Description

A DESCRIPTION OF THE EQUATOR AND SOME OTHERLANDS installed in the 16th World Wide Video Festival Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1998. Along with this work, Philip Pocock was invited to speak at the symposium associated with the event and provided anecdotes and quotes concerning the software and aesthetic mix of his collaborative Internet art project (involving user-generated media, tagging, php, msql, linux back in 1997 which has since developed into Web2.0)

A DESCRIPTION OF THE EQUATOR AND SOME OTHERLANDS is a travel-as-art-as-informat ion collective cyber-roadmovie through Equatorial Africa and Pacific Rim that muses: "Where is the Equator on Motherboard Earth?".

The 'EQUATOR' project directed by Philip Pocock involved core co-authors Florian Wenz, Udo Noll and Felix Stephan Huber, Gruppo A12 and was produced by Philip Pocock for Documenta X with funds from Documenta GmbH, IBM Germany, Academy Schloss Solitude and External Affairs Canada.