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Hybrids (1998)

We mixed existing works of Net Art that we had copied with other materials from the Net. After downloading all the elements of a page, we would tinker with the source code, adding and removing bits of code and checking the result in the browser, often relying on conflicting code and syntax errors. The irony is that most of the original websites have since disappeared, making our ‘pirated’ versions the only ones still in existence.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrids

%20LocationAL
Heath Bunting’s Irational.org homepage is overlaid by a page from Jodi, whose signature color style—bright green text on a black background—overwrites Bunting’s original colors.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrids

OOOI: OOOI: OOOI:
Vuk Cosic’s homepage is repeated twice, with an added horizontal red background line. In the background, there’s also a text by the legendary artist Netochka Nezvanova.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrids

%20File-160.45.118
A background image by Jodi is combined with three high-pitched sounds and graphics from king.dom.de.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

%20Quit
Texts and colors by king.dom.de, with additional scroll and background color scripts.

 

 

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b7709790790c77
Background and foreground images by Jodi, with text by Jodi—taken from one of their source codes—and Netochka Nezvanova.

 

 

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pyjama
A triple frameset incorporating pages by Jodi, king.dom.de, and Netochka Nezvanova.

 

 

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ART.TELEPORTACIA first \\ 0f0003.masch!n3nkunzt.m9ndfukc.980 real net art gallery
Olia Lialina’s Art.Teleportacia is combined with words by Netochka Nezvanova. The random scrolling JavaScript ‘smak32’ is also by Netochka Nezvanova.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

Index of| 0 f 0 0 0 3 | u n e v e n t f u l + + v e r s ! o n | /~you
Alexei Shulgin’s Bla-Bla Sites mixed with a single image and Netochka Nezvanova’s signature color scheme—gray text on a ‘Black Russian’ background.

 

 

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Index of /~you%20Wrong
Jodi’s classic ‘404’ is overlaid with Alexei Shulgin’s Bla-Bla Sites. The page background color changes with each reload, and the ‘404’ changes to random numbers when the mouse hovers over it.

 

 

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Untitled
Alexei Shulgin’s Form Art is mixed with Vuk Cosic’s 1×1 pixel black-and-white blinking animated GIF, which is repeated and enlarged to a 100×100 pixel size.

 

 

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Alexei Shulgin’s ASCII Porn is mixed with an image and the smak32 scrolling script by Netochka Nezvanova. If you wait long enough, the right frame will eventually open another page featuring an angry email Netochka Nezvanova sent us after we attempted—and failed—to copy a protected script from one of their websites.

 

 

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A B C: Beautiful.3rtd%3f.gif page 3
Background image by Netochka Nezvanova, with foreground animation by Alexei Shulgin.

 

 

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_____P____O_R_T_A___L
Background animation and computer GIF image by Kalx, overlaid with animations from OoOoOoOo.org. Both websites are now defunct.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

function makeArray(n)
This is one of the few pages we built without using materials from other artists. It features multiple frames and includes a ‘makeArray’ function that we transcribed from a printed JavaScript programming manual.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

Own, Be Owned Or %20Quit.
An Olia Lialina page mixed with the text of an article on Heath Bunting and corrupted ASCII code.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

00101
A page where the browser appearance and the page’s source code are identical.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

Untitled
An annoying page that opens another page, which in turn opens another, and so on, infinitely. It now only works if you disable the pop-up blocker in your browser.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

Processing . . . [0]
Texts from the 7-11 mailing list, overlaid on top of each other, floating and following the mouse movements.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

__________ %20Map \\ m9ndfukc :: m_13 %20Quit %20Disconnected
Jodi’s map image and colors mixed with text by Netochka Nezvanova, animated GIFs by OoOoOoOo.org, and the entire index of the 7-11 Net Art mailing list.

 

 

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Untitled
The frameset is split horizontally into two frames. Every 2 seconds, each frame opens a double frameset, causing the page to recursively split into 4 pages, then 8, then 16, then 32, and so on, until the browser eventually crashes.

 

 

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__________
A background with a JavaScript random color generator, layered with three animated GIFs from OoOoOoOo.org.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

“HSRESET” (-6002)
A collection of screenshots of Mac OS error messages.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

vieweratstar67@yahoo.com
The Yahoo! logo and Warhol’s Campbell’s animated GIF were sent to us by MTAA—M. River and T. Whid—via an email titled ‘A Fun Examination of the Commercialization of Cyberspace.’ We embedded the logo as a background image, causing the HTML page to automatically tile it endlessly, filling the entire screen at any given resolution and aspect ratio, giving it a ‘Warholian’ vibe. This concept would later form the foundation of the ‘New Free’ series (2000-01).

 

 

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cache146178.html
A looping sequence of two pages featuring eight missing images of varying sizes.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

CHEAP www.ÚÂÎÂÔÓÚË.org APPLAUSE
A mix of extremely enlarged texts and icons from Olia Lialina’s Art.Teleportacia.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

Untitled Document

 

 

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193.141.180.35
Green server logs from 0100101110101101.org overlaid on a ‘default grey’ background.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

Nasdaq.com Copyright, Disclaimer, Trademarks/Servicemarks and Privacy Statement
Nasdaq data charts free-floating and overlapping each other.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

UYIOUd./ / / / / /ST Ov _ h./ / / / / /ST Ov _ e./ / / / / UYIOUd./ / / / / /ST Ov _ h./ /

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

A B C: 0lja-Ljaljin-ah!
Olia Lialina’s Teleporation Error animated GIF and texts mixed with scrolling frames from Alexei Shulgin’s Domain Name Poetry.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

delivery delay notification / Zustellverzoegerung
A form featuring rapidly overlapping delivery delay notification messages from a server that was rejecting our emails as spam.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, Hybrid

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JavaScript ‘fuckx’ scroll function by Netochka Nezvanova, mixed with abstract ASCII characters and bright colors.