Doing business in China

etoy invited advisors and agents to discuss the current China strategy. By invitation of the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) MISSION ETERNITY is scheduled to present the SARCOPHAGUS during June in Beijing. Some agents harbor reservations about many political and social policies of the current Chinese government: a discussion about the T-words was overdue!

Smart insiders including political scientist and philosopher Dr. Ralph Weber from the University of St.Gallen briefed etoy about the current political system, its diversity and specific risk factors. A researcher of Chinese origin from ETH Zurich and a Swiss PHD student who worked for a year in Beijing offered anecdotes and insights into the Chinese education system and popular views including the widely-held conviction that of all things Western, political advice may be worth less than nothing.

Markus Nuessli (long time etoy friend, gallerist, night club owner and Asia expert who spent several years of his life in China / Japan and holds a master in japanology) completed the round of China-insiders.

Aside political risks and taboos, we discussed how to present MISSION ETERNITY project details to an expected visitor count of over 25,000 a day. What are the key questions to ask from the audience? What are the thoughts, in a culturally very different reference system, that sync an audience with the mindset of etoy.AGENTS? Where can we be understood and where do we risk to confuse (like we never confuse our audience)?

Dr. Maja Petrović-Šteger (a Research Fellow at Peterhouse college, and member of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge) contributed knowledge and advise as mortal remains expert. Ideas to integrate and reflect local burial ceremonies are on the way!

Inhouse council and lawyer etoy.KUBLI contributed his delicious and politically correct BAERLAUCH-PESTO to avoid further tomato import from spain.

We invite everybody to express their personal impression/position and feedback in the comment section of this post.
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Mix some kilowatts with tons of steel and heavy labour

Posted some digital shots of the binz construction site into the gallery.

More photos to come as soon as the films are processed and scanned...
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MISSION ETERNITY TOTEM

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SARCOPHAGUS back in Zürich

The MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS just arrived in Zürich/Switzerland this morning.
AGENT MONOROM and spezial AGENT NUESSLI were on duty to take over the 6.6t ART-OBJECT.
Thanks a lot to special AGENT NUESSLI for placing the MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS.

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CEREMONIA NO 2 DE LA VIDA POST-MORTEM DEL DR. TIMOTHY LEARY
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CEREMONIA NO 2 DE LA VIDA POST-MORTEM DEL DR. TIMOTHY LEARY

VIDEO ONLINE NOW!

(SPANISH version below)

DR. TIMOTHY LEARY'S AFTER LIFE CEREMONY No. 2
Soundtrack by TIM & PUMA MIMI

Today the LEARY TERMINUS II, which was produced on February 14th in Madrid, was successfully inserted into the MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS.




Dr. Timothy Leary passed away at the age of 75 on May 31, 1996 in California. He qualified as a test-pilot for MISSION ETERNITY with his reputation as a pioneer of the information age and his last book "Design for Dying".

Leary left the art group etoy a massive body of personal digital footage (photos, video, text, sketches, research papers, etc.) and his mortal remains (ashes) for experiments. In a series of totally four performances his ashes are incorporated into art objects, so called LEARY TERMINUS (I-IV). Each TERMINUS is a bridge that links the physical and digital remains of MISSION ETERNITY PILOTS.

TODAY at exactly 19:35 the LEARY TERMINUS II, an updated TEST VERSION by Adrien Rovero and Augustin Scott de Martinville, was plugged into the left SARCOPHAGUS-WALL. The hybrid between sculpture, cargo-container, organizational art, archive, mortal-remains-storage-solution, is a digital memorial for up to one thousand PILOTS. The SARCOPHAGUS connects tangible and non-tangible existence - biomass and data - and is the moving "resting place" and access point after physical death and cremation.




The digital data of Thimothy Leary is stored in the ARCANUM CAPSULE. This digital portraits as well as the SARCOPHAGUS are designed to travel planet earth forever together with millions of other cargo containers and TCP/IP Particles on the Internet.

Integrated into the immersive display of the SARCOPHAGUS each TERMINUS assumes the role of a dead pixel. The mortal remains replace the light and the displayed information. A unique RFID tag, identifies and assigns each TERMINUS to its corresponding ARCANUM CAPSULE online. A status LED on each TERMINUS indicates visitor traffic, the back-up status and distribution factor of the digital ARCANUM CAPSULE. In case of risk of data loss the LED and a very minimal sound system generate attention and call for help.

The key to the long-term project MISSION ETERNITY is a DISTRIBUTED DATA-STORAGE based on millions of computers of internet users - so called MISSION ETERNITY ANGELS.

This is just the beginning of an infinite voyage. Leaving reality behind...

--------SPANISH VERSION------------

CEREMONIA N° 2 DE LA VIDA POST-MORTEM DEL DR. TIMOTHY LEARY
con actuación en directo de TIM & PUMA MIMI

Hoy el LEARY TERMINUS II, que fue producido el pasado 14 de Febrero en Madrid, será insertado en el MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS.

El Dr. Timothy Leary murió en California el 31 de mayo de 1996 a la edad de 75 años. Fue seleccionado como piloto de pruebas del MISSION ETERNITY por su reputación como pionero de la era de la información y por su conocido libro "Design Dying"

Leary dejó al colectivo de artistas etoy un cuerpo masivo de información digital (fotos, vídeos, textos, bocetos, sketches, artículos de investigación científica, etc...) y sus restos mortales (cenizas). A lo largo de una serie de cuatro performances las cenizas de Leary están siendo incorporadas a objetos artísticos, llamados LEARY TERMINUS (I-IV).

Este TERMINUS es un puente que une los restos físicos y digitales de los pilotos del MISSION ETERNITY.

El TERMINUS está conectado al SARCOPHAGUS. Este híbrido entre escultura, contenedor de carga, arte organizacional, archivo, almacén de restos mortales, es un homenaje multimedia a más de mil pilotos. El SARCOPHAGUS conecta la existencia tangible y la intangible (biomasa y datos). Es un lugar en movimiento para el "último descanso" que sirve como punto de acceso después de la muerte física y la cremación.

Los datos digitales de Thimothy Leary son almacenados en la ARCANUM CAPSULE. Este retrato digital junto con el SARCOPHAGUS están diseñados para viajar por el planeta Tierra por siempre junto con millones de otros contenedores de carga y partículas de TCP/IP en Internet.

Incorporado a la pantalla del SARCOPHAGUS cada TERMINUS asume el papel de un píxel muerto. Los restos mortales sustituyen a la luz y la información mostrada. Una única marca RFID, identifica y asigna cada TERMINUS a su correspondiente ARCANUM CASULE on line. Un LED en cada TERMINUS indica el status del tráfico de visitantes, del back-up y de la distribución del ARCANUM CAPSULE digital. En caso de riesgo de pérdida de datos el LED y un sistema de sonido minimal genera atención y pide ayuda.

La clave del proyecto MISSION ETERNITY a largo plazo es una unidad distribuida de almacenamiento de datos basada en millones de ordenadores de usuarios de Internet, también llamados MISSION ETERNITY ANGELS.

Conviértete en un ANGEL on line y ayuda a asegurar la vida digital post-mortem del Dr. Timothy Leary y otros pilotos que le seguirán en las próximas décadas: www.missioneternity.org

Este es tan sólo el comienzo hacia un viaje infinito. Deja atrás a la realidad...
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Lunch with MISSION ETERNITY

etoy recommends Bei Babette.











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The Y10K Problem -- Prepare while you have time

Fun little article on the supposed Y10K problem:
   The most common fix for the Y2K problem has been to switch to 4-digit
years. This fix covers roughly the next 8,000 years (until the year
9999) by which time, everyone seems convinced that all current
programs will have been retired. This is exactly the faulty logic
and lazy programming practice that led to the current Y2K problem!
Programmers and designers always assume that their code will
eventually disappear, but history suggests that code and programs are
often used well past their intended circumstances.
In a similar vein, but intended to be serious: A Long, Painful History of Time.
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etoy wins VIDA AWARD 2007 with MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS

Spanish telecom giant Telefonica saves etoy.CORPORATION from bankruptcy and brings etoy's mission to the next level.

As president Francisco Serrano, announced today at Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum (MACBA): etoy wins the first prize of the VIDA AWARDS created by Fundación Telefónica to foster artistic creation based on new technologies and artificial life.

Fundación Telefónica Press Releases download:

files/vida10/press-release-vida10awards-winners2007.pdf
files/vida10/vida10awards-winners2007.pdf

Excerpt from the jury statement:

etoy launched the Mission Eternity Project in 2005, foregrounding on the one hand respect for the human longing to survive in some way after death, and on the other a sense of irony about dated sci-fi fantasies we contrive to satisfy that desire. The Sarcophagus is one materialization of this project. It is a mobile sepulcher that holds and displays portraits of those who wish to have their informational remains cross over into a digital afterlife. The size of a standard cargo container that can travel to any location in the world, the Sarcophagus has an immersive LED screen covering its walls, ceiling and floor. There, interactive digital portraits can be summoned via mobile phone or web browser from virtual capsules that are stored in the shared memory of thousands of networked electronic devices of Mission Eternity Angels (people who contribute a small part of their personal storage capacity to the mission, currently 765 of them; to date, 2 volunteers have been accepted for encapsulation). The data spectres that populate this tenuous memorial space are composed of details of lives lived, in visual, audio and text fragments. But when they are summoned in lo-res pixellated form in the Sarcophagus, they resemble one merged personality. The massing of details that we find in archives and records that keep the dead with us has a similar compositing effect, yet the Sarcophagus is also very unlike those. It gives us access to a novel social world generated among networked computer users who have a common goal of keeping something alive, which can invoke intense feelings such as care and wonder.


http://www.missioneternity.org
http://www.etoy.com
http://angelapp.missioneternity.org/
http://www.telefonica.es/vida





Press image download:
http://missioneternity.org/files/images/site/tank/06-sanjose-etoy-taasevigen2-01.jpg

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PRESS RELEASE DEUTSCH (Zuerich/Barcelona 28.11.2007)


Schweizer Medienkunstgruppe etoy gewinnt den wichtigsten Spanischen Medienkunstpreis "VIDA AWARD 2007" der Telefonica Foundation.

Wie Francisco Serrano, Praesident der Telefonica Foundation, heute an einer Pressekonferenz in Barcelona bekannt gab, wird etoy morgen Donnerstag fuer die Container-Skulptur "MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS" ausgezeichnet. Das Kunstwerk beherbergt die sterblichen Ueberreste von Pionieren des Informationszeitalters wie Timothy Leary und erschliesst das digitale Vermächtnis dieser Menschen. Auf einem begehbaren 3-dimensionalen Screen, bestehend aus 17'000 Leucht-Dioden, erscheinen dem Ausstellungs-Besucher Ahnen der heutigen Medienkultur: Bilder aus ihrem Leben, ihre Stimmen, Videosequenzen, und mehr. Die elektronischen Geister koennen per Webterminal und Mobiltelefon aufgerufen und lokal, zum Beispiel auf dem eigenen Laptop, gespeichert werden. So entsteht mit der Hilfe einer ausgekluegelten Software ein soziales Netzwerk bestehend aus vielen Tausenden von "Angels", welche die Aufgabe haben die Daten der Verstorbenen fuer immer zu erhalten: das digitale Erbe wird von Generation zu Generation weitergereicht und tritt damit eine unendliche Reise durch Raum und Zeit an.

Der explodierende Speicherplatz, welcher fuer digitale Daten heute zur Verfuegung steht, eroeffnet neue Dimensionen der Konservierung und stellt zentralisierte Wissenspeicher in Frage. Die Erhaltung von Information ist eine soziale und kulturelle Herausforderung und nicht mehr eine Frage des Speicherplatzes. etoy, selbst staendig mit der Vergaenglichkeit des eignen Werkes konfrontiert, wirft mit MISSION ETERNITY grundlegende Fragen auf: was passiert mit den digitalen Spuren, welche wir alle hinterlassen?

Die bekannte Kunstgruppe thematisiert mit dem neusten Werk Vergaenglichkeit, Konservierung, Datenspeicherung, Tod und Afterlife. MISSION ETERNITY ist ein technisches Experiment, hinterfragt die Konsequenzen der totalen Datenerfassung und skizziert die Vision eines zeitgemaessen Totenkults. Gleichzeitig geht es, wie immer bei etoy, um eine vielschichtige Darstellung der Virtualisierung unserer Lebenswelt, gespiegelt im Tod, und um das Verwischen der Grenzen zwischen Autor und Konsument - Sender und Empfaenger - Lebenden und Toten.

etoy.SPONSORS: Bundesamt fuer Kultur Schweiz, Migros Kulturprozent, Swiss Life, Pro Helvetia, Stadt und Kanton Zug und Zuerich, Ernst Göhner Stiftung
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ANGEL APPLICATION 0.3.2 "VIDA"

angel-app

We are very pleased to be able to announce the immediate availability of the maintenance release of ANGEL APPLICATION version 0.3.2 code-named "VIDA".


This update consists of cleanup and stability fixes since 0.3.0.

Changes:

* stability fixes (resource initialization & redirect handling)
* rolling clone list
* optimizations in maintenance loop
* test cases
* minor fixes

Get it from the Developer WIKI

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ANGEL APPLICATION 0.3.0

angel-app

We are very pleased to be able to announce the immediate availability of ANGEL APPLICATION version 0.3.0.


This update consists of stability fixes (see e.g. here), api cleanup work (see the current module import graph), as well as GUI work. See the CHANGELOG. Further information is available on the M∞ ANGEL-APPLICATION Developer Wiki.

One important thing to note: if you are upgrading from an older version, you will have to purge/empty your local repository once before being able to help safeguard MISSION ETERNITY data forever. This can be done with a single mouse-click in the File menu -> "Purge repository".
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