Etoy is a European digital art group. Etoy won several international awards including the Prix Ars Electronica in 1996. The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and Interactive art, Computer animation, digital culture Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) Their main slogan is: "leaving reality behind. "
Etoy routinely experiments with the boundaries of art, such as selling shares of "stock" in the etoy. Art refers to a diverse range of Human activities creations and expressions that are appealing to the Senses or Emotions of a human individual corporation, a registered company in Switzerland[1] and travelling the world as well as living in "etoy. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation tanks" (cargo containers)[2]. Shipping container architecture is a form of Architecture utilizing Steel Shipping containers as structural element because of their inherent strength
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History
Etoy was founded 1994 and the authors behind etoy's brand were an art collective that started to sell virtual shares and is owned now by hundreds of etoy. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) shareholders: international art collectors, the etoy. agents and toywar. soldiers (who protected the etoy. brand during the toywar). The etoy. inventors own, control and protect the corporate "sculpture".
In 2007, German and Swiss director Andrea Reiter realised a documentary (produced by Hugofilm) about etoy's "Mission Eternity" project, a "digital cult of the dead". Timothy Francis Leary ( October 22, 1920 &ndash May 31, 1996) was an American Writer, Psychologist, Futurist [3]
Toywar
The toywar was a legal battle between the Internet toy retailer eToys.com and etoy for the domain name etoy. eToyscom is a retail website that sells toys via the Internet. In Computer networking, a domain name is a name given to a collection of network devices that belong to a domain which is an administrative space managed according com. eToys sued etoy for having a similar domain name to their own. They accused etoy of unfair competition, trademark dilution and terrorist activity among other things, eventually getting an injunction temporarily shutting down the etoy website. A trademark or trade mark, represented by the symbols ™ and ®, or mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual An injunction is an Equitable remedy in the form of a Court order, whereby a party is required to do or interact with in certain ways all right or to refrain from After several weeks eToys dropped the lawsuit and the etoy website returned to operation[4].
It has been called "the most expensive performance in art history"[5], citing eToys' market capitalization loss of $4. Market capitalization/capitalisation (aka market cap, mkt cap or capitalized/capitalised value) is a measurement of Corporate or Economic 5 billion dollars during the conflict. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been However most analysts denied that this had been caused by the efforts of etoy and its supporters alone. The story is one of the subjects of the documentary film, info wars. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality info wars is a film documentary on the Internet generation and online activism
An email campaign was led by Internet activists including etoy. agents developing the toywar website, a battlefield for 2000 toysoldiers.
A book about the story of the etoy corporation, Leaving reality behind, by Regula Bochsler and Adam Wishart was released in 2002. A Book is a set or collection of written printed illustrated or blank sheets made of Paper, Parchment, or other material usually fastened together It covers the battle of etoy vs. eToys Inc. and whether the Internet was for the profit of the few or the pleasure of many. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks The Financial Times described it as, "an important story and as absorbing as a well-crafted thriller. The Financial Times ( FT) is a British international business Newspaper. " UK (ISBN 1841155934) and US (ISBN 0066210763) editions are available.
References
- ^ (etoy.shares)
- ^ http://www.etoy.com//fundamentals/etoy-tanks/
- ^ Hugofilm
- ^ Slashdot | eToys Inc. Drops etoy Suit - For Real This Time
- ^ Toywar.Com
External links
- website etoy.CORPORATION
- New York Times article on the end of the lawsuit
- the digital hijack
- the digital flapjack - a parody of digital hijack created at the 1996 Prix Ars Electronica by SITO