[Nettime-bold] press release: Leave the optical zone now!

[Tim Otto Roth <research@photogram.org>]

press
release

new medial perspectives
the internetportal www.photogram.org starts
with a single show of Walter Ebenhofer

Kassel, October 2000

Dear Mister and Misses,

Since the first of September the internet offers you a new rarity:
I am looking forward to inform you about the official start of the first webbased archive focusing on photograms. This net archive draws the public’s attention to a hardly perceived medium: the photogram. At the moment it offers about 400 commented links to more than 100 artists which have worked or are still working with the photogram. Moreover a bibliography is under construction, that indicates the most important publications concerning the subject area. Step by step a historiography notes the most important photogram exhibitions. A monthly update actualises and completes the archive.
Beside the central web archive a small crashcourse gives a short illustrated introduction how to  make a photogram. A calendar informs about current exhibitions. Beyond “positions” remarkable works are exclusively presented every six months. For the moment an extended feature reports about the shoot pictures of the Austrian artist Walter Ebenhofer. His „shot“  series on slidefilm „bis in die letzte Ritze“ is published there for the first time.

The project www.photogram.org  is unique, because it is the only platform that can give actual information about the photogram. The last extensive compendium about the photogram has been published 12 years ago. But the portal is not only a information platform but also a forum of the interactive exchange. Above all, the portal concentrates on the peculiarity of this rare medium. Therefore the project is accompanied by a small manifestation, that declares 80 years after the discovery of the photogram its medial independence.

It would be pleased, if you could distribute this information in your publications.

Regards,
Tim Otto Roth
 
 

www.photogram.org
research@photogram.org