I know where you are coming from...
I have been arguing against the conolisation of net art by just a
few 'net.artists' for years.
I have also been against this notion of a 'heroic period', a myth
designed by those who used the (.) in net art (net.art), their
greed for popularity was only for the few.
For me it was a depressing experience, especially when a couple of
my personal friends who I had been creating projects with in 96
started building for high profiles via certain academics and
exploiting my own energies for their own fame. Getting known is not
the issue here though, it is more that many other net artists at
that time were not supported and were left out of the picture
(deliberately) by a small group - in order to claim a trophy in the
history books, whilst isolating their firends and peers
systematically.
I feel that the net.art gang (not net art) actually brought about
the decline of net art generally, by creating mythologies that it
was 'they' alone who were worth being considered by institutions
certain academics. A devious strategy which in vision was myopic
and bared no thought for the growth of net art as a whole. We also
should remember that these individuals also tried to say that net
art was dead in 1999. This decline or tactical shift was around the
same time of the dot.com crash. Which, of course was not true in
reality, to those thousands of others who were just getting on with
it making anyway. This helped to make more solid (the mythology)
regarding their own positoning in the history books, and for
creating a more accessible place for themselves in galleries and
for selling their works. It was tactical and of course about
individuals rather then the culture as a whole...
Many have used the term 'net.art', to represent their own genre or
practice as opposed to 'net art', yet were not actively or directly
part of the 'net.art heroic period mythlogy'. They were just around
doing interesting excellent stuff at the same time - so today it is
really tough for those who had their own histories distorted also
by the few.
So, its complicated - especially for those who are confused about
net art history anyway. I feel that we need to move on from
dwelling about a few misguided individuals, and spend more of
energies in concentrating on those who really deserve our respect
and support - which of course, is each other.
Times are changing and history is and will be re-evalauted,
thankfully - and such hegemonies will be contested as part of a
much larger movement. Because people like myself (and hopefully
others) who were also doing net art stuff at that time will offer
alternative experiences relating to net art history.
I have forgiven my 'net.art' friends in the UK, every now and then
I work with them on some projects. One has to let things go after a
while because such resentment can also distort one's own
perspectives and then create their own mythologies...
marc
i don't agree, jimpunk doesn't remember me jodi,
in the last video works, reminds me to the great nam june paik.
i hate jodi, in fact, i just can't stand him... him and some others...
in net art, i "hate" more people who is acting as net-artist and
esqueezing the concept in order to be named that... because it's so
cool to be named netartist... that doesn't make the point. i would
write here more names, but what for? i just don't want them to be
in me, so i forgot the names...
i can't hate: it would give to the people i dislike a sort of power
from me, and i just want to give myself to people i like, like jim
or some artists of this list + auriea, always, of course...
maybe there are lots of net-art histories, written by every one of
us...
my net-art history began with hell collective.
i would be cruel with jodi in this mail, but it doesn't make point
either...
jimpunk video works remember me in some way to nam june paik's
experiments,
and i feel very sorry for
That-People-Who-Is-Well-Positioned-In-Net-Art-World, and try to
make us think that what they write is specially important to
current net art situation, making their living out of it like
parasites...
ajj
The Art Gallery of Knoxville escribió:
> http://theartgalleryofknoxville.com/logo-w-jimpunk.gif
> EXHIBITION OF ART
> B Y JIMPUNK ! > MAY 1 - 26
> http://theartgalleryofknoxville.com/jimpunk3.gif
> http://theartgalleryofknoxville.com/jimpunk4.gif
>
> May 1 - 26 The Art Gallery of Knoxville is excited to
> present the work of artist jimpunk.
> > http://www.jimpunk.com/
> > OPENING FRIDAY MAY 4 - 6 - 11pm >
> jimpunk is a French artist - working as a "net activist"
> broadcasting content online and around the world.
> This exhibition will present an installation centered
> around the net/video work of DVblogH4ck:
> > http://dvblogh4ck.blogspot.com/
>
> http://theartgalleryofknoxville.com/jimpunk1.gif
> > The work will be on view in the Gallery May 1 - 26,
> Friday and Saturday (3-8pm). Please join us for the
> opening party Friday May 4.
> > jimpunk has participated in various international new media
festivals, including Rhizome Artbase 101 for New Museum of
Contemporary Art, runme.org festival, European Media Art Festival,
break21_6th International Festival of Young Emerging Artists,
FILE-2002 electronic language international festival, Impakt
Festival 2002, machida museum art on the net 2002. Winner of the
CYNETart_award 2004 -Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau in 2004.
> > His work may be found in the 2004 book "Internet Art" by
Rachel Greene, published by Thames & Hudson.
>
> for more information on jimpunk:
>
> http://www.jimpunk.com/info/jimpunk_bio.txt
> > > The image
>
> "jimpunk, is a talented and elegant artist who capitalises
> on the Rococo potentialities of HTML, JavaScript and Flash
> to create sites of infinite variability, detail and unending
> surprise. His works have been perfectly described by
> Tricia Fragnito as 'a web version of a roller coaster ride:
> scary and fun and at the end you want to go again.' "
> > "In true networked style, jimpunk often works collaboratively
> across geographical space, and produces sites which
> exploit the unique experience of net browsing. He
> embraces the pixel and what some would call "bad web
> design" using web safe colour, pop up and flashing graphics
> in works like www.-reverse.-flash-.-.back-; and in one of my
> favourites the now offline www.nowar.nogame.org . Although
> his breed of network art may have had an early Jodi-esque
> influence, we can see from the intimate and poetic musing
> of 1n-0ut [meditation], it has grown up to be distinctively
> 'jimpunk.' "
> > Melinda Rackham,2005-04-25
> Posted to http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=17114&page=1
>
> *********************
> UPCOMING
> > photography project with migrant farmworker youth
> and local 4-H children in rural TN
>
> playing three miles of wall along the Arizona/Sonora
> border as an electro-acoustic instrument
>
> Curated by Jane Crowe
> *********************
> The Art Gallery of Knoxville
> 317 N Gay St.
> Knoxville, TN 37917
> TEL: +1 978 857 0474
> www.theartgalleryofknoxville.com
>
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