Heath Bunting

 lecutre - net art in Europe
 10.10.99


 Today I will present my work, which are located in two fields money and
 genetics. Irrational.org is a collective of five people from different
 countries, and we work togehter, in an open way. I've been making
 network projects for several years now,  maybe since two or three years
 there is quite a mouvment called net art, I've stopped that for now,
 it's all about deconstruction of the web and so we have see jodi just
 presenting their work is pretty on the top the deconstruction of the
 visual language in the internet, as I said already I'm moving more
 towards money which I think is the new mouvment in the internet now is
 the e-commerce. The reason why I'm working on the web is that I decided
 to not just to do gestures and symbolic acts in art but actually to
 re-think and to do something. 

 The first project i will present is the Cultural Terrorist Agency, which
 I do with Rachel Backer, we try to raise money for people who want to do
 projects against properties or representation. We just recently the
 interface on the net, first of all we did a work against Monsanto?, in
 introducing a plant called superweed 1.0. We try to make our webpages
 multilingual, all the texts are translated by human beings. 

  Just an interesting thing for me about superweed 1.0 is that most of
 the people think that there are a lot of dollars behind this project and
 they don't think that it's just some artits behind. But we are still
 ahead, somehow it brakes the illusion of science. From january on we
 expecting to have some troubles cause of superweed 1.0 it always takes
 some time until the reaction. 

 Another project is calld net.art.consultants, you can donate net.art to
 an institution, at the moment it's a free service on the net. On the web
 site you can submit a url to an institution which has to pay donation. 
 As I said e-commerce is the next big thing, people are more and more
 instructed to use it in the net, let's put CCNow which is the company
 which allows me to send money, you go to this organisation you just
 register, from then on you can receive money via credit cards for
 yourself. With this work it's easy now you can create net art and heath
 bunting and yourself in sending 5000$ to myself and it works. It's like
 a contribution and simple because we don't have to send anything back to
 you.  Irational.org is ready to accept a donation.  So this like the
 most grass basic level of e-commerce, where you send money form one to
 other. This section is working we get money out of it. 

 Q: Does this section work, do you get money?

 H: Yes it works.

 Q: Are you  selling older net art works?

 No, no, for the moment it's good to resist, especially the work is also
 best on the server where it was made, I think maybe when I'm older, in
 20 years time, when I'm poor, then I will be happy to sell my work but
 when there the context will be dead, they won't buy any net art from the
 90ties. For instance people want to buy my work but and I said no, I
 will it do when I have no more money. 

 Q: What kind of works you did before as an net artist?

 H: I will show you some more work. 
 This is a project called identity swap database which I made with Olia
 Liliana.