Cyberclone 2000 — Solange Fabião

communication art

Cyberclone 2000

Solange Fabião in collaboration with Trixi Schaumberger, 1996-1997

CYBERCLONE 2000 was presented in the first Internet-based exhibition in a Venice BIENNALE, 1997

CYBERCLONE 2000 is a pre-Facebook, global internet-based social network that allows users to submit their portraits and personal data to match and communicate with living clones. It aimed to explore similarities and understand differences, and to consider the significance of truth in online dialogue when bringing a selected best group of clones to gather in person in New York in 2000.

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CC2000 Angels, Solange Fabião, watercolor, 5 x 7 in, 1996

Our intention was to create an online database that gave people the opportunity to share their information and find their body doubles, bringing the best selection of clones to 'physically' meet in New York City in the year 2000. The site would also — Our intention was to create an online database that gave people the opportunity to share their information and find their body doubles, bringing the best selection of clones to 'physically' meet in New York City in the year 2000. The site would also provide cultural, scientific, and philosophical information on the topic, cultural, scientific and philosophical. CC2000 website master: Daniela Cerrato

Portrait 1 to 3, Solange Fabião, slide projection on large format prints, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice, 1997

Do I look like you?

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Sheep Dialogue, Solange Fabião, Trixi Schaumberger, Molly and Dolly
on the way to the Giardini della Biennale, 1997 — Sheep Dialogue, Solange Fabião, Trixi Schaumberger, Molly and Dolly on the way to the Giardini della Biennale, 1997

CC2000 @ Giardini della Biennale

Big Deal!

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CYBERCLONE 2000 questions our capacity to control how a next generation might turn out to be, discussing the risks and questioning the necessity of the creation of a human clone: “The Anticlone of the year 2000; your clone already exists in this planet or in another.” (CC2000, 1996) Would DNA manipulation be directed to encapsulate the human being? With an attempt to attain control over the formation of humans, we reach the extreme of reason, a control of the highest kind, the control of intuition, chance, and destiny. In “The Last Manifesto (of the Century)” (1997), I make a brief analysis of this global art project, its meaning and the consequences of cloning. I bring forth the significance of having the internet as a communication vehicle: “[...] a ‘fantastic world’ is created where truth is relative and coexists with imagination on the information ‘freeway,’ an adventure of the mind (Dreamtime – the modern aborigine).”