A computer will be provided for the project's duration where digitalized images can be stored. This machine is linked to computers all over the world via INTERNET. Scanned images can be stored in the museum by computer users via Internet and by audience in the REIFF Museum. The "Annahmestelle" (reception); where all images will appear first is opened to the public only for the purpose to deposit pictures there. Full admission to the "depot" and the "Annahmestelle" will only be allowed for the jury - this will prevent improper use, for instance pure pornography. From time to time the museum's stock will be actualized. The jury will sort out from a variety of material the pictures for the Reiff-Museum. The current state of the museum can be seen via INTERNET: you only have to pick out your favorite pictures. Please tell us about the picture of your choice.
Reiff II is - as a pilot-project - set between science and art. Perhaps it is a serious joke. The Electronic Museum "Reiff II" should be used as an instruction by those people who are interested in a virtual omnipresent art museumm. It demonstrates the technology of electronic reproduction. Corresponding to the traditional way of presenting paintings in conventional museums, in the "Reiff II" the screen will be modified to a "fast frame" where new art will appear whithout delay. So the reproduction of pictures becomes endlessly - a phenomenon that evokes uncertain consequences.
Heinz Herbert Mann, Sabine Krifka