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«Life Sharing is Napster writ as big as life»

«From a band of Web pirates whose past projects have included staging a hoax involving a made-up artist, ripping off the Pope, other net.artists like Jodi.org and Hell.com (who almost sued them), and stealing and altering the Web's first net.art gallery, comes Life Sharing, a performance piece, if you will, in which the artists make their entire hard drive available on the Internet. Finally, the Internet's proudest plagiarists are giving something back to the Web - make that "everything". Including some stuff that isn't theirs to give (like, oh, their operating system and program files)»

«Visitors can read 0100101110101101.ORG's complete e-mail correspondence since 1999. Afterwards they are familiar with the artists' exact web address, their (secret) real names, their postal address, account number, earnings, exhibition plans or invitations to lectures. One can learn about their private contacts with friends, gossip from the media art scene and other things not normally for the public»

«Life Sharing is simultaneously a complaint, an invitation, and a provocation: a kind of information based “Big Brother”, open for voyeurism while hermetically sealed. It is there to show that privacy is an inapplicable concept today, that the sheer quantity of information that it is possible to monitor on an individual is enormous. Its contents are intended to provoke (all of their past hoaxes are indeed on line), and at the same time it is an explicit invitation to plagiarize. The plagiarists offer themselves up to be plagiarized, openly inviting copies and replication»

«To let someone into your hard drive is to let them into your heart, your mind, and maybe even your bank account. In other words, you can BE 0100101110101101.ORG. Just be careful. It may be a trap»

«In Life Sharing, a work in the reality-Internet genre, the vérité of everyday functions (email, file organization and documents) gives birth to a new form of medial recording and what Ursula Frohne calls the “media mise en scène”. Indeed, for those who understand the premise of Life Sharing, the notions of voyeurism conditions many of the interactions one has while perusing the 0100101110101101.ORG web site»

«Of course, this self-portrait leaves almost as much open as it conceals: for despite all its openness, it does not reveal what the two people look like who are working at this computer»

«I have had the experience of e-mailing 0100101110101101.ORG about a meeting and having a stranger from Boston reply whether he should come to New York to meet me then also»

«Life Sharing stakes a claim for keeping information in the public domain rather than turning it into a commodity. Open-source programs such as Linux have shown how successful it is to make data public rather than hiding it»

«The etoy and Life Sharing projects illustrate how the genre is evolving away from the computer screen and its interactive graphics. The Internet is increasingly being used as an element in larger, conceptually oriented pieces that spill over into the physical as performances or installations»

«The project Life Sharing by the group 0100101110101101.ORG exaggerates the assumption that our life and our identities are based on purely determined and determining accumulations of information»

«0100101110101101.ORG merely apply the principle of communication on the net as a system in which data transfer is extended beyond limiting protocols or firewalls and into the relinquishing of the hazy privacy assumed by most web users. In abandoning the aura of mystery, in reintegrating the directory structures in place of endless graphically bloated effects, Life Sharing situates the typical web interface as a posture that forecloses more than it reveals, a kind of denial of access»

«Declaring that privacy is a luxury of powerful corporations and that “the idea of privacy itself is obsolete”, the hitherto anonymous art group have turned the closely guarded treasure of identity into just another file»

«This is open-source living in the digital age. It's making a political statement about ownership and commercialism. It's not just about viewing. Not only can you see in, but you can use the plans yourself»

«0100101110101101.ORG uses extreme oppositions to show that life is absolutely mediated, constructed, and fabricated, and that there is a speculative identity of the computer paradigm and of life itself. It shows that instead of being a substantial force, life is composed of cliché. What else is this mountain of e-mails, virtual paperwork, correspondence?»

«Life Sharing is abstract pornography»

«0100101110101101.ORG: The only place I know where you can wander through someone else's computer. Legally, that is...»