FT2K
Frontier Town 2000
February 1997
Supported by Jerome Foundation
[FT2K] is an…explication of Internet gathering spaces which juxtaposes the Internet to the city. The setting, an electronic frontier town, alludes to the desert of the southwest, where the Internet began, and to popular western mythology, in its reference to computer hacker cowboys and gold-rush dot-com opportunities. – Christa Erickson
TAXONOMY
American West | Cyberspace | Hack | Interactive | Memory | Mythology | Networked | Spectre | Web Art
REQUIREMENTS
Needs Shockwave Player.
MEDIA & ACHIEVEMENTS
Networked Interventions: Debugging the Electronic Frontier | Christa Erickson
CEPA Gallery – Paradise in Search of a Future
Cluster | City – Design – Innovation » HTML Architecture
ADDITIONAL NOTES
As presented as a gallery installation: FT2K is a representation of a memory of a simulation. It is a virtual memory palace inhabited by ghosts, gunslingers, tourists and cyborgs. It is a mapping of memory onto an errant operating system, and will be installed in a site-specific, interactive space in CEPA gallery. Material souvenirs will be given to viewers as a physical representation of the art.
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