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Art in Cyberspace - Jan. 96


January 21, 1996
ART;Art in Cyberspace: Can It Live Without a Body?
By STEVEN HENRY MADOFF

THE LEVELS RISE UP ENDLESSLY. The structure is immense, intricate, a circular web of connecting cells grotesque in sheer girth, with no vanishing point in sight. The image is "The Tower of Babel," by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. And now, 433 years after Bruegel painted it, a computer search to find the picture on line proves tellingly, deliciously labyrinthine. It's a voyage into a virtual world that, depending on your point of view, either complements the world of physical objects or threatens to subsume it.


the day i met mouchette

I met mouchette at the last meet-in-a-nice-restaurant.org, an event organised by the neen artist nikola tosic (http://tosic.com). Neen is a new artistic movement launched in 2000 by the artist Miltos Manetas. (http://neen.org) On that day, I discussed with the neenstars, angelo plessas (http://angeloplessas.com), andreas angelidakis (http://angelidakis.com) and nikola tosic about neen and net.art. What are the differences in between, is it the same, is it part of a same movement or idea? I disagreed. I repeated what Vuk Cosic said once, relating the story of net.art that "it wasn't meant as an art movement in bthe beginning but more as a way to prevent people of what could become internet". Neen was created by Miltos Manetas as a new art movement: the art of now, websites are the art of nowadays. Neen is often done with flash, a proprietary software. Free softwares are more in the net.art side. Neen is a brand, is net.art one? I don't beleive. Neen was an attitude. Is net.art one? I just don't know. But on the same day, I met Mouchette! http://Isabelle-arvers.com


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