BCL’s recent work ‘Common Flowers’ was nominated for Nam June Paik Award and will be exhibited in impressionist collection of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne from 26 September until 16 November 2008. The prize will be announced in mid October 2008.

Nominated artists:
• Julia Meltzer and David Thorne (Damaskus/Los Angeles)
• BCL / Shiho Fukuhara & Georg Tremmel (Tokyo/Vienna)
• Attila Csörgo (Budapest)
• Tatiana Blass (São Paulo)
• GIA Grupo de Interferência Ambiental (Salvador de Bahía)
• Johanna Reich (Cologne), Förderpreisträgerin 2006

3G Internet access feels in many ways like a time-tunnel to the first times I connected to the Internet. Only then it was only a FirstClass BBS and emails were sent to and collected from the ‘real Internet’ only twice a day. If I remember correctly.

My first run in with Netscape was not a happy one, largely due to my otherwise quite nice but visually handicapped Mac SE/30. Blazing fast (for the time), but only black and white, which meant that half of the Internet was dark for me. And thanks to these 17 pages I was forced to look at the source codes more closely.

Back to now. 3G Modem Access, troubles logging, bad images. Very much like a time machine. Another side-effect of this provider-side compressing is, that it literary takes the gloss off all the images; and produces very nice visual artefacts, which I thought went extict quite some time ago.

But of course my first reaction was, that Google was celebrating their 10th birthday by turning the time back on their logotype. But I guess that’s no it.