Contributors: Analyzing Terrorists / arinko-chan / Emi IKEMATSU Yoshiyuki OSHIGE / Kenji OKAMOTO / Kerokero King Chelin / Dainippon Typo Association / Hibiki TOKIWA Hideki NAKAZAWA / Flopro / pepper shop / Hiroyuki MATSUKAGE / Ree-k Tele-present and Thanxware are inquiries into the idea of opening one's own homepage on the net, a casual form of questioning the relationship between information consumer and producer, a look at opening up new channels for communication. First, the contributing artists have made movie, text, sound, photo or other data, and are "present"ing it. The user looks through the files, and pushes the "thanks" button if they wish to show their appreciation. This "appreciation" index is monitored in real time on another page. At present, the poles of Internet economics the conflicting dynamics of free-ware and E-cash. Taking advantage of the Net's interactive communications potential, rather than sending money or mail, we thought to first to breach the idea of a less invasive "thank you" system of expressing value. In other words, after you've looked at pages, and gotten data, we'd like some expression of "appreciation," of value. Think of it as applause at the end of a performance. The author of this piece (MASUYAMA) worked with many of the same Thanxware crew in April/May of 1995 to produce a predecessor exhibition of freeware on the Net, the "Teleflokke" exhibition. Tele-present and Thanxware Planning: Hiroshi MASUYAMA Planning Assistance: Gento MATSUMOTO Production Assistance: Spanner Co., Makiko KAWAMURA