BRUCE EVES

IT
goes without saying that the male body is a contested site is old news, but an ironic critique of manufactured masculinity has gone largely unexplored. This body of work is not political in the traditional sense. With a juxtaposition of ideas cherry picked from mutually exclusive sources, the work is rendered layered enough to allow for a multiplicity of meanings. The proposition in much of my work is that it is possible to be simultaneously hot and sweaty and critical and detached. This work concentrates on the representative gestures of maleness, their signifiers, and their remains.
While it is virtually indefinable, this much I know for certain: Art is not “suitable for family viewing”, nor should it be psychiatrically uplifting. Nothing should be considered untouchable. Art must refuse to kowtow to the limitless demands for the familiar and the safe and the conventional. Art has nothing to do with social work or political stability or with ending negative stereotypes: these are the jobs for propagandists. It’s a dangerous world out there and if art is expected to hold a mirror up to the society in which it was created, do we really need any more decorators? Bruce Eves, January 2005.

BIO
After he fully moved over to the digital side in 2000, Bruce Eves has established a presence internationally through participation in New Media Festivals in Brazil, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Thailand with a series of CD-ROM projections. As well, he actively exhibits and sells digital prints both on-line and in traditional galleries. Eves has recently returned to Canada after living and working abroad for many years.

SANDRINE MAURIAL

Doctorante en artsThesis in arts at the university of Bordeaux 3 in France
The title of the thesis : “A light alchemy : pigment and pixel like atoms of color”

“This artistic and philosophical reflection approaches the color phenomenon through a transverse way, by weaving bonds between the pigments of the « traditional » painter and the pixels of the « digital » artist. This relation underlines the interaction between the matter and light, which are both constitutive components of color. Thus, color can be explored from its smallest components while releasing its mysterious dimension, as well as its social and cultural resonance. As regards art history, the treatment of color by artists depends on scientific research and technological rise, while reflecting the current state of the society in which the artist evolves. Artists have tried out color under its various states, from the color/matter to the color/light, insisting on its real texture as well as on the virtual one. Nowadays, digital color is being propagated from the computer science to the artistic field, preserving its material memory.”

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CATERINA DAVINIO

Pioneer of Italian cyber poetry and art, Caterina Davinio has done curatorial and consultant activity in international festivals. Her work has been featured in more than 100 exhibitions world wide.
We recall the participation in the Venice Biennial (all editions since 1997), and in the Biennial of Electronic Art & Television of Rome (all editions). Publications as an author: Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities (essay, bilingual Italian - English, Mantova, IT, 2002); Color Color (novel, Pasian di Prato, UD, IT, 1998), short essays, poems,
and digital works, in international magazines and journals of the avant-garde.

Soft Glass - Tribute to Claes Oldenburg

Tra i pionieri dell'arte digitale e della cyber-poesia italiana, Caterina Davinio
ha svolto attività curatoriale e di consulenza in festival internazionali. Il suo lavoro è stato presentato in più di 100 mostre nel mondo. Ricordiamo la partecipazione alla Biennale di Arti Elettroniche e Televisione di Roma e alla
Biennale di Venezia (coinvolta in progetti del Padiglione Italia e mostre collaterali in tutte le edizioni dal 1997 al 2005).
Pubblicazioni come autore: Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali (saggio, bilingue italiano-inglese, Mantova, 2002); Còlor còlor, (romanzo, Pasian di Prato, UD, 1998), saggi brevi, poesie e lavori digitali in antologie e riviste internazionali dell'avanguardia.

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cprezi/caterinadav.html

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HEATHER LEVY

heatherlevy.com

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ANNIE ABRAHAMS

BEING HUMAN http://www.bram.org

was born as a farmer's daughter in a small village in the Netherlands in 1954. When she is going to high school for the first time, she stays mute for three days, the time necessary to learn to express herself otherwise than in the local dialect. Having obtained a doctoral in biology in 1980 she leaves her post as an assistant researcher at the university because her colleagues didn't appreciate she read Dostojevski in her spare time. Annie is teaching biology at high school and obtains a diploma in painting at the art school in 1986. In 1987, with a two years grant from the Dutch government for young artists she is going to live in France, where she stays until now.
There she learns to use a computer to help her to construct and to keep trace of the installations she makes with her paintings on complexity. When in 1996 she creates a 'meeting place' in a show in Nijmegen, Annie uses the computer to be present from a distance. Since than she produces net specific work and starts 'being human', her most important web work, that explores ways of interpersonal relations on the net. This work concentrates on the possibilities and limitations of communication on the net and has been shown in various international new media and video festivalsand shows. (Skopje, Mexico City, Tallinn, Seoul, Atlanta, Montreal, Athens, Clermont Ferrand, Tokyo, Bristol, Seattle, Split, Rotterdam, San Fransisco etc.)

Annie Abrahams also makes video, installation and performance pieces.

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MARK KEHOE

Marc Kehoe lives and paints in New York City. He has participated in various exhibitions, most recently a one man show at the Coney Island Museum in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY in 2005. He sometimes shows his work on easels in the street or in city parks. Kehoe travels to Venice, Rome and Kiev whenever he is able.

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J. R. CARPENTER

J. R. Carpenter is a fiction writer, poet and web artist based in Montréal, QC, Canada. A two-time winner of the CBC Québec Short Story Competition and a Web Art Finalist in the Drunken Boat PanLiterary Awards 2006, her web art projects have been exhibited in Canada, the US, the UK, Germany and Mexico, and her poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies in Canada, the US and the UK. All of her web art projects can be found online at: http://luckysoap.com

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Since logging into my first Unix account in 1993, I have explored the Internet’s vast potential for communication, dissemination, non-linearity, and, eventually, the integration of image and text, and has worked in every aspect of the industry, designing, teaching, programming, and managing web development for a multi-national software company. The more the Internet freaks me out, the more committed I am to using it in poetic and intransigent ways. My web projects retain the low-tech aura of collage; I avoid software solutions and try to embrace cross-browser/cross-platform vagaries, aiming for scalability and graceful fails. I noticed recently that all the images in my earliest web projects were black and white. In my most recent project, THE CAPE, I echo that visual sparsity with a textual narrative so deceptively simple that most people assume it to be true. The quasi-nostalgic photographic, diagrammatic and cartographic imagery of the THE CAPE is actually out-of-date data drawn from a geological survey of Cape Cod compiled in the 1970s, and the most technically sophisticated components of the piece – the images animated by DHTML timelines – produce a visual effect eerily reminiscent of super-eight home movies, thus blurring boundaries between documentary, memoir, and flat out fiction.

THE CAPE

The terrain of memory is as changeable as the shifting sands of popular vacation destination Cape Cod (USA), a narrow spit of land known affectionately known as the Cape. Likewise, the mutable landscape of the web is subject to accretion and erosion. J. R. Carpenter has constructed this fictional collage, THE CAPE, out of Internet flotsam and jetsam: found images, found audio, found data, and found scripts. A listserve lurker, developer-site prowler and habitué of View Source, Carpenter collects cheesy CSS, DHTML and _javascript effects and adapts them to narrative purposes. The script keeping THE CAPE’s floating menu at the bottom of the screen was intended to ensure the prominence of paid banner ads; the menu’s re-purposed onmouseover “tool-tip” script contains css attributes inspired by a popular blog template; a “slide-show” script contains aerial photographs instead of family snapshots; and the THE CAPE: http://luckysoap.com/thecapee/

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GRUPPO SINESTETICO

GRUPPO SINESTETICO (Albertin M. Perseghin M.  Sassu A. Scordo G.)

www.grupposinestetico.it
www.ag52.com/sinestetico.htm   
www.londonbiennale.org

1999 Fondazione Gruppo Sinestetico (manifesto ) Albertin M. Perseghin M. Sassu A. ) Torreglia Pd Italy
2001 49th Biennale di Venezia  Bunker Poetico and Happening Virtual  Venice  Italy
2001 PERFORMANCE a cura di Inga Pin , E.Miccini , E.Jappe , Mantova Italy
2002  Manifesta 4 Frankfurt Project FREE MANIFESTA (curator Sal Randolph ) Kunstverein  Frankfurt  Germany
2002 London Biennale 2002 Actions Synesthetics (video) director David Medalla , London  Inghilterr
2002  Liverpool Biennial 2002    Project  “ Liberarti “ (video) curator Karen Eliot  Liverpool  Inghilterra
2002 IMAF 2002 4th International Multimedial Art Festival Performance art to day MAS Gallery Odzaci Yugoslavia
2003 Museo Mona 2nd Annual Detroit International Video Festival Detroit  USA
2003 Gallery 291 Film Screenings + Performance (Video)curated by Gulsen Bal London   Inghilterra
2003 Le Petit Versailles “Action Video “  New York  Usa
2003 Biennale Kyoto 2003   Kyoto  Japan
2003 50th Biennale di Venezia 2003 “Extra 50” Brain Academy Apartment  Venezia Italy
2003 Museo da Imagen Florianopolis “sinesteticamente” (curator Flavia Fernandes) Florianopolis Brasile
2003 X° Biennale Guadalupana D.F. Mexico    Mexico
2004 Crack Shinte Paviment Gift in the Urban Lan (curat. J.Heather) Austin Texas USA
2004 London Biennale  2004    London   Inghilterra
2004 Out Video First International of Video Art  (curator Sergeev Arseny)  Ekaterinburg  Russia
2004 Liverpool Biennial 2004”Precipitation” (Museum MAN curator Adam Nankervis ) Inghilterra
2004 VII Bienal do Reconcavo (Rio de Janeiro) 6 nov 2004  -  22 gennaio 2005  Reconcavo Brasile
2005 Museum Mona  Detroit Of New Art “Third International Film & Videoart Festival    Detroit  Usa
2005 Museum MAN “Night Flight “ Liverpool   Inghilterra
2005 Biennale Hong Kong 2005  China
2005 Web Biennial 2005 Museum Art Contemporary Istanbul Turkye
2005 WPS1 Art radio 51°Biennale Venezia and MoMA   N.Y.
2005 RAM Radio Arte Impetus 51° Biennale VE (ideatore M.Pistoletto curat. A Bonito Oliva) ITALY

Si sono occupati del Gruppo Sinestetico :
Umberto Allemandi ,Luginbuhl Sirio  , Miccini Eugenio  , Turnu Antonio, Toni Gioacchino , Trevisan Maria Luisa , Ruggerini Gianluca , Randolph Sal  , Medalla David , Madison Morrison , Gian Ruggero Manzoni , Cusenza Filly , Gulsen Bal , Jagodic Stane , Sicurelli Ruggero , Cramer Peter, Stefanidis Manos , Pignotti Lamberto , Alchuk Anna

reference : GALLERY  AG 52 www.ag52.com/sinestetico.htm   
                :  291 GALLERY LONDON 
                :  GALLERIA  MILAN ART CENTER MILANO.
                :  MUSEO CASABIANCA MALO (Vi) www.museocasabianca.com
                :  MUSEUM  MAN  LIVERPOOL  (UK) www.museumman.org

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GABRIJEL SAVIC

PERFORMANCE

2003, “ Spying out the shadows/ Naked us you come”
(with Mirjana Stojadinovic), Belgrade Summer Festival, Serbia

2005, “De profundis, my cyber Lord – downloading the Gods”
Performed on March 19th 2005, at IETM Meeting in Gallery of Youth Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia (BELEF Center production)

2005, “Ma Longue Misere”, Students Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia

LINK artmajeur.com/gabrijel

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KATHRYN NOVA WILLIAMS

RESERVOIR

"Before I even learned how to read, write or speak, I had held a paintbrush. Art has always encompassed a large part of my life, as it was introduced to me by my family. Throughout my childhood I painted with my father and uncle, made crafts with my mother, and helped my grandmother to quilt (among many other artistic endeavours she practiced).
We all have thrived on creative, yet tedious, work with our hands. As a teenager I made collages and began photography in addition to the usual painting and sculpting. In college I majored in painting and photography and minored in graphic design and metalsmithing. As there were so many classes offered, I found it difficult to limit myself to one medium. After college I continuned my studies in Monflanquin, France, with Patrick Betaudier at the Atelier Neo-Medici. One year after my study I returned to work for painter Tim Johnson in Mandelieu-La Napoule. At this moment I am trying to show my work and hope to eventually make a living from my creativity.
My paintings are about a division between  many oppositions in everyday life. These oppositions are created mainly within the fundamental structure of the creation of the painting. I begin my process by placing an extra layer of gesso onto the canvas, which is usually messy and over abundant. I then scratch into it using any kind of somewhat sharp found object. This creates the foundation of the composition as well as a relief in the forms. The next step is the placement of colour or metallics, which I do in a similar manner - one colour for one layer, usually transparent. And so it continues layer after layer until the painting is finished.

SURREALISM

Layers are the most important element of my paintings because they allow me to slowly build the painting and each section therein. Thus I am able to direct the viewer's attention to the different areas which I separate throughout to accentuate the divisions of forms and strokes. Theses oppositions could be anything , bu mainly focus on spatial relationships  - expansion and contraction, structure and dilapidation, accumulation and deterioration. Our changing world around us is impossible to ignore. We are confronted with these changes everyday as growth continues. I have used my exposure to my environment as a form of _expression in my creation.However, my paintings, as with life itself, are simply a repetition of forms."

LINK germany.eastvillagecompany.com/kathryn_nova_williams_en.shtml

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MARCELLO MERCADO

---- "Goedel 1, 2, 3" 2001-2003 Germany by Marcello Mercado
Bio-art on-line
Performances with Traffic Cameras in Köln Germany

---- (Berlin)_installation Bioart- Biorrealismus 2005
Developing Goedel´s ideas in the streets of Köln as a 3-dimensional
grid x-y-z coordinates and biological-no-sense actions-experiments

Objective: Looking for consistency.Arithmetic operations,
mathematical conventions The Scene as a surveillance-digestive system.

Marcello Mercado is an Italian-Argentine Videoartist, Musician,
Netartist, Performer and Painter living in Brühl, Germany, who has since 1992
made Fellowships or Post-Production Residences with Fundación Antorchas;
The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; The Rockefeller Foundation;
The Lampadia Foundation; Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln; and Centre
International du Creation Vidéo Pierre Schaeffer Montbéliard Belfort,
France. PRIZES: 1994 2nd Prize Videofest Berlin Berlin. Germany.
Grand Prix de Toutes Categories 4a Mondial de la Video Bruxelles.
Belgique 1998 Grand Prix de La Création Vidéo Ville de Clermont-Ferrand.
Vidéoformes Clermont-Ferrand. France 1st Prize 12th Videobrasil. São Paulo.
Brasil 2001 1st Prize 13th Videobrasil. São Paulo. Brasil

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HERVE' CONSTANT

Wrapping and Unwrapping

"A man is covering and uncovering his head. To start with, he presents a bundle of textile strips as gesture of offering; he would like us to participate and to engage in his metaphoric suicide. It is a means of drawing attention to his plight and represents his desire to disappear from reality. However, when he has finished wrapping himself, his impulse is to breath again. He wishes to continue the journey he feels optimistic. This short piece is a variation on the “Myth of Sisyphus”".

Hervé Constant is a French artist, based in London since the mid 80’s. Born in Casablanca (Morocco), Hervé was brought up in South of France where he started to study theatre acting at the Conservatoire de Toulon before obtaining a grant to further his studies at the Ecole Nationale Superieur des Arts et Technique du Theatre in Paris. Hervé’s work is a mixture of different interests and influences. The poetry of Arthur Rimbaud has been a continual interest as well as the Kabbalah.Recent projects involve video, photos and sounds and Artist's Books. Hervé Constant’s most recent exhibitions were at Museo National de Bellas Artes,Havana Cuba 2002, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius Lithuania 2003, OUTVIDEO Festival, National Center for Contemporary Art Ekaterinburg Russia 2004.  File04 International Electronic Language Festival Sesi Art Gallery  Sao Paulo Brazil,  7 Encuentro International Poesia Visual Sonora Experimental, Buenos Aires Argentina. In 2004 Hervé was short listed for the International Jewish Artist of the Year, show  taking place in London. Recently, his work is shown at the MONA, Museum of New Art, Detroit USA Jan-Feb 2005. Also in Seattle Print Arts, USA april , Thailand New Media Arts Festival, Bangkok  june 05, Soundlab Channel edition III, Cologne. His work was amongst the 20 artists selected to be shown on a large screen at the Island Art Film & Video Festival 05, Prenelle Gallery, London march. Most recently a sound recording of his was included in ‘Sound Fetish’ WPS1 at the Venice Biennale 05 and is now part of the Archive of MOMA New York.

LINK herveconstant.co.uk

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DANIEL ASPURU

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CLANCY CASAD

Clancy Casad was born in northern California in 1973 then moved to Seattle where she has been a native since 1974.  Clancy's most recent solo show was at Aces Galleries in downtown Seattle.  She has also had solo shows at the Blue Heron, The Fargonian, and Lighthouse. 

Clancy Casad is an abstract painter with a focus on landscape, architecture and design.   Her work is representational of design, Architecture, light and nature.
Clancy Casad comes from a long line of painters on both her mother’s and father’s side of the family.   Her maiden name Casad dates back to the famous Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt.  
Clancy Casad went to Central Washington University where she majored in Fine Art.   Although clancy has been painting for many years she just recently started showing her work.

japanese house II

“My work is representational of architecture, design and nature.  I paint abstract visuals of what I am physically looking at as though I were a realist.   All of my work is created using recycled materials I find at construction sites – primarily house paint and wood panels.   I will occasionally use acrylics to add to the painting for accent however I find that the colors used for house paint work very well for modern art.  I love the strait lines, open spaces, natural colors and wood that is used in modern design today.  The incorporation of nature into architecture such as green roofs, windows in place of walls which allows floor to ceiling views of gardens and views – homes that are designed to make you feel like your living outside inside – very inspirational.  It is these homes that I specifically design my work for.”

night , trees , rain

untitled

view - paint on wood

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SILVIO DE GRACIA

Born in 1973 in Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He is writer, visual artist, performer, video artist and networker. Since 1996, he has been directing Ediciones El Candirú –independent and non-commercial publisher-, which has published several books and magazines. At present, he directs and edits the international magazine of mail art and visual poetry HOTEL DaDA. His interest for the theory production is revealed in articles and essays that have been published in specialized magazines of Argentina and Sweden and in different websites.
As video artist, he has exhibited his work in important shows and festivals in Mexico, France, Spain, Argentina, USA, Cuba and Russia.
His work in action art includes video performances, urban interventions and projects of ecological art.
As an independent curator, he has organized several international projects: “Freedom for Latin American” (2004); PLAY – International Video Art Festival (2004); and INTERFERENCIAS – International Action Art Meeting (2005).- www.playfestival.com.ar

Last exhibitions:

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MARK SEDGWICK

PORTFOLIO: http://nowikonik.com
VIDEOS: http://nowikonik.com/dvd/
INTERACTIVE PIECES: http://nowikonik.com/flash/latest.htm

Music, interactive projects,winamp visuals and music can be found from the main portfolio...

What others have said: Electronic media merge in this solo exhibition of works by new-media artist Mark Sedgwick. An artist, and designer, Mark engages electronic devices-computers, video games, Mobile devices, Interactive TV and Other Mediums in the presentation of his Ikonik Artworks. The resulting works expand the limitations of language and the traditional context of art, proposing a bold new role for the artist in our culture. Michael Williamson..MOWA [ Museum of Web Art ]

The story of how an artist received a vision that insipired him to dedicate his life to bringing into existence, a new kind of venue (nowikonik.com). Where edutainment is created and shared, where interactive theater can help heal hearts, and open minds by tapping into and unleashing a creative force on planet Earth through Outer Dimensional art, video clips, games, music & the NOW. Les Mancovich..NMAA ---------

http://nowikonik.com

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SARAWUT CHUTIWONGPETI

Project Titled:  The  Installation series of Untitled  
(Wishes, Lies and  Dreams >>   Heartsick  On  The  Open  Sea  With  Stars...)

Dreams are easily influenced by factors in our  life and spirit, and these influences
create "categories" that are almost infinite. We do broadly categorize them in terms
like "sex, prophetic, standard, physical and nightmare. Dreams are a communication
of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being.
Our brains are in constant activity. Different states of consciousness (like awake,
asleep, alert, drowsy, excited, bored, concentrating or daydreaming) cause different
brain wave activity. Our conscious mind, or the part we think with, our "window"
into life, only takes up a very small portion of our brain activity.
 
My main concern within this project is exploring  our  mind, unconscious and interpretation
levels of dreams  as well as the possibility to understand psychic intuition. The specifics
of the realization of  dreams emotions, thoughts, imagination, sex drive actions and
interactions of a dreamer raises the question of the viewer and that simultaneity that
makes our mind and spirit work together with  our brain  to be understood.
 
The  video art  project works  focuses on  the mechanisms of perception and  dreams,
the private world of the world of fantasy and unconscious,  the conditions underlying
the system by which mind and spirit operates. At the same time, the (in)-visibility of
the structure ignites a confusion on the viewers' perception of the work and of the
space where it is placed, thus provoking and ambiguous relationship between the
object, its function and its appearance,  unlock a mysterious force field on the border
of the truth  and lie,  that is able to create unexpected angles of approach which in
turn force the viewer to take up a new position in the observation of the surrounding
world.
 
"Wishes, Lies and Dreams" was created to explore intimacy and emotional  resonance
with the viewer with combines artistic and fantasy to explores  experience of
remembering ; questioning the fantastic adventure of nature, recognizing disquieting
patterns, facing emerging memories, understanding the nature. Segments are combined
with blurring images and vague to create and impression of subconscious memory and
dreams.

Come with me.... 
 
I wishes...,
I hope. ,
I'm angry...,
I'm afraid...
I'm sad..., I'm happy....
 
“Wishes, Lies and Dreams” is a series of experimental video art depicting the world of
"Unconscious"  

The video art  project (Series III) has been  broadcasted  from Stockholm as "Real-Time" to a number of museums: nine regional museums in Sweden, Kiasma Museum
of Contemporary Art Helsinki; Museet for Samtidskunst; The Museum of
Contemporary Art in Roskilde; The Norrbotten County Museum; The Gavleborg
County Museum; The Jonkoping County museum; The Gotland Museum of Art;
Blekinge Museum. The art is distributed via a Internet in a special co-operation
with Telia/Sonera.
 
With the generous support of: The Swedish Institute, The Prince Claus Fund,
The European Union and The Nordic Institute For Contemporary Art.

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PATRICK FONTANA

Helsinki, Pixelache 2006, 1th april 2006, kiasma theatre.

video-performance d'après le/according to the Capital de/by Karl Marx - Patrick Fontana/Aelters/Pierre-Yves Fave

video performance Grenze (2D and 3D computer animation)
according to the Capital of Karl Marx to the following address where you'll find a 16minutes excepts :
www.grenze.org

Our generation’s experience : Capitalism won’t die of natural death //

We intend through these particulars lectures of Marx’s Capital to open interrogations about social and economics context of today’s Capital.

In GRENZE, the principal question thus goes on the movement, the circulation of capital and its transformations. It places progressively series of metamorphic movements. It articulates with it. It gives it a visual translation. Our look, our waiting, time respond together to this construction of an infernal mecanism which holds everything.

It opens a range of questions as how today’s capital catches ours lives, our subjectivities

“there "Your capacity" to be put in images "words found a form and a space which enable him to appear in all its power. I imagine that a multitude of singular forms are possible starting from the elements thus assembled. I do not know if thus Eisenstein would have put out of film the Capital, but you undoubtedly found a manner strong and tempting to carry out its dream " Jacques Rancière, professor of philosophy.

Pescara, Italie, september 2004 festival Unimovie moving image container (video).
Paris, october 2004, festival on life Villette numérique 2004 (performance).
Paris, october 2004, Nuit Blanche (Dazibao) (video).
Sofia, Bulgaria, octobre 2004, Computer Space festival (selection).
Sao Paulo, Brésil, november 2004, File04 (sélection).
Bologna, Italia, january 2005, festival Netmage 05 (performance).
Montreuil, may 2005, maison populaire (performance).
Paris, july 2005, ARTS & SCIENCES 2005, Les Arts et les Sciences dans la Société de l'Information, ENSTA.
La Havana, Cuba, august 2005, Mail Art International Invitation – Republic of Artists 2005. (video)Yérévan, Arménia, august 2005, Art in the Age of New Technologies, Armenian Center for Contemporary
Experimental Art (selection).
Zagreb, Croatia, 8 september 2005, Urbanfestival 05 (performance).
Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, october 2005, Videomedeja, Museum of Voivodina (selection)
Nottingham, UK,TV sky, october 2005 (video).
Asolo, Italia, Asolo film festival, november 2005 (video).
Volgograd, Russie, november 2005, Videologia (sélection).
Sao Paulo, Brésil, november 2005, File05 (sélection).
Tallinn, Estonie for Inport festival, 3th of december (video).
Sydney, Australia, e-Performance and Plug-ins: A Mediatised Performance Conference, at the School of Media,
Film and Theatre, UNSW, December 2005
Paris, Avit France festival, Point éphémère, 20 janvier 2006 (performance)
Berlin, Germany, Directors lounge, february 2006 (video).
Les Lilas, France, espace Khiasma, march 2006 (performance)
Toulouse, Traverse vidéo, march 2006 (performance)
Helsinki, Pixelache 2006, april 2006 (performance)
Athens, Greece, video athens festival, april 2006 (video)
Sevilla, Lux2006, may 2006. (video)

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SOL KJøK

Sol Kjøk is an internationally exhibited and collected artist. Born in Norway, Sol left her tiny mountain village at 16 years of age, and has since then lived and learned in Paris, Vienna, Medellín and a number of U.S. cities. Virtually self-taught in artistic techniques, she finally obtained an MFA from Parsons, NYC, in 1998, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Her intricate line drawings of human figures echo the works of great masters of the past, like Michelangelo, Durer, and Leonardo da Vinci. Created with traditional techniques but non-traditional concepts and processes, her works offer the benefit of traditional hand skills and pictorial values, with the mystery, drama, and conceptual sophistication of contemporary artistic theory: Her swirling combinations, and otherworldly, even dreamlike, interactions of her characters as well as the inclusion of her ever-present scarlet orb, bring the works to the forefront of contemporary drawing.

Jason Franz, Manifest Gallery

http://www.solkjok.com

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DARIO KAVARA

http://www.dariokavara.com

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JUDITH FEGERL

www.restate.org
http://callaps.restate.org
http://skincare.restate.org

restate: <http://rhizome.org/member.rhiz?user_id=1002233>

Biography
(in desperate times ov monokultural apoptosis)

on 27 03 2001 restate superorganitsm was recovered.

no antidote.
no antibody.
no antivirus.

restate@restate.org
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The artist Judith Fegerl started doing new media projects in 1995 and
co-founded the net art collective restate(.org) in 1997. Although
deeply involved in net art and new media activism she never lost contact to
the traditional fine arts. 2002 she left the collective and returned to her
roots to develop a series of sculptural and installation works, that
combine her knowledge of new media strategies and her passion for
hightech equipment with the original idea of an auratic artwork. Her
work is refered to represent the missing link between new media art and the
classic contemporary approach. She is working with a widespread range
of material. She wonâ¤(TM)t stick to just one medium but is always
searching for new ways to express herself. She reconstructs her own processes of
perception and experience and translates them into a poetic language of
reduced technical sculpture and installation for the audience to
reexperience. With her series called ⤽sensation capsules� she
installs technical environments leading the spectator to experience
determined and perceptible stimuli and to expose to provoked feelings.
She successfully combines sensitive sculptural work and a scientific
approach.The work itself involves not only construction and
installation but also the sensual reaction of the audience.

2004 she did her diploma (MA) at her University of Applied Arts in
Vienna, Austria at the masterclass of Peter Weibel. Additionally she
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the University of Economics.
Recent Exhibitions (2005 selection):

Futura, Prag, CZ
ACF, London, in residence
EconomyClass, Nairobi, Kenya
Media Art Biennial 05/06, Warsaw, Poland
Free Beauty Shop, Prag, Czech Republic
Profiler, Kunstraum NOE, Vienna
Stigmata, (solo), Betonsalon Paris, France
Computerprints of Whales, City Gallery, Wels, Austria

http://www.judithfegerl.net

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BRIGITTE NEUFELDT

1947 born in Wilhelmshaven / Germany
1996 Studies of Fine Arts HbK Saar, Saarbrücken
2001 Diplom bei Prof. W. Nestler

Exhibitions

1999 DigitalArtgallery
2000 Chauny /France Seligenstadt
Völklingen / Saarland University of Saarland (purchases)
2001 Artsonjemuseum, Korea Pikon Consulting , Saarbrücken Single Exhibition (purchases)
2003– 2005 Masterstudium „Autorschaft & Multimedia“ Martin-Luther University of Halle / Saale „
Master of Art“Initiator and Organisation of the Exihibitions Locations

2003 Initiatorin Baumwelten-Weltenbäume Ausstellung Rathaus Pforzheim
2004 Initiatorin Baumwelten-Weltenbäume Ausstellung Bundesumweltamt Bonn
2006 Initiatorin baum.welt NAMU Bielefeld

www.atelier-neufeldt.org
and look in
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=3&cat=75

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TEOMAN MADRA

In my web site links may add possibilities for further dialogue

http://newmediakitchen.com/4uae06.htm

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GREGORY LASSERRE & ANAIS MET DEN ANCXT

Gregory Lasserre : digital creation...
Gregory Lasserre has both artistic and technical skills. He designs and creates multimedia works: interactive devices, video images, CD-Roms, movies and websites. He loves everything “visual”, everything that has to do with images and the virtual representation of reality, through 3D, special effects, video or sound creation. He is working on the development of interactive, autonomous forms of digital art. He seeks and experiment with various forms of expression. Gregory Lasserre has a Master in Multimedia. As a visual artist, a graphic designer and a video director, he also carries out numerous projects with theatre companies and musicians.

Anais met den Ancxt : Scenography...
Mixing various media (photography, video, drawing, painting, sculpture), she uses an anthropological approach of the townsman and his architectural and functional environment, in order to propose a scenographic, musical and choreographic reflexion of the city, and more particularly of public space. This one becomes a possible ground of fiction and re-creation where passers by make parties of the scene.
Anaïs met den Ancxt, has a degree from the Art' school of Lyon and a Licence of anthropology.

http://www.spheraleas.com/a_index.htm

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EVA URSPRUNG

Balkanize it!

http://balkanize.mur.at

Balkanize:  <tuerk.-nlat>: divide a territory into small states; create political confusion. (Duden)

A project by:
Eva Ursprung (Graz), Stevan Vukovic (Belgrade), Mihael Milunovic (Paris/Belgrade)
Website programming: Ales Zemene
Participating artists: Sule Esdik, Doris Jauk-Hinz, Johanna Lettmayer, Sabine Maier, Paula Miklosevic, Mihael Milunovic, reas, Eva Ursprung, Heimo Wallner, son:DA.

Balkanize it! is a confrontation between the virtual and the real and vice versa: a group of Austrian and Serbian artists was travelling the „Balkans“ in April 2003, in order to adjust the preconceptions produced by western cultural education and by media.

The Balkan Tour
Graz – Beograd – Sarajevo – Cetinje – Ulcinj – Tirana – Ohrid – Sofia
7 Austrian and 2 Serbian artists/theoreticians collected and recorded “live” impressions to leave their traces on the route of the virtual map. This is the "core" of the project, the meeting of the inner and the outside views, as well as seed for new contributions.

The Balkan Map

Please, upload images, texts, and sounds, which express your personal, subjective, individual view of the Balkans to our website: http://balkanize.mur.at.
What are your connotations, the images, that come to your mind? What are your experiences? Let´s reverse the “europization” of the continent - join the balkanization of Europe!

The Balkanize Performance
A multimedia-event combining video and still images with live electronics (sound samples), as well as analogue instruments, thus creating a new environment between documentation and abstraction.

The Balkanize Exhibition
Videos, prints and installations by the participating artists.

Eva Ursprung lives and works in Graz, Austria. Studies of psychology, philosophy and linguistics. Since 1986 free lancing artist and curator, working with sound, video and conceptional photography. Installations, performances, art in the public, electronic and social spaces. Musician with "Electric Orquestra - Radcal Improvisation", "wavegroom", "The Famous Grouses".
1993 founding of Kunstverein W.A.S. (Women´s Art Support, http://was.mur.at), founding of the media art center ESC (Extreme Subversive Culture); 1997 founding of the net art group and mailing list 42 (http://www.mur.at/42; since 2004 member of ltnc (Lady Tigers Night club, http://ltnc.mur.at).
ursprung@mur.at, http://ursprung.mur.at

"Balkanize it!", an ongoing web project. Eva Ursprung Balkanize it! http://balkanize.mur.at

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SVETLANA AND ANDI WALLWHORE

Ovarium: BioPorn Videodrama Just Across The Border

www.ovarium.org is:
a homegrown response to Real Television styled NeoCon ego-psychology
programming
Post Porn clashing the cute and violent
gorgeous, tactile, visceral and horrifyingly perverse
a remake of the Little Mermaid washing away the tragic

Svetlana and Andi Wallwhore are a dedicated to:
mocking the kitsch state of American propaganda
fighting a media war against banality
vaudeville burlesque as an endgame and a resurgence
channeling the nonsense of USA corporate media doublespeak

link : http://ovarium.org

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PETTER ALEXANDER GOLDSTINE

The American Dream
It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

Medvirker
Petter Alexander Goldstine – Performer

The first portion takes place in the USA and can be observed, followed,
or commented upon via the web site; --- theamericandreamtoday.blogspot.com 
The second portion takes place in an apartment as a sort of dinner   
party  performance.  
The project is in co-production with Black Box Teater with support from  
Norsk Kulturråd and Fond For Utøvende Kunstnere.      

My bio:    I am a simple tourist. 
 I have made many photographs. 
 I have stood before many people.   
 I endeavor to share my experiences.

Kunstnerisk Målsetting
My life in art began with fine art photography, which manifested into a social documentary form. I have lived among homeless Americans, Gypsies, Palestinians and Israelis, Kurds, Bangladeshi illegal immigrants and guerrilla soldiers; the outcasts of our society. My experiences with these people taught me about a humanity I have rarely felt from photographs. I began to understand that a world of media and advertising has desensitised our ability to be affected by mere images. Thus I began to search for other forms to contact the “viewer”. From my journalistic background I have found that art takes up where news and media fall short; to inform people.
Concerned with my influence on society, the influence of society on my actions, and the effects of the environment on social situations, I began to learn how to evoke specific reactions in people. Performance can be a direct form of communication, one in which we experience on a daily basis, person to person being the most intimate form of communication. I have begun to understand that the audience’s experience helps define my form of communication, that a community must be formed among the audience along with the performer. My attempt is to make the visitor an essential physical part of what is going on, so that thought and interpretation come from outside the theater and some time later, ultimately confronting them with their own humanity.

Scenario
Prelude: Ten people are invited to a dinner party. Introductions are made, while music is playing in the background, something from my father’s collection. I begin the evening with a cooking demonstration, something American, for example; my father’s award winning chili.

Main body: As the food is simmering in the background, I begin recounting stories. Using video and photographs as visual aids, I will construct the performance from my experiences touring the United States. Through anecdotes and stories a narrative of the American people emerges.

Epilogue: Dinner and a discussion. Topics may include but are not limited to; Americans today; Americans and Europeans, are they so different?; People and the power structures which encompass them, ie: Government.

Tema
It’s about the United States of America. The American Dream has become a question under constant discussion in recent times. In the beginning it was thought that through hard work, courage and determination one can achieve prosperity. The American Dream seems to exemplify the idea that the acquisition of great wealth demonstrates that if you have talent, intelligence and a willingness to work extremely hard, you are likely to be a success in life as a result. Many critics deem the American Dream superficial and meaningless, a reference to the saying “Money doesn’t buy happiness,” and that not everyone’s dream has to do with material wealth.
So, what is the dream today?
It’s been over two years since I’ve visited the U.S., during which I have traveled though Europe and the Middle East, worked with multi-cultural groups and lived in an artists collective. I believe these experiences have changed my world view, yet the only way to be certain is to return to where I started from and find out where I am now. I have learned that, among other things, nations do not make up individuals. Yet this is exactly what is occurring around the world, nations representing individuals, not the other way around. The United States has become a symbol created by media and pop culture, which represents the individuals making up the nation, creating a false sense of America and Americans.
Through this cliché, the American Dream, I have a way to talk to people, a focus in the project which leads to other stories, tangents, anecdotes... I don’t have a grasp on what this dream actually is, what this dream means for the Americans “…from California to the New York islands, from the redwood forests to the Gulf Stream waters…” that’s Woody Guthrie.

Process
I base my performances heavily on physical research, experiencing new situations, new environments, traveling through mental and physical states.  Questioning how a specific reality is given to our senses, how we travel through the layer of the imagination, how we perceive outside of a predetermined culture, how we move towards the point of assembly and how does this expand the world from within one human.
At our most vulnerable times we experience the essence of life.  I will explore the possibilities of traveling through the USA; by walking, bicycling, bus, train and automobile for three months, visiting each of the 48 continental states, asking strangers about their dreams for the future.  Some of these travel methods will make me more vulnerable than others, opening the possibility of external and internal experiences.

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DOMENICO OLIVERO

“disruptiveness-trunk”

part of a group of photo resarch about the decomposition of a trunk

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/domenico.olivero1/

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MARGARET PERIVOLIOTIS

Bio : Associate Professor with tenure of Textile Design and History of Furniture/Decoration, Doctor of Textile Design work evaluation, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, Greece.

Art Exhibitions: Seven international solo shows and participation to sixteen group and eleven web international exhibitions. 

Research works: 10 International research works on Design, Textiles and Education, with 10 Journal publications and more than 30 International Conference participations/publications.
Three books publication on Textiles and History of Furniture.

Collaborations: Hellenic Pedagogical Institute, Athens Municipality, American College of Athens and Youth Center for Adults Education. Lectures to many European Universities to graduate and post graduate students within the Socrates/Erasmus programs. Member: Greek Chamber of Arts (EETE), TEXERE, Design Research Society (DRS), History of Design Society and European Textile Network (ETN).

The present artworks are an experiment/interaction of textile art, computer art programs (paint and painter) and web data. Being a textile artist I work always with basic textile techniques as a platform.
My inspiration is the Greek nature and its bright colors, the myths and legends I was raised with, ancient coins with gods and heroes. The artworks started as textile projects and were finalized via computer work, printed on laminated cotton.

URL: www.perivoliotis-mar.gr

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CARLOS KATASTROFSKY

work:

russian roulette: 
http://aqua.subnet.at/carlos/projekte/netart/roulette/


the file you can download by pressing the provided button is randomly  
chosen. but be aware! 
It could be pornographic, a virus that crashes your  
entire system, a britney spears - song or other bad data. 

but it also could be some really great stuff... who knows?

texts: http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/002212.html#more
           http://neural.it/nnews/russian_roulettee.htm


bio: Carlos Katastrofsky (b. 1975) is an artist, based in austria/ europe.  
working primarily in the field of new media art, his areas of 
exploration include netart, hacktivism, software art and the possibilities of web-  
elements as cultural tools.

Recent exhibitions include viper basel (2006), prog:ME Festival of  
Electronic Media, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia (2005), Web Biennial 2005,  
Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey and others.


website:  

http://aqua.subnet.at/carlos

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GARRETT LYNCH

project 1 System for Multiple Compositions on a Theme