Artist Statement: This image was collected from the Internet. The pixel data in the image was enciphered using military-strength cryptography.
Great care was taken to insure that the original image can not be recovered, especially using coercive methods. The image was collected in a "clean-room" environment from various deeply linked locations using a Web browser with its URL display areas obscured from view and with image display support disabled.
An encrypted redirection service was also used to insure that no useful ISP or similar logs were recorded during collection.
The image was selected based on its promotional context and enciphered using a unique properly randomly generated key. The key existed only long enough to perform the encryption. Finally, the hard drive in the computer used for collection and processing was destroyed. The artist never viewed the original image.
Greg Sidal
gregsidal@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/gregsidal/
Recent Exhibitions:
- Rhizome Artbase, Internet (NY, US), February 2001, http://rhizome.org/artbase
- File 2001, S‹o Paulo, Brazil, 7 August - 2 September 2001, http://www.file.org.br
- Medi@terra 2001, Lavrion-Athens, Greece (also Sofia, Belgrade, Maribor, Frankfurt) 14 September - 15 October 2001, http://www.mediaterra.org
- Electrofringe 2001, Newcastle, Australia, 27 September - 1 October 2001, http://electrofringe.org
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