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usr_mnl_1.0 (2000)

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, edition

 

 

An artist’s book printed on 10 meters of perforated continuous-feed computer paper. We self-published 500 copies and distributed them manually at exhibitions and lectures.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, MoMA PS1

 

 

The publication reconstructs our early Net Art works as 0100101110101101.org—including Copy of Hell.com, Art.Teleportacia.org, Jodi.org, 403 Forbidden, Hybrids, Vaticano.org, and Darko Maver—through screenshots, articles, interviews, and emails.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, edition

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, edition

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, edition

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, edition

 

 

Its final section features one year of website access stats, revealing how many people visited our site, where they came from, which pages they viewed etc., anticipating Life Sharing, launched the following month.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, edition

 

 

More archive than conventional book, it captures late 1990s debates around Net Art, authorship, piracy, and information flow.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, edition

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, edition

 

 

Laser printed in black and white on an IBM InfoPrint 4100, it mimics a vintage user manual—echoing corporate documents from the 1960s–1990s and the aesthetics of earlier computer art pioneers, like Vera Molnár and Alison Knowles.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, edition

 

 

It can be read or displayed: unfolded and suspended, it becomes a 10-meter-long installation.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, edition