SKART: Survival Coupons Presented by Franklin Furnace under the aegis of jihui (A Project of the NetArt Initiative):
Friday, December 15,
2000 7 PM
at Parsons Center for New Design 55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
and live online at www.franklinfurnace.org
Franklin Furnace is proud to present SKART, artists in residence in its series THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT 2000, hosted by Parsons School of Design, Digital Design Department.
SKART group (Belgrade) started their "SURVIVAL COUPONS" project in 1998 in Belgrade, as a part of their "critical communication" strategy. After several kinds of "coupons'" (coupons for orgasm, coupons against coupons, coupons for fear...) which commented on their over-frozen reality, their project ended with "coupons for the end," which began this year and was last delivered during the November 5th final-cut-demonstrations. A special edition of coupons (which are, this time, commenting on American reality) is currently being delivered in New York City subways, in collaboration with students from the Parsons School. Documents from subway-actions + Web interpretation of the project + documents from Belgrade will be premiered, presented and explained.
FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE, INC. entering its 25th anniversary season, presents THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT 2000 ten presentations of live art on the Internet created during month-long residencies at Parsons School of Design.
The NETART INITIATIVE is a loosely knit, open source based, hub styled, forum oriented, action enabled consortium, where people meet, virtually and bodily, to communicate, exchange, and discourse for advancing the understanding of a virtual art, a networked art and an art that will be pervasive and ubiquitous in the years to come.
jihui (the meeting point, a project of NetArt Initiative), a self-regulated digital salon, invites all interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc, jihui puts you right under the spotlight. For more info, visit http://netart-init.org check under toBeIsToDo. jihui is sponsored by Center for New Design @ Parsons School of Design
THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT 2000 is made possible by the faith and foresight of Jerome Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc., the Heathcote Art Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts' Technology Initiative, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology