Etoy is a European digital art group. Etoy won several international awards including the Prix Ars Electronica in 1996. Their main slogan is: "leaving reality behind." Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... The Prix Ars Electronica is a yearly prize in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Etoy routinely experiments with the boundaries of art, such as selling shares of "stock" in the etoy.corporation, a registered company in Switzerland (etoy.shares) and travelling the world as well as living in etoy.tanks (cargo containers). The Bath, a painting by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). ... Shipping containers at a terminal in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. ...

History

Etoy was founded 1994 and the authors behind etoy's brand were an art collective that started to sell virtual shares and is owned now by hundreds of etoy.shareholders: international art collectors, the etoy.agents and toywar.soldiers (who protected the etoy.brand during the toywar). The etoy.inventors own, control and protect the corporate sculpture. The way etoy is organized is unique for the art world and it is surprising that the group is still around and producing high quality work after such a long time while many early net.art pioneers vanished.^{[citation needed]} 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...

Currently, the German film director Andrea Reiter is working on a documentary film about Mission Eternity. She and her team followed the etoy.crew since 2005 to Berlin, Zurich, San Jose and Nevada. The Hugo film production will be released in 2007. Location of Berlin within Germany / EU Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE3 City subdivisions 12 boroughs Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD) Governing parties SPD / Left. ... Location within Switzerland   Zürich[?] (German pronunciation IPA: ; usually spelled Zurich in English) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... San José – or its anglicised form San Jose – is the Spanish for Saint Joseph. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Hugo is a programming language and design system for interactive fiction created by Kent Tessman. ...

Toywar

The toywar was a legal battle between the Internet toy retailer eToys.com and etoy for the domain name etoy.com. eToys sued etoy for having a similar domain name to their own. They accused etoy of unfair competition, trademark dilution and terrorist activity^{[citation needed]} among other things, eventually getting an injunction temporarily shutting down the etoy website. After several weeks eToys dropped the lawsuit and the etoy website returned to operation [1]. eToys. ... The term domain name has multiple related meanings: A name that identifies a computer or computers on the internet. ... A trademark or trade mark[1] is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by an individual, business organization or other legal entity to uniquely identify the source of its products and/or services to consumers, and to distinguish its products or services from those of other entities. ... Look up Injunction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

It has been called "the most expensive performance in art history" [2], citing eToys' market capitalization loss of $4.5 billion dollars during the conflict. However most analysts denied^{[citation needed]} that this had been caused by the efforts of etoy and its supporters alone. The story is one of the subjects of the documentary film, info wars. Market capitalization, often abbreviated to market cap, is a measurement of corporate size that refers to the current stock price times the number of outstanding shares. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... Info Wars is a film documentary on the Internet generation and online activism. ...

An email campaign was led by Internet activists including etoy.agents developing the toywar website, a battlefield for 2000 toysoldiers.

A book about the story of the etoy corporation, Leaving reality behind, by Regula Bochsler and Adam Wishart was released in 2002. It covers the battle of etoy vs. eToys Inc. and whether the Internet was for the profit of the few or the pleasure of many. The Financial Times described it as, "an important story and as absorbing as a well-crafted thriller."[3] UK (ISBN 1841155934) and US (ISBN 0066210763) editions are available. A chained book in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side, and within protective covers. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink broadsheet paper. ...

External links

• website etoy.CORPORATION
• MISSION ETERNITY - crossing the deadline. the latest and most ambitious etoy.PROJECT
• etoy.HISTORY
• etoy.DAY-CARE - injecting children with a first shot of experimental art
• toywar.etoy.com - all about Toywar
• New York Times article on the end of the lawsuit
• the digital hijack
• the digital flapjack - a parody of digital hijack created at the 1996 Prix Ars Electronica by SITO
• Mission Eternity at Tweakfest 2007 - vernissage.tv, video]