The telephone, satellites and the Internet: VOPOS exploits and merges three kinds of net. The two members of 0100101110101101.ORG are the cell under control. They wear a GPS transmitter that sends, through a cell phone, its co-ordinates to a server, www.0100101110101101.ORG. A software draws on a digital geographic map the exact position in which they reside, establishing a path that traces all the movements of the cell under control.

The Global Positioning System (or GPS) is a collection of satellites owned by the U.S. Government. GPS receivers on the earth’s surface listen in on the information received from three to twelve satellites and, from that, determine the precise location of the receiver, as well as how fast and in what direction it is moving. Some GPS receivers have been integrated into mobile radios, cellular phones and mobile data terminals. In the next future they will probably be installed on each vehicle and minimized to the point of being wearable.

0100101110101101.ORG is trying to give an account of how vast amounts of personal information are moving into corporate hands, where they can be developed into electronic profiles of individuals and groups that are potentially far more detailed and intrusive than the files built up in the past by state police and security agencies. VOPOS will not last a determinate period of time, but once activated will go on endlessly.

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They have a hard time remembering the name of their domain, and their identity is even more obscure. The action that made them famous was the 'theft' of the most renowned net.art gallery, Hell.com, which has always been closed to the public. Other scandals followed, like the numerous remakes of the works of other Internet artists, the false 'official' web site of the Holy See, or the biennale.py virus spread the day of the Venice Biennale opening.

With the project life_sharing, started on January 2001, 0100101110101101.ORG continues to challenge notions of ownership giving every Internet user free 24-7 access to their computer server. life_sharing radically challenges the concept of intellectual property and explores the contradictions of privacy in the era of information technology

BR/intermedium 2 2002