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| [Nettime-bold] metabolics#7 feat.: Entropy8Zuper! |
M E T A B O L I C S # 7 THURSDAY 12 JULY 2001 20:00 +0100 (MET) Feat.: Auriea Harvey und Michael Samyn, Entropy8Zuper! (Gent/BE) More Information, archived and live stream: http://www.linksverkehr.net/metabolics RE: BROADBAND "Information Technology is not the Future. We are." That's the slogan of AURIEA HARVEY and MICHAEL SAMYN, two of the best known and highly decorated net artists and web designers of our time. Their work consists of digital sculptures, fat files, coined by digital exuberance, hilarious affluence and provocative splendour. In the developing country called internet, controversy about ressources is sometimes as big as in defficient economies. Easily can artists who in no case want to restrict their work on minimalistic ascii art, become the target of digital correctness. AURIEA HARVEY and MICHAEL SAMYN probably are bothered by the citicicsm of purists as little as they are by the appreciation by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which awarded them the highest decorated price for net.art - the SF MoMA Webby Prize 2000. Whoever has a couple of hours left, and a highspeed internet connection, can be sure to be part a very exclusive audience, when watching works like "wirefire" or "skinonskinonskin". And Samyn and Harvey consistently prove their emotional straightforwardness and honesty. In the worst case they make clear that "Your browser sucks". At METABOLICS//STOFFWECHSEL#7 on the 12th of july 2001, AURIEA HARVEY and MICHAEL SAMYN, Entropy8Zuper! present a collection of their spectacular, CPU-clogging and bandwith-consuming projects. The work they've been designing together as entropy8zuper.org for a while can nearly be put in the tradition of baroque works of art. The relationship between Harvey (entropy8) and Samyn (zuper), who also privately are a couple since their collaboration at a project for the online gallery hell.com, is a repeating subject in their works as well. Harvey was considered as one of the most important web designers in New York, creating websites for Lenny Kravitz and Janet Jackson and winning the "Webby Awards" 1997 und 1998. Samyn, well known not only as an artist, indisputably is one of the pioneers of interactive design. Links: http://www.entropy8zuper.org http://www.entropy8zuper.org/skinonskinonskin http://www.entropy8zuper.org/wirefire http://zuper.com/hero http://entropy8.com/wrong http://entropy8zuper.org/404kiss METABOLICS//STOFFWECHSEL presents innovative projects and debates in net.art, .culture and .politics on a monthly basis, starting from january 2001, in Muffathalle in Munich. METABOLICS//STOFFWECHSEL is curated by Florian Schneider, Harald Staun and Dietmar Lupfer. METABOLICS//STOFFWECHSEL will be streamed live and stored in a database. <http://www.linksverkehr.net/metabolics> If you want to be informed regurarily about the program, receive additional information and take part in ongoing discussions, we invite you to subscribe to our newsletter: <http://www.linksverkehr.net/metabolics/subscribe.html> _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold