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TIMEBASED, IN PRINCIPLE — FRUHAUF, KARGL, PIRINGER | de

The exhibition TIMEBASED, IN PRINCIPLE in the Viennese club Fluc presents three artists whose practice in the fields of film/video, visual arts and literature is immediately interwoven with the principle of time. Without remaining on a formalistic level Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Michael Kargl (aka carlos katastrofsky) and Jörg Piringer combine questions of material and form with the discursive dimensions of contemporary media art [...]

TRANS.FORM.WORK — INTERNET-BASED ART IN THE REAL SPACE | es

“Translation is a mode.” (Walter Benjamin) — Why is it still easier to get an entire museum collection on the Internet than to get a single work of Internet-based Art in a museum space? As with the nature of this question, both aspects have to be taken into account: the field of Internet-based Art with its media-specifics, as well as the mechanisms which allow institutions to continue to filter what the public at large understands to be art [...]

YOU OWN ME NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME. | slo

Speech and the ability for meta-reflection on one’s own language are inherent characteristics of human beings. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, language—whether written, spoken, or performed—has become more and more a part of the visual arts in various artistic practices and theoretical approaches, ultimately becoming a constitutive element [...]

A MATTER OF TRANSLATION — WEBCRA.SH/2800 | de

No computers, no monitors, no digital prints and above all no Internet: Webcra.sh/2800 is both the title and the Internet address of an exhibition shown in May 2008 at the Urban Explorers Festival in Dordrecht (Netherlands), which was mostly limited to the Link as representative feature of Net Art work in real space. The show was curated by Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, better known by the pseudonym Jodi [...]

MAXIMALIST VISUAL HEDONISM — MARIUS WATZ | de

Organic forms spread out across the screen, at times explosive, at times hardly noticeable, fascinating the observers. “One of the privileges of Generative Art is that the artist himself is surprised by the results over and over again,” Marius Watz states in the following interview. Since the mid-1990s, the Norwegian artist has moved back and forth between everyday culture, design and, not least, art [...]

FROM THE WORK TO .TXT / AND BACK — MEZ BREEZE | de

mez, netwurker, data[h!]bleeder, ms post modemism, mezflesque.exe, ova.kill, net.w][ho][urker, Purrsonal Areah Netwurker, Phonet][r][ix … The pseudonyms and avatars of Australian net artist Mary-Anne Breeze are as multifaceted and open as is her artistic work. Since the beginning of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, mez has developed an artificial language of her own that she calls "m[ez]ang.elle.” [...]

NET.WORKED_CURATING — EXHIBITION PRACTICES ON THE NET | de

Extending the curatorial sphere of action beyond supporting, contextualising and exhibiting art works in museums, galleries or alternative spaces is directly related to the specific mediality of art produced in the Internet: these artworks do not necessarily have to be presented in conventional exhibition spaces but can be downloaded anywhere and at any time provided a computer with Internet access is available [...]