#alpha 3.5

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TITLE: “Computer Juice,” Real Time No. 64 

NAME: Gail Priest

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: January 2004

PUBLISHER: Real Time journal, Australia

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Contemporary Art; Net Art; Computer Art; Art Criticism

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Online art criticism, published as part of Real Time journal

NOTES: Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item. In this piece of art criticism, Gail Priest discusses the work alpha 3.5 crush by the collective tsunamii.net; alpha 3.5 crush was presented at the exhibition GRAVITY held at the Singapore Art Museum, and curated by Kim Machan. The last two paragraphs in Gail Priest’s article provide not just a critical consideration of the above-mentioned presentation, but also an important link and history to the work’s previous iteration in 2002 at the London Institute Gallery.  

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TITLE: “alpha 3.5: crush” 

NAME: Tien Wei Woon

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: September 7, 2002

PUBLISHER: Rhizome

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Net Art; Physicality of the Internet

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Online post, published on the discussion forum of Rhizome

NOTES: Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item.

[tsunamiinet]

TITLE: “They call this art: a webserver that will destroy itself ...”

NAMES: RedWordSmith; SteltekMaster; Shrike; Alyeska; victorhadin; Vagabond-45; Eleres; Wong Fei Hong; AltoidMaster

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: September 8, 2002

PUBLISHER: SpaceBattles 

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Net Art; Physicality of the Internet; Art Discourse

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Online discussion thread, published on SpaceBattles forum

NOTES: Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item. This is a fascinating account of netizens discussing the definitions and possibilities of art, in response to tsunamii.net’s alpha 3.5: crush.  

[tsunamiinet]

TITLE: alpha 3.5: crush, video documentation 

NAME: tsunamii.net

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: 2002

PUBLISHER: tsunamii.net; Charles Lim

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Net Art; Physicality of the Internet; Performance

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Video, uploaded digitally on Vimeo platform

NOTES: Embedded video. The original video is uploaded onto Vimeo by Charles Lim. This is a video documentation of alpha 3.5: crush presented by tsunamii.net as part of the exhibition Wait for Me (2002), curated by Nooshin Farhid and Paul Eachus, and held at the London Institute Gallery. For more on the exhibition, see item in the same collection (link here).   

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TITLE: “Charles Lim & Woon Tien Wei (tsunamii.net)”

NAMES: Nooshin Farhid; Paul Eachus

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: 2002

PUBLISHER: Nooshin Farhid and Paul Eachus

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Net Art; Physicality of the Internet

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Online webpage, published as part of the online catalogue of the exhibition Wait for Me

NOTES: Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item. The exhibition Wait for Me (2002) was curated by Nooshin Farhid and Paul Eachus, featured tsunamii.net’s alpha 3.5: crush, and was held at the London Institute Gallery.

[tsunamiinet]

TITLE: “Fragnetics | Past Projects” 

NAME: Fragnetics

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: Not known

PUBLISHER: Fragnetics

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Net Art; Artists Collaborations

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Online webpage

NOTES: Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item. In the webpage listing their past projects, Fragnetics proudly accounted for its collaborations with tsunamii.net on alpha 3.5: crush (2002) and alpha 3.8: translocation (2003). As the graphic illustration for alpha 3.8: translocation suggests, there were attempts as part of the project to collect data visualizations of internet traffic routes around the world as visitors accessed the website of tsunamii.net. For more on this, see the interview here.