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ONLINE EVENT
TIME
OUT
INTERNET
FEST 1998
MARCH 1998
http://www.fredforest.com
This
project, created for the inaugural French “Internet
Fest” (Fête de l’Internet), combines a symbolic
(liminal) suspension of time and a virtual around-the-world
journey in one hour in a festive rite of passage into the
age of the digital global village. It involved placing webcams
in cities located in each of the world’s 24 time zones.
Beginning with a live shot of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris,
the camera in each location began transmitting at precisely
12:00 p.m. on March 20. The very instant the clock was about
to strike 1:00 p.m., the image on the screen switched over
to the input of the camera in the next time zone to the west
thus allowing visitors to the project web site to “relive”
the same hour of the day throughout the 24-hour duration of
the event. The web site also offered people a number of thought-provoking
and fun ways to make use of their time away from time including
an online poll about the role time plays in their frenzied
lives, a means to send scanned outlines of their feet to a
server in Guadeloupe for a brief vacation, and a chance to
buy extra time in increments of 30 seconds, 1 minute, or 1
hour.
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