:: Thursday, February 10, 2005 ::
EXHIBITION.REVIEW: PROOF: Pictorialised, Constructed, The Act of Seeing With One's Own EyesBY: Molly Hankwitz
EXCERPT: With voiceovers from the lost, walking insane, marginal, and misbegotten, this new work echoes his most wonderful of all films, LOST BOOK FOUND (1997). And, finally, net critic and Latina cultural critic, Coco Fusco's piece 'Dolores 10 by 10' (2004), which examines the exploitation and surveillance of real Mexican female tech workers, was a pleasure, finally, to see. However, it is felt that this work deserves infinitely larger and more visual attention in the gallery setting so as to force viewers to deal with the truth of the content.
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Curated by Mike Stubbs at the ACMI Screen Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, from 09.12.04 to 13.02.05
BOOK.REVIEW: Internet Art by Rachel GreeneBY: Eduardo Navas
EXCERPT: Greene takes a chronological approach throughout the introduction and the first chapter, then moves on to focus on specific strategies or thematics and writes about works that were made in 1995 in direct juxtaposition with others done in later years. Greene contextualizes internet art as an extension of art practices that are now part of the mainstream artworld. Artists like Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, and Valle Export among many others are cited as predecessors of internet art, not necessarily in technological terms, but rather in ideological explorations of communication in art practice. The already well-known early net artists like Vuk Cosic Heath Bunting, Olia Lialina, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin are mentioned along with others like Clover Cleary, Annie Abrahams, and Andy Deck who can be considered part of a second online generation.
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Link to book and publisher's site.
FEATURE: ARCO '05, Madrid, 09-14 FebBY: Peter Luining
Today ARCO '05 (Madrid), the largest artfair in the world, opens it's doors again. Besides that there's a new media curatorial project presented by Mike Tribe called blackbox, there's also the new media art project by Antonio Cerveira-Pinto for the MEIAC. 3 Parts of his project will be shown at the Arco. One of the parts consists out of a presentation of the latest aquisitions of software- and netart by the museum. For a explanation of Cerveira-Pinto's and MEIAC's stunning project look at the full press linked below.
Click here to read the complete press release.
Direct link to Antonio Cerveira-Pinto's Metamorfosis project:
http://metamorfosis.risco.pt
Link to the Spanish Museum (Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo): http://www.meiac.org
