irational.org

Irational is a loose grouping of international net and media artists who came together around the server irational.org, founded by the British net artist Heath Bunting in 1996, going on to make decisive contribution to early net art from the mid-1990s onward. They include Daniel García Andújar / Technologies to the People (ES), Rachel Baker (UK), Kayle Brandon (UK), Heath Bunting (UK), Minerva Cuevas / Mejor Vida Corporation (MX) and Marcus Valentine (UK). (2006)

Based out of Bristol.

Publications

• Matthew Fuller, "Interview: Rachel Baker & Heath Bunting", Art for Networks, c.2002.

• The Hartware Guide to Irational.org, eds. Susanne Ackers, Inke Arns, Francis Hunger and Jacob Lillemose, Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2006, 136 pp. (English)/(German)

• V.M., Irational.org’s Traum: A Psychoarchaeologist’s Dramaturgy, London: Mute, and Lüneburg: Post-Media Lab, 2014, [120] pp. Publisher.

• "None of this experiment is evident. A conversation on Irational server", titipi.org, Jul 2024.

Links

• Website
• Website (1998, archived)
• Website (2020, archived)
• The Wonderful World of Irational.org. Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006, exhibition, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 30 August-29 October 2006. Curated by Inke Arns and Jacob Lillemose.
• irational - Anarchaeology of an Art Server, exhibition and event series, Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburg, 2-7 December 2013. Curated by Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles.