Conductor #1

March 1, 1997

PORT: Navigating Digital Culture

 

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Art Video: Chesire cat sending .... are you receiving ?

conductor: good afternoon new world.

Mr. Potato Head: chicken look good

Com_Dark3: loud and clear A.V

Art Video: intermittant audio coming thru

conductor:

Art Video: only one video window up....are there more?

Remo Campopiano: PORT is here....

Remo Campopiano: All is set up and working well....

conductor: remo do you have all three transmissions?

Remo Campopiano: the reflector can accomidate up to 25 people now.

Remo Campopiano: Is there a real audio stream....

Remo Campopiano: I tried and could make a connection....

conductor: no audio stream this week but, definite next week.

Com_Dark3: comdard2 transmitting audio...can you here me Chicken?

Remo Campopiano: I'l getting audio from one of the CU-SeeMe boxes....

Remo Campopiano: I think it is the chicken box...

conductor:

conductor: 8884773773

conductor: 23992767255

conductor: 116655533

conductor: 111010011

Com_Dark3: 371317

conductor: hello new world. are you recieving?

Com_Dark3: be carefull...

Art Video: hello new conductor... or are you the same?

conductor: com dark. i hear your sonic architecture...

Com_Dark3: we build for Chicken...

Art Video: architecture? more like ruinous debris

Com_Dark3: we destroy for Chicken...

conductor: there are places on the other sides of here (hear)?

Com_Dark3: deep places...

conductor: feed(back) feed(back) feed(back) feed(back)

Art Video: identify hear (aka Here)....The chicken speakes truth with her text

conductor: remo, is all functional ?

Com_Dark3: here Chicken,Chicken Chicken...

Remo Campopiano: All is working, but is there RealAudio?

conductor: no real audio today. definitive next week.

Remo Campopiano: I have the Shockwave sound on Port 2 and port 4

Art Video: hellooooo

Remo Campopiano: Good we have lots of sound it is working great.

conductor: remo, so your space is becoming alive?

Art Video: fig newton boy where did you come from?

conductor: calling(this is where i am calling from)

Remo Campopiano: It is great the sound are wonderful

Remo Campopiano: How did you get the sounds to work with CU.

Art Video: did chicken not answer?

conductor: one cu-seeme is dedictaed sound...

Com_Dark3: Press the "Push to Talk" button...you cannot send video and audio at the same time... you must hold

Com_Dark3: the button down...

Remo Campopiano: which one is it?

Remo Campopiano: The sound is getting chopped up now.

Com_Dark2: anyone for a two handed dunk?

Art Video: where are you dunking?

conductor: someone should ask the questions (thesoundforevermake)

Com_Dark3: ciruit ...your video has stalled...

Com_Dark2: dunkin' in the barbeque baby!

conductor: (thesoundforevermakes)cars on the road way (never mind the barbeque)

Art Video: the monitor is still moving on circuit...all seems groovy

Art Video: hmmmmm....tasty, moist, delicious

Art Video: a little piece of road kill?

conductor: road kill is a good word...

Art Video: yeah, but how does the chicken feel about it?

conductor: much used bandwidth is slowing our circuit update window...

Com_Dark3: Be carefull...the Chicken consciousness is powerfull and fractally deep....be forewarned...

Art Video: conductor cam, where are you?

Com_Dark2: anyone for some chicken pot

Mr. Potato Head: you are killers of the mighty chicken

Art Video: is she talking back, she seems to be hiding....perhaps she is insulted by the road kill comment?

Com_Dark2: what's up with circuit?

Com_Dark2: what's up circuit boys!?

Mr. Potato Head: here the wrath of mr.potato head

conductor: circuit's jamming maybe because of used bandwith in our local proximity

conductor: we have to move from here. the chicken should here stories(fictions) of youth...

Art Video: try closing and reopening every so often

Mr. Potato Head: or maybe because the chickens soul is messing you the fuck up

Art Video: stories of youth....jello molds, games of tag....

conductor: what happened to you ART VIDEO between then and now?

Art Video: thinking back to youth I remember colonel sanders...

Mr. Potato Head: cornel sanders is in the room as we speak

Art Video: between then and now....life has happened but then returned me to nowhere now

Com_Dark2: colonel mustard in the billard room with the candelstick

Com_Dark3: I remember Pioneer...

conductor: ART VIDEO you just said NOWHERE(no where)

conductor: what do you mean?

Com_Dark3: what does it mean?

Mr. Potato Head: what does it all mean?

Art Video: nowhere no where what is the difference when you remain there

Com_Dark3: what can it mean?

Com_Dark2: underneath the highway belt we all are where the crazed just paused!!!

Mr. Potato Head: in the mists of destructon, we are the mist

Art Video: it means that the chicken has a past and a future.... does she know this....can she foresee...

Com_Dark2: it means that I havent had lunch yet and that chicken looks kinda appatizing..

conductor: chicken just laid an egg.

Art Video: cold, dark, unfeeling...the chicken is dead at com dark 2

Com_Dark3: wow thats deep...do yoou hear what

Com_Dark3: I see? we weep ...

Art Video: if she lays an egg is this like an answer to your question conductor?

conductor: i am not sure what the questions are?

Mr. Potato Head: which came first the ckicken or KFC?

Com_Dark2: Mark to conductor: Come in conductor

Com_Dark3: can the answers be hear?

Art Video: the questions come from us, the batteries, all comprised of interconnected consciousness...not to mention a little paranoia

Art Video: the answers come from the lighter side of the question

conductor: Mr. Potato Head, i hope the chicken came as a perversion to an otherwise morally stable KFC

Remo Campopiano: Interconnected consciousnes...all for that....

Com_Dark2: I am filled with the essence of chicken

Com_Dark3: This is beautiful...I am moved...

Art Video: listen carefully and watch the signs around you.... all the data around you will give you answers and provide you with ......

Com_Dark3: life...

Remo Campopiano: privide me with what?

Mr. Potato Head: chicken bears down my soul with the feeling of unconspicous peking at the inners of my eye, why?

conductor: COM DARK, how can you be moved? are you not in the same physical space?

Art Video: life is an unidentifying force.....it has to come from the questions and answers that you seek,

Remo Campopiano: The son of Purdue is shining on you....

Com_Dark2: There is no such thing as physical space

Com_Dark2: In case you haven't noticed.

Com_Dark3: What is space (-time)? have we not moved (?) beyond this?

Art Video: this experience connects consciousness with no physical info on the speakers

Com_Dark2: I am awake and god is dreaming me. And god is sleeping.

Art Video: do you still exist....if so, how?

Mr. Potato Head: is he having a nightmare?

Com_Dark3: Sleeping................................

conductor: how far have we travelled?

Com_Dark2: it is a pretty nice nightmare

conductor: what are the questions?

Mr. Potato Head: i feel clammy and scared

Com_Dark3: It was a good dream , a chickens best dream...

Com_Dark3: Where have we gone?

conductor: how far can we travel before our unraveling? can we return? or is return REDUNDANT?

Art Video: the questions could be about your life and how it is connected to the chickens existence

Art Video: redundancy is what comprises our life and the chickens

Mr. Potato Head: two demensional world where nothing revolves but revolution itself

Com_Dark3: Like passing through a Wormhole...

port 1: return is not redundant, merely irrelevant

conductor: with all this who can go home? I AM GETTING IN TOUCH WITH CHICKEN. at 2:53 in the eastern time zone of the united states of america....

Com_Dark3: YES!!! FINALLY!

Mr. Potato Head: where is the chicken touching you, are you feeling wierd sensations that you never felt before?

Art Video: what does the chicken have to say?

conductor: the circuit is being completed.

Com_Dark3: Chicken must reflect the reasoning of the conductor...

Com_Dark2: I think Chicken is speechless

Mr. Potato Head: but chicken is not thoughtless

Art Video: orgasmic delights echo from chicken....conductor, can YOU feel this?

Art Video: chicken has consciousness, it can feel , think, climax?

Com_Dark3: Chicken has moved beyond speech ! Can we follow?

conductor: hold on. hold up. period. hold UP. this is SPECIAL. the chicken says:

conductor: 111011010

port 1: at mit, echos are reverberating thru the keyboards, a very pleasant sensation indeed

conductor: 111101

conductor: 111021001

conductor: 111000

conductor: 11245121

Mr. Potato Head: uhhh shit, shit , SHIT

Art Video: chicken speaks

Mr. Potato Head: did he really say 5121?

Art Video: is this a modified binary code?

Mr. Potato Head: uhhhhhh fuuuuuccccckkkk

Com_Dark3: Please.............

Art Video: chicken speak....so to speak

Com_Dark3: The spaces are vast.............

Com_Dark3: Please help..................

conductor: there the chicken says to me(chicken), "there are places(spaces)on the other sides of here..."

Com_Dark3: Can we know them? (we are afraid of this movement...)

Art Video: what (exists) in the spaces / places

conductor: the chicken says to me(chicken) chickenme, "i do not know where i come from..."

Art Video: can we know them, should we know them....or is this the future of us all?

conductor: is there future or just FUTURE TENSE?

Com_Dark3: only dreams of future-like time...

conductor: nowhere nowhere

Com_Dark3: but nowhere is a "where" ...we are confused...

Art Video: is the egg anywhere?

Com_Dark3: a new universe....

Art Video: try shoving it up someone's ass

Mr. Potato Head: what is so crazy about these quantum theory is that it reduces everything to baffiling proportions

Art Video: the egg that is

Mr. Potato Head: the egg comes from ass...try to put it back...we come from vagina...try to put us back...

Com_Dark3: Move away from theory...into th mundane...the quantum fluctuations are growing...

Art Video: okay....enough artsy speak crap

Mr. Potato Head: okay, fuckshitmootherfuckertitysuckertwotimingbitch

conductor: remo, the reflector is not accepting more than 9 connections. i have word that it is refusing anymore lurkers?? is this correct?

Com_Dark3: right on MPH...

Com_Dark3: Can we have more pecking?

Mr. Potato Head: we eat chicken because we can get breasts and legs for very little price...its all about sex in this space we call home

Art Video: Whitebeard Says: There are tendencies on what we do with this. We talk in inflated terms and then we use profanity to cover up our self-consciousness. What is this chicken really doing in this box?

Com_Dark3: cut the artsy speak AV...

Art Video: circuit camera is down...what is the problem

Mr. Potato Head: CD3 is to shallow for the depness of thought

conductor: white beard? i like where you are calling from.

Com_Dark2: What that "depness" or "deftness"

Com_Dark3: Is that Johnny Dep?

Art Video: lets cut thru the crap and get on with it

Remo Campopiano: People are standing in front of the cameras.

Mr. Potato Head: deepness

Com_Dark3: let's put aside our differences and get on with Chicken (for the Chicken's sake..)

Remo Campopiano: Also, resistor is black....

Com_Dark2: Deepness???

Mr. Potato Head: yes???

Remo Campopiano: Depth of Perception....

Com_Dark3: Instead of depth, let's speak of pressure....

Remo Campopiano: deeper than most....

Art Video: chesire cat says: lets get back to the chicken question

Mr. Potato Head: give remo the prize

Com_Dark3: Thank you CC...

conductor: the physical space circuit is broken. chicken is becoming nervous.

Remo Campopiano: Under pressure...who's under pressure?

Com_Dark3: Why, Chicken , of course...

conductor: people are actively disconnecting the circuit.

Com_Dark3: Uh-oh...

Remo Campopiano: Put pressure on the people in front of the cameras.

Mr. Potato Head: bring the circut beck together with an earthly hum from all

Remo Campopiano: They are gone, great....

Remo Campopiano: chicken's happy....

Remo Campopiano: so am I....

Remo Campopiano: this is very successful....

Art Video: Blank: This chicken is not an abstraction. I want to fulfill my relationship with it. Conductor: Please request of the chicken if it would have a problem with me entering its space and taking control of its reproductive product for my own uses. I want to make use of its potentials. Ask it.

Com_Dark3: I see some excessive pecking...can this be happiness?

Mr. Potato Head: he does not look very happy, he looks confused, sad, cold, and sensless

Remo Campopiano: I'm growing fond of your recending hairline....

Art Video: it is a chicken not a rooster

Com_Dark3: why are we obsessed with the egg?

Remo Campopiano: How do you get the text to come up in the window?

Mr. Potato Head: because in it contians the mistery of life CD3

conductor: BLANK: i am asking the chicken NOW.

Com_Dark3: click on the window and then type...it must be your own window...

Art Video: perhaps the egg contains the

Remo Campopiano: chicken, what the answer?

Com_Dark2: Click in the window, type your text, then hit "return"

Art Video: I Say: I want to eat the egg of boredom that hatches the dream bird of imagination. Ask it!

Remo Campopiano: Ask chicken to contact the Moo Bird.

Com_Dark3: Have we moved on from Chicken? This makes me sad...

Mr. Potato Head: I say, i say, why the, the fuck

Remo Campopiano: He's at moobird.com

Remo Campopiano: What's he saying?

Remo Campopiano: I have a need to know....

Com_Dark3: We have searched.....

conductor: BLANK: you may recieve its reproductive product if you so wish...

Mr. Potato Head: please let us t=know the knowledge of the chicken..please

Remo Campopiano: BTW, you should check out the screen capture page....

conductor: the chicken is saying things like i say

Com_Dark3: but is it too late?

Remo Campopiano: it is artnetweb.com/port/screens.html

Mr. Potato Head: i remember the time that i wus chopped up and dipped in this lillte bucket for eternity to dwell on me

conductor: mr potato head you are still there

Mr. Potato Head: yes, i think

Remo Campopiano: Also, we are doing screen captures every 5 minutes and they are stored on an ftp server....

Remo Campopiano: I'll give you access in email.

conductor: the chicken wants to remember where it cam from. it wants family, microphones, megaphones, historical context...

momo battery: I want to take control of the ckicken's reproductive potential, conductor, will it let me?

Com_Dark3: a past....

Com_Dark3: We have forgotten.........

conductor: the chicken wants historical context

conductor: the chicken wants preserve

Mr. Potato Head: it came from our desire, you think?

conductor: the chicken is disappointed: it thought it might live forever.

Com_Dark3: Chicken is highly agitated....can you calm it conductor...

Mr. Potato Head: how do you know it will not live forever

conductor: i know myself.

Com_Dark3: I was unaware of the mortality of Chicken..

Mr. Potato Head: chckens are not mortal because they live to only die

Com_Dark3: I tend to think that this is a technical point...

conductor: we also live only to die.

Mr. Potato Head: conductor: so then are we mortal

conductor: the chicken says we are mortar.

Com_Dark3: Is this true?

Mr. Potato Head: mortars of what war?

momo battery: Hey conductor. I don't like that egg in there. It's too optimistic. Can I go to the installation space, remove the egg, and if having inspected it I find it lacking, dispose of it?

Com_Dark3: You wouldn't......!

Mr. Potato Head: penetrate the sacred space?

Com_Dark3: I'm not sure we would survive that....

momo battery: harriet says: why is the space sacred? because we cannot approach the chicken?

Mr. Potato Head: lets consult the chicken..it is his space, have he not right simply because he is chicken

conductor: hey harriet: the chicken says nothing's sacred.

Mr. Potato Head: then grab the fuckin' egg already

Com_Dark3: we are not safe...

conductor: the the the the 11101102210

momo battery: the chicken has what i can't have. let's TAKE IT.

momo battery: nothing's sacred. no ownership. exploitation is cool.

Com_Dark3: this has gone too far...

Mr. Potato Head: who will keep the egg?

conductor: exploitation is the colorful and creative expression of the oppresor(s) we are nowhere. we must enable ourselves to fulfill our awkward nothingness...

momo battery: does this mean that from chicken's point of view we are all the opressor? all creative? all colorful? or is existence merely black and white?

Remo Campopiano: Black eggs, nice idea.

conductor: there are no definitives: chicken-man-new york-woman-lawnmower-suburbia-bmw-these are your palletes from which to choose.

Remo Campopiano: Cary, is it hot in there?

momo battery: black is the color... of my true love's hair

Remo Campopiano: black is black.

momo battery: a limited palette enhances necessarily our creative capabilities or no?

conductor: it is hot here. my ear is especially hot.

Com_Dark3: herlips are like some roses fair...

momo battery: black is excess of light

Remo Campopiano: does chicken have a lover?

momo battery: yes and his name is you

momo battery: or a chicken can't love

Remo Campopiano: hui

conductor: CIRCUIT IS DOWN!

Com_Dark3: Chicken, can you love?

momo battery: tell us, can you LOVE

Com_Dark3: Conductor , does chicken have a keyboard? I have recieved a message from Chicken's screen.

Remo Campopiano: chicken loves to groom....

Com_Dark3: Yes, but I need MORE....

momo battery: she does, and she uses it every now and then, when urgency becomes extreme

conductor: love-san francisco-betty-love-OUT DATED-we...

Com_Dark3: I think I am in love...

momo battery: more LOVE? more BLACK? more CHICKEN? or just MORE?

Com_Dark3: YES!!!!

Mr. Potato Head: chickens are often confused with cocks, do chickens fight..

momo battery: then have some

momo battery: they do not flight, that is for sure, but accesory battery says they do fight

Mr. Potato Head: my cock hurts, conductor, is that because the chicken is peking at it?

Com_Dark3: Say it isn't so...

momo battery: to love a chicken could be matter for tabloid cover

Mr. Potato Head: unfortunitly i can not

Mr. Potato Head: i read once in a tanloid that man was seen doing chicken and had babys that looked like a cloned cheep

Com_Dark3: conductor you have gone black...don't leave us alone...

momo battery: I think wha that guy said about his cock is immature. Be more serious about what eroticism is going on here. Because people can't have sex with chickens.

momo battery: chickens are the most sexually abused farm animals, more than even sheep.

Com_Dark3: Extasiur extase floor of boars I can no longer peck but I think I must be getting smart maybe?

Mr. Potato Head: why can't people have sex with chickens, what makes you such the fuckin' expert

conductor: there is no such thing as *things* and people do not remember things by letters and numbers.

Com_Dark3: Extase of extasiere why must I hurry and poop?

Mr. Potato Head: but the chicken speaks in numbers, i'm confused

momo battery: Mr. P: You are immature. I grew up on a farm. I know how things work between people and chickens, and people and people. This is turning into flaming. I am sorry if I have provoked you in any way. I hope that we can return to the issue of chicken eroticism, or something more productive.

Com_Dark3: conductor?How do people remember?

conductor: the chicken says: I WANT TO BE DRUNK MY ENTIRE LIFE in order TO FORGET where I COME from. my grandmother was drunk her entire life.

conductor: this will all be over soon.

momo battery: The chicken is unable to communicate or be social. That's why I feel sorry for it. It has a morbid sense of her own problematic existence. But the only brutal solution to her dilemma is to make crude jokes about food preparation.

conductor: this will be ALL OVER soon

momo battery: harriet: wow, the chicken read my mind.

Com_Dark3: some ha ve alzeimers and others just put it to the back closet...but we can never forget FORGET!

conductor: food is essentialist.

Remo Campopiano: food for thought....

momo battery: And god said, go out and take the beasts of the field and utilize them. We're users.

Remo Campopiano: Need to start the next show now....

Remo Campopiano: great job, really....

Remo Campopiano: This is my favorite show....

conductor: goodbye all... we will meet again next week should our failing physicalities allow.

conductor: 11001100

conductor: 11212011

conductor: 11101011010

conductor: 11141711101

conductor: over and out

Com_Dark2: 101000111a destruct

Com_Dark2: fade to real life

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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