“It was a historical moment! It was like, what was happening in the French Revolution?”
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Miltos Manetas, on cybersquatting the 2002 Whitney Biennial with a
net art counter-show realised in Adobe Flash (on the snatched whitneybiennial.com domain) during Rhizome’s Flash Sunset telethon. Part of the organisation’s Flash preservation campaign, the live stream commemorated Adobe’s final day of Flash support by celebrating the software’s artistic legacy with selected guests.
