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This front page is an online archive of tsunamii.net (2001-2005).

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TITLE: Portrait of the artist collective tsunamii.net 

NAMES: tsunamii.net; Tien Wei Woon (left); Charles Lim (right)

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: c.2001-2002

PUBLISHER: tsunamii.net

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Contemporary Art in Singapore

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Digital image sourced through Google search 

NOTES: This portrait of tsunamii.net is one of the few, if not only, remaining images of the collective. Not much else is known about this image. It is however also published along with the entry on alpha 3.4 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: Animated gif for “Webwalker 2.2” browsing program used in alpha 3.3 and alpha 3.4

NAME: tsunamii.net

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: c.2001-2002

PUBLISHER: tsunamii.net

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Physical Geographies of the Internet; Net Art

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Digital animated image, sourced through Google search

NOTES: Not much else is known about this image (e.g. whether it was used in any online or digital publication). It is, however, published as part of the entry on tsunamii.net’s alpha 3.4 in Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology which is included in the same collection (link here). 

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TITLE: “Cyberarts: Intersections of Art and Technology,” page 50

NAME: Gunalan Nadarajan

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: 2001

PUBLISHER: Singapore Art Museum / National Arts Council

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Global Positioning Systems; Physicality of the Internet; Contemporary Art in Singapore

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Print Publication, 1 out of 93 pages.

NOTES: This essay appears in the book Histories Identities Technologies Spaces: Singapore Art Today edited by Kwok Kian Chow.   

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TITLE: tsunamii.net website

NAME: tsunamii.net

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: December 3, 2001

PUBLISHER: tsunamii.net; Internet Archive

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Singapore Art History; Net Art

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: artist website of tsunamii.net, as captured by Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

NOTES: Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item. The eponymous website of tsunamii.net is now no longer functioning. As of November 2017, the Wayback Machine has recorded 91 captures of the URL tsunamii.net, between December 3, 2001 and November 16, 2012. 

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TITLE: “Alpha 3.3,” Cyberart Exhibition Console 

NAMES: tsunamii.net; Charles Lim; Tien Wei Woon; Melvin Yang Chien Phua; Kok Yam Tan

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: 2001

PUBLISHER: Nokia Singapore Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

TOPICS: Cyberarts; Singapore; Contemporary Art in Singapore; Net Art; tsunamii.net

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Online web console for the exhibition of Nokia Singapore Art

NOTES: Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item. Alpha 3.3 was presented as part of the exhibition Nokia Singapore Art held at the Singapore Art Museum in 2001. This was the earlier work which became the conceptual basis for Alpha 3.4 later presented as part of Documenta 11 in 2002. 

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TITLE: tsunamii.net website

NAME: tsunamii.net

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: February 1, 2002

PUBLISHER: tsunamii.net

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Singapore Art History; Net Art

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: artist website of tsunamii.net, as captured by Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item. The eponymous website of tsunamii.net is now no longer functioning. As of November 2017, the Wayback Machine has recorded 91 captures of the URL tsunamii.net, between December 3, 2001 and November 16, 2012. 

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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: 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: “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. 

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TITLE: “tsunamii.net,” pages 226-227. 

NAME: Gunalan Nadarajan

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: 2002

PUBLISHER: Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit

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

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Print publication, 2 out of 320 pages 

NOTES: This is an entry on tsunamii.net written by the Singaporean art theorist and curator Gunalan Nadarajan (who now serves as Dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan) for the short guide of Documenta 11. The guide, Documenta 11 Kurzführer | Short Guide is edited by Gerti Fietzek et al.   

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TITLE: “tsunamii.net,” pages 522-523

NAMES: tsunamii.net; Okwui Enwezor, editor

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: 2002

PUBLISHER: Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit

TOPICS: tsunamii.net; Documenta 11; Net Art; Internet Infrastructures; Performance; Singapore; Singapore Art History

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Print publication, 2 out of 700 pages

NOTES: This is the entry on tsunamii.net as part of the exhibition catalogue for Documenta 11′s Platform 5 in Kassel, Germany. The catalogue is edited by Okwui Enwezor who also served as the lead curator for Documenta 11. The images shown on pages 522 and 523 belonged strictly to the earlier work alpha 3.3 which was presented in Singapore. So while alpha 3.4 was presented by tsunamii.net for Documenta 11, the represented work published in Documenta 11′s exhibition catalogue was alpha 3.3. This seems to suggest that the editors and publishing team in charge of the exhibition catalog could not include an image or documentation of alpha 3.4 in time for print. This might also explain why certain publications which mistakenly cite tsunamii.net’s work in Documenta 11 as “alpha 3.3.” See for instance Margot Lovejoy’s publication (link here) in the same collection.   

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TITLE: “Interview mit tsunamii.net"

NAME: Tilman Baumgärtel

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: June 27, 2002

PUBLISHER: nettime

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

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Online article, published on the listserv of nettime

NOTES: Click on screenshot to go to link of actual item. The interview by Tilman Buamgärtel was conducted while Charles Lim was still performing the walk from Kassel to Kiel as part of alpha 3.4 presented at Documenta 11.  

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TITLE: “tsunamii.net: interview” 

NAMES: Pat Binder; Gerhard Haupt

COLLECTION: tsunamii.net (2001-2005)

DATE: June 7, 2002

PUBLISHER: Universes in Universe

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

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Online article

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

[tsunamiinet]

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: “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.

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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.