Dear Valued Citizens of the Global Network,

My name is Cary Peppermint and Restlessculture.net is a networked performance of that name, an ongoing, post-cinema living documentary of EXPOSURES in update. Maybe you stopped by because you would like to engage in some creative, viral-pimping of commercial, “community” sites, such as Myspace.com by enrolling in evening classes at the DEPARTMENT OF NETWORK PERFORMANCE? Or maybe you would like to immerse yourself in a quicktime database of PRACTICAL PERFORMANCES? Could it be that you are here because you know “me” best through my previous versions of recombinant media practices, such as the SUPERCOOL time I invited the highest bidder to USE ME AS MEDIUM via an auction listed on Ebay.com or the time I sent out an invitation to a HAPPY HOUR FOR EVERY HOUR... using Evite.com or maybe when I incorporated multiple commercial sites as a network readymade through the project AN AMERICAN ARTWORK IN PROGRESS? Or what about when I appropriated Hotmail.com, Mapquest.com, and Nydailynews.com and posted a series of limited edition passwords that unlocked directions to a series of interactive works constructed in a Harlem warehouse, i.e. simulated parties known as INFORMATION FOR THE OTHER SIDES OF HERE. Possibly you have a distant memory of me from the chemical induced information-overload of network art as expressed through my creation of a (net.hallucinogenic?) drink called SOYLOVE that many beautiful members of the NYC net.art community interfaced while under the 48-hour scrutiny of seemingly hundreds of surveillance cameras at a net.art action in SOHO called the Warhol Hijack? Are you here because you recall how, as a CONDUCTOR, I lost my faith in cultural production and wanted to abandon artmaking altogether and then used the Whitney Museum of American Art's Artport as ad-space to try and jumpstart a career as a commercial HIP-HOP DJ? O.K., wait a minute, there is the off-chance you read about me while quickly thumbing through the pages of ART FORUM where it was mentioned that my net.art actions feel like “twenty-first-century takes on Warhol's Factory--or in AI Magazine where it was printed, "The lessons of the Surrealists are remixed daily in net.art such as Peppermint’s”--or possibly when Robert Atkins wrote, "Like any good conceptualist, Peppermint knows that the art primarily resides in the idea and the often unconventional medium or approach, rather than the execution of the art object." Well, regardless of where or when we first met, or even if this is our first meeting. I’d like to say: Shake it if you got it. Keep on keeping on. Love & restlessculture always,

Cary Peppermint Version 10.2