White Cube is a term from art-theory which marks the usual place for the work of art, the gallery or the art museum in art-system.
The term, which is used particularly in the 'concept art', brings up many aspects for discussion: the aesthetical neutrality of a showroom/place of art-exhibition/(=white cube) DOES influence the viewer and loses it's status of neutral space of re-presentation of art. The White Cube has it's esthetic roots in the architecture of the modernism, which publicized the naked, white wall as overcoming of historicism. On the other hand the term White Cube stands also for an institution criticism in the art: The White Cube is The Institution, that ennobles the meaning and value on the art-market/art-system. It ennobles/transforms The Work Of Artist into Work Of Art. Ergo:White Cube as Institution is is not neutral in relation to the works of art. The curator decides which artist assigns to this rank. First the artwork that takes place in the White Cube/Institution? of the gallery is identifiable and identified as Art.
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Pozdravljeni,
na tej provizorični internet-strani Vam predstavljam(o) koncept razstave, ki se v okviru Vaše institucije (ki je povod za ta koncept) nanaša na ravno ta 'deoxy'-internetni projekt, na katerega serverju se nahajate. V okviru deoxy-serverja razvijam(o) alternativne 'kuratorkse projekte', pri čemer se pridevnik 'alternativne' nanaša na projekte v 'svobodnem' prostoru Interneta, ki naj bi bil neodvisen od rigidnih zakonitosti realno obstoječega umetniškega sistema.
'DEOXY'-intrenetni-projekt ( http://www.deoxy.org ) je v svoji historični osnovi delo 'Dimitri'-ja, entuziasta iz San Francisca, ki je pribljižno pred desetletjem sprogramiral interaktivno user-friendly-stran http://www.deoxy.org , ki jo danes upravljajo on in njegovi vsebinsko-programerski pribočniki in mi, registrirani člani na deoxy-ju. 'Internet-users', ki se zbirajo na tem naslovu tvorijo takoimenovano internet-community, katere definicija pa še zdaleč ni enoznačna. Menim, da je posebnost dotične internet-ponudbe predvsem v tem, da nam 'host' (=gostitelj) nudi možnosti kreativnega semi-programiranja, ki nam omogoča inovativno umetniško izražanje in sodelovanje.
DEOXY.org ima kompleksno strukturo, katere epistemološka osnova je 'kognitvna znanost', ki temelji na delu avtorjev kot so Timothy Leary ( http://deoxy.org/leary.htm ), Robert Anton Wilson ( http://deoxy.org/raw.htm ), Terrence McKenna ( http://deoxy.org/mckenna.htm ) in drugih. Tvorec DEOXY-ja (Dimitri) je poimenoval osnovno pojmovanje človekove psihologije '8fold Model of Human Consciousness' ( http://deoxy.org/8brains.htm ). Home-page deoxy-ja http://www.deoxy.org je grafično 'razparceliran' na funkcionalne razdelke v kvadratih, ki se nanašajo ali na notranjo zgradbo deoxy-ja, ali pa predstavljajo info-agregate iz izbranih strani iz interneta.
Lansko leto je deoxy.org razširil svojo interaktivno internet—ponudbo na področje 'programiranja' enciklopedičnih strani, sorodnih wikipediji. Pri tem skolpu interface-ov gre takorekoč za interno deoxy—wikipedijo ( http://deoxy.org/wiki/action=index ), ki pa je v okviru deoxy-community-kolektiva pridobila svojevrstne razsežnosti kolektivnega (umetniškega) soustvarjanja.
Vabim Vas, da si trenutno stanje našega kolektivnega ustvarjanja/ko-programiranja ogledate na podnaslovu 'DEOXY-EXHIBITION' ( http://deoxy.org/wiki/DEOXY-Exhibition ). Ta stran vsebuje indeks naših internet-razstav, ki smo jih 'deoxyjanci' kolektivno pričeli ustvarjati lansko leto. Ena izmed strani se imenuje 'Deoxyan Artwork' ( http://deoxy.org/wiki/Deoxian_Artwork ) in zaenkrat združuje umetniška dela nekaterih izmed nas. Razstava 'Les Pastorales' ( http://deoxy.org/wiki/DEOXY-Exhibition/Les_Pastorales ) vsebuje fotografije deoxy-ancev z izrazitim idilično-pastoralnim navdihom. Naša DEOXY-EXHIBITION, i e Internet-razstava 'The Magic Fractal' se navezuje na nov/star trend računalniške umetnosti, poimenovane tudi 'The Fractal Art', ki pa se dandanes bojuje s podobnimi nasprotniki evolucije medijske umetnosti, kot se je to dogajalo za časa prodora fotografije kot novega umetniškega izraza:
Fractal Art is a subclass of two dimensional visual art, and is in many respects similar to photography—another art form which was greeted by skepticism upon its arrival. Fractal images typically are manifested as prints, bringing Fractal Artists into the company of painters, photographers, and printmakers. Fractals exist natively as electronic images. This is a format that traditional visual artists are quickly embracing, bringing them into FA's digital realm. ( http://deoxy.org/wiki/DEOXY-Exhibition/The_Magic_Fractal )
DEOXY-EXHIBITION 'Confidential' je mišljena kot realizacija konceptualne umetnosti na Internetu:
This DEOXY-Exhibition, Confidential, is of a 'conceptual' cognitive value. Conceptual/cognitive because it doesn't adress your eye-senses exclusivly or primary, but suggests you to consider the 'exhibited' contributions also in cognitive sense, as 'documents' of certain 'hidden' acting of the various power-systems. In nowadays trendy terminology this would be called 'documenting the conspiracies in their process of being unfolded' in any kind of form - as audio or visual 'documents'. So the artistic act itself declares the found ('found-footage-art, the classical postmodern art-strategy) or 'fictional' ('gonzo') documents to an 'art-piece' of conceptual value. Don't hesitate to post your found- or gonzo-footage of such visualy informational values here. ( http://deoxy.org/wiki/DEOXY-Exhibition/Confidential )
Prvi konceptualni predlog razstave pod tem naslovom je "Freedom of Information Act":
Documents from CIA-internet-site, published as a result of Freedom-of-Information-Act-'democratic demmands'; easily comparabale with ex-communistic, still hidden files; as Cia's also they are not easily readable. 'Enjoy'.
Na DEOXY-EXHIBITIOB—indeks-strani boste našli tudi naslov Riga ( http://deoxy.org/wiki/DEOXY-Exhibition/Riga ), pod katerim se nahaja foto-art-reportaža fotografa iz Rige.
DEOXY-razstave so projekti v progresu, ki pa so odprti za vse - editira jih lahko vsakdo. Na deoxy-ju je približno 10 do 20 stalno delujočih 'art-aktivistov', krog le teh pa se širi iz tedna v teden. O skupnih projektih se pogovarjamo ali na deoxy-irc-chatu (dosegljiv iz home-page-a) ali pa na forumu, kot na primer tukaj : ( http://deoxy.org/forum/showflat.pl?Cat=3&Board=visual&Number=49070&page=2&view=collapsed&sb=5 )
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Na deoxy-ju smo lansko leto začeli razvijati 'gibanje' Lingvističnega Hedonizma:
Linguistic Hedonism is a movement which promotes the uncensored expression of the individual's honest linguistic intentionality. It relies on a fundamental understanding that reality is syntactical and endorses cognitive synergy. Fundamentally, it is a hybrid of 'the power of intention' and an understanding of the cascading effect of motion upon form: Meme-bers of the LH movement believe that the synchronicity/symmetry inherent to motion and form is the linguistical resonance of a fractal timescape. They believe that expressed intention effects the morphogenetic field. Subsequently, by manifesting universally enharmonic sonic hedonic phonics tangential to the existential architectonics, linguistic hedonists believe it is possible to hack reality into heaven via language. This concept endorses the cultivation of subjective prayer, ritual, magic, etc.
The Basic Principles Of Linguistic Hedonism:
1. SERVE YOUR SENTENCE
2. SHARE YOUR LANGUAGE
( http://deoxy.org/wiki/Linguistic_Hedonism )
L H sicer ni vuzualno, temveč lingvistično izražanje, v okviru katerega pa se dogajajo tudi avdio in vizualne kreativne razsežnosti. Na tej strani Vas prosim če poslušate kompozicijo deoxy—janca Relayerja, ki jo lahko poslušate, če kliknete na vrhu strani 'Play this page as M3U playlist'.
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Realizacija razstave:
sama postavitev razstave bi zaobsegala nekatere materializacije/printe ali fotografij, ali drugih vizualnih umetniških del, ki so primerna za tovrstno materializacijo. Ker je na deoxy-ju tudi kar nekaj zelo dobrih glasbenikov, bi za zvočno kuliso razstave uporabili posnetek nasnetih skladb izbranih umetnikov. V galeriji bi se predvajali tudi videi deoxy-video-umetnikov, kot projekcija na steno.
Izbor umetnikov bi prvenstveno opravila jaz, s pomočjo enega glavnih programerjev na deoxy-ju, ki je obenem odgovoren za editiranje internih deoxy-wiki-strani.
Zaenkrat toliko.
Lep pozdrav
Vanesa Cvahte
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BIO:
Vanesa Cvahte Zaključila sem študij umetnostne zgodovine na Karl Frances Universitaet v Gradcu. Kot kustos sem bila zaposlena v Slovenj Gradcu, projektno pa sem bila aktivna kot kustos nekaterih razstav v Sloveniji in v Avstriji. Trenutno sem zaposlena v družinskem podjetju Gradbeni Biro Cvahte.