VERSION>05 INVINCIBLE DESIRE PRESS SITE

Hello Is There Anybody Out There?
This year Version is recognizing web sites that call for action. These artists are reaching out to see if anyone will join them on the web to share experiences, dialogue, photos, and ideas. Tune in to see a video, comment on a blog entry, upload an image, or enter some data. These pieces are asking for you to assist them in transmission. Will you respond?

A Season In Hell by Randall Packer
During Version 05, DAT Secretary Packer will broadcast live daily blog-chronicles from Washington, DC. An underground reportage on the unreported activities of politicians, officials, diplomats, etc., providing analysis and critique, will transmit live imagery, audio and commentary. Check the VersionFest Blog for times and dates of communiqué or go to www.usdat.us/secretary.

Ant Not TV by Jay Dedman, Joshua Kinberg, Daniel Salber, and Erik Radmall
ANT is a fantastic new application that subscribes to your favorite videoblogs. You can watch videos via a console and also use it to comment on the blog’s video you are watching. It’s better than TV!

The International Database of Corporate Commands
by the Institute for Infinitely Small Things
A Corporate Command is a call to action in the form of an imperative: "Just Do It", "Live without Limits", "Think different". By compiling and enacting these commands a database, the goal is to seek a better understanding in the mechanisms behind this deployment of power and its larger cultural ramifications.

Delocator by Finishing School and Vasna Sdoeung
Delocator.net is an online database project that creates a comparison between the amounts of local independently owned cafes and Starbucks retail stores within a specific zip code. The site is also a free online space for independent cafe goers and owners to promote their cafes by uploading local cafe information to the delocator.net database.

Digital Bricolage by Nicholas Monsour
Digitalbricolage.com is a permanent online festival showcasing the best of these works, a resource center for software downloads, and an archive containing links to sources of raw footage on the web. Digital Bricolage will screen selections from the online festival at the
Version>05 festival in Chicago.

Finalklein by Susanne Schuricht
Finalklein is a minimalist drama with one hand, one film, and asynchronous playing sequences of that film. The browser is determining the pattern of the video. Interaction takes place between viewer and image by means of a projective imagination.

In Camera by Isabelle Jenniches
In Camera embeds a robotic webcam into an interactive multi-user environment. During a performance viewers can choose to either actively control the camera's point of view or to passively observe other user's choices. Check the VersionFest Blog for dates and times of performances.

Learning to Love You More by Miranda July, Harrell Fletcher, and Yuri Ono
Learning to Love You More calls for people to accept assignments that will engage them with their everyday lives. Once the participant has completed an assignment they post it to the web site. The result is a whimsical collection of photos, audio, and texts.

Mobile SCOUT by Julian Bleecker, Scott Paterson and Marina Zurkow
Using your mobile phone to call a toll-free number, you are guided through a verbal interaction with the Mobile Scout Ranger. Through this interaction, you will leave a voice message describing your local surroundings, characters, or events. As participants leave recordings, they are instantly made available at the web site database.

Uses of Space by Andrei Thomaz
Uses of Space monitors several kinds of space usages, each one resulting in a different work. People are invited to monitor a space, of their choice, and then send the results (pictures, texts, any kind of observation) to the site.

Spitting Image by Glowlab
Spitting Image invites participants to view images of strangers photographed in New York and try to match them by taking photographs of similar-looking strangers in Chicago during Version>05. It will be presented as an online photo album of strangers to which participants comment and add links to their own images.

Under Mars by anonymous
undermars.com contains an archive of photos taken by soldiers and military contractors serving on active duty in Iraq. The goal of this site is exclusively to share photos of the experience of war, without politicizing, censoring, or editing.