<\/p>\r\n
One of the advantages of the net is that something small can appear to have the same dimensions as something big: an artist group and a corporation, a global brand and\r\na server controlled from someone’s studio.<\/p>\r\n
The appearance of\r\nirational.org<\/a> oscillates\r\nbetween the two. The name-play with its letters, to the rhythm of net\r\nrationale<\/i>. Part of the game is that it is written with only one “r”\r\n(it might bring to mind e-commerce, or a grain of sand in the works \u00e1\r\nl\u00e1 Deputy\r\nThirsters<\/a>). He is from the first\r\ngeneration that grew up with personal<\/a>\r\ncomputers; it is no wonder, then, that he is at home on the net. His international\r\nreputation is due to his pioneering net-specific projects, among which\r\nI find the most memorable Own,\r\nbe owned or remain invisible<\/a>: with the “hair of the dog that\r\nbit you” slogan in view, nearly every word of the white text on\r\nwhite ground has been linked to its www.word.com<\/a>\r\naddress – thus these linked words are visible to their precisely appropriate\r\nextent, and the commerce-oriented face of the net flashes.
\r\n
\r\nThe arrangement of the quickly downloading homepage<\/a>\r\nlikewise tips the scales toward rationality. The aesthetic of the open\r\nsource code is crossed with the love for order of a real sysop: data concealed\r\nin bases, that comes just as reliably and looks just the same whether\r\nover the lowest or highest bandwidth.
\r\n
\r\nHeath Bunting<\/a>\r\nis the most active<\/a>\r\nirationalist agent, as the irational cv’s bear witness. Hence, it\r\nis most worthwhile to make the acquaintance of the irational world through\r\nhis<\/a> homepage.\r\nOur man in London simply custom-tailors<\/a>\r\nthe concept of new media. According to Bunting’s approach, this\r\nmeans the establishment of open communications systems. Through his countless\r\n(I abandoned the arithmetic at fifty-eight) network projects, we can study\r\nsuch models during their operation.
\r\n
\r\nHis website occasionally dons an American\r\nExpress<\/a> guise; nevertheless, most of the time the puritan open source\r\nattitude remains, the irationalist profile, which is formally refined\r\nand consistent. At the same time, surveying the listed projects, they\r\nare of a high degree with respect to the equipment employed and their\r\nforms, and we can experience their diversity as dictated by artistic freedom.\r\nEverything within reach is employed – from chalk<\/a>\r\nthrough knives<\/a>\r\nto faxes<\/a>,\r\nfrom travel<\/a>\r\nthrough extreme sport<\/a>\r\nto public<\/a>\r\nradio<\/a>,\r\nfrom an advertising<\/a>\r\ncampaign through a constellation<\/a>\r\nmap to a biotech<\/a>\r\nmagazine – whatever seems to be obvious in the given situation. World\r\ntraveller<\/a>,\r\nhe has reduced his tools to the minimum in the interest of keeping his\r\nbaggage small<\/a>,\r\ntravelling light: from this perspective it is interesting to see whether\r\nhe can carry with him a knife as a tool of his trade while globally practicing\r\nhis vocation as an artist, or if he must buy a new one in each new country.\r\nBeyond this, he was the first Internet beggar<\/a>\r\n(though it is worth having a look at the second<\/a>,\r\ntoo).
\r\n
\r\nApropos to tools: let no one be misled by the diversity. Each is brandished\r\nwith convincing self-assurance (he surprised me, for instance, with the\r\nexquisite calligraphy of his chalk graffiti<\/a>\r\n– it is evident that he gets a lot of practice). In contemplating the\r\nnet documentation<\/a>\r\nof his cave excursions<\/a>,\r\nI understood that here, there is more than meets the eye. Heath Bunting\r\nsimply loves what he does, and this love migrates into the systems that\r\nhe creates. Life and art become one, the travels<\/a>\r\nand the projects<\/a>,\r\nat the same time as the constant<\/a>\r\nencounters<\/a>\r\nand coexistence<\/a>,\r\nirationalist<\/a>\r\nadventure<\/a>\r\nwith friends<\/a>,\r\nlovers<\/a>\r\nand accomplices<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n
\r\nHe surfs the net and the softening borders, he hikes between\r\n<\/a>countries and he inserts the documentation of all of this, replete\r\nwith images, as a limited access database. Stepping into the field between<\/a>\r\ncountries (BorderXing), we awake to realise that the project was commissioned\r\nby the Tate\r\nModern<\/a> in London, with the support of mudam<\/a><\/i>\r\n(Mus\u00e9e d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg). The two museums\r\nfoot the 9000 pound sterling production costs, receiving in exchange the\r\nright to present the work for 5 years on their websites. The copyrights\r\nremain with the artist, alongside with insurance of first right of purchase.
\r\n
\r\nThe work itself<\/a>,\r\nto which these rights relate, is, on the one hand, a handbook written\r\nwith his feet, realised through a series of excursions. It contains green\r\n(without documents – sans papiers) methods of European border-crossings.\r\nIt is, on the other hand, a database of limited access – accessible only\r\nfrom authorised locations: we can either request authorisation for ourselves\r\nin a letter, or we have to get ourselves to such a location (in fact,\r\nthere is at least one such<\/a>\r\nplace in every European country).
\r\n
\r\nImmersing ourselves in the documentation, we search for the Hungarian\r\nborder in vain: it has not yet even been planned. Of the designated routes,\r\nabout half of them have been made, and those are revealed to us in the\r\nform of a travel diary, presented in a personal tone, in striking detail:\r\nwe are acquainted with the equipment, the excursionists<\/a>,\r\nthe accomplished<\/a>\r\nroute<\/a>,\r\nthe more interesting<\/a>\r\nmotifs<\/a>,\r\nthe duration of the trip, in text and in image<\/a>.\r\nThe peak of the former is the conclusion that serves to provide practical\r\nadvice that can be followed by anyone, while in the latter, it is the\r\nconcrete<\/a>\r\nframes<\/a>\r\nof border<\/a>\r\ncrossing that are the most memorable.
\r\n
\r\nAlongside all this, I also looked with pleasure through the photo\r\nalbum<\/a> compiled by the author at the head of the list, whose arrangement\r\nallows us, e.g., to deduce from the height of the picture-columns the\r\nimportance of the heroes depicted in the photos in the life of the author.\r\nI also learned that he is already for quite<\/a>\r\nsome time a passionate<\/a>\r\nexcursionist<\/a>,\r\nwhose significant leaps<\/a>\r\ncan be observed on a scale of Kleinian tradition<\/a>.
\r\n
\r\nWe can perceive<\/a>\r\nhis activity<\/a>\r\nas subversive<\/a>\r\ntoo<\/a>\r\n, to the extent that its active criticism refers to consumer corporate\r\nculture; thus it plays against<\/i> something. Nevertheless, the gentleness\r\nof this far-reaching subversion-series is that which ultimately arrests\r\nthe attention of the surfer. The choice of materials for the chalk-graffiti\r\nalready becomes the meekest of violence: it is easily removed; at the\r\nsame time, the operation demands greater dexterity.
\r\n
\r\nSo that we do not only make the acquaintance with his gentle side: he\r\nis able to show something even to the power surfer with his Pornography\r\nas protest<\/a>, operational until now through his own funds, and which\r\nI would not recommend to anyone who has not practiced at least a few seasons\r\nof surfing: not because of the explicit lyrics, as with the rappers, but\r\nrather due to the explicit imagination; at the same time, it is important\r\nto add that the impact of the work is expressed just through the inter-reference\r\nbetween the verbal and the visual information.<\/p>\r\n
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![accomplices<\/a>.<\/p>\r\nHe is from the first\r\ngeneration that grew up with personal<\/a>\r\ncomputers; it is no wonder, then, that he is at home on the net. His international\r\nreputation is due to his pioneering net-specific projects, among which\r\nI find the most memorable Own,\r\nbe owned or remain invisible<\/a>: with the “hair of the dog that\r\nbit you” slogan in view, nearly every word of the white text on\r\nwhite ground has been linked to its www.word.com<\/a>\r\naddress – thus these linked words are visible to their precisely appropriate\r\nextent, and the commerce-oriented face of the net flashes.\r\n\r\nHe surfs the net and the softening borders, he hikes between\r\n<\/a>countries and he inserts the documentation of all of this, replete\r\nwith images, as a limited access database. Stepping into the field between<\/a>\r\ncountries (BorderXing), we awake to realise that the project was commissioned\r\nby the Tate\r\nModern<\/a> in London, with the support of mudam<\/a><\/i>\r\n(Mus\u00e9e d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg). The two museums\r\nfoot the 9000 pound sterling production costs, receiving in exchange the\r\nright to present the work for 5 years on their websites. The copyrights\r\nremain with the artist, alongside with insurance of first right of purchase.\r\n\r\nThe work itself<\/a>,\r\nto which these rights relate, is, on the one hand, a handbook written\r\nwith his feet, realised through a series of excursions. It contains green\r\n(without documents – sans papiers) methods of European border-crossings.\r\nIt is, on the other hand, a database of limited access – accessible only\r\nfrom authorised locations: we can either request authorisation for ourselves\r\nin a letter, or we have to get ourselves to such a location (in fact,\r\nthere is at least one such<\/a>\r\nplace in every European country).\r\n\r\nImmersing ourselves in the documentation, we search for the Hungarian\r\nborder in vain: it has not yet even been planned. Of the designated routes,\r\nabout half of them have been made, and those are revealed to us in the\r\nform of a travel diary, presented in a personal tone, in striking detail:\r\nwe are acquainted with the equipment, the excursionists<\/a>,\r\nthe accomplished<\/a>\r\nroute<\/a>,\r\nthe more interesting<\/a>\r\nmotifs<\/a>,\r\nthe duration of the trip, in text and in image<\/a>.\r\nThe peak of the former is the conclusion that serves to provide practical\r\nadvice that can be followed by anyone, while in the latter, it is the\r\nconcrete<\/a>\r\nframes<\/a>\r\nof border<\/a>\r\ncrossing that are the most memorable.\r\n\r\nAlongside all this, I also looked with pleasure through the photo\r\nalbum<\/a> compiled by the author at the head of the list, whose arrangement\r\nallows us, e.g., to deduce from the height of the picture-columns the\r\nimportance of the heroes depicted in the photos in the life of the author.\r\nI also learned that he is already for quite<\/a>\r\nsome time a passionate<\/a>\r\nexcursionist<\/a>,\r\nwhose significant leaps<\/a>\r\ncan be observed on a scale of Kleinian tradition<\/a>.\r\n\r\nWe can perceive<\/a>\r\nhis activity<\/a>\r\nas subversive<\/a>\r\ntoo<\/a>\r\n, to the extent that its active criticism refers to consumer corporate\r\nculture; thus it plays against<\/i> something. Nevertheless, the gentleness\r\nof this far-reaching subversion-series is that which ultimately arrests\r\nthe attention of the surfer. The choice of materials for the chalk-graffiti\r\nalready becomes the meekest of violence: it is easily removed; at the\r\nsame time, the operation demands greater dexterity.\r\n\r\nSo that we do not only make the acquaintance with his gentle side: he\r\nis able to show something even to the power surfer with his Pornography\r\nas protest<\/a>, operational until now through his own funds, and which\r\nI would not recommend to anyone who has not practiced at least a few seasons\r\nof surfing: not because of the explicit lyrics, as with the rappers, but\r\nrather due to the explicit imagination; at the same time, it is important\r\nto add that the impact of the work is expressed just through the inter-reference\r\nbetween the verbal and the visual information.<\/p>\r\nFor those who have\r\nnot yet surfed enough, or does not wish to take part in the reference-act,\r\nthey should take a look instead at the irationalist critic of public space;\r\nthis is again a gentle operation, the art\r\nof climbing<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\nTranslation: Ad\u00e9le Eisenstein<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the advantages of the net is that something small can appear to have the same dimensions as something big: an artist group and a corporation, a global brand and a server controlled from someone’s studio. 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![too<\/a>\r\n, to the extent that its active criticism refers to consumer corporate\r\nculture; thus it plays against<\/i> something. Nevertheless, the gentleness\r\nof this far-reaching subversion-series is that which ultimately arrests\r\nthe attention of the surfer. The choice of materials for the chalk-graffiti\r\nalready becomes the meekest of violence: it is easily removed; at the\r\nsame time, the operation demands greater dexterity.\r\n\r\nSo that we do not only make the acquaintance with his gentle side: he\r\nis able to show something even to the power surfer with his Pornography\r\nas protest<\/a>, operational until now through his own funds, and which\r\nI would not recommend to anyone who has not practiced at least a few seasons\r\nof surfing: not because of the explicit lyrics, as with the rappers, but\r\nrather due to the explicit imagination; at the same time, it is important\r\nto add that the impact of the work is expressed just through the inter-reference\r\nbetween the verbal and the visual information.<\/p>\r\nFor those who have\r\nnot yet surfed enough, or does not wish to take part in the reference-act,\r\nthey should take a look instead at the irationalist critic of public space;\r\nthis is again a gentle operation, the art\r\nof climbing<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\nTranslation: Ad\u00e9le Eisenstein<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the advantages of the net is that something small can appear to have the same dimensions as something big: an artist group and a corporation, a global brand and a server controlled from someone’s studio. The appearance of irational.org oscillates between the two. The name-play with its letters, to the rhythm of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":630182,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022010,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400182\/revisions\/2022010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exindex.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/media\/irational\/cambridge_squat.jpg\"){kind=link}