronic interchange as an oracle and
"believable" communication. The veracity of communication is now most
thoroughly challenged by the time and spatial boundaries that are harshly
reduced via electronic media. Not unlike the ability of print to
acquire a profundity that the same word spoken or thought will lack, email, fax, and
other electronically transmitted communications are raised to a greater
power and consequence as they cross limitations of time and distance
previously privileged only to Esp., telepathy, oracles, and prophecies. The
participants of electronic interchange, mindfully or not, create and play
with a super-powered exchange medium. The power of the reproducibility of
the word is multiplied by its medium's power over time and space, rendering
a new coinage for exchange. However this same communication is doomed to
forever suffer an effect of incredibility. The mechanized myth of The New
has been replaced by a super-mechanized myth of The New and progress is
reflected as something now invisible and timeless.
A common reaction to innovation in the modern world of end-users is:
"Unbelievable". Yes, exactly. Of course it's unbelievable. This is the
fate of technological exchanges today as was the fate of Cassandra,
prophetess of Troy. The myths of innovation are as unbelievable as oracles,
prophecies, or simple magic. Timeless and space-less, the use of electronic
communication pushes design, interactivity, exchange, and existence toward
immateriality.
Progression (How this will work):
1. You email us your fax number right now. Include special instructions for
the hour we should send or if we need to ask for the fax line, etc. If you
ain't got no fax, we work it all out, just say so.
2. We send you a fax.
3. You fax us back. (Check the specifications for how the fax will be
printed on our end, and what to send)
4. The faxes will be mounted for exhibition at Observatori2000 and certified
at www.mashica.com/certification.
Specifications:
1. Our fax: 1 page A4. Content: text to stir all the demons to riot.
2. Your fax: 2 pages A4 (one cover page, and one regular page. Both pages
will be included in the exhibition) If you don't have and can't get A4,
letter size will work.
3. The cover page: to include some sort of identifiable mark that you are
you. Might we suggest a name, contact information, URL, favorite color.
4. The regular page: Confirm your existence and the existence of the fax.
Also, feel free to incite all further challenges to oracles, prophecy,
unbelief, hypertextuality, Greek Mythology, danger, safety, codings,
simulated relations to other codings, milk, cheese, livestock. Etc.
The estimated time frame is short, so buckle yr boots. We'd like to have
your fax tied to the tree well before the 25th. Just aim and fire. Or just
fire.
Get Ready
Love,
mashica
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