zapping unit

Zapping unit emphasizes the habits of consuming images while offering each user the possibility to make his/her own selection. This experience, similar to TV zapping, aims to provide an alternative for short video screenings.
The zapping unit works as a self-contained space that imposes to the viewer its own conditions of use.
The video programme is displayed as a mosaic on the screen. Each page-screen shows 20 thumbnails that can be selected by using the arrows of the remote control.
While access to images and information is growing rank, Zapping unit offers to focus the viewer's attention on specific artist's video work.
The unit, as a self-contained and self-sufficient space, will be travelling in various places in France and abroad and it will connect a series of individuals.
Being the link in between different viewers, Zapping unit indexes the creation of a "delayed" community.

www.zappingunit.org

Timeline

Timeline is an online exhibition involving 21 artists projects on a specially created Web site. The choice of the Internet medium is here not so much derived from a desire to use net art, or new technologies, as from a desire to involve artists from various origins and backgrounds in a given space and time. Artists have been asked to construct (or deconstruct) a narrative, which can take various forms. These narratives, while keeping their own structure, become intertwined until they form a complex network of future stories. Each project is made of six episode-like A4 pages that are released monthly, one after the other. This method aims firstly to reconsider the blank space defined by this standard format and, secondly, to deploy the exhibition in time – the time during which the piece will be available is the same as the time taken to produce it.
Faced with this fragmented release, the waiting audience is invited to fill voids by injecting the story with their own subjectivity. Each project is like a game with random or implicit rules to be discovered or invented. As the pieces can be downloaded and printed free of charge, spectators turn into collectors as well as users: they can print pages on their chosen paper, cut them out, put them together, put them up, distribute them...

www.time-line.tv

window42

Established in september 1999, window 42 was an independent non-for-profit art project space which aimed to provide artists with the opportunity to produce and show media-specific and context dependent works.  Free from commercial and institutional obligations, window 42 operated as a forum for contemporary art and as a laboratory for contemporary art practitionners. Up to september 2001, window 42 has showcased projects by 17 young and emerging artists.

www.window42.org