Marshall McLuhan's model of the global village has been eclipsed by a new paradigm. Satellites, wireless communication, interactive technologies, biotechnology and cloning are shaping a new matrix who's architecture has more in common with the complex electro-chemical communication system the ant farm.

As power and wealth is increasingly concentrated in an upward spiral, merging international corporations render geopolitical governmental structures obsolete. Social and political relationships implicit in the terms citizen and employee are collapsing.

A U.S. government study from the late 1990s found that 2 out of 3 people living on this planet at that time had never used a telephone. We are the privileged minority. But for how long and at what cost? What is happening to those outside of our loop: third world children paid slave wages; native people's environment exploited and destroyed for both corporate profits and to maintain our life style.

The vast majority of U.S. newspapers, magazines, books, radio and tv are owned by 6 or 7 corporations. Currently corporations are moving to use new strategies in conjunction with old techniques to control the web. Search engines have begun to charge fees for preferred positions on the find list. How long before the web is reduce to a virtual mall? How can we keep the web free to act as a circulatory system for independent, democratic communications?

In keeping with an 11 year history of creating site-specific public art works that deal with issues of class, race, gender and sexuality, REPOhistory launches CIRCULATION. This New York City based public art project uses the internet to transform a local project into an international network. Our goal is to use the inherent properties of the internet to circulate information in a multidirectional, interactive environment. By doing so we hope to form a global network which will create a discourse based on blood: blood as a physical entity and as a metaphor for identity, our shared humanity.

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