synergy revolt an otis colaberation project the otis project presents synergy revolt the first in a continuing series of collaborative art initiatives designed to exploit the binarity of the infosphere this series of diversely structured art manipulation projects will attempt to stretch across network boundries encouraging use of electronic mail fax video photography scanned conventional art and even sound to create multi artist still visuals in gif and jpg formats visualists from all technical levels are welcome revolt will be structured simply there will be three stages of production the first stage will consist of all participants creating one still work as a starter piece that two other partici pants will in turn manipulate all first stage base images are due by sunday may rd midnight central daylight time stage two will begin on may th all images will be sent to another arbitrarily chosen participant for them to do manipulations on in anyway they see fit for purely digital artists this may consist of filtering the image through their favorite paint program for analog artists this may well be printing a hardcopy of the image and adding their own part with pen pencil or white out then scan ning in the image again to be transferred on to the third stage artist all second stage works are due by midnight on sunday may th stage three is the finishing stage and will begin on may st all artists will do what they think it takes to finish up the image they ve been given using whatever technique they see as worthy these images will be due on june th midnight all involved will participate in each stage of creation to join send email mail with the following info name email address mail address scanner access color grey none printer access laser postscript inkjet color dot computer access mac ibm pc sun amiga atari next other output format tiff targa gif jpeg pict postscript fax photocopy pcx windows bitmap graphics level bit bit bit ftp access time limitations address the information to email mad celt cwis unomaha edu andrew booth project manager include revolt in the subject line mail the otis project synergy revolt po bx omaha ne remember all starter images are due on sunday may rd deposit them at either of these ftp sites sunsite unc edu pub multimedia pictures otis incoming or projects otis incoming or send uuencoded images to us via email or send hardcopies to address above or arrange fax exchange if you don t get your starter image in you won t be able to participate until synergy phase ii in mid june we will do our best to accomodate facilitate image exchange for the technologically impaired if you don t have access to a scanner but need one we ll try to help if you need an image printed out and sent to you let us know send an sase if you anticipate this additional information available on the following suggestions for use of uncommon mediums such as video stills electronic imaging and sound fax availability times copyright considerations appropriation image conversion the otis project in general andy booth were you ever abducted by aliens ever see elvis po bx at the local i would like to hear from you omaha ne about any paranormal experiences you have had
