Posted by DIAN (217.230.254.126) on April 02, 2003 at 05:02:15:
> DIAN - Digital Interactive Artists' Network -
> Our focus for the month of April is JOACHIM LAPOTRE. We proudly
> present his work:
>
> "GEO.GRAPHIC "
>
> http://dian-network.com/navigation.html
>
> Inspired by military softwares of criminal investigation,
> "GEO.GRAPHIC" is a lost/fugitives people research software. I saw many
> reports on this subject (NSA and others...) which terrified me. After
> September 11, I turned around the theme by preparing the visuals and I
> finally decided to make a mind-game/ club/ brain-teaser of it, that
> totally fits to the actual world geo-political situation:
>
> There are twelve maps connected between them by points, the session
> starts on a random chosen map and it is to the user to discover the
> eleven others... Once that the user visited the twelve maps, he can
> see the face of its advisors and targets. 24 faces extracted from a
> series of 36 (see MOST WANTED) which I drew starting from photographs
> of the American police most wanted websites, it is from there that
> come their major glance. "GEO.GRAPHIC" could be a military software
> but it is in fact a rebels/ alter-mondialist/ pro-freedom/ ecologist/
> hacker-software.
>