| valery.grancher on Wed, 21 Jul 2004 02:31:00 +0200 (CEST) |
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Hello, Hereafter some news about the webapintings project and its consequence, it has started on 1998, and is now copied by various international artist ! I am very pleased to have been the first to paint webpage and to see that this idea is starting a new kind of revolution in artworld world wild: First I was influenced by the great german artist Blank and Jeron who did 'dumb your trash" on 1997: They are making sculpture on marble from webpages: http://sero.org/dyt/ Second I was influenced by the great greek artist Miltos Manetas with his computer and wires paintings: http://www.manetas.com/splash/index.htm So I started on 1998 the "Pump your page" project: http://www.nomemory.org/pump/index2.html and the same year i initiated the "webpaintings" project: http://www.nomemory.org/webpaint On 1999 Carlo Zanni sent me an email to show me his great paintings he started to produce on the end on 1998: http://www.zanni.org/html/empty.htm On 1999 Ola Pehrson did a terrific installation, one of my favourite called "Desktop": http://www.olapehrson.com/desktop/index.html This installtion is confronting computer icons as sculpture, paintings, physical space and virtuality by streaming on real time through a webcam a viwe of this installtion: on the screen a new windows 95 screen is appearing ! In Russia a friend of Olia Liliana called Masha Moriskina painted http://www.rhizome.org screen on paper with pencil and gouache (2000): A terrific drawing. http://art.teleportacia.org/exhibition/masha/rhizome.jpg Then on 2001 after the big and crazy emergence of google, I perceived it as the perfect new internet icon and I produced in Miltos Manetas place (electronic orphanage) in Los Angeles the "google painting" (september 2001): http://www.nomemory.org/webpaint/data/googleoil.htm Shown in Artsonje center in Seoul and Gwangjyu "less ordinary" show on 2002 in south Korea. On 2002 the british artist Thomson and Craighead produced a e-bizness: http://www.dot-store.com dealing with off line net art pieces and one of them is "google tea towels" which is a best seller: http://www.dot-store.com/pages/teatowels.html i have boght all the four for my personnal collection, this eally one of the nest webpaings I have ever seen. Still on 2002 Miltos Manetas has done a great project called "internet paintings": http://www.manetas.com/internetpaintings/ On 2003 exonemo (http://www.exonemo.com) produced a project called "Natural process" by mixing and copying two pieces by two artist: "Desktop" 1999 by Ola Pehrson, and "Google paintings" by me: "Natural process flow": http://www.exonemo.com/NP/indexE.html shon on beging 2004 at Mori art Museum and sold to google on May 2004. We can see that through this tiome line a great revolution is starting and may be subject of a terrific collective show including all of these artists with a great catalog ! read also the conceptual statement of webpaintings! http://www.nomemory.org/webpaint/data/text2.htm Yours Valery Grancher http://www.nomemory.org http://www.nomemory.org/webpaint http://www.nomemorybazaar.com # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net