valery.grancher on Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:25:11 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> [open letter to Yukiko Shikata] |
To answer Geert lovink email about the google painting bought by Google: Hereafter some info about a google paintying done on 2001 in Los Angeles and its history ! I sent this email hereafter to the curator of this event... Your coment are welcome: Best regards Valery Grancher http://www.nomemory.org http://www.nomemorybazaar.com Hello Yukiko Shikata, How are you, I'm contacting you because I just saw this page on the web and really I don't know how to perceive it. I rode that you were part of this project as a curator. http://www.exonemo.com/NP/index.html I would like to ask you what you think about it when you will know that I did this project on 2001 and was show in deitch gallery in NY! http://www.nomemory.org/webpaint/data/googleoil.htm and was sold in an art auction dealing with contemporary art on last june in Drouot Paris by Ma=EEtre Tajan on June 2004 (really more expensive that the exonemo one to google): http://www.tajan.com here the catalog of the auction (lot 187). http://www.tajan.com/pdf/4433.pdf This paintings is a part of "webpaintings" project in initiated on 1998: http://www.nomemory.org/webpaint This google paintings was shown in severals shows and treproduced in art magazine in korea, because was shon on 2002 at the artsonje center in Seoul and Gwangjyu in a show called "less ordinary". This picture of this painting was also diffused on nettime on 2001, exonemo is a part of nettime ! was also show during two week on last may on front page of rhizome.org and was reproduced in several magazines and catalog.... As a curator of this project I deeply want to have your opinion about this I thank you for your attention and your kindness and I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible Best regards Valery Grancher http://www.nomemory.org 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