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    telecommunications
    theory
 
quotes
 
internet as an artistic medium
 
networking is an artform in itself and the computer is just a tool
mark amerika, 2000 full
 
writers and artists are going to have to get massive web presence, if they want to have any kind of effect on that culture
mark amerika, 2000 full
 
as hypertext is useless to us, we have to find other ways to make people navigate, or have the navigation happen as if by itself
dirk paesmans []jodi, 1997 full
 
identity
 
you're getting rid of the individual artist or author as genius, and putting in its place more of a collaborative network composed of teams of artist-writers who work together, to create these constantly changing, in-flux, works in progress, that don't have any closure to them
mark amerika, 2000 full
 
we explore the computer from inside, and mirror this on the net. when a viewer looks at our work, we are inside his computer. there is this hacker slogan: "we love your computer." we also get inside people's computers. and we are honored to be in somebody's computer. you are very close to a person when you are on his desktop. i think the computer is a device to get into someone's mind. we replace this mythological notion of a virtual society on the net or whatever with our own work. we put our own personality there
dirk paesmans []jodi, 1997 full
 
we decided to put the work immediately on the screen, without our press releases and without our bio. we don't use our site to present information. we present screens and things that are happening in these screens. we avoid explanations
dirk paesmans []jodi, 1997 full
 
art and artist
 
there is no "art"-label on our work. in the medium, in which it is perceived, people don't care about this label. but if we show our work in a gallery space, the label "art" is on what we do. and we have to find "art ways" to show our work
dirk paesmans []jodi, 1997 full
 
what is art? a pretentious thing that tries to take the fun out of working with the net and impose its standards on us
dirk paesmans []jodi, 2001 full
 
art vs entertainment
 
Internet enables the artist to locate a more globally-distributed popular audience for works that experiment with popular forms
mark amerika, 2000 full
 
art vs business
 
we're losing a lot of creative artists into the commercial side of the internet because it is absorbing creative types, because they need provocateurs, people who are ready to challenge the system. that's what's driving the global economy right now
mark amerika, 2000 full
 
there should be no shame when you make something that is good, be it on a computerscreen, videotape, an etching, whatever, to sell it
dirk paesmans []jodi, 1997 full
 
net.art and galleries
 
in kassel [documenta], the interface for showing net art is the office. this metaphor is too much of an cliche. It's meant to be some kind of joke, but it is not funny. it is vulgar, it's too easy. it doesn't work. and now it will be repeated over and over again
dirk paesmans []jodi, 1997 full
 
original vs copy
 
originality is dead
mark amerika in his amerika online column
 
i'm catching these content streams that are coming in from all directions, and i'm remixing them on the fly, and as i remix them i am manipulating them so that i can create the narrative experience of the moment. to me, it's not necessarily original, it's just that i'm performing a function. it's like a new author function. it doesn't feel original to me
mark amerika, 2000 full
 
blurring boundaries
 
i'm really interested in collaborating with djs on a kind of dj-writing style. i approach it as a novelist, they approach it as djs, and in the middle we learn to become something different, i become more of a dj, and they become more of a narrative artist
mark amerika, 2000 full
 
freedom vs categories
 
no matter what you're doing, you don't have to compromise your work to meet the needs of a particular editor or agent who says: "this is what the publishing world is about and you have to make these alterations, so that we can then generate income from your work"
mark amerika, 2000 full
 
i'd rather have the proliferation of more crap on the Internet than market censorship as in the multinational corporate publishing industry
mark amerika, 2000 full
 
the technique to create confusion and to mix things up has been used often before, but with this specific medium we made an early start. a reason for this is that we left the netherlands on our own for san jose, california. silicon valley. we went there to see how all this apple stuff and all software and applications, photoshop, macromind, netscape 'lives' there. what kind of people make this. this is very interesting to us. in some way we feel very involved, it is a bit of a personal matter to turn netscape inside out for instance. i have a picture in my mind of the people that make it. and not just how they make it, but also of how they view it themselves within the states and canada. how they see their internet. 'their' internet, you can say that for sure
dirk paesmans []jodi, 1997 full
 
an interface is a translation of code into a visual surface that you believe in
dirk paesmans []jodi, 2001 full
 
one thing we have not done from the beginning is base our work on lay out. the page. we are dealing with screens
dirk paesmans []jodi, 1997 full
 
we can't accept the idea that print design rules also define layout on computer screen
dirk paesmans []jodi, 2001 full
 
we get a lot of ideas from making errors ourselves at our own computer - when the system locks, gets frozen, shakes and flips while crashing.. we want to share these rare moments with everyone
dirk paesmans []jodi, 2001 full
 
if you go on a road without any signs it's a nice space, but if you go on a road with white lines it makes people go faster outlawing low velocity presence like loitering
heath bunting
 
articles
 
tactical media, richardson, aug 02
software art, cramer, mar 02
software art, goriunova+shulgin, jan 02
software art, fuller, jan 02
software art, albert, oct 01
nezvanova iview, wang, oct 01
manovich iview, palmer, aug 01
jodi iview, baumgärtel, may 01
software art, cramer, may 01
browser art, baumgärtel, mar 01
paik iview, baumgärtel, jan 01
software art, baumgärtel, aug 00
mez iview, webartery, jun 00
napier iview, brøgger, jun 00
cosic netart questionnaire, idaf, 00
bosma netart questionnaire, idaf, 00
amerika iview, gallix+destot, jul 00
0100101110101101.org iview, the thing, may 00
superbad iview, salvaggio, apr 00
mez iview, bosma, feb 00
i/o/d iview, barnet, sep 97
jodi iview, baumgärtel, aug 97
cosic iview, baumgärtel, jun 97
jodi iview, bosma, jan 97
kac iview, couey, mar 96
 
formalism
 

jodi [joan heemskerk (68) + dirk paesmans (65)] .es/barcelona +i
we serve no content
our work is about the fact that everything you see on the screen of the computer is dressed code
made wrongbrowser, sod +, oss/**** (98) +
 
mark napier (61) .us/nyc +i
keywords authority, ownership, territory
has worked as a software developer for 15 years
made feed +, riot +, shredder +, digital landfill +, p-soup +
 
software art + generative art
 

ade ward (76 cp 6 chuen) .uk/london +i
is a sw artist and musician
also slub + (w/ mclean) technopop scriptshow funkers
studied medialab arts @ plymouth uni (99)
made auto-illustrator (01) +, stub (01) +
 
matthew fuller .uk/london +i
was an editor of unnatural - technotheory for a contamined culture, flyposter frenzy, underground
was @ i/o/d + (94-02, w/ green, pope) speculative sw group
intr in aesthetics of software
made i/o/d 4: the web stalker
wrote ATM (98) novel
w/ mongrel, escape [pope, green]
 

graham harwood (60 sc 6 muluc*) .uk/london +i
was an editor of unnatural - technotheory for a contamined culture, underground
is a media artist
is @ mongrel (w/ yokokoji, jarman, pierre-davis)
made nine(9) (03), textfm
 
vjing + video art
 

zden hlinka (75 ar 5 ben) .sk/bratislava +
keywords digital alchemy
is a vj, net.artist
made circulation (03) +
w/ poo
 

nam june paik (32 cn 12 ben) .us/nyc +
studied music
 
webart
 

ben benjamin (70) .us/ca/los angeles
made hamster dream, superbad (97) +
 
telecommunications
 

eduardo kac (62 cn 12 cimi) +
made rara avis (96)
 
installations
 
krištof kintera (73 vi 11 ahau) .cz/praha +i
crt installations, video, performances
studied fine arts @ avu praha (99)
 
activism + hacktivism
 
0100101110101101.org .it/bologna +
 
rtmark .us +
 

heath bunting .uk/bristol +
is a political artist => cultural terrorist
 

vuk cosic .sl/ljubljana +i
is a net.artist
works @ ljudmila
studied archaeology
made documenta:done (97) +
 
tactical media
 

geert lovink (59) .au/sydney +i
is a media theorist, net critic and activist
is @ adilkno + foundation for the advancement of illegal knowledge
studied political sci @ uni of melbourne (03) & uni of amsterdam
wrote uncanny networks (02), dark fiber (02), the datadandy (94), the media archive (92), cracking the movement (90)
edited catalogue of strategies (00, w/ gerritzen), everyone is a designer (00, w/ gerritzen)
 

pit schultz .de/berlin
 
mail art
 

netochka nezvanova (78) .nl/amsterdam +++i
i will shed leaves in the shade because i like stepping on bugs
also antiorp, =cw4t7abs, integer
keywords maschin3nkunst
made nato.0+55 (00) +, m9ndfukc (99) +, nebula.m81 +, kinematek.0+2 (96) +
 

mez .au +
keywords mezangelle
is a code poet
 
hypertext
 

mark amerika (60) .us/co/boulder +
the reader should be an active participant in the creation of the work
keywords avant-pop, self-reflexive writing, flux
is a writer on internet, net.artist
publish alt-x (93) +
made filmtext +, phon:e:me +, grammatron (97) +
teach @ uni of colorado boulder (prof of digital arts)
 
theory
 
geoff cox .uk/london +i
keywords generative art
is an artist, teacher
studied sociology @ uni of london (92), photography @ royal college of art london (86), @ bradford & ilkley community college (83)
teach @ uni of plymouth (99-, senior lecturer in computing)
 

florian cramer +
teach @ freie uni berlin
 

lev manovich (60) +
studied visual and culture studies @ uni of rochester (93), cognitive sci @ nyu (88), fine arts, architecture & computer sci @ moscow
made soft cinema + - digital film project, anna and andy + - web adaptation of anna karenina, freud-lissitzky navigator + - conceptual software for navigating 20th century history
wrote the language of new media (01), tekstura: russian essays on visual culture (93)
teach @ uni of california san diego (prof of new media art and theory), stockholm uni (visiting prof), uni of art and design helsinki (visiting prof)
 
 

new media art is people
contact: dusan (at) satori (dot) sk

 

 

 

 

 

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