The participants were shown an item, taken from the possessions of someone, who was believed to be known by all participants, or at least was believed to have had some form of contact with each of the participants at least once. The particular item was chosen, because it seemed most likely not to evoke associations other than its acquired operational characteristics. It was therefore considered to be better suited as an aid for the participants to delineate their personal networks without having to take into account any circumstances or events that had, at any point, led to or had contributed to the establishment or modification of the network or any of its constituents part(s).
Based on a well known Support Inventory, the members of the individual personal networks (as delineated) were then temporarily categorized into seven domains: socialization, material assistance, constructive feedback, intimate interaction, economic collaboration (which usually existed in the bond between ‘running partners’), information exchange and relationships with clients. The resulting construct of overlapping networks was subsequently stripped off its categorizations and, while excluding quantitative aspects as well as substantive qualities in respect of the consisting units and the network as a whole, the attention was turned to the properties flowing between the units. It was believed the observation of properties and their flow processes would allow for the mechanisms, which enable these processes, to be identified without inferring anything about the entities on which they rest. Furthermore, it was hoped that by preventing the emergence of properties whose purpose went beyond the pure facilitation of flow processes as such, a framework could be established, which would entice the production of entities (and the modification of all existing entities towards the same end) whose actions would enable the establishment and provision of circumstances that would only allow activities concerned with the economic survival of the network, its constituents and their flow processes. Assuming the existence of such conditions would entail the perfect scenario for any inter-entity communication, since the purpose of the entity’s communication could then be equated with the purpose of the entity itself. It was therefore concluded that the observation could only produce the desired results if its framework was designed in a way that would require the properties to act and react within a clearly defined boundary of preconditions, which would be adverse to any inconclusive outcome. Our particular method of observation was therefore based on the following two preconditions:
(1): the kind of property chosen for observation had to have the theoretical capacity to:
visit any given node of the network more than once, therefore travel around the network indefinitely, produce multiple copies of the same instance (of the property), and spread these copies in simultaneous transmission.
(2): of the chosen kind of property, a particular instance had to be selected, an instance, which we could observe on its flow process, follow it as it develops its own copies and mutations (and mutate itself) to the point where it either ceases to exist or has mutated to such extend that it cannot be recognized in its original form. Network progression deriving from entities themselves (and their possible conflicts) was of no interest. The property’s ability to exploit its environment dynamically in a way that would influence and develop it to the property’s own economic advantage was taken into account, but had to be ignored, if the observation was to remain objective and in line with its own intention. We then eliminated all systematic rules of observation from the method in order to produce a simulation of all occurrences that would paint a picture of what had happened as if no interference had taken place.

the extreme form of skepticism which denies the possibility of any knowledge other than of one’s own existence.
[from Latin solus alone + ipse self]

Approximately five steps straight ahead. Ninety degrees to the right. Five steps ahead. Ninety degrees to the left. Three steps ahead. Three steps down. Ninety degrees to the right. Two steps ahead. Ninety degrees to the right. Twelve steps down. One hundred and eighty degrees to the right while two steps ahead. One step down. Four steps ahead. One hundred and eighty degrees to the right. Sixteen steps down. Seven steps ahead.

The concept for Rentner Collective had been developed over the past two years and was now in the position to be transformed into a fully functioning business/organization. Rentner Collective was a small artist-led organization, which intended to sell their products and services to an art-interested audience. The organization revolved around five main activities that provided the core structure of the group; these were:

Rentner Collective ensured that these activities were creatively interrelated to one another, which as a whole provided the conceptual identity of Rentner Collective; and that the aforementioned activities provided the economic framework for the organization. This was achieved through the collaboration and involvement of hitherto unknown artists, who in this way contributed to and progressed the identity of Rentner Collective.

Also not taken into account were 10 roles of 16mil color Film (1000ft / 305m). The footage it contained had been shot in Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt and London. Undeveloped, it has been stored in our fridge for the previous three years. Today it is still there.

On behalf of the organization, we tried to smash the phone box. It took a few attempts to get the glass to burst. The experience had certain similarities with another occasion: an individual came running from the street, into the reception area of a hotel. [...]

In July 2001, a small group of rentner agents landed in the spanish coastal village of Cadaques.

Soon the band gained cult status. For marketing purposes, it was decided to change the name to the catchier name ‘rentner’. Also, the decision was taken not to promote rentner as a band. Flyers and posters were produced containing images and the simple catchphrase ‘rentner condition coming soon’. Posters were put up in key strategic positions and flyers were distributed to all alpha males at the campus.

In 1939 he moved to New York, where he studied fashion at the Parsons School of Design, and briefly worked as a sketch artist for a sportwear company, before leaving to fight in World War II. On his return, 3 1/2 years later, Blass got a job designing for Anne Klein, who eventually fired him. In 1959, after working for the Manhatten firm of Anna Miller and Co, he joined Maurice Rentner, became chief designer and was made vice president of the company within two years. When he bought out the business from Rentner in 1970 and changed the name to Bill Blass Ltd, it boomed. In 1999 he sold the business to his former chief finance officer for a reported $50 million, with the annual turnover reportedly exceeding $700 million. "I thought the end of the year, beginning of the new century, was the perfect time," he said at the time. "After all, I'd been doing it for 60 years."

After a brief consultation we unanimously voted to invite Rentner into the Global Mutation Inc. network. Let me explain. We are more powerful than most government agencies, our power base extending into such agencies as the American fisheries and British cancer research, we influence all levels of administration. The hyperdexterious pigeon correspondence was a test of your capacity for strange scientific knowledge, which I might say you passed with flying colours.

Rentner’s strength is its hybridisation. its ability to; hybridise to produce or cause to produce hybrids. its ability to allow this hybrid structure.

The sentence ‘the object was yesterday, tomorrow is an object’ in paragraph 72 is wrong. It sounds good, but it’s not true. It’s not false either. There is some truth to it. Paragraph 52, page 9, is a placeholder. The selection of objects on page 7 are not exchangeable. Paragraph ‘64: Incident’ is not about connectivity, relations, associations or connections. Paragraph 223 is a document. The object is replaceable. Connections occur, but have no relations to timeless mechanisms. Paragraph 64 is a placeholder. Retrospective accounts are the object. The object is retrospective. The object is random. Randomness is not an object. Familiarity is the retrospective product of randomess.

To relate this to that, then to now, here to there, that is the object. Today and yesterday, tomorrow; today, tomorrow to yesterday. This is then and here is today; the object was yesterday, tomorrow is an object. The object: four lines, this is the object. Stop.

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The space was approximately 10m long, 6m wide and 4m high. At the front, the weight of the building rested on two strong steal pillars. All along the outer edge of the two sides and the front, in irregular distances of about 1 to 2 meters, 11 smaller pillars gave additional support to the roof. Along the back ran the only full side-spanning wall of the space.

The first to arrive was Lincoln, who was picked up from the airport on Thursday afternoon. In the evening, Joe, Lincoln and Rupert were sitting in Boris’s studio, their temporary accomodation. They were drinking and talking with Boris. The next morning, Joseph arrived at the airport. In the afternoon, Lincoln and Joseph picked up Adam from the airport. Friday the 10th of September 2005, 20:00, was the official opening, with drinks and barbeque until late in the night. On Saturday night, we went out in the city, ending up in a bar near some whorehouses. Sunday afternoon, Joseph left back for London. In the evening, at bar Moloko, over some cider, or as it is locally called, ‘Apfelwein’, an argument broke out between several members of the group. Monday around lunchtime, Adam and Lincoln left.