nettime-nl: ?net_condition?Kunst?im?Online-Universum?23.?09.?1999?-?09.?01.?2000

[JODI <jodi@jodi.org> (by way of Josephine Bosma)]

http://www.BerlinOnline.de/aktuelles/berliner_zeitung/medien/.html/3artik02.html
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???? Publiziert?am?Donnerstag,?12.August?1999?von?:?die?redaktion?.

??????DEUTSCH:

??????netz_bedingung?/?net_condition?Kunst?im?Online-Universum?23.?09.?1999?-?09
.?01.?2000

?????ENGLISCH:

??????netz_bedingung?/?net_condition?Art?in?the?Online?Universe?23?September?199
9?-?9?January?2000

??????An?exhibition?which?takes?place?as?a?multilocal?networked?event?simultaneo
usly?in?four?cities:?Karlsruhe?(ZKM),?Graz?(steirischer?herbst),
??????Tokyo?(ICC?InterCommunication?Center),?and?Barcelona?(MECAD?Media?Centre?d
'Art?i?Disseny).

??????This?exhibition?project?with?about?100?positions?does?not?only?attempt?to?
provide?a?comprehensive?synopsis?of?the?current?state?of?net.art,
??????but?intends?above?all?to?give?an?introduction?to?the?political?economic?id
eas,?to?social?practices?and?artistic?applications?of?the?online
??????communication?within?the?net?community.

??????Net.art?-?reaching?from?physical?local?installations?to?the?world-widely?l
inked?computer?games?-has?become?the?forum,?within?which?most?of
??????the?emancipatory?hopes?of?the?avant-garde?art?have?been?formulated?anew.?N
et.art?is?thus?not?only?the?most?recent?phase?of?media?art
??????characterising?the?media?discourse,?(following?video?sculpture?of?the?80's
?and?interactive?computer?installations?of?the?90's)?but?is?also?the
??????art?form?to?which?the?greatest?political?utopian?ideas?are?attached.?One?c
ondition?and?a?principle?reflection?that?feed?the?interest?in?the
??????development?of?a?global?network,?is?the?belief?that?the?social-revolutiona
ry?hopes?of?the?historical?avant-garde?can?be?fulfilled
??????technologically?now.

??????Every?new?medium,?every?new?technical?image?carrier,?relinquishes?several?
characteristics?as?compared?to?the?previous?image?media,?but
??????generally?introduces?several?new?characteristics?that?are?superior?to?hist
orical?image?media?in?terms?of?certain?aspects.?Thus,?the
??????emergence?of?new?image?media?will?not?efface?the?old?image?media,?instead?
the?new?media?will?force?its?conditions?on?the?old?media.?"The
??????Photographic?Condition"?(Rosalind?Krauss)?has?changed?painting,?video?has?
changed?film,?digital?technology?has?changed?film?and?video,
??????etc.?The?net?changes?image?media?and?literature.?The?focus?of?this?exhibit
ion?project?is?thus?on?investigating?what?conditions?are?being
??????introduced?by?the?net?and?to?what?new?conditions?the?historical?media?as?w
ell?as?the?historical?social?forms?of?communication?and?economy
??????have?been?subjugated?by?the?net.

??????The?net_condition?is?not?only?reduced?to?two-dimensional?images?and?texts?
on?the?screen,?but?rather?the?net?in?virtual?space?controls?the
??????sequence?of?events?in?real?space?and?the?events?in?real?space?control?the?
sequence?of?events?in?virtual?space.?Shared?virtual?realities,
??????shared?cyberspace,?dislocated?communication,?multi-user?environments?and?a
n?island?of?net-games?are?the?focuses?of?the?exhibition.
??????Dozens?of?local?players?in?the?exhibition?space?will?interact?with?dozens?
of?world-widely-distributed?players?in?the?virtual?net-space.

??????A?second?major?focus?is?to?demonstrate?specific?production?procedures?and?
control?mechanisms?of?this?interactive?online?communication?in
??????the?net.?In?a?separate?lounge,?curated?by?Walter?van?der?Cruijsen?(co-foun
der?of?The?Digital?City?Amsterdam)?the?diversity?of?virtual
??????neighbourhoods,?of?the?numerous?urban?projects,?social?intervention?and?op
inion?pools?will?be?presented?in?discussions,?publications?and
??????online?chats.?Of?course,?the?exhibition?will?also?be?on?show?online.?For?e
xample?Benjamin?Weil,?the?founder?of?ada-web?and?currently
??????net-curator?at?the?ICA?London?(Institute?for?Contemporary?Art)?will?set?up
?an?online?historical?overview?of?the?most?important?chapters?of
??????net.art.

??????Peter?Weibel?conceived?the?exhibition.?He?has?selected?the?artists?for?net
_condition?together?with?the?curators?on?location,?Jeffrey?Shaw,
??????Hans-Peter?Schwarz,?Johannes?Goebel?and?Matthias?Osterwold?(Karlsruhe),?Pe
ter?Weibel?(Graz),?Toshiharu?Itoh?(Tokyo)?and?Claudia
??????Giannetti?(Barcelona).

??????On?the?occasion?of?the?exhibition?a?catalogue?will?be?published?in?English
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