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Airworld
"There is a creepy utopianism developing with Airworld that is no accident." --Jennifer McCoy

Airworld (http://www.airworld.net) is a long term, multiple media project about networks, management, distribution hubs, soft architecture, and global capital. The site currently hosts three projects: Airworld Jargon Machine, Airworld Security Desk, and Airworld Economic Theories.

In Airworld Jargon Machine, a crawler application scans business and commercial websites, collecting their texts and press releases for a database. A parallel process is used to search for and collect images that fit a number of keywords: solutions, technology, shopping, alliances, recruitment, and home office. The Airworld Jargon Machine was commissioned by Gallery 9/Walker Art Center.

Airworld Security Desktop is a real-time window into the world of work. The Security page cycles through a database of live internet cameras focused on office spaces, desks, lobbies, highways, and computer screens. Since it shows live camera images, the work varies moment to moment. However, because of the standardizations of the global economy, the view stays strangely the same: frozen faces at workstations, empty meeting rooms, freeways constantly clogging and discharging. The Security Desktop premiered in Tenacity, at theSwiss Institute/New York in March, 2000.

Airworld Economic Theories juxtaposes the speed of the New Economy with the precision and cumbersomeness of traditional economic theories. Through the use of DHTML and javascript, it creates a real-time critical overdub on top of the global economy. The site currently requires Netscape 4.0 or higher. It premiered at Postmasters Gallery in New York in February 2000 as part of Airworld Tonight.
Technical Requirements: RealVideo Plugin

Bio
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
Biography

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy have been artistic collaborators since 1990. They both completed Masters of Fine Arts degrees at the Electronic Arts Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Together they have made a wide range of video, installation, new media and performance works dealing with the cultural manifestations of technology. Formally these projects arise from an interest in the modular, language-like nature of digital information and its recombinant possibilities. These machine generated phrases, images, and ideas often create meaning with more irony and truth than the unaided artistic vision. Their works have been shown at The Walker Arts Center, The Swiss Institute of New York, the Manchester Museum of Technology, and P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art. In 1999 they received the New York Foundation for the Arts grant in Computer Arts and were artists in residence at The World Trade Center through the World Views program. They live and work in Brooklyn, New York.