[spectre] Big [B]Other

[fran ilich]

Big [B]Other

Text-based reality show, February 1 - March, 2003
Part of How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age
http://bigbother.walkerart.org

Part of:
http://latitudes.walkerart.org

Eduardo Arcos (Ecuador/Mexico), Teresa Arozena (Tenerife), Teresa Delgado
(Berlin), Tony Dushane (San Francisco), Cindy Gabriela Flores (Mexico City),
Jeroen Goulouze (Groningen, Netherlands), Fran Ilich (Mexico City/Berlin),
Pedro Jimenez (Seville, Spain),  German Maggiori (Buenos Aires), Osfavelados
(Seville, Spain), Pacho (Mexico City), DJ Pod (San Francisco), Luis H.
Rosales (Tijuana, Mexico), Tatiana Wells (Sao Paolo).

big [b]Other is a text-based reality show / community blog organized by Fran
Ilich with 13 other participants also working with media. It will run from
February 1 to March 1, 2003.

big [b]Other is in part a reaction to the supposed reality TV epitomized by
shows in the United States such as Big Brother, Survivor, Fear Factor and
any number of other programs that are, in fact, slickly produced and heavily
manipulated narratives that have little in common with real life.

Like many of the artists in How Latitudes Become Forms, the participants in
big [b]Other intend through this modest, contemporary practice to blog about
the daily experiences of their lives. They will be writing from behind their
monitors, situated in different geographies, but sharing the common space of
their communications; sharing their inner worlds, their net.browsing, their
media projects.

Audiences anywhere on the Internet will be able to ,listen in0/00 on these
conversations (in Spanish and English) among media activists and artists
from across Latin America, participating virtually and vicariously in a
different kind of reality show that bothers to attempt to self-consciously
but openly explore the many Others that constitute our globally
(dis)connected world.