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Participants in The Violence of Information symposium:

The color of E-mail v1.0
Henning Timcke

“Sounds like the title of a novel.
But it is an application; and a short-story.
And it is a piece of software. Version 1.0.
Of course it is in compliance with the year 2000.
Let’s call it a kind of short-ware.
Not a soft-story.
It is also a piece of interactive art, an installation, based on the existence of the Core of the AART-Net.
Times are changing and they are changing us, too. It’s easy to lose track of things. So let’s call it a kind of novellation. Truth is where the logs are kept on the safe side.
The true story is about being a VIRT, a Very Important Receiving Target. To become a VIRT with Version 1.0 of The Color of Email, you need a pager, or a handy, a faxmachine, or an emailaddress, or a computer, preferably a notebook. This doesn’t mean you need to own all of these, it’s enough if you have access to a pager, or a handy, or a faxmachine or an emailaddress. To become a VIRT, you don’t have to be rich, you just have to be reachable and on target, no extra time.
And while using Version 1.0 of The Color of Email, you can make anybody a VIRT.
Somebody you like, somebody you don’t like.
Or somebody who doesn’t like you yet.
The Color of Email extends the scope of one’s own actions.

Henning Timcke. Born 1961. Living in Switzerland since 1969. Studied Philosophy, University of Zurich, Еxperimental Arts (F&F-School, Zurich), Didactics, University of Berne. Recent works:

http://www.aart.ch/chart 1994
http://www.kunst.ch 1995
http://zapperlot.kunst.ch 1995
http://firn.kunst.ch 1997
http://www.swisscom.com (information architecture) 1996
http://www.werft22.com 1997
http://www.artmodul.com 1997
http://virt.uals.com 1998