080808, BitTorrent Meets Art Once Again
Written by Ernesto on August 08, 2008For those who haven’t noticed, it’s a special day today. 080808 is not only the day the Olympics start, it is also the name of a new experimental art project that’s being released on BitTorrent trackers near you, uncensored.
Swedish artist and filmmaker Anders Weberg has exhibited his work at various art festivals, galleries and museums throughout the world. Unusually, however, he is also producing art on filesharing networks.
Since 2006, Anders has been running the website P2P-art, where he announces films that will be available as long as they are shared. All the original footage is deleted and the films are made available exclusively on filesharing networks, for as long as there are people who continue to share them. Today, Anders has released his latest production, 080808, an 8 hour 8 minute and 8 seconds long audio-visual excursion.
“I chose 080808 as a symbolic action for the right to freely spread and share information over the Internet,” Anders Weberg told TorrentFreak. “The net is supposed to be free but that’s not the case in all the countries around the world, including China, the country hosting the Olympic Games starting today - 080808.”
080808 is not the first film Anders has released this way. Back in 2006 he released “Filter”, followed by “Transient” in 2007, and “Emphasis” earlier this year. All the films exist only on filesharing networks, and the files Anders used to produce the films are all deleted, “There is no original”.
“The other films I released are still alive and seeded,” Anders tell us. “Even the first one that I released in 2006. I wasn’t expecting that when I started. Not many seeds though, so they will eventually just fade away completely and that’s when the project really is fulfilled for me.”
080808 will can be found on a BitTorrent tracker near you starting today. “Feel free to download the film, watch it and share it for as long as you like. Or delete it immediately.”
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Wow, that’s really cool. I like the fact he deleted the original and left it to others to stay alive by sharing it.
I thought that this was just another article giving attention to an artist for sharing his work, but his deleting the original footage idea is really cool. I’d never be able to do that, just thinking about it made me queasy.
“The net is supposed to be free but that’s not the case in all the countries around the world, including China, the country hosting the Olympic Games starting today - 080808.”
It’s not really free anywhere. China is just more open about it :)
Wait, I just realized that he said that… Stupid me :P
Just out of interest, does anyone still actually care about olympic games?
Seriously, if I wanted to waste my time on finding out who has the best doping methods, I’d just watch Tour De France, at least they provide speed (wordgames ftw).
gj @ Anders Weberg on this one. Another artist steps into the future.
Man I wish I could download these…
This is entirely new for me..
http://www.alphaboard.co.cc/blog
Thanks…
Really nice idea of deleting and sharing it with community…
http://www.hack5.blogspot.com
Longlive …
does anyone know where to find his latest one? i’ve been looking all over for the last hour or so… but ccant find the full length 080808 anywhere
Maybe he forgot to upload it before he deleted it.
That would suck.
well done Anders Weberg :)
@5: over 1 billion people watched the opening ceremony of the games…
i.e. The population of China
“1 billion people watched the opening ceremony of the games”
All of them Chinese, not to have done so would have been punishable by death, or deportation to the US.
Ah, another one, eh? 8 hours will be a few gig I guess… but it’s still gonna be a sure download, as well as sure thing to seed… I guess, once these films die out, they’ll just get reseeded by someone… or I’ll do it myself…
lolz wrote:
“‘1 billion people watched the opening ceremony of the games’
All of them Chinese, not to have done so would have been punishable by death, or deportation to the US.”
lol, could also have been a fake number by the media, to get more money out of it. To be honest, I don’t know anyone who cares about the og.
I can’t find anything but the excerpt. It seems that this sharing idea didn’t work.
Put the fkr up on TPB or any other site. I want to watch it.
I spy with my little eye a vagina in that video.
ya i can’t find it either someone put it on demonoid or TPB or Mininova
so- ’sit gone?
This film and all the files used creating was deleted 2008/08/08
would be quite a humanitarian FAIL if he[Anders Weberg]‘d share it only one full d/l, then deleted all his files, and the only person then having it complete decides to go offline / delete the torrent before uploading enough..
oh well, it’ll probably appear sometime soon.
else- mad publicity
oh,
probably timeshitted website:
[quote]:
0 8 0 8 0 8
A 8hour 8minute and 8seconds long audio visual excursion
by Anders Weberg.
This film and all the files used creating was deleted 2008/08/08
info
Releasedate: 2008/08/08
Runtime: 8hours 8minutes 8seconds
Genre: experimental
Codec: XviD
Size:
Video and sound: Anders Weberg
to download search for:
080808[2008]by.Anders.Weberg.P2P-ART.com.XviD.avi
[/quote]
[or] he ‘forgot’ to note the res&size…
BUT- great initiative, interesting! =]
@17 I thought I was the only one..
Is it just going to be 8 hours of a random vagina or was that just an intro?
Artistic pr0n ^_^
where the hell is it.. seriously wtf..
he had better kept that shit in his recycle bin because he obviously didnt upload it correctly.
no wonder he deleted it that clip was shite
Eight hours of out-of-focus genitalia?
While the concept is laudable, I imagine the actual consumption somewhat akin to a late-90’s Kazaa (iMesh, Morpheus, et al) pr0n-downloading experience (i.e. anticlimactic…)
@ zarathustra:
All porn is anticlimatic!
I get the impression that the film is just an elbow, or a knee, really cleverly shot. For 8 hours.
How’s the eagle and serpent, btw?
Pure shit!
did anyone else think it was an xray of teeth?
According to his website the file is currently only being spread on the ed2k network. Best if he’d place an ed2k-link over there as the file is of yet unfindable. Suppose he’s connected to a fake server or sth.
STUPID SHIT FILMS
8 hours long :D This certainly isn’t something mainstream like Transformers. Of course I wouldn’t expect it to be, I’ve downloaded his other stuff too.
Unfortunately mainstream stuff gets too much attention on BitTorrent while less mainstream stuff and more artistic and experimental stuff doesn’t get enough attention.
“Just out of interest, does anyone still actually care about olympic games?”
I don’t really. The media is making a very very big deal about it though.
“gj @ Anders Weberg on this one. Another artist steps into the future.”
I think he’s been there for quite a while now :)
tl;dr
Nordix own
I’ve posted under featured files on my p2p website dargens.
Ez
Such a number and no “Doomsday” predictions… What happened to you, humanity?
Dont forget the Georgia invading South Ossetia today. So many things happened today, I bet we’ll remeber this day for a long, long time.
By the way, that short preview really sucks.
I won’t waste my 8 hours 8 minutes and 8 seconds to watch something like that. Will you?
I for one never gave a damn about the Olympic games or any professional sports event for that matter. It’s plain boring to watch. Would you like to watch me work or eat? No? See that’s exactly how interesting I consider it. Last but not least, professional sports is always a perversion because it’s neither healthy nor fair. For the athletes it’s an addicition and obsession. The rest of the cast is just in for the money.
It’s 5gb… It’ll take a while, even from Sweden… Be patient!
@all of you
What is with all the crudeness? At least have some common decency instead of saying things like as if all of you are on drugs. Calm down, all of you.
We (tinw) ARE all on drugs - how the feck we sposed to ‘calm down’…?
@39
It would be better if you would go away. You people who are on drugs should just not bother posting here.
I want more than the excerpt.. Anyone have a link to the full movie?
Dude, 080808 like totally rocks. It really is da shiz!
JT
http://www.FireMe.To/udi
It would appear something went wrong with the plan, this time Anders… It’s not for lack of trying, but the full length of your 080808 film has ZERO hits for the ["title of your movie" -excerpt]…
I have tried multiple search engines and no luck. Too bad. It looked good… It would appear the full length was never upped in the first place.
There is no an 8hours 8minutes 8seconds film for sure, he’s just trying to be popular by saying he made that movie, actually he only made it excerpt. lol
Good try, Anders Weberg
I believe the project is still unfinished, so he released the excerpt version on 8th August 2008 in the first place, the he might release the Full Movie in the later time, who know?. Wait ‘n See
Richard
To all who didn’t notice yet, he did put up the specifications for the movie a bit later than the actual news post that it’s up… it’s around 5 GB, and since he shared it at the ed2k network, those lazy were probably too lazy to share it… I searched the net quite a bit as well as in the ed2k network with Shareaza, nothing… only files, even worse than the available outcut…
Seems like those bastard(s) who dl’d it at ed2k (Why even put it up there when it’s 5 GB?) didn’t care about anyone and just kept it as the single copy on the world… or maybe they are just not able to upload it… anyway, it’s seems quite impossible to find any remains of the file, and as such, this movie seems to have died when the hype just began to flourish… a pity…
@47 et all;
as stated before:
either that or a fraud.
upped now
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1703499
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