[artinfo] BLIT:SCREEN [invitation/announcement]

[jonCates]

invite(*, BLIT:SCREEN) {

BLIT:SCREEN == http://blitscreen.criticalartware.net

this is an open invitation to collectives, clans, classes, cabals,  
crews + colleagues to contribute+participate+activate BLIT:SCREEN!

blit /blit/ vt. 1. [common] To copy a large array of bits from one  
part of a computer's memory to another part, particularly when the  
memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen.  
-- jargon file, [http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/blit.html]

BLIT:SCREEN is a [webApp|system|artware] running on the  
criticalartware platform.  localized groups (collectives, clans,  
classes, cabals etc.) sign up, register a mailing address + media  
playback capabilities + then receive media from randomized sources  
throughout the WWWorld. once a month, the BLIT:SCREEN system sends  
each group an email with the mailing address of another group to  
which to mail media. as a result, every group who participates in  
this physical exchange receives a DVD-R or CD-R or VHS or VinylRecord  
or any other media type delivered in any other appropriate format  
from 01 other participating group every month. likewise every group  
sends 01 instance of BLIT:SCREEN out to 01 group (whom BLIT:SCREEN  
has suggested), thereby creating a deeply distributed + dynamic 01 to  
01 network.

BLIT:SCREEN is both a distribution system + a distributed archive. in  
this way the system is grid distribution + grid archiving. nothing is  
prescribed about participating groups; a group might be a hacker  
collective living in a squat, an experimental television station [+/ 
or] a professor collecting + distributing student work.  media  
distributed through BLIT:SCREEN could include completed projects,  
artworks, raw materials for production+remix, critical txts,  
unearthed archives, shared cultural resources, &c&c. the BLIT:SCREEN  
system assumes no prescriptions [+/or] standards as to what  
participants do with the material they receive, however, screening 
+discussion+archiving are encouraged. BLIT:SCREEN draws connections  
from the hystories + technologies of bicycling physical video tapes  
during the early video art moment, {sneaker|floppy|walk}-nets +  
onLine {communication|development} [channels/paths] in demoscenes +  
BBS culture as well as {highlighting|suggesting} contemporary  
possibilities for the role of decentralized distribution modalities +  
resource sharing.

BLIT:SCREEN runs on the criticalartware applat ([application/ 
platform]). criticalartware develops new media discourse by engaging  
early moments of {code|concept}-based experimental [media art/ 
artware], conversing with + interviewing those active in these early  
moments ++ sharing cultural resources connecting these  
conversations.  criticalartware as a crew of core.developers is also  
a [user/participant] in the BLIT:SCREEN system. as such  
criticalartware core.dvrs will send, receive + BLIT:SCREEN media.  
BLIT:SCREEN as a project has been initiated by criticalartware  
core.dvr jake elliott + {continues|extends} criticalartware's  
commitment to open exchanges + criticalConspiracies.

register + BLIT -> http://blitscreen.criticalartware.net

}