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Today, we see artists employing and adapting the strategies, tools and technologies of other professions. This opens new opportunities for development and distribution of art into new types of spaces. New technology and new media can help us build networks where people of differing background, geography, intention and interest meet. TUG – The Undercover Girl – is an art project where the Internet and networking are fundamental elements. The relationship between art and new technology have traditionally been a troubled area. TUG has chosen instead to use technology and available networks as a given theatre. Real interactivity is interaction between humans, whatever the media. The TUG project, which has been active for two years, consists of this website a magazine – which you are reading right now, and an exhibition in the form of a release party. Many of the around 30 agents you meet in this magazine we have never actually met beyond the Internet. "So, you want me to go out and look at reality", said one of the TUG agents. Yes. Please, we answered. The TUG website was used for recruitment of participants in the form of "agents", who were assigned to report form the reality that surrounds them from viewpoints new to them. By playing a different part, the agent may uncover new things. For this purpose, TUG made available to the agents a collection of imaginary tools. New stimuli was the code word. Reality may not be definable, but at least it is perceivable. New stimuli could be the sensory aspect of the virtual reality we experience as true, based on a mutual agreement that the virtual world exists. A collective, interactive consciousness. Mutations of real needs. The reports cover a wide area: Technology and reality, feminism and reality, cyberspace, instinct, sex, science fiction, food, the future and reality and so on. A recurring symbol in the project is the glove of TUG. It represents several aspects of the new, virtual community:- Being able to put on a new layer of skin, a new and sensitive sensory apparatus - Being able to undress and reveal one’s vulnerability - Reaching out - Putting on protection and assume a personality of choice - A challenge We are leaving the information society and entering the emotional era. HOORAY! It's time to focus on content again. The TUG project does not stop here. It lives on on the Internet, and new agents are enlisted continuously. The time is right, and TUG has thrown down the gauntlet.
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Nr 1/1 1998
Redaktør/Editor: Ingwill M. Gjelsvik
Lay-out: Ingwill M. Gjelsvik med assistanse av: Dagfinn Fjelddalen Kjersti Myrehagen Redaksjon/Editors: Ingwill M. Gjelsvik Kjersti Myrehagen Dagfinn Fjelddalen Inger-Marie Thorkildsen
Trykkeri: Litografia A/S Repro: Digitalpress Opplag: 1500 Financially supported by: Norsk Kulturråd Norsk Kassettavgiftsfond NBK Vederlagsfondet, prosjektstøtte Nordisk Konst och Konstindustrikommittè Signex
© copyright 1998
Contact TUG: Email: tug@powertech.no
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