[NetBehaviour] May 4: jimpunk!

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marc, i don't know if you know about the considered net artists in 
spain... it's so funny, so ridiculous...

but far away the net, doesn't happen the same in all arts?

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about heroic periods in the net... that's a long conversation, because 
it has change a lot in 10 years. (it has change so much that i'm 
sort-of-hidden-here... protecting myself from the outside net...)

i don't know if new users joining the net now would apreciate harvey's 
anatomy, for instances... or mez's language.

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marc escribió:
> I know where you are coming from...
>
> I have been arguing against the conolisation of net art by just a few 
> 'net.artists' for years.
>
> I have also been against this notion of a 'heroic period', a myth 
> designed by those who used the (.) in net art (net.art), their greed 
> for popularity was only for the few.
>
> For me it was a depressing experience, especially when a couple of my 
> personal friends who I had been creating projects with in 96 started 
> building for high profiles via certain academics and exploiting my own 
> energies for their own fame. Getting known is not the issue here 
> though, it is more that many other net artists at that time were not 
> supported and were left out of the picture (deliberately) by a small 
> group - in order to claim a trophy in the history books, whilst 
> isolating their firends and peers systematically.
>
> I feel that the net.art gang (not net art) actually brought about the 
> decline of net art generally, by creating mythologies that it was 
> 'they' alone who were worth being considered by institutions certain 
> academics. A devious strategy which in vision was myopic and bared no 
> thought for the growth of net art as a whole. We also should remember 
> that these individuals also tried to say that net art was dead in 
> 1999. This decline or tactical shift was around the same time of the 
> dot.com crash. Which, of course was not true in reality, to those 
> thousands of others who were just getting on with it making anyway. 
> This helped to make more solid (the mythology) regarding their own 
> positoning in the history books, and for creating a more accessible 
> place for themselves in galleries and for selling their works. It was 
> tactical and of course about individuals rather then the culture as a 
> whole...
>
> Many have used the term 'net.art', to represent their own genre or 
> practice as opposed to 'net art', yet were not actively or directly 
> part of the 'net.art heroic period mythlogy'. They were just around 
> doing interesting excellent stuff at the same time - so today it is 
> really tough for those who had their own histories distorted also by 
> the few.
>
> So, its complicated - especially for those who are confused about net 
> art history anyway. I feel that we need to move on from dwelling about 
> a few misguided individuals, and spend more of energies in 
> concentrating on those who really deserve our respect and support - 
> which of course, is each other.
>
> Times are changing and history is and will be re-evalauted, thankfully 
> - and such hegemonies will be contested as part of a much larger 
> movement. Because people like myself (and hopefully others) who were 
> also doing net art stuff at that time will offer alternative 
> experiences relating to net art history.
>
> I have forgiven my 'net.art' friends in the UK, every now and then I 
> work with them on some projects. One has to let things go after a 
> while because such resentment can also distort one's own perspectives 
> and then create their own mythologies...
>
>
> marc
>
>
>
> i don't agree, jimpunk doesn't remember me jodi,
>
> in the last video works, reminds me to the great nam june paik.
>
> i hate jodi, in fact, i just can't stand him... him and some others...
>
>
> in net art, i "hate" more people who is acting as net-artist and 
> esqueezing the concept in order to be named that... because it's so 
> cool to be named netartist... that doesn't make the point. i would 
> write here more names, but what for? i just don't want them to be in 
> me, so i forgot the names...
>
> i can't hate: it would give to the people i dislike a sort of power 
> from me, and i just want to give myself to people i like, like jim or 
> some artists of this list + auriea, always, of course...
>
> maybe there are lots of net-art histories, written by every one of us...
>
> my net-art history began with hell collective.
>
> i would be cruel with jodi in this mail, but it doesn't make point 
> either...
>
> jimpunk video works remember me in some way to nam june paik's 
> experiments,
>
> and i feel very sorry for 
> That-People-Who-Is-Well-Positioned-In-Net-Art-World, and try to make 
> us think that what they write is specially important to current net 
> art situation, making their living out of it like parasites...
>
> ajj
>
>
>
> The Art Gallery of Knoxville escribió:
>
> > http://theartgalleryofknoxville.com/logo-w-jimpunk.gif
> >  EXHIBITION OF ART
> >  B Y JIMPUNK !   >  MAY 1 - 26
> > http://theartgalleryofknoxville.com/jimpunk3.gif
> > http://theartgalleryofknoxville.com/jimpunk4.gif
> >
> > May 1 - 26 The Art Gallery of Knoxville is excited to
> > present the work of artist jimpunk.
> >  > http://www.jimpunk.com/
> >  >  OPENING FRIDAY MAY 4 - 6 - 11pm  >
> > jimpunk is a French artist - working as a "net activist"
> > broadcasting content online and around the world.
> > This exhibition will present an installation centered
> > around the net/video work of DVblogH4ck:
> >  > http://dvblogh4ck.blogspot.com/
> >
> > http://theartgalleryofknoxville.com/jimpunk1.gif
> >  > The work will be on view in the Gallery May 1 - 26,
> > Friday and Saturday (3-8pm).  Please join us for the
> > opening party Friday May 4.
> >  > jimpunk has participated in various international new media 
> festivals, including Rhizome Artbase 101 for New Museum of 
> Contemporary Art, runme.org festival, European Media Art Festival, 
> break21_6th International Festival of Young Emerging Artists, 
> FILE-2002 electronic language international festival, Impakt Festival 
> 2002, machida museum art on the net 2002. Winner of the CYNETart_award 
> 2004 -Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau in 2004.
> >  > His work may be found in the 2004 book "Internet Art" by Rachel 
> Greene, published by Thames & Hudson.
> >
> > for more information on jimpunk:
> >
> > http://www.jimpunk.com/info/jimpunk_bio.txt
> >     >  > The image
> >
> > "jimpunk, is a talented and elegant artist who capitalises
> > on the Rococo potentialities of HTML, JavaScript and Flash
> > to create sites of infinite variability, detail and unending
> > surprise. His works have been perfectly described by
> > Tricia Fragnito as 'a web version of a roller coaster ride:
> > scary and fun and at the end you want to go again.' "
> >  > "In true networked style, jimpunk often works collaboratively
> > across geographical space, and produces sites which
> > exploit the unique experience of net browsing. He
> > embraces the pixel and what some would call "bad web
> > design" using web safe colour, pop up and flashing graphics
> > in works like www.-reverse.-flash-.-.back-; and in one of my
> > favourites the now offline www.nowar.nogame.org . Although
> > his breed of network art may have had an early Jodi-esque
> > influence, we can see from the intimate and poetic musing
> > of 1n-0ut [meditation], it has grown up to be distinctively
> > 'jimpunk.' "
> >  > Melinda Rackham,2005-04-25
> > Posted to http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=17114&page=1
> >
> > *********************
> > UPCOMING
> >  > photography project with migrant farmworker youth
> > and local 4-H children in rural TN
> >
> > playing three miles of wall along the Arizona/Sonora
> > border as an electro-acoustic instrument
> >
> > Curated by Jane Crowe
> > *********************
> > The Art Gallery of Knoxville
> > 317 N Gay St.
> > Knoxville, TN 37917
> > TEL: +1 978 857 0474
> > www.theartgalleryofknoxville.com
> >
> >
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