[spectre] corps_checker

[geoff cox]

corps_checker by Wayne Clements
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/checker/

As a service to the artworld, in a time of considerable uncertainty, 
corps_checker anxiously takes the pulse of the business benefactor.

corps_checker is a response to the credit crunch and the promises of the 
creative economy. A script running on the arnolfini server tests the 
state of corporate sponsorship by 'pinging' the servers of companies 
listed on the UK Art & Business web site. There is no way to evade a 
ping test. If the company folds as a result of the credit crunch, a 
negative result is registered. The work exists as a sort of virtual 
corporate monitoring organisation watching potential business donors for 
signs of keeling over. Ultimately the work becomes a test of what lasts 
longest: capitalism or the software program.

corps_checker is a project.arnolfini commission.
http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/

Wayne CLEMENTS is a visual artist and a writer. His artworks have been 
shown in many festivals and exhibitions of electronic art. un_wiki 
received the Award of Distinction, Net Vision, Prix Ars Electronica 
(2006), and was shown in Connecting Worlds, ICC Gallery Tokyo (2006), in 
a specially commissioned Japanese language version. His artworks have 
been shown recently in Madrid, Barcelona, and Athens; notably also in 
Valencia where logo_wiki was part of the curated presentation antisocial 
notworking.

Wayne is a Research Fellow at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. 
http://www.in-vacua.com