++++ Zero one zero what? Behind the unpronounceable name which refers to binary code there are two interesting internet artists. It is part of their artistic concept that they want to remain anonymous. After all, in this way they demonstratively put the conventional conception of authorship and copyright into question. They even went as far as making their hard disks publicly available for a year at the 49th biennial in Venice. The visitors at their web site could not only download all their programs and look into all their files, but they could also read their private e-mails.
For Manifesta 4, 0100101110101101.org have set up a system of three different networks and have been documenting on a daily basis since the beginning of the year where they are located. With a GPS (Global Positioning System) transmitter they send their location via a mobile telephone network which is then entered on a map at their web site.
The subject of their work is the consequences for society arising from the new technologies, consequences which are never questioned as long as things go well. The two media artists exercise on themselves the feared public data horror which leads to a loss of privacy.
They investigate simultaneously possibilities of artistic production on the internet. One of these — to date probably the most provocative but little noted idea of the artist duo — was to create the web site www.vatican.org. Almost identical with that of the Holy See, but with slight deviations, it was accessible for a whole year on the internet without anybody complaining and was then unmasked by 0100101110101101.org themselves.
The unmasking of social circumstances on their own person demands of the artists that they surrender their private lives. Thus, for example, it can be seen from their web site that on 25 May before the opening of Manifesta at half past ten, they were still in the area of the central railway station, that they spent the day of the final game in the world soccer championship at Lake Garda, and that yesterday they were in Barcelona in a part of the city to the west of the Old Town.
The fact that they are aware of the technical traceability of their lives is something which puts them in a better position than most people. But they are working on changing this. "0100101110101101.org unmasks how completely normal citizens lose control over the information about themselves which these days is accessible to anybody who can pay for it."
Terminals at Frankensteiner Hof, Große Rittergasse 103, until 25 August. On the internet at www.0100101110101101.org. hoh