An installation of Apartment is showing at MU in Eindhoven.

Turbulence was hacked into. Jason and Jonathan put Apartment back together again. They are so great.

There are now 5,050 apartments organized in 14 cities.

Apartment will be a one year installation, opening at the Ars Electronica Festival, beginning September 1st, 2001.

Archived 10th city. There are now 4057 apartments.

Inundated. 250 apartments. Normally we get 10-40 a day.

The 6th archived city.

I found out that although the Webby people put on this great party they don't bother paying for the judge's airfare. Now that is really, really shabby.

We've been nominated for a Webby in the Arts category

Made a 4th archived city.

In a conversation with France Telecom people about the origins of Apartment (they sponsored the show at the Whitney, don't worry, we didn't get any). Most of it came from the French : Bachelard's Poetics of Space, who wrote about how certain books were located psychologically in the spaces of a house; Oulipo, the idea of a potential literature (we create the possibility of a type of writing) ; lastly Apollinaire's Calligrammes, who looks at how text sits on a page and formally includes that in his poetry.

However the main idea came from Francis Yate's Art of Memory, a book about the mnemonic techniques of pre-paper eras and on. Now she was a very fat English Lady.

The level of porn has increased - I just find it so boring. We now run a script that periodically removes these from the current city. We'd like to make a porn-city for these, but have no time and money. We would be thrilled to do so should someone pay us!

We finally split up the city, as it was getting too crowded.

Yesterday was the last day of the Data Dynamics show at the Whitney Museum of Art. For the last few days the printing and saving functions didn't work. We couldn't figure out why. Today I noticed that the Server's keyboard had been pushed under the monitor, so permanently pressing down the 'Escape' key. And that was why....

goes to 'marry me jerk' (Wednesday).

If you're lucky you can see us working on the Whitney installation here

We adjusted the city, hopefully for the last time.

A few kind guinea pigs came over to test the interface. As a result we: made the latest apartment persistently orange in the city-view, put in the days of the week in the city-view, made 'snapping' words in the apartment view not orange (they looked clickable). Martin optimized the code so it should run faster on older machines.

We changed the apartments so they consist of rectangular rooms. Its better... especially in 3D - now you get both long vistas and close-ups. So the effect is more spatial.

Interesting how the room layouts have become clearer. E.g.. In 'my fingers sore', to get from the kitchen to the dining room you go through the bedroom! It may be useless as an apartment but as a memory-space its perfect.

Thinking of Constant's New Babylon, and here

The new radial city is up! We think its far clearer than the previous version. The city is viewed by time and content.

We're awestruck by 'Mars Science Fiction'. The words are so thick they form a mask to the content.

The city view continues to be difficult to understand. Also, we've been wanting to get time into it for ages. So we're going to try a different city map entirely : the weighting of each apartment on various themes will govern distance to the center of the city, with time as the radial locator. Testing this evening.

There was a problem with the sounds in the 3d. As they originate from the images themselves in large spaces you don't hear them - too far away. Jonathan fixed this.

After appearing on Rhizome's Digest and NewsGrist we start to get a fair number of apartments. In fact, there are now over 100, although it doesn't appear so.

goes to 'drown drown drown'. We imagined such a piece was possible, but hadn't succeeded ourselves. Reminded of the beginning, where we were looking at Apollinaire's Calligrammes and here.