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60X1.com
„60Xl.com“ is a web site whose sole content consists of splash pages- the opening pages for most web sites, usually containing a small amount of graphics. After clicking through all the splash pages the spectator will find there is actually no core content, opening the question of definition regarding content in web pages.
„60Xl.com“ is designed to be user-unfriendly, aiming to serve as a counter structure to the model of most successful web site- portal sites, where all the links are contained in one interface in order to generate a maximum number of hits; instead 60X1 is designed to generate a minimum amount of hits with its long domain name, one way navigation and its big file sizes of images, existing as an experiment to test viewers' patience and expectation, as well as calling the internet into question as a forum for communication.
One way navigation denies the concept of the internet being a web. The experiments on internet communication continue within „60Xl.com“. Certain elements in this site play with phenomena that only exist within the confines of the Internet: the Hoax, irresponsible postings on numerous message boards, and strange identities that only exist in cyber worlds including „Asian Prince“, „Supergreg“, „Georges/girls“, „Peter Pan“ etc...
Take „Asian Prince“ as an example: The original identity of the now so-called „Asian prince“ was a Vietnamese glamrock singer in the late seventies. In late 1999 an anonymous man found the image and applied a whole new identity, „Asian Prince“ onto this retired rock star's image. After this secondary manipulation, „60Xl.com“ comes in and remanipulates the readymade identity. The manipulations can have several directions. I can erase the post original and apply a new set of meanings onto the figure or simply extend an already constructed identity. This process of altering meaning and identity can only be seen in the internet realm because the creator/manipulator usually perceives the internet as a medium that does not have to bear too much responsibility (no censorship) while publishing controversial material.
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Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung (USA), born 1976 in Hong Kong, now resides in San Francisco. He obtained his B.A. in Arts degree from San Francisco State University. The medium Kenneth experiments with includes internet art, sound, installation, video, digital image manipulation, photography, sculpture, performance art and behavioral art. The exhibition venues that Kenneth has exhibited at include amongst others Southern Exposure Gallery (San Francisco, USA), Cesar Chavez Student Art Center (San Francisco, USA), Fumetto Comix Festival (Luzern, Switzerland), Gordon Gallery (Napa, USA), Magnolia Editions Gallery (Oakland, USA).