[http://www.internet.com.uy/vibri] and latin netart database [http://netart.org.uy/latino/index.html] (currently owned by meiac).
his reference sites are http://netart.org.uy, http://34s56w.org and http://no-content.net.
his computer, the rotten machine, it's full and complete of all the data collected until the moment it was decided to be sold, on the 8th of may, 2004. it was the working tool (the studio, in classical terms) that accompanied brian mackern between 1999 and 2004, both in his personal work and in collaborative works with other artists and net jamms, apart from his work as a vj, conferences and workshops. in short, his tool.
a computer full of information and history, acquired by the meiac in order to expose it to posterity, when the development of hardware and software will prevent us from viewing many of the art pieces hosted on this computer.
the exhibition is divided into 5 audiovisual stations navigated by brian mackern himself.
1 - anthropological station: content and hardware components of the machine. sounds generated by its operation. references to files, etc.
2 - studio station: personal work (source files and visible works). the source code of his own work and at the same time the navigation of it.
3 - internet and networking station: content related to many of the projects and online/offline collaborative groups in which brian mackern has intervened.
4 - file, documentation and analysis station: random collection of information about net.art and internet culture of that time.
5 - history station. history of net.art: remix of endless net.art sites, in different states of preservation, many of them with retrofitted code to allow navigation within the machine without internet connection.
pics:
a: starting point for the auction of the "rotten machine". peam, pescara (italy), 2004
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/a.JPG
b: display of directories contained in the computer
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/b.JPG
c: hard disk of the rotten machine with the fingerprint of its owner, brian mackern
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/c.JPG
d: some of the stickers on the computer
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/d.JPG
e: keys that are missing, the reason why this computer is also called *the toothless old thing*
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/e.JPG
f: way in which *the rotten machine* was exposed for auction in peam, pescara (italy), 2004
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/f.JPG
g: accompanying monster for the rotten machine during countless tours, alongside with the backpack shown in the picture above
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/g.JPG
h: the rotten machine working, during the exhibition for its auction at peam, pescara (italy), 2004
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3064699/la_podrida/h.JPG
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