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The Internet Pavilion(Edit)

The Internet has been accepted as part of this year's Venice Biennial but not the Vatican.

The Vatican church submitted a request for establishing its own, religion based Pavilion in the Biennial but it was turned down, at least for this year. The Internet was accepted instead via the First Internet Pavilion.

This text is the history and the present of the Internet Pavilion. It is written and constantly updated by Miltos Manetas and Jan Aman and it will incorporate opinions and ideas that will 'surface' on the Stupid Forum that can be found below at this page. Feel free to let your contribution and if you want, your name. Our intention is to re-define and we-write everything: all terms can be re-newed, all systems can be destroyed and build again.

This Internet is cool but it is also a nightmare: a campus of un-forced work and a desert of screens. We want a new Internet and we want to be free from our machines, we want to be able to send an email without computers, blackberry and other devices. Ultimately, we want to satisfy the 3 Kleinrock complains:

  • We should be able to connect by any device
  • The device should be able to connect from anywhere
  • The device should be invisible, even immaterial.

June 02,09(Edit)

The Internet is this new cool and free country floating above all the older ones. That's where we go to do many different things, communicate, create, exchange. Sadly, most people go to the Internet only to work and they start hating it and hope that it will just go away. And they are right: computers and new technology are still in the domain of Science and for reasons of manipulation, are advertised as the “World of Tomorrow”. Instead of helping us do what we really want (work less or not at all), they enslave us and now we all work more. This is not the fault of the Internet itself though, but its because it is proposed and accepted as something virtual and futuristic. We now have enough with virtual and futuristic stuff, we want instead a new Internet and even new internets that don't hypnotize us in front of computer screens, that help us destroy the system every time that this is possible and that ultimately are our friends and will never become tools of command and repression.

(to be continued)

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