A re-written script for and on an answering machine. A fragmented portrait of a demon dialer, and a textual interface reality moving through inner monologues, data-events, 'rooms' and 'places'. A travelogue inheriting brainy introverts, drunk on culture (high and pop), where zigamorphs date in a Unicode. Told in the present tense by a first-person character which mutates relentlessly to another @player. As the story progresses, bestiary creatures, demons and dragons seem to hold a conference with bots and borgs, and dump dialogs fill the memory of the answering machine in all the time of absence into zero-time. The work is concentrated on an exploratory mode of research between popular culture and computer science. Re-collecting and documenting as a set of navigation experiences on a field trip through electronic archives, through the (hi)stories of computer science. An experiment with identities and entities in physical and electronic space, and the specific languages which are occuring in online communities: their ramifications and references.

Claudia Hardi
born in Switzerland, lives and works as a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht; projects among others 4x4 DEATH STAR kung fu platform, Jay’s Hippoworld, a trickster called Fifi La Roo, and geography is elsewhere (2000), and 404 wugga wugga, a reader on cargo culture and the Bloggs family (2000)

Jan van Eyck Akademie/intermedium 2 2002