Submitted by leon http://c6.org at 2004-04-27 11:09:10

leon writes "C6 releases its latest creation, the application N.E.S.T. http://c6.org/nest N.E.S.T - Network Examination of Serendipitous Transfer. Online ‘chinese whispers’, best describes c6’s latest work. The software is free! When installed, it logs you in to a community deeply involved in the act of corruption……Data corruption that is! When online the program links to its nearest geographical neighbours to form a ring of users. As an audio file is passed, those connected look and listen for signs of change and who knows? Perhaps even serendipity! The passing audio file is visualised within the conventional application window, with statistics on cycle involvement and neighbours details displayed below. The bottom half of the screen shows you, the state that the file is in, its packets mapped to a rising cubic terrain in both 2D and 3D. A world map (on the website) shows the NEST poulation rising and falling as users log on and off. The nationalities locations and stats gives the up to date state of international corruption. C6 co-create with those of lesser connections. Turning the frustration, dropped and erratic data transfer experienced, into a medium for collective artistic involvement. Each user can snapshot their findings and add to a growing database of weird sounds and strange terrains. This SETI inspired art work is the first of three planned software releases from c6 in the future. The first, NEST searches virtual space for corruption and chaos, a far cry from its inspiration’s distributed analysis of deep space chaos for intelligence. C6 is a collective of artists who share a decisively anarchistic view of life and sense of humour, C6 creates events from a heady mix of digital and physical performance, anarchic stenciling campaigns and fine-art propaganda.” 'Deep Sites' Intelligent Innovation in contemporary web design, Max Bruinsma, Thames and Hudson, 2003. C6 - Creating chaos in an ordered world."