Hello Millie and all ,

Millie, thanks for remind me the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That's 
attic. I think the attic could be included in the  topic: how will digital 
life affect human memory. The attic was a 2002 - collaborative project 
between Reiner Strasser (http://netartefact.de/ ) , http://nonfinito.de/ ) 
and I. To this work Strasser wrote:

"In the corner of a room is sitting my old computer with all the stuff I 
have created on it. Is it a real art object? Wouldn't it be the right 
instrument to play the art created on it, the right way to present and 
preserve it? --- Now it is virtually placed and visible in the Attic, a 
spaceless gallery of the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That."

What is being showed in the ATTIC are old computers and the 
web.art/net.art/digital art made on these machines. The attic is just the 
memory of the digital life being preserved. I do not know for how much time 
it will be possible to do this, because of the rapidity with which the 
information technologies develop. Any way our intention is to call atention 
to the necessity of the preservation of this memory. Will it be possible?...

After Millie's email I re-visited the attic. There was much time that I had 
visited the attic and I got surprised with my own machines and works 
there...

By the way there are yet some places to artists that want to have their 
"old" works and machines in the attic.

The best adress to see the attic is: 
http://arteonline.arq.br/museu/attic/introattic.htm

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Also I would like to invite you to browser at: 
http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_yto_cl.htm . There 
you can read the new collaborative review.

The guest artist of the third collaborative review of the Museum of the 
Essential and Beyond That's newsletter ( 
http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_yto_cl.htm) is 
Isabel Aranda YTO CL. Aranda was born, lives and works in Santiago, Chile.
She is working  with ASCII and Flash and Arkaos and ... and .... Her work is 
really very interesting. Now we are talking about "Mini Art Dance"
(http://arteonline.arq.br/museu/netartwebart/mini-art-dance/art-dance.html)

Below some comments:

"I am intrigued by the mixture of ASCII art (a very spare, minimalist style 
based on old fashioned computers) and the painterly, lush style which Aranda
uses in her backgrounds to the animations of Mini Art Dance. I would not 
have thought that these two styles are compatible, but Aranda uses them
together to great effect." (Millie Niss - http://www.sporkworld.org)

"I love mini-art-dance; and one thing which I think is particularly nice 
about it is that if you click on several of the links one after the other,
you get several of the audio tracks playing at the same time, and they all 
synchronise with each other. You can display several of the mini-windows on
screen simultaneously as well: each new one you open sends the old ones into 
the toolbar at the bottom of your screen, but you can drag them out again
and arrange them around the place.

It's very feminine and glamorous, isn't it? But at the same time it's quite 
modern and even a touch aggressive in places. I wonder if Isabel sees this
as a representation of modern woman in a digital environment, or the modern 
female artist in a digital environment - or is it less of a conscious
statement than that?" (Edward Picot - http://www.edwardpicot.com )

If you want to know how Isabel Aranda gets to do so amazing work, read the 
third collaborative review at:

http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_yto_cl.htm

In fact, these collaborative reviews  also could be included in September 
topic, nowadays they are a way to show what is being produced by the digital 
artists but in the future they should help people to remember the Art of our 
times.

Computers and  Internet are extensions of our memories. Thanks to them the 
human being has now an enormous memory compartment. It is not necessary to 
register everything in our brains.

Best regards,.

Regina Célia Pinto

http://arteonline.arq.br
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm
http://bigsheep.blogspot.com

New Work:
http://arteonline.arq.br/eva/

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