PORT: Navigating Digital Culture Organized by a r t n e t w e b MIT List Visual Arts Center January 25 through March 29, 1997

PROJECT DESCRIPTION STARBOARD is an on-going interactive, operatic, serial broadcast drama created by Adrianne Wortzel, partly scripted and partly open to improvisation with "joiners" -in real time, both virtually and live via cuseeme. Starboard is based on the type of virtual reality presence and network that occurs in MOOs. It provides a realtime performing space, a writing space, an acting space, a re-acting space, a speaking place, a place for real time avatars to act out W&W's evocative scenarios. Boolean combinatory motifs from prior events are set loose in the world. Themes include: "The Ambiance of Recursive Nesting", "Formulas for Clandestine Cross-Platform Meetings", Decoding and deencrypting with The Ship's Detective. Rare Interviews with Professor Pluto (the world's foremost authority on system security who suffers from acute paranoia) and Leonardo Da Vinci (Self-Declared Inventor of The Cyberspace) will be facilitated through faux time travel sequences.

ADRIANNE WORTZEL Adrianne Wortzel is an artist and author of The Electronic Chronicles and The Ship's Detective. Links to her online work are at http://artnetweb.com/wortzel/. She co-hosts "Art Dirt", a weekly online radio show on art and technology. She teaches art and telecommunications in New York at the School of Visual Arts MFAPhoto Department and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She recently presented a paper -"Medieval Cartography and The Ideological Mapping of Cyberspace"- and a performative CUSeeMe event, "Shall We Dance", at ISEA96. Her article "Cyborgesian Tenets and Indeterminate Endings..." was recently published in Leonardo, Vol. 29, No. 5, 1996.

SPONSORS Pseudo Online, with thanks to Josh Harris, Floating Point Unit, Jeff Gompertz, Volcano, and to Winston at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Audio Visual Department.