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Are net artists avantgarde?
Are net artists avantgarde? If you compare Ola Pehrson's latest artwork, NASDAQ vocal index 2003, with Igor Stromajer's net art piece Oppera Teorettikka Internettikka from 1999 you are tempted to say yes. Both works show a lot of similarities as the use of choirs to sing code and the presentation in a performance like setting. The only difference is that where Stromajer's piece is about singing html code, Peherson's is about singing stock market prices. As net artists are more familiar with code (most of them code their work themselves) it is easy to assume that this kind of works will be made sooner by net artists, hence avant garde. This said I still would rather go for the idea that some things are just in the air (zeitgeist). Anyway what you see in both works is the tendency to translate abstract code into a more understandable language. Something we probably will see more in the near future.
© Peter Luining netartreview, 2003, www.netartreview.net
Igor Štromajer Intima Virtual Base Virtualna baza Intima Igor Stromajer www.intima.org Igor Štromajer
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