[NetBehaviour] Art Blog links at Furtherfield.org

[clemos]

hi all

I'm so fan of Dragan Espeschied's Frozen Niki that I talk about it all the time.
sometimes it makes me feel like I am his personal impresario.

anyway, this time it's right in the topic so :

title - frozen niki.
info (about) - Follow what is in going on in the head of Nikolaj
Osinin, the frozen cosmonaut that is also known as Frozen Niki!
URL - http://frozen-niki.org

I consider this work a master piece which actually makes the net.art
movement reach a new level of "maturity".

for several (and rather unprecise) reasons, especially because it
clearly refers to science fiction, I would compare it to Philip K
Dick's Valis trilogy.
these books were his very last books, and they put together a very new
combination of genres and problematics. some kind of synthesis, a
"critical mass", which result was bigger than the sum of its parts.
these books (and a few others) also (in my view) marked the end of an
"era" (the era of somehow "naive" sf), and allowed the rise of new
mutations of the genre (cyberpunk for exemple)
to me frozen-niki operates the same kind of successful "fusion", the
kind of experimentation which brings the whole movement to another
level.

it also reminds me the "net.art is dead" sentence, and the association
we made with annie abrahams between net.art and rock (and which,
somehow, can be widen to sf).
when people started to say "rock n roll is dead", I personnally think
it was actually only mutating to another "level", perhaps more
"mature", once again.
if you see theories in a darwinian perspective, art movements, like
any other "theories", kill each other for evolution (like Einstein's
killed Newton's): usally some mutated "child" theory destroys its own
parent.

frozen niki is one of the (*very* few) art pieces that make me believe
(dream) that one day net.art will become (after a few "mutations" and
with the help of recombinations with other genres, in the case of
frozen niki) the really "popular" _and_ (thus!) free art movement it
should be.

mh all this is a bit confused (sorry for the bad english)...
no time to really work and write.

+++++
clemos

On 8/17/06, marc <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:
> Art Blog links at Furtherfield.org
>
> We have been receiving and collecting links for Art Blogs on
> furtherfield for a little while now. And we thought that it might be a
> good idea to see who else is out there currently creating 'Art Blogs'.
>
> We are particularly interested in finding 'art blogs' that are created
> as 'art objects/pieces/works of art', and blogs observing, writing about
> net art & meda arts culture.
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