VORTRAG
Who is a net artist and how could you become one?
This talk will be about the World Wide Web as a base, a home for several generations of artist and designer. Web browser as a canvas, as a window and a mirror; as the most powerful, but vanishing medium; the most present, but invisible interface -- the Web as a paradox.
Olia Lialina
Born in Moscow in 1971 and now based in Germany, Olia Lialina is among the best-known participants in the 1990s net.art scene - an early-days, network-based art pioneer. Lialina is also known for using herself as a GIF model, and is credited with founding one of the earliest web galleries, Art Teleportacia. She is cofounder and keeper of One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age archive and a professor at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany.
Her early work had a great impact on recognizing the Internet as a medium for artistic expression and storytelling. This century, her continuous and close attention to Internet architecture, "net.language" and vernacular web - in both artistic and publishing projects - has made her an important voice in contemporary art and new media theory. Lialina has, for the past two decades, produced many influential works of network-based art: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War (1996), Agatha Appears (1997), First Real Net Art Gallery (1998), Last Real Net Art Museum (2000), Online Newspapers (2004-2018), Summer (2013), Self-Portrait (2018).
Network Portraits
17. Jänner 2019, 17.00 Uhr splace am Hauptplatz, Hauptplatz 6, 4020 Linz
Interface Cultures lädt zum Gastvortrag von Olia Lialina. What is WWW and why I ask? What is a home page and why don't you have one?Who is a net artist and how could you become one?
This talk will be about the World Wide Web as a base, a home for several generations of artist and designer. Web browser as a canvas, as a window and a mirror; as the most powerful, but vanishing medium; the most present, but invisible interface -- the Web as a paradox.
Olia Lialina
Born in Moscow in 1971 and now based in Germany, Olia Lialina is among the best-known participants in the 1990s net.art scene - an early-days, network-based art pioneer. Lialina is also known for using herself as a GIF model, and is credited with founding one of the earliest web galleries, Art Teleportacia. She is cofounder and keeper of One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age archive and a professor at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany.
Her early work had a great impact on recognizing the Internet as a medium for artistic expression and storytelling. This century, her continuous and close attention to Internet architecture, "net.language" and vernacular web - in both artistic and publishing projects - has made her an important voice in contemporary art and new media theory. Lialina has, for the past two decades, produced many influential works of network-based art: My Boyfriend Came Back from the War (1996), Agatha Appears (1997), First Real Net Art Gallery (1998), Last Real Net Art Museum (2000), Online Newspapers (2004-2018), Summer (2013), Self-Portrait (2018).
© Olia Lialina, Self-Portrait, 2018, screenshot