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July 13, 1998

An icon is a roughly contoured lump of clay that people shape according to their needs.
AES Group

Who Wants to Live Forever
Soundtrack for video
(1:42 min. RealAudio clip)

Who Wants to Live Forever is the soundtrack for the video work-in-progress Princess Di Fashion. The unedited video clip shows Princess Di in her gory, crash-victim form modeling a BMW automobile seat.
AES Group, TATYANA ARAMASOVA, LEV EVZOVITCH, and EVGENY SVYATSKY, is a triumvirate of aggressive artists intent on creating provocative works. In the video Princess Di Fashion, they focus on Princess Diana, who they see as a false idol created by the mass media. They wish to dash her to the ground, and shatter her image in a thousand pieces.
Princess Di Fashion
(0:35 min. RealVideo clip)
Princess Di Fashion(video still)
still from the video,

Alexei Shulgin

The technological revolution fails to impress ALEXEI SHULGIN. He prefers the era--only ten years ago--when machines did not challenge human dominance.

California Dreaming from 386 DX (2:48 min. RealVideo clip)

Shulgin's work-in-progress 386 DX is based on an archaic computer, which he programmed to sing pop songs. "Listen," Shulgin exults, "the miserable computer can't carry a tune." None of the visuals are complete, and for the moment the computer can only warble six songs. When he's set, Shulgin plans to tote the 386 DX computer along the street, like a trained monkey, and panhandle near the Kremlin.

Alexei Shulgin	The technological revolution fails to impress ALEXEI SHULGIN. He prefers the era--only ten years ago--when machines did not challenge human dominance.
California Dreaming from 386 DX (2:48 min. RealVideo clip)
Shulgin's work-in-progress 386 DX is based on an archaic computer, which he programmed to sing pop songs. "Listen," Shulgin exults, "the miserable computer can't carry a tune."	None of the visuals are complete, and for the moment the computer can only warble six songs. When he's set, Shulgin plans to tote the 386 DX computer along the street, like a trained monkey, and panhandle near the Kremlin.