10 COMMs is a project by Mark Amerika and Giselle Beiguelman that explores new paradigms for artistic creation for the online environment. A work in progress, it was launched at the 2nd Buenos Aires Biennial (2002) through a website, an e-mail movement, and a series of stickers used to spread the meme-like qualities of those 10 commandments.
The 10 Commandments for artistic creation in the network age:
I am the Net who linked thee out of the purgatory of thy Interface
Thou shalt respect privacy in the endless and circuitous social relations that flow before me
Thou shalt take every name in vain
Honor thy codes and thy sources, that thou mayst be longlived upon the no-man’s-land which thy Web will give thee
Thou shalt kill all spam
Thou shalt adulterate everything
Thou shalt not be inspired
Remember that thou keep thy passwords that thou mayst be logged in thy network
Thou shalt not bear false consciousness in all media environments
Thou shalt covet thy neighbor’s source code
[By G. Beiguelman & M. Amerika, 2002]
Thou shalt respect privacy in the endless and circuitous social relations that flow before me
Thou shalt take every name in vain
Honor thy codes and thy sources, that thou mayst be longlived upon the no-man’s-land which thy Web will give thee
Thou shalt kill all spam
Thou shalt adulterate everything
Thou shalt not be inspired
Remember that thou keep thy passwords that thou mayst be logged in thy network
Thou shalt not bear false consciousness in all media environments
Thou shalt covet thy neighbor’s source code
[By G. Beiguelman & M. Amerika, 2002]
