<nettime-ann> New exhibition: Versions

[Marieke Istha <istha@nimk.nl>]

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The Netherlands Media Art Institute presents:

Versions

28 November, 2009, through 6 February, 2010
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam

Opening Friday, 27 November, 5:00 p.m.
Continuous performance by Constant Dullaart

Tuesday 8 December, 8:30 p.m.
An evening with: Hacked Chinese Software, Browser Plug-ins, Redacted 
Sculpture and Web Landscaping by Harm van den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart, 
Martijn Hendriks en Theodore Watson.

Artists: Harm van den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart, F.A.T.Lab, Martijn 
Hendriks, JODI, Oliver Laric, NastyNets, Theodore Watson, a.o.

The exhibition 'Versions' deals with the ‘comment culture’: commentary 
as a medium. With the popularity of social networks and blog sites on 
the internet, such as Flickr, Facebook, Hyves, YouTube, Blogger, etc., 
commenting on each other has taken on a new dimension. In his 
publication Zero Comments (2007) the Dutch network theoretician Geert 
Lovink describes this phenomenon as a nihilistic impulse and an erosion 
of mainstream media. At the same time it is often said that comments 
online are like conversations in newsrooms – sloppy and stupid and often 
wrong - but they are the raw stuff where journalism starts from. 
'Versions' shows artists' practices and an aesthetic related to this 
comment culture.

The Netherlands Media Art Institute invited a number of artists for whom 
reacting to one another influences their own work process. For these 
artists the internet is the place par excellence to quickly launch 
ideas, react to one another, or adapt existing work and reuse it. 
Through this process photos, animations or videos rapidly grow into more 
complex and aesthetic artworks. Sharing and commenting on each other's 
work leads to questions about the position and perception of the work in 
the context of the internet and beyond it. To what extent can one speak 
of uniqueness and originality of the works? Who determines what can or 
can not be done, and what happens to individual identity within the 
group process? How does this process translate into the physical, static 
space of a gallery? Questions about the significance of appropriation, 
authenticity and agency in the era of 'comment culture' run like a 
thread through the exhibition.

A number of the works in the exhibition are a direct reflection of this 
online comment culture. In an extremely short time, through simple means 
an elementary concept or image is adapted by different people, 
constantly creating new versions of the same idea. A number of artists 
did new works for the exhibition, which make a translation from the 
transient internet to the static space of the gallery.

'Versions' is curated through the collaborative efforts of Annet Dekker, 
Constant Dullaart & Petra Heck.
Opening hours exhibition:

Tue - Fri from 11.00 - 18.00 hrs
Sat and each first Sunday of the month 1300 – 1800 hrs.
The exhibition is closed on 25, 26 December and the 1th of January
Special opening on 29, 30 and 31 December, 2 and 3 January from 13.00 - 
17.00 hrs

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*Marieke Istha *
*Communication*
*istha@nimk.nl *

*Netherlands Media Art Institute*
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1016 EV Amsterdam 
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