#alpha 3.4

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TITLE: Digital Currents: art in the electronic age, 3rd Edition, page 257 

NAME: Margot Lovejoy

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE ISSUED: 2004

PUBLISHER: Routledge, London

TOPICS: Contemporary Art; Net Art; Singapore Art; tsunamii.net; Documenta 11; Global Positioning Systems; Web Browsing

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Print publication, 1 out of 372 pages 

NOTES: The name of the work described is mistaken. It should be Alpha 3.4 that was presented as part of Documenta 11 in 2002. See other materials in the same collection for cross-reference. Also, “Tien Woon” as listed in the artists’ names should instead be “Tien Wei Woon” with “Woon” being the last name of the artist; “Tien Wei” is the anglicized Chinese first name of the artist.     

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TITLE: “Walk, do not Surf, the Web” 

NAME: Brooke Singer

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: July 8, 2002

PUBLISHER: www.bsing.net

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Net Art; Documenta 11; Global Positioning System; Internet Infrastructure; Post-internet; Performance Art

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Online blog post

NOTES: Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item. The artist group name “Tsunamii” should have been “tsunamii.net” instead, as it is important to retain the collective’s name as a URL. 

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TITLE: “Mapping Outside the Frame: Interactive and Locative Art Environments,” page 57-58. 

NAMES: Elizabeth Coulter-Smith; Graham Coulter-Smith

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: 2009

PUBLISHER: Intellect Books, Bristol

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Documenta 11; Interactive Art; Net Art; Global Positioning System; Locative Technology; Logistical Media

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Print publication, 2 out of 112 pages

NOTES: This is an essay included in the book Digital Visual Culture: Theory and Practice edited by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen, Hazel Gardiner. There is also a typo in the name “Woo Tien Wei”: Tien Wei Woon is the correct spelling of the artist’s name where the last name is “Woon” and “Tien Wei” is the anglicized Chinese name of the artist. Also, note the typo of “Singaporian” rather than “Singaporean.” The authors’ opinion of alpha 3.4 as a rather unsuccessful representation of “raw data” suffering from a “lack of aesthetic dimensions” is also interesting to consider, for many reasons, but also because it happens to be one of the few and rare critique of the work that goes beyond describing the novelty of using “locative new media” (i.e. Global Positioning System) for art.    

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TITLE: Digital Art, 1st Edition, page 123

NAME: Christiane Paul

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: 2003

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson, London

TOPICS: Digital Art; tsunamii.net; Global Positioning System; Document 11; Internet Infrastructures

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Print publication, 1 out of 224 pages

NOTES: The work “alpha 3.0” mentioned by Christiane Paul should be corrected to “alpha 3.3.” instead. A similar error is also replicated in another item in the same collection. See item here. As with many other art historical sources (published around the same time in the early 2000s while tsunamii.net was still active), factual errors are quite common whether it is in the names of the alpha project in question, or in the artists’ names. This might have to do, after all, with a lack of documentations as resisted by tsunamii.net themselves. Also, the emphasis in these publications tend (as with Christiane Paul here, or Rachael Greene elsewhere) to focus on the use of Global Positioning System devices rather than the projects’ critique of internet infrastructures.  

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TITLE: Documentation of alpha 3.4, walk from Kassel to Kiel

NAME: tsunamii.net

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: 2002

PUBLISHER: tsunamii.net

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Documenta 11; Performance Art; Net Art

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Digital image sourced through Google Search

NOTES: Not much is known about this image itself (e.g. exact location, identity of walker, what the sign of “404” referred to). It is however also published with the entry on tsunamii.net as part of Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology, the latter of which is included in this same collection (link here). 

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TITLE: Documentation of alpha 3.4

NAME: tsunamii.net

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: c.2002

PUBLISHER: tsunamii.net

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Net Art; Documenta 11; Internet Infrastructure; Performance

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: digital image documentation of alpha 3.4, sourced through Google search

NOTES: Not much else is known about this image. It is also published along with the entry on alpha 3.4 as part of Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology included in the same collection (link here). 

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TITLE: Internet Art, pages 176-177

NAME: Rachael Greene

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: 2004

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson, London

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Net Art; Documenta 11; Internet Infrastructure; Global Positioning System; Performance

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Print publication, 2 out of 224 pages

NOTES: The mentioning of “alpha 3.0” on page 177 should be corrected to “alpha 3.3” instead. This mistaken identity is a common error, found elsewhere in the collection: see for instance Christiane Paul’s publication (link here) in the same collection. While Rachael Greene’s description of tsunamii.net’s work is still predicated upon the collective’s use of Global Positioning System devices, it does make the effort to stress on the collective’s emphasis on the material and physical aspects of the internet’s geographies.

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TITLE: “Documenta 11_Spot: tsunamii.net mit ‘alpha 3.4’”

NAME: Tilman Baumgärtel

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: June 29, 2002

PUBLISHER: taz.de, Germany

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Net Art; Documenta 11; Internet Infrastructure; Performance; Global Positioning System

NOTES: Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item. However, actual item is originally written in German. A translation of the article’s content is available through Google. The use of the internet browser Google Chrome for this item is therefore highly recommended.