REQUEST: Virtual Beret

 Greetings to ascii-art lovers everywhere!   

My name is sarah smiley, and I am a media artist from Boston,
Massachusetts. I'm working on a project called "The Virtual Beret: 
Perceptions of the Artist in the Online World"  I'm putting out a 
questionaire, and any responses will be archived with others at a 
Web site, managed by Patrick Jordan, a computer artist from Sydney 
Australia, and myself.  Answer these questions in any manner which 
you see fit-image, audio, video, or text. Complete html (WWW 
hypertext) pages are also acceptable. If you participate, we will 
archive your submission at the Virtual Beret Web site. 


Editors note: I publish an online monthly Update on this project, 
and I would love to feature some ascii art, and the artist. If you
are interested, drop me a line at sar...@bmugbos.org

The Questions:

1) Invent an Artist. This Artist can be a he, she, or it, working 
with any materials, in any medium, with an unlimited virtual budget.

2) Describe the Art created by said Artist

3) Describe said Artist's Beret (hint: what is a Beret? In this 
case, an Artist's Hat. What is the nature of this Artist's Hat? What 
is the relation of the artist to said Hat?)

For those who submit images, a representation of your "artist" is one way
to respond to the above...

Please tell me if you want your piece to be included in a collection such 
as I have described. Also,  tell me what city and country you 
posted your response from~ as well as where you found my posting.

Images can be sent to me at smi...@world.std.com
Questions and comments can be sent to me at sar...@bmugbos.org.

If you just want to comment you can do that too...

If you want to check out other berets, the Web site is:
http://www.rp.csiro.au/~pjordan/VirtualBeret/ 

Thanks for taking the time to read this! And please feel free to 
distribute and post this as much as possible.

Regards,
-sarah smiley

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