http://www.adrienejenik.net/desktoptheater.html
http://www.mobiopera.mobi
http://radicalreference.info
http://garlic02.worldofprojects.info/
Shu Lea Cheang’s Garlic=Rich Air was an interactive online project that anticipated the year 2030 as a postcapitalist society where the global economy and currencies have collapsed and network media has nearly crashed. In this future world, organic garlic is the new social currency–bought, sold, and traded to establish a new, free media trading system. Garlic=Rich Air set forth a monetary relationship between URL information and virtual garlic. Visitors were invited to participate online by submitting various URL addresses in return for virtual garlic, or “G,” as Cheang put it. At the close of the G-Mart, virtual “G” was cashed in for real garlic; a commodity that is desired and wholly revered in the year 2030.
In order to implement this exchange of virtual and real commodities ten thousand garlic plants grown in upstate New York (cultivated by organic farmer Tovey Halleck in the span of ten years and harvested by generations of old and new media makers, according to the project’s narrative) were gathered in the summer of 2002. The garlic harvest was then trucked to New York City where participants could exchange virtual garlic credits (i.e. digital bytes, bandwidth, domains, URLs, networks, systems, and software) for real farm-grown organic garlic.
Garlic=Rich Air was the second and third phase of St(r)eaming the Fields, a field harvesting and public network project conceived by Shu Lea Cheang with funding provided by the Challenge to the Field Award from the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund for Independent Media.
The year is 2030. gm-free garlic is the golden bulb, the stinking rose, much sought after. You and everyone else dream of owning a garlic bulb or two. Catch Garlic Mania in the air. GARLIC=RICH AIR. Garlic is officially ordained as the new social currency. Trade virtual garlic for farm grown organic garlic. There are 5000 PRIZED GARLIC BULBS, available at Palazzo delle Prigioni in Venice for exchange. Join the G-mart (Garlic Mart) online where the commodity is shared network media and the currency is G. G for garlic, G is the year 2030 credito. AFTER THE CRASH FINAL LIQUIDITATION SALE. Sell your website for virtual G - sell your dot.com, dot.net, dot.org, dot.us, dot.info, dot.tv….
If it is still worth anything, G is it. Set the value, shares and price per share for your URL(s). Trade them on the G-mart. Up to date clickstream data sets the G-mart in constant fluctuation. SELL, BUY, OWN and RESELL. You own the power to shape and direct the G-mart. The online G-mart opens on June 12 and closes on October 30, 2030. At the time of the market closure the exchange rate between earned virtual G and REAL GARLIC is calculated and converted. Your accumulated virtual G may be redeemed for organically farm grown GARLIC BULBS.
RICHAIR2030 imagines an AFTER THE CRASH scenario set in year 2030. By year 2030, the great wireless hope that promises mobility and connectivity has bubbled. The GPS satellite signals have lost track of its urbanites when cutting through the Ozone layers. The ocean-apart digital divide has eventually sabotaged the Net we surf in. What remains of the feeble bandwidth is held out and safeguarded by the wireless freenetworkers, a striving public wireless DIY network movement sprouted worldwidein the early 21st century.
RICHAIR2030 mobilizes renegade roller girls to jumpstart Riga’s first wifinet TAZ (Temporary Access Zone) along the city’s Caka Iela main street. Carrying the lunchboxes that read, code and transmit accessible public wifi signals, the roaming performance is visualized in pumping RGB codes on the web,while the signal noise and its sonicscope amplified.
BEAT UP THE SIGNALS
PUMP UP THE VOLUME
RESTART THE SYSTEM
SHARE AND CONSUME
RICHAIR2030 V.8.0, Riga, Latvia @ * - { ยต - o ” u l ?}.
06-11-2004 richair.waag.org
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