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Expunction – Deleting intima.org Net Art Works 11 May – 16 June 2011 wPack Title: wPack / wireless packages ][ distribution center - WLAN/GSM/WAP project 157 files: 20.6 MB Created: 2004 (Cuxhaven, Germany / Ljubljana, Slovenia) Deleted: 17 May 2011 Author: Igor Štromajer Produced by Intima Virtual Base - www.intima.org Created for: Ohne Schnur - art about wireless communication (symposium and exhibition: Cuxhavener Kunstverein / Cuxhaven Art Association, Cuxhaven, Germany, April 2004; Curator: Katja Kwastek, Institut für Kunstgeschichte der LMU München) | Archives X + Y Original structure: Indeterminable / unkown number of the following file types: EXE, CAT, HTML, PBK, ICO, ANI, MSC, BMP, BAT, ASF, RDZ, DLL, SEA.HQX, SEA.BIN, SIT, SIT.HQX, SMI.BIN, DMG, IMG.BIN, HQX, GIF, JPG Original URL: h t t p : / / w w w . i n t i m a . o r g / w p a c k - List of exhibitions (until 2007): intima.org/exhibit.html - List of selected related texts (until 2007): intima.org/archives.html + screenshots/fragments (click to enlarge):  [Flickr] wPack is a package distribution center built for the World Wide Web and the GSM WAP telephone. It contains compressed packages, files for strategically traumatic communication, establishing a continued sense of frustration, the effect of unreliable protocols and their connections: the package center operates wirelessly, but with a perpetual threat of a distribution mistake and disconnection. The packages are delivered only with difficulty, using awkward protocols, fragmented and mostly without purpose. They are full of impossible links which can be interpreted as a forcibly political future only beginning to step into our world of fragile connectivity. Even though the ludistic and irrational are taking over marketing strategies: they deliver exactly that which we already have, but we still return for something more. Opening the packages spurns on economic, social, intimate and political questions: who trusts an unordered package that has no commercial value? The organizational structure of the project is made up of stolen and surplus files, useless data, nonhierarchical connections. The project represents itself exclusively through already existing commercial protocols, but without being servile to them, opening up links between emotionality and technology, production and ethics. With the tactic of exposing the power of capital (which is based on the management and recognizability of connections dependent on the efficiency of protocols whereby disconnection is understood as a threat), wPack reveals the realistic politics of the connections: the packages are those elements which must remain hidden if the connections are to work perfectly. The distribution of politics and intimacy without any reason and purpose, with the use of limited, incestuous, defined and controlled protocols is a dystopia and a nonservile revolt to the world of capital, which can be disarmed only with the use of its own incestuous tactics. Bojana Kunst, 2004  Igor Štromajer's project wPack irritates the exhibition visitor at first sight, as it is difficult to link the work's title to the small, blinking and humming robot which one looks at. This robot is mainly a representative or agent of the artwork. It refers to its virtual presence and is at the same time a symbol for technically transmitted communication. It is only once one enters into contact with tagtag.com/wpack (WAP) or intima.org/wpack (wLAN), that one gets to wPack. wPack exists only in the form of these two digital platforms which offer different 'software packets'. These packets contain small programmes 'emotional bombs', as Igor Štromajer ironically calls them, which can be installed on and/or downloaded to mobile phones, handhelds or computers. Both 'wPack- distribution- centers' offer a choice of categories which is well known from mass media: 'government & military' or 'health & education'. Once the visitor has decided for one of these areas, he is again confronted with further options: 'fear', 'time', 'utopia', 'communication', 'propaganda', 'pain', 'silence', 'terror', 'future' etc. These symbolic terms represent software packets which only unfold their content when opened on a private/personal device. Whereas some of the 'ready-to-use-units' install images, graphs, music, Java-applet's or simple exe-files, others provoke standard error messages. Here at the latest, the user of wPack notices that he is being manipulated by the works because he has been seduced by possibly stereotyped words and ideas. The content of these packets are actually 'digital fragments' which Igor Štromajer has collected from the global data network. Extracted from the original context and put into new relations by assembly or renaming, they do not only evoke unusual associations and irritations with the recipient but also perfectly stress the subversive and ironic character of the comprehensive work - for example when wPack reflects a current political conflict in the form of a pictogram and, the next second, one receives the offer of downloading a stop watch. The appearance of these 'artwork portions' in self-installing packets is part of the works' concept. Universal containers deliver the ready-to-use contents free of charge to the home of the recipient and let him wonder whether these are useful, dangerous or just entertaining - and they thus reflect everyday conflicts of our information and consumption society. Igor Štromajer calls these packets 'software-questions', which request answers from the users of the devices and thus trigger a discourse on communication media. Julia Westner, 2004  wPack Sony Ericsson P800 (GSM WAP) screnshots + Igor Štromajers Projekt wPack irritiert den Ausstellungsbesucher schon auf den ersten Blick, denn der Werktitel will sich nicht mit dem kleinen, blinkenden und surrenden Roboter, den er sieht, in Zusammenhang bringen lassen. Ist dieser doch vor allem Repräsentant oder Agent des Werkes, auf dessen virtuelle Präsenz er verweist und gleichzeitig Symbol für die technisch vermittelte Kommunikation. Erst, wenn man sich in Verbindung setzt mit tagtag.com/wpack (WAP) oder intima.org/wpack (wLAN) gelangt man zu wPack. Denn wPack existiert nur in Form dieser beiden digitalen Plattformen, auf denen 'Software-Pakete' bereitgestellt werden. Die Pakete selbst enthalten kleine Programme, "emotionale Bomben", wie sie Igor Štromajer ironisch bezeichnet, die auf dem Handy, Handheld oder Computer der Benutzer installiert und/oder aufgerufen werden können. Beide 'wPack- distribution- center' stellen zunächst aus den Massenmedien bekannte Kategorien wie 'government & military' oder 'health & education' zur Auswahl. Entscheidet der Benutzer sich für einen der Bereiche, wird er wiederum mit Begriffen konfrontiert: 'fear',' time', 'utopia', 'communication', 'propaganda', 'pain', 'silence', 'terror', 'future' etc. Diese symbolträchtigen Bezeichnungen stehen nun für einzelne Software-Pakete, deren Inhalte sich erst erschließen, wenn man sie auf seinem privaten Gerät öffnet. Während einige der 'ready-to-use-units' Bilder, Graphiken, Musik, Java-Applet's oder einfache exe-Dateien installieren, provozieren andere die üblichen Fehlermeldungen. Dem Nutzer von wPack wird spätestens hier deutlich, dass er von dem Werk manipuliert wird, weil er sich von vielleicht klischeehaften Begriffen und Vorstellungen verführen lässt. Die Inhalte der Pakete selbst sind eigentlich 'digitale Fragmente', die Igor Štromajer aus dem globalen Datennetz gesammelt hat. Ihrem originären Kontext entnommen und - durch Montage oder Umbenennung - in neue Beziehungen gesetzt, evozieren sie beim Rezipienten nicht nur ungewöhnliche Assoziationen und Irritationen, sondern betonen geradezu den subversiven, ironischen Charakter des gesamten Werkes - z.B. wenn wPack einen aktuellen politischen Konflikt mittels eines Piktogramms thematisiert und man im nächsten Moment das Angebot bekommt, eine Stoppuhr herunterzuladen. Schon die Erscheinungsweise der 'Kunstwerkportionen' in selbst-installierenden Paketen ist Teil des Werkkonzeptes. Als universelle Behälter, die gebrauchsfertigen Inhalt drahtlos frei Haus liefern und den Empfänger im Unklaren darüber lassen, ob es sich um nützliche, gefährliche oder lediglich unterhaltende Inhalte handelt, spiegeln sie die täglichen Konflikte unserer Informations- und Konsumgesellschaft wider. Igor Štromajer bezeichnet diese Pakete als 'Software-Fragen', die Antworten von den Nutzern der Maschinen einfordern, also eine Auseinandersetzung der Gesellschaft mit ihren Kommunikationsmedien anregen sollen. Julia Westner, 2004    +  wPack in Moderna galerija Ljubljana Exhibition: Seven Sins: Ljubljana - Moscow December 2004  Photo: Dejan Habicht, Matija Pavlovec / Moderna galerija, Ljubljana + wPack - Categories of Wireless Packages: Government & Military autonomy 8835899 memory 02751101 operation 77385102 territory 49679103 terror 18851104 politics 82117105 tactic 7260148 anxiety 0909467 propaganda 11167110 intelligence 55285111 revolution 13118114 invasion 08133136 surveillance 39684117 information 11886152 language 55183153 transfer 31983200 machine 2904822 artificiality 7375830 Business & Economy danger 06468175 simulation 92015174 frustration 54058176 avatar 81197181 montage 39983182 organic 16539183 pain 94743184 utopia 94771194 no mercy 43646186 body 92488187 intoxication 27649188 communication 17944151 media 77953172 representation 24169173 east 63636157 north 78391158 navigation 46315163 control 1571223 Health & Education fantasy 04842122 fear 47342121 sublime 33387115 syndrome 01026124 system 92997126 intimacy 78408128 contact 46049129 money 02842131 database 03061132 signal 41204133 mobility 36625134 radical 01321135 vision 55281137 tears 67811185 time 93398168 message 00416169 mirror 32058156 Science & Social Science future 4960231 strategy 8418732 silence 4320033 sensibility 5451334 philosophy 1946884 network 2783645 emergency 6604550 trauma 8314751 emotion 4578458 eyes 5668059 identification 9490063 symbol 7060664 orgasm 8210588 passion 3457466 code 89224109 normandy 382948730 religion 83391107  + List of wPack Linked Applications (WML Java software for mobile phones and PDAs / Midlets): Acupuncture 1.0 Description: Acupuncture provides a lookup utility for acupoints after given a time and a date. Author: Jereme Technology Size: 8.6 kB Code: autonomy 8835899 AnalogWatch 1.0 Description: A midlet which shows an analog clock on screen. Can work as a screen saver too. Author: Dariusz Pelka Size: 4.7 kB Code: memory 02751101 Calculator 1.0 Description: A Midlet calculator with quite a few options. Author: Surerange Size: 5.6 kB Code: operation 77385102 Calculator 1.0 Description: Calculator is a basic calculator utility providing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division functionality. Author: Visual Quest India (P) Ltd Size: 4.6 kB Code: territory 49679103 Calculator U.P. 0.2 Description: Calculator UP is a nice implementation of a calculator. Author: spruce.org Size: 7.9 kB Code: terror 18851104 ChordBook 1.03 Description: Chord Dialer is a guitar chord service for mobile phone users. You can select a chord name and the Chord Dialer looks it up on the Net, and a chord diagram appears on your phone. Author: Software Cottage Size: 25.4 kB Code: politics 82117105 DateToDate 1.1 Description: Date To Date computes the distance between two dates. Author: JACADO Size: 4.5 kB Code: religion 83391107 EuroCheck 1.0.0 Description: This application allows you to check Euro bank notes for validity, origin country. Author: Medium.net Size: 29.4 kB Code: code 89224109 First_Aid_Guide 1.0 Description: This application provides a brief guide for first aid. Author: Sun Microsystems Size: 12.3 kB Code: propaganda 11167110 Grocery 1.0 Description: Grocery List provides a simple grocery list. Author: onDemand Size: 7 kB Code: intelligence 55285111 JTask 1.0 Description: JTask is a very effective and simple to use To Do list manager. Author: R Feria. desknow Size: 3.3 kB Code: revolution 13118114 MetaViewSoft - TeaTimer 1.0.0 Description: If you are having trouble remembering when your tea is done, than use this tea-timer to get it absolute spot on! Author: MetaViewSoft Size: 33.5 kB Code: invasion 08133136 MIDPFirstAid 0.0.1 Description: A First Aid Information midlet with instructions to guide you through emergency medical situations. Author: Coolaz Technology Size: 48.1 kB Code: surveillance 39684117 PeriodicTable 0.9.6 Description: Periodic Table is a very good utility for students. It displays the properties of the elements. Author: Jacek Bansiak Size: 17.4 kB Code: fantasy 04842122 periodicTable 1.0 Description: A nice implementation of a periodic table. Author: Markus Goldkamp Size: 18.4 kB Code: fear 47342121 pets 1.0.1 Description: MBITS stands for Mobile Business Internet Timer Service and it is a very comprehensive timer utitilty. The functionalty is based around a list of timers. Author: Size: 15 kB Code: sublime 33387115 pocket 1.0.1 Description: Pocket Protector is a personal secure record storage. Pocket has been developed to act as a storage for Personal Authentication Information. Author: Jon Eaves Size: 53 kB Code: syndrome 01026124 QuickQuote 1.0 Description: Find the latest online stock price info (NYE). Author: Sun Microsystems Size: 6.9 kB Code: system 92997126 Scheduler 1.0 Description: Scheduler is a basic scheduling utility allowing you to enter and store events in a calendar. Author: Sun Microsystems Size: 6.7 kB Code: intimacy 78408128 SpruceAlarmClock 1.2.0 Description: A nice implementation of an alarm clock featuring snooze functionality. Author: Spruce Technologies Size: 17.5 kB Code: contact 46049129 SpruceNotes 1.0.0 Description: Spruce Notes is a good utility for writing down your notes. Author: Spruce Technologies Size: 4.8 kB Code: money 02842131 SpruceQuotes 1.1.0 Description: Spruce Quotes allows you to look up the price of a single share if you know the share symbol. Author: Spruce Technologies Size: 3.8 kB Code: database 03061132 SpruceStopwatch 1.1.0 Description: Spruce Stop Watch is a stop watch utility. Author: SpruceTechnologies Size: 6.3 kB Code: signal 41204133 StopWatch 1.1 Description: Stopwatch provides a basic start-stop-reset stop watch. Author: JACADO Size: 7.1 kB Code: mobility 36625134 TaskKeeper 1.0 Description: TaskKeeper MIDlet application for maintaining to-do items in a categorised and priorised way. Author: Infocast Systems Size: 28.1 kB Code: radical 01321135 Translator 0.0.1 Description: This is an English to Italian Translator Midlet which has a database of over 1300 words. You can perform searches or browse by letter. Author: Bradley Meehan Size: 42.6 kB Code: vision 55281137 Description: A midlet which gives you access to the google search engine from your mobile phone. Author: Wingfoot Software Size: 42.3 kB Code: utopia 94771194 SendFax 1.0 Description: This midlet allows you to send a fax from your mobile phone. Author: Surerange Size: 6 kB Code: transfer 31983200 Amark 1.2 Description: A visual benchmark with video effects. Amark is can perform 3d mathemathics, fill polygons and manipulate with images. Author: Andrea Fasce Size: 53.5 kB Code: time 93398168 Comics 1.0.4 Description: You can read comics on your mobile phone. Author: Coolaz Technology Size: 23.5 kB Code: message 00416169 DS_Rain 1.0 Description: DS-Rain displays the date and time over a rain effect. Author: DS Effects Size: 11.4 kB Code: media 77953172 DS_Snow 1.0 Description: DS-Snow displays the date and time over a snow effect. Author: DS Effects Size: 10 kB Code: representation 24169173 DS_Stars 1.0 Description: DS-Stars displays the date and time over a stars effect. Author: DS Effects Size: 4.4 kB Code: danger 06468175 DS_Stars3D 1.0 Description: DS-Stars 3D displays the date and time over a 3d stars effect. Author: DS Effects Size: 4.4 kB Code: simulation 92015174 Fractal 1.0.0 Description: This application demonstrates fractal generation. Most devices need quite a long time to calculate the fractals. It has magnifier built in to zoom in on the fractal. Author: epublica Size: 4.5 kB Code: frustration 54058176 juggling 1.1 Description: This midlet demonstrates different juggling patterns. Author: Widefield Computing Size: 23.2 kB Code: avatar 81197181 Kamasutra 1.1.0 Description: This is an animation of an impressive acrobatic performance. Not suitable for children. Author: Francesco Bapti Size: 17.4 kB Code: montage 39983182 kFire 1.1 Description: kFire displays a fire effect with changeable screensize and resolution. Author: Maxence Bernard Size: 4.4 kB Code: organic 16539183 Life! 1.1 Description: The Midlet simulates the Game Of Life by John Conway. Author: David Harrigan Size: 11.3 kB Code: pain 94743184 SpruceDraw 1.0.5 Description: Spruce Draw is a drawing utility, which allows you to draw images on the screen using a pencil tool and an eraser tool. Author: Spruce Technologies Size: 8.6 kB Code: tears 67811185 SpruceFX 1.0.0 Description: Spruce FX is a graphics utility that provides rain, snow and stars2d effects. Author: Spruce Technologies Size: 8.2 kB Code: no mercy 43646186 swirl2 1.2 Description: A good looking graphics demo of a multi-coloured swirl. Author: Pekka Kuismanen Size: 5.3 kB Code: body 92488187 Valentine 1.2.0 Description: Valentine midlet. Author: Erik Wistrand Size: 23.3 kB Code: intoxication 27649188 CityRace 1.1 Description: Race against your opponents in the city traffic. Author: Stefano Gaglini 2002 Size: 22.4 kB Code: communication 17944151 Flash 1.0 Description: This is a quite simple sequence remembering game. Author: AWParr Size: 6.7 kB Code: information 11886152 FourInRow 1.1 Description: This is an implementation of the game Four-in-a-Row. It supports multiple players. Author: Macrospace Ltd Size: 33.7 kB Code: language 55183153 MDoom 1.0 Description: MDoom is 3D shoot-them-up game. It is a miniature clone of the famous 3D Doom game. Author: JShape Software Size: 19.9 kB Code: mirror 32058156 MountainRoadRacer 1.0 Description: A racing game set in the mountains which involves beside racing against other cars, also avoiding falling rocks in the road. Author: Sun Microsystems Size: 14.3 kB Code: east 63636157 NumberTumble 1.0.3 Description: The object of the game is to eliminate the numbers from the screen as they fall. You can eliminate the numbers by clicking on the corresponding numbers on your phone. Author: Pointstorm Innovations Size: 24.1 kB Code: north 78391158 TeleMem 1.1 Description: Telemem is a memory game where you have to repeat the sequence of numbers output by the game. Author: JACADO Size: 10.8 kB Code: navigation 46315163 AmobaMIDlet 1.1 Description: Amoba is a board game played by two players. The goal is to place markers on the board until one of the players gets five markers in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Author: Csaba Bonifert Size: 15.7 kB Code: machine 2904822 Atomic 1.0 Description: Atomic is a board game where the goal is to take over the game board. You can do this by placing atoms into empty squares or onto square that you already control. Author: Neil Johan Broadbent Size: 42.2 kB Code: control 1571223 Dots 1.0.0 Description: Dots is the implementation of the board game also known as "squares". Author: Softex, Inc. Size: 8.4 kB Code: artificiality 7375830 DS_AllLights 1.0 Description: A puzzle game with deverse difficulty levels. The goal is to turn on all the lights in the playing area. Author: DS Effects Size: 4.8 kB Code: future 4960231 DS_Fifteen 1.0 Description: You have to sort the numbers in ascending order to solve the puzzle. This game has multiple difficulty levels for you to choose from. Author: DS Effects Size: 5.1 kB Code: strategy 8418732 DS_Memory 1.0 Description: You have to match up the hidden letters in the good old “memory” way. This version includes multiple difficulty levels you can choose from. Author: DS_Effects Size: 5.7 kB Code: silence 4320033 Fiver 1.0.0 Description: Fiver is an interesting puzzle game which involves inverting the buttons in each cell of a square matrix. Author: Softex, Inc. Size: 13 kB Code: sensibility 5451334 HorseCourse 1.0.0 Description: The games objective is to make as many steps as possible. Using cursor keys choose the start cell and press Fire. Mark each cell, moving horse as you play chess. Author: Mank Size: 28.6 kB Code: philosophy 1946884 Lights 1.0 Description: Lights is a puzzle game where you have to turn all 25 lights on. Author: Visual Quest India (P) Ltd Size: 9.2 kB Code: network 2783645 MineGame 1.0 Description: A clone of the Minesweeper game. Author: Elam Size: 6.9 kB Code: tactic 7260148 Numbers 0.8 Description: Numbers is an interesting game to play where you have a table of numbers and upon selecting any number you will increase all elements of the corresponding row and column by one. The object of the game is to make all the numbers in the table equal to 9. Author: Hesham Zreik Size: 7.3 kB Code: emergency 6604550 Pegged 1.0.0 Description: The game objective is to finish game with only one peg remaining on the board. Author: Mank Size: 26.7 kB Code: trauma 8314751 Scramble 1.0 Description: This is a Scramble Game. You have to move the numbers and arrange them in sequence. Author: Sun Microsystems Size: 7.7 kB Code: emotion 4578458 Simon Says 1.0 Description: An implementation of the classic game of Simon Says. You have to repeat Simon's moves. Author: JSmart Technologies Size: 18.4 kB Code: eyes 5668059 SpruceMatchup 1.0.0 Description: Spruce Matchup is a kind of “Memory” game where you have to find the pairs of characters on a six by six grid. Author: Spruce Technologies Size: 5.3 kB Code: identification 9490063 SpruceMatchupEasy 1.0.0 Description: Spruce Matchup Easy is a smaller grid version of Spruce Matchup memory game. Author: Spruce Technologies Size: 5.3 kB Code: symbol 7060664 TenPinWizard 1.0 Description: TenPinWizard is a bowling scoring game. It supports playing for up to 6 players at the same time. Author: HiLogic Consulting Inc. Size: 42 kB Code: orgasm 8210588 Triangle 1.0 Description: A puzzle game where the goal is to sort the numbers in ascending order within the triangle. Author: Sun Microsystems Size: 7.3 kB Code: passion 3457466 Turner 1.0.0 Description: The objective of the game is to turn all cells to black color. Author: Mank Size: 24.3 kB Code: anxiety 0909467 + [Flickr] Expunction DEL NET ART Screenshots |