Born Digital: Benefit Online Auction on Paddle8
Starts: April 15th at 12:00
Ends: April 30th at 12:00
At http://paddle8.com
PRESS FOLDER: http://www.linkartcenter.eu/public/press/BD_press_folder.zip
DIRECT LINK: http://paddle8.com/auctions/linkart
Born Digital is a benefit auction and an online exhibition made to
support the activities of the Link Art Center on the online auction
platform Paddle8. The event - the first with this focus taking place in
Europe on this scale - will open on April 15, 2014, and will include
more than 50 works kindly provided by 32 artists. For two weeks long,
you are invited to bid on the works to support the artists and help us
reach our goals. The Link Art Center is the first Italian organization
to collaborate with Paddle8, an online auction house that partners with
non-profit organizations to present their benefit auctions online.
The complete list of participants includes: Alterazioni Video, Anthony
Antonellis, Aram Bartholl, Erik Berglin, Enrico Boccioletti, Heath
Bunting, Marco Cadioli, Martin John Callanan, Gregory Chatonsky, Adam
Cruces, Caroline Delieutraz, Harm Van Den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart,
Electroboutique, Herbert W. Franke, Elisa Giardina Papa, Matteo
Giordano, Emilio Gomariz, IOCOSE, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša,
JODI, Joan Leandre, Jan Robert Leegte, Jonas Lund, Rosa Menkman, Filippo
Minelli, Vera Molnar, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Angelo Plessas, Evan Roth,
Alexei Shulgin, Carlo Zanni.
All the featured artists are either based or born in Europe. The
selection includes different generations of artists working with the
digital medium and within the digital environment, from early pioneers
such as Vera Molnar and Herbert W. Franke, to net.art classics such as
JoDi and Alexei Shulgin, to younger artists still in their twenties. The
selected works display a wide range of formats, and respond in different
ways - sometimes traditionally, sometimes more radically - to the issue
of collecting the digital: prints, installations, drawings and videos
are joined by animated gifs, websites, printable 3D files and 3D printed
sculptures. Some of them display generative images, some others deal
with desktop aesthetics; some refer to online habits, cultures and
places, others are strictly related to the living and working conditions
introduced by the digital shift. They all inhabit networked spaces; they
are Born Digital.
Starting prices vary from the very affordable (around 100 EURO for a
ViBo - Video Book by Carlo Zanni or a Certificate of Existence by Martin
John Callanan) to the higher prices reached by outstanding installations
like Jan Robert Leegte’s Scrollbar Composition 2005/2011. If an artwork
is sold, 20% of the final price will be used to support the upcoming
activities of the Link Art Center.
The LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age (Link Art Center) is
a multi-functional center promoting artistic research with new
technologies and critical reflections on the core issues of the
information age. Founded in Brescia, Italy, in 2011, the Link Art Center
is active locally, internationally and online: it organizes exhibitions,
produces artistic and curatorial projects, publishes books. To check out
past activities, visit our website: www.linkartcenter.eu. The funds
raised will be used to support our ongoing activities: Link Editions,
our publishing initiative; Link Point, our project space; and Link
Cabinet, our upcoming online gallery.
Paddle8 is an online auction house, connecting buyers and sellers of
fine art and collectibles across the Internet. Paddle8 presents two
types of auctions: curated auctions of art and collectibles under
$100,000, and benefit auctions in collaboration with non-profits. Since
its founding in 2011, Paddle8 has collaborated with over 200 non- profit
organizations worldwide to present their benefit auctions online,
dramatically expanding the audience of supporters and fundraising
results for each non-profit partner. More info: http://paddle8.com
The Link Art Center would like to thank all the artists, XPO Gallery
(Paris), 22,48m2 (Paris) and DAM Gallery (Berlin) for their amazing
support in this initiative.
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Domenico Quaranta
email: [email protected]
skype: dom_40
http://domenicoquaranta.com
http://www.linkartcenter.eu
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