[spectre] NET.FILM

[Synne Bull]

The characteristics of NET.FILM: 

Today's software and rapidly increasing bandwidth capabilities enable
new ways of experiencing the Internet. One of the ways in which this is
explored is in the concept of NET.FILM. NET.FILM relies on the motion 
picture language in displaying the online content. The following manifesto 
describes the specificities of the NET.FILM in detail: 


1. The term NET.FILM is used to describe a certain types of web pages that 
calls upon the perception of film using the WWW browsers. 

2. NET.FILM incorporates the multimedia nature of the Internet. 

3. The Internet platform gives NET.FILM the ability to change content
and structure at any time. 

4. NET.FILM is assembled for the viewer in the very moment of the
activation of its link. 

5. The different files that make up the structure of the NET.FILM can
change at any time. The film always stays in separate components.
NET.FILM is therefore never fixed. It can change from one second to
another. 

7. NET.FILM can be modified only by the authors that have access to the 
servers were the components reside. Thus, the authors of the movie are 
always known. 

8. The NET.FILM makers always have the possibility to change or add
content. 

9. NET.FILM is programmed to refresh itself and to call its components 
without interaction by the viewer. 

10. The browser is used as a "projector" for the NET.FILM. 

11. The collaborative aspect of NET.FILM is essential and will be
present in the viewers mind when he/she knows that the film being
watched could change its appearance at any time. 

12. NET.FILM is different from all other types of film because its
parts reside as separate files on a server. 


13. The NET.FILM viewer does not participate by physical interaction
but mentally as with any other film experience. Instead of having an
on-click navigation, the NET.FILM plays all its components automatically in 
the way it is programmed. 

14. Any web page with the <REFRESH> tag that leads the viewer through its 
content, and makes intentional meaning-structure out of this, could be 
regarded as a NET.FILM. 

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"NET.FILM" is part of the online section of  "The Ides of March", the 3rd 
Biennial exhibition at  ABC No Rio Gallery ( http://www.abcnorio.org ). The 
show will be up between 3/15/02 - 4/11/02 and the "NET.FILM" web site will 
be launched at the opening reception, March 14th. 

"NET.FILM" will include works by the following artists: 

 -BULL.MILETIC
 -Katie Bush
 -Young-hae Chang + Marc Voge, HEAVY INDUSTRIES
 -Vuk Cosic
 -Graham Milton, BEWARE THE ROBOTS
 -Motomichi Nakamura 

"The Ides of March" will also feature other online work by ABC No Rio
associates.