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p2pnet.net News:- Swedish media artist and film-maker Anders Weberg has a new project he’s tagged, ‘P2P Art - The aesthetics of ephemerality.’
It’s, “Art made for - and only available on - the peer to peer networks,” he says. “The original artwork is first shared by the artist until one other user has downloaded it. After that, the artwork will be available for as long as other users share it. The original file and all the material used to create it are deleted by the artist.”
Weberg’s first P2P Art release is Filter, a 699MB film based on emotions he experienced when, at the beginning of the year, he woke up in the night to find his son 13-year-old son, André, unconscious on the floor.”
“A couple of minutes passed by until I could bring him back,” says Weberg. “The fear and desperation I felt during this time is what the film is all about.”
How’s André doing? He’s fine, now, Webeg tells p2pnet.
I took him to the ER and they did a brain scan and he seemed to be OK. Before he went to bed he had a fever and the doctors think it was a combination of that and perhaps that he stood up too fast from his bed.
I have my bedroom just next to the toilet and I was woken by this bang that sounded like a wall fell down. When I sat up all I saw was his upper body on the floor in the spare light from the toilet.
That night is something I wish never will happen again. I just needed to get it out and since I use film as my expression I started working and with no goal .. just to get it out and i had no idea then that it was going to be 73 minutes.
“I live in a really old house and when the morning paper comes it really slams the door and for a month or so after I woke up every night when the paper came and was freaked out and thought it happened again. At last I had to nail the (hole in the door where they push true the paper) (I have no idea what that is in English.
Back to the idea. perhaps I have a subconscous thought that when the film is gone, I will loose it as well —- the feeling I can’t get rid of.
But he’s alright today and sits in his room right now online gaming.
We talked a little bit yesterday about it all and I tried to explain to him that I did this film based on the feelings from the few minutes and his respond where like .. weird. And how can a couple of minutes become 73 minutes?
I hope he will get it when he gets older.
Filter, and the files used to create it, have been deleted, but the torrent was still thgere when we checked it out at 7:22 AM Pacific.
“Feel free to download the film and distribute it anyway you like as long as it stays on the peer to peer networks,” says Weberg, adding there have been a lot of downloads, say Weberg, adding that he’d like to know what people think of the concept, the movie and the project.
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