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1999
The little house, we renovated together with omi's parents is almost finished. They paid almost every- thing and it will be their little house, whenever they're in Navia. Now next step can be the second studiohouse, which will be around the little house... Schlafhaus is still waiting. Gore tells us that they will tell us their definite decision in february... this year we must finish it!
Alvaro leads all the building projects in C now. That's great, so we can concentrate on other plans and calc levels, and Alvaro is slowly but surely becoming a calci.
Luks leaves to Basel. He wants distance and to switch off all calcbulbs for some weeks. By the way his sister Rösl and her husband Philip want to give Luks their old car. They can't afford it anymore in richland.
We hear that Pipi Lotti gives up the art-directors-job for EXPO-01.
A pity for Switzerland, but probably the best for Pipi. We also like it, because we want to do a project together and with this decision it gets closer...
Maybe in the year 2001?
Lisi Hämmerle, our one and only galerist shows up. She comes with her son David. Three quiet days with a lot of loud laughs. In C everybody sleeps well. Its like the atlantic ocean - at sealevel - syncronizes his brand with your alphawaves...
Together with Lisi we decide to produce art. Except she got nothing from the NAVE-skinprint. We'd like to do a BILDING-DATA-COLLECTION. A "piece" you can open up in different ways. Bildings because we want to show bilder of buildings we did in c's-context. Maybe beginning of 2000? The Remise would be a fine place to present it. Or should we show parallel in Lisis Gallery?
All days working in our parts for Nouvelle DestiNation, a lot of time we spend together in chats. Distance disappears, the wire swings very well for desti.net, our idea grows fast into words and forms!
A good idea for the Remise in January 2000 appears - we want to see the clear inside-outside situation of one of the art halls walls as a fountain-estuary installation. Like outside only solar panels and inside only sun. Wanna know more?
Also we are doing the concept for expo's LAB. Soon omi will fly to Zürich to finish the proposal for the expo-invitation, to present the LAB-idea and to meet Paolo Bianchi.
Now - omi is in Zürich, Luks and Teresa in L.A, Gernot in Vienna.
A desti.net delegation - Martin, Claudia, omi and sporadicly Anja - meet in Martin's, Balz' and Olaf's flat. Together with the onliners Teresa and Gernot we finish this work in one week. Then we got a colour- and content-full folder, explaining the idea of a "digital oracle"... as well as dark rings under our eyes.
omi and calc's first digital engeneer Malex meet Johannes Gees, the man responsible for expo's web- site. expo's site designer Gilles Bachmann comes too. we present the concept for WEBILD (worktitle). they like it. We get green light right away! Malex can install his own Linux-server in Zürich for WEBILD. It has to be online by the end of March! Malex will come one week to L.A. in the beginning of march to do the programming with us. We will do the interface as a "baby" of Gilles.
WEBILD - will be an online-possibility to create one image with a lot of 4x4 cm images. The only rule is: respect your image-neighbour. With the opening of the expo this image will also be printed in realspace. Have a look in expos website LAB at the end of March '99. And play it!
Paolo Bianchi visits omi in martins flat in Zürich. He tells me the news about the Linz-show. Ross Sinclair wants the big hall too, maybe we can do something as art-neighbours?
omi visits Pipi Lotti's exhibition in Zürich - THE REMAKE OF THE WEEKEND - the show is as beautiful, as funny, as surprising. Pipi looks like a chinese dragqueen.
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It starts to snow in Zürich... while in L.A. the first roses open. After eight days omi is back in the mothership. When we wake up the next morning they cut our horizon!
Chainsaw-men cut all old pinetrees in front of Casqueiro. We are shocked. After two days we start to like it - much more light is reaching us now and the horizon has become wider.
Working on the "swapspace" for Linz and for WEBILD. For swapspace we decide to build a room, which swaps digital and analog (maybe with lenses and mirrors) the virtual and real outside in.
For WEBILD we do the fine-concept and first interface-studies.
Also for "IL ARTE AL CENTRO 99". We want to change the last-years metaphor of the horizontal cocoon to a vertical cocoon - an artbud.
Now - 18th of february in L.A. - a moody sky is playing crazy between spring and Noahs arks set off. Martin calls - we didn't win the expo-competition. Too bad, but okay - not one of us would have had time to spend for it.
What shall we do with the concept now?
Alvaro comes with a dog. A present for Loop, the calc-dog. The new dogs name is Camela, shes only three months old, Loop likes her, the cats don't. We'd like to design a doghouse- architecture.
or do you like?
<-- the dog-designnow: 04-03-99... will be continued soon... AMORPH he's just showing in Switzerland.
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