brad brace 12 hour project

> > > > Synopsis: The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project began December 30, 1994. A

`round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery from Brad Brace.

The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it

suspends identity, relations and history. This discourse, far from

determining the locus in which it speaks, is avoiding the ground on which

it could find support. It is trying to operate a decentering that leaves

no privilege to any center.

The 12-hour ISBN JPEG Project

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began December 30, 1994

Pointless Hypermodern Imagery... posted/mailed every 12 hours... a

spectral, trajective alignment for the 90`s! A continuum of minimalist

masks in the face of catastrophe; conjuring up transformative metaphors

for the everyday... A poetic reversibility of exclusive events...

A post-rhetorical, continuous, apparently random sequence of

imagery... genuine gritty, greyscale... corruptable, compact,

collectable and compelling convergence. The voluptuousness of the grey

imminence: the art of making the other disappear. Continual visual impact;

an optical drumming, sculpted in duration, on the endless present of the

Net.

An extension of the printed ISBN-Book (0-9690745) series... critically

unassimilable... imagery is gradually acquired, selected and re-sequenced

over time... ineluctable, vertiginous connections. The 12hr dialtone...

[ see ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace/books ]

KEYWORDS: >> Disconnected, disjunctive, distended, de-centered,

de-composed, ambiguous, augmented, ambilavent, homogeneous, reckless...

>> Multi-faceted, oblique, obsessive, obscure, obdurate...

>> Promulgated, personal, permeable, prolonged, polymorphous, provocative,

poetic, plural, perverse, potent, prophetic, pathological, pointless...

>> Emergent, evolving, eccentric, eclectic, egregious, exciting,

entertaining, evasive, entropic, erotic, entrancing, enduring,

expansive...

Every 12 hours, another!... view them, re-post `em, save `em,

trade `em, print `em, even publish them...

Here`s how:

~ Set www-links to -> http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/12hr.html

Look for the 12-hr-icon. Heavy traffic may require you to specify files

more than once! Anarchie, Fetch, CuteFTP, TurboGopher...

Or -> ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace/bbrace.html

~ Download from -> ftp.pacifier.com /pub/users/bbrace

Download from -> ftp.netcom.com /pub/bb/bbrace

Download from -> ftp.teleport.com /users/bbrace

Download from -> ftp.rdrop.com /pub/users/bbrace

Download from -> ftp.wco.com /pub/users/bbrace

* Remember to set tenex or binary. Get 12hr.jpeg

~ E-mail -> If you only have access to email, then you can use FTPmail to

do essentially the same thing. Send a message with a body of 'help' to the

server address nearest you:

ftpmail@ccc.uba.ar ftpmail@cs.uow.edu.au

ftpmail@ftp.uni-stuggart.de ftpmail@ftp.Dartmouth.edu

ftpmail@ieunet.ie ftpmail@src.doc.ic.ac.uk

ftpmail@archie.inesc.pt ftpmail@ftp.sun.ac.za

ftpmail@ftp.sunet.se ftpmail@ftp.luth.se

ftpmail@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw ftpmail@oak.oakland.edu

ftpmail@sunsite.unc.edu ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com

ftpmail@census.gov ftp-request@netcom.com

bitftp@plearn.bitnet bitftp@dearn.bitnet

bitftp@vm.gmd.de bitftp@plearn.edu.pl

bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu bitftp@pucc.bitnet

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~ Mirror-sites requested! Archives too!

The latest new jpeg will always be named, 12hr.jpeg

Average size of images is only 45K.

Perl program to mirror ftp-sites/sub-directories:

src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/mirror

~ Postings to usenet newsgroups:

alt.12hr

alt.binaries.pictures.12hr

alt.binaries.pictures.misc

alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc

* * Ask your system's news-administrator to carry these groups!

(There are also usenet image browsers: TIFNY, PluckIt, Picture Agent,

Extractor97, NewsRover, Binary News Assistant, EasyNews)

~ This interminable, relentless sequence of imagery began in earnest on

December 30, 1994. The basic structure of the project has been over

twenty-four years in the making. While the specific sequence of

photographs has been presently orchestrated for more than 12 years` worth

of 12-hour postings, I will undoubtedly be tempted to tweak the ongoing

publication with additional new interjected imagery. Each 12-hour posting

is like the turning of a page; providing ample time for reflection,

interruption, and assimilation.

~ The sites listed above also contain information on other cultural

projects and sources.

~ A very low-volume, moderated mailing list for announcements and

occasional commentary related to this project has been established. Send

e-mail to: listserv@netcom.com /subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg

This project has not received government art-subsidies. Some opportunities

still exist for financially assisting the publication of editions of large

(33x46") prints; perhaps (Iris giclees) inkjet duotones on newsprint!

Other supporters receive rare copies of the first three web-offset printed

ISBN-Books.

ISBN is International Standard Book Number. JPEG and GIF are types of

image files. Get the text-file, 'pictures-faq' to learn how to view or

translate these images. [ftp ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace]

credit appreciated, but