On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Lars Midboe <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> ...Electrohype is closing down all future activities and I'm looking for
> someone who can store the European parts for use in future exhibitions.
>
>
A shame, Lars. You'd think the project could find a good home [and
hopefully it will, now.]
Is the entire Electrohype endeavour begin archived adequately? It should
have been mentioned more prominently during this discussion, especially
regarding this LEONARDO<http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/feb2001/ex_ELHYPE_andersson.html>blurb
from the distant past [ie 13 years ago]:
"Recent outbursts of NetArt enthusiasm, i.e. the NetArt section of last
spring's Whitney Biennal, SF MOMA's present exhibition "Art in
Technological Times" or Rachel Greenes article about the history of NetArt
in Artforum (May 2000), shows an Art Establishment embracing cyberpunk
anarchists. But Non-Establishment and Non-Commerce is the point of NetArt,
as of course its immateriality. It's seen, read and heard at any computer
equipped with a screen, a loudspeaker and a decent modem. But the same work
may look different in different browsers or in different versions of
browsers. And electronic technology is rapidly aging. How to collect and
document art which is totally dependant upon aging technology?
Such questions were discussed during the international conference and
exhibition Electrohype 2000 at the University College of Malmo, Sweden,
25-29 October 2000. Per Platou, member of the Norwegian performance- and
NetArt group Motherboard
(www.liveart.org<http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/feb2001/www.liveart.org>),
claimed the absurdity of maintaining ordinary copyright laws in the present
situation of easily reproduced uniqueness. But some interesting questions
remained unanswered: how to create new rules, and how to maintain an
activity in which everything is offered for free? And what about preserving
electronic art? Curator Perttu Rastas (from Kiasma Museum of Modern Art in
Helsinki) aimed at a conclusion when he stated that we may have to abandon
the routine of collecting material objects. The important thing is maybe
not pictures and programs, but rather the ideas behind them.
The Electrohype exhibition of digital works, in the galleries and at the
Web, featured international pioneers like Vuk Cosic, Alexei Shulgin, Olia
Lialina, Mez and others, as well as interesting Nordic artists like Bjorn
Wangen, Anna Kindvall, Klara Nagy, Sebastian Campion, Kirsten Bergaust and
others..."
Warmth,
Mez
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