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----- Original Message [Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:28 AM]
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What are your names?
Willy Le Maitre.
Eric Rosenzveig.
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What are your ages?
WLM: b. 26/8/65
ER: b. 6/6/60
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Where are you from, and where do you now live?
WLM: Born in Montreal, splits time between New York and Toronto.
ER: Born in Montreal, moved to Europe in '87, then continually until late '90's. Lives in NYC.
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When did you meet?
1981.
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When did you start collaborating?
Occasionally in the '80's, continually from '93.
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How often do you speak to each other? How often do you visit each other?
When we're not in the same town we Ivisit each other's studio almost daily for a couple of hours at a time. Some days though are just email subject line or URL exchanges. Physically Willy's here in NY about half the time. We lived and worked together in other cities earlier in the '90's, for example sharing much load shedding during a winter in Mysore.
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What drew you to trash?
Its ubiquity begs a response. It's the ear's automobile stuck in your eye. As a collective expression, litter is an agglomeration of discarded gesture sets, fluttering like dainty tea chats, or heaped spent at corners.
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When was the Machine created?
The introduction of agriculture is often claimed as the origin. But agriculture just happens to be coeval with recorded history. The Enclosure Movement? Introduction of Greenwich meantime and zero meridian? Or can we jump to Doyle Dane Bernbach's copywriters dropping acid in 1967? Yesterday's refinement - the announcement (NY Times July 30) of patent 6,236,978 awarded to New York University based on work by Stern School of Business professor
of information systems, Alexander Tuzhilin covering "fundamental profiling practices that will dominate the business of customer relationship management"?
Also see:http://www.aaf.org/awards/ahof_members.html
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Why did you put the Machine in Brooklyn?
The shadow of the city falls in our neighborhood. We're in the few square miles where much of the waste processing and transiting for the City of New York takes place. That's here because of the former low cost of real estate. Artists are here now because of the position they are remanded to in this society, with the exception of the successful few fulfilling purely decorative roles.
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Is it possible to visit the Machine?
Upon reflection the complex appears clearly in the mind.
Or junkmail@w----e.net
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When did you develop an interest in the editing process?
Editing is one aspect, albeit essential, in the fabrication of appearance. We have each been making artworks since our teens.
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Is there a relationship between film/television editing and trash?
Each is a set of familiar conventions that create genre and are the building blocks of characterization. This neighborhood goes from straight family drama to eco-apocalyptic sci-fi.
In this project, our use of edit data, extracted from used films, functions as a quality control measure. Re-presentation as a vehicle for the vehicle.
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Claire Barliant has covered technology and culture for the Village Voice, Salon, and Feed. She is a senior editor at Artbyte magazine.
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