alpha 3.8: translocation, the site cannon.

Since last March, the site tsunamii.net is constantly traveling. It is not his physical residence that is spotsustata, but its code wandering from nation to nation through their servers. This operation conceptual, reminiscent of the early experiments of Olia Lialina where the same code would be drawn from different servers in many parts of the world, in an ideal touring the globe constantly connected, is involving machines distributed in numerous countries from Singapore where it all began. Periodically, in fact the site code migrates from one webserver to another, putting in place the essence of the network and its possibilities of residence of the same electronic data in servers located physically in very different areas. In this way, through local contracts the concept of economy without borders, contrasts or international regulations being challenged in practice, a system which the authors define as 'translocal'. The site does not provide public indications of his current residence, but you can obviously detect it via a command traceroute, for which they are indicated for the respective software platforms. In the absence of a spectacular special effects this work of net.art, after being passed by the territories as diverse as Cambodia, England, Alaska and Palestine, in March 2004, the code will return to the original server in Singapore.