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image: David Haines Study for Hydrogen Alpha Series, 2007, digital image.
Courtesy of the artist
120 x 120 cm

Net Art

 

Isabel Aranda | Vera Bighetti | Jason Nelson | Regina Pinto

 
       
 

Isabel Aranda
La Mano del hombre (The man's hand)

Artist Statement:
Sixteen fishes swim over an animated background, which depicts the
deep sea. By moving the mouse (which represents the man's hand) over a
fish, it changes its direction, gets blurred and dies. By clicking on
a fish, a window of Wikipedia opens up giving information about topics
on climate change and the human role in causing these changes.

I use Wikipedia as a way of referring to the positive changes man can
achieve. By working together on a common project we can overcome
complex situations, in this case, access to information. For me, this
free encyclopedia depicts Hope: collaboration replacing
competitiveness.

As humans we have subdued Nature, and we think we are getting control
over it. But this is a contradiction since we are destroying our
environment, which is our dwelling. By damaging Nature we are damaging
ourselves ¿Can we revert this situation?

En un fondo animado que representa el mar bajo la superficie, nadan 16
peces. Al pasar el mouse (que representa la mano del hombre) por sobre
un pez este cambia su dirección, se pone borroso, muere. Al hacer
click sobre el pez se nos abre una ventana de wikipedia con temas
climáticos y las consecuencias de la intervención humana en estos
cambios.

Uso Wikipedia con la intención de invocar los cambios positivos que el
mismo hombre puede producir. Al trabajar en un proyecto común podemos
lograr revertir situaciones complejas, como en este caso, el acceso a
la información. La enciclopedia libre para mí representa la esperanza.
La colaboración reemplazando a la competitividad.

Como humanidad, hemos doblegado a la naturaleza. Y la estamos
venciendo. Pero es una contradicción, ya que estamos destruyendo
nuestro entorno, el lugar que nos cobija. Al dañar la la naturaleza,
nos dañamos a nosotros mismos. ¿Podemos revertir esta situación?

BIO: Isabel Aranda YTO (1966), graduated in 1990 from "Universidad de
Chile" as a Bachelor in arts with mention in painting.
She directs to the online magazine "Escáner Cultural" www.escaner.cl -
She works the digital art, net.art and painting.

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Vera Bighetti
CO²nscience
(Second Life)
see Images

Artist Statement:
Taking advantage of the code and of SL’s interactivity, I propose the avatars build – or not – a forest. Each avatar that enters the space will get a type of tree which, if planted, will simulate CO² reductions in the environment. Furthermore, these trees will reduce the forest devastation and global temperature. My concern is calling people’s attention to the environmental problem we face in the real world, proposing nothing more than people gain real-world awareness in the virtual world.

Bio: Vera Bighetti is a new media artist and multimedia essayist in Digital Culture at the Graduation Program in Communication and Semiotics of PUC-SP (São Paulo, Brazil).

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Jason Nelson
Vholoce: Weather Visualiser

Artist Statement:
This artwork does not attempt to predict the weather, nor does it build complex machines of wires and water spouts in order to control the way temperature and pressure embrace. This artwork is about two places: one of data, of numbers and patterns leaked from names and meteorologies on maps, and the other is this electric and paneled space, these strange net born installations. Within Vholoce: the Weather Visualiser, your experiences, as the weather, will always change, never repeating whirls of rain and heat and thunder and wind driven creations. There are molecules as energy and response and color, and abstract shapes of movement and weather fought architecturals. There are poetics which rise and fall away to new contexts, videos which act as anti-weather forecasts and bizarre haphazard theatrics. The sky is only visible in contrast to the weather, and this work spits back such stormy data, small universes for mice and the small screen.

Bio: Jason Nelson teaches/researches/experiments at Griffith University. He so misses the snows of the north and south. His artworks are odd mixes of playthings, poetics and absurdist explorations. And they've appeared in far more places than he has ever been.


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Regina Pinto
The Snowmen Congress

Artist Statement:
It was really a hard work to organize a snowpeople congress in a tropical
city as Rio de Janeiro. The snowpeople were always saying: -What heat, I
am going to melt!!! But all this work was rewarded by the wonderful lectures
and performances we had.

In his classic work Raízes do Brasil (Roots of Brazil), historian Sérgio
Buarque de Holanda writes that the Brazilian experience is unique: we
constitute a unique, vast and effective effort to transplant European
culture in a tropical and sub-tropical region. As a result of our process of
civilization, our culture has always valued foreigners, and our art-both
tropicalist and anthropophagic-habitually values and devours everything that
comes from abroad, recycling it and returning it to the circuit with our own
distinctive timber.

The Snowmen Congress is based on the paragraph above and it tries to show,
through satire, that we urgently need to think seriously about Global
Warming.

Adriana Dorfman, Brigitte Neufeldt, Bryan Mackern, David Inkey, Eduardo
Santos, Jeremy Hight, Martha L. Deed, Patrick-Henri Burgaud, Paulo Villela
and Reiner Strasser collaborated sending the snowpeople photos or comments.

Bio: Born in Rio de Janeiro, Regina Pinto lives, loves and believes in net.art. So that all her work as
artist or curator is done for the web.

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