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OK, well, it finally happened: I've recently learned about an artist doing HTML paintings, as he calls them, which I think are, like my HTML drawings, a serious art project. But I didn't find Siegfried Holzbauer's work by looking for it; instead, it found me.
Siegfried lives in Austria, and wrote to me about trading for a Gillian Welch bootleg. A few days later I noticed a link in his email signature:
Siegfried Holzbauer
Medienkuenstler/media artist
::DIARIUM - Projekt::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::DAILY UPDATES!
Website: http://www.advancedpoetx.com/DIARIUM/
WAP-Handy: art.wapjag.com/diarium2000
So I looked at some samples [1] [2] and was surprised, and wrote Siegfried and told him of my surprise and pointed him to some of my things, and he wrote back and told me of his surprise.
Siegfried Holzbauer, 20030820
A couple of days he wrote me a long email describing his approach to the work. His is a more conceptual, language-based art, while mine is more picture and nature-based. For example, he uses German and English words to generate the hexadecimal code used for cell colors. As he writes:
Das DIARIUM - Projekt wurde im Jänner 1996 mit der Frage: Läßt sich das (individuelle) Leben als poetischer Text begreifen? (Wenn ja, wie beeinflußt dies das gelebte Leben und wie wirkt es auf den Nebel des noch zu lebenden Lebens?)
Google translation: The DIARIUM - Project became in the Jaenner 1996 with the question: (individual) can the life be understood as poetic text? (if, as this affects the lived life and as still affects it the fog to living life?)
My attempt: The DIARIUM - The project began in January 1996 with the question: can (an individual) life be understood through a poetic text? (If so, how does this affect how one lives one's life, and can it make how one lives clearer?)
Now I owe Siegfried an email. While there might be somewhat outward similarities, our projects are conceptually different. I'll be interested in getting more clear about these differences and similarities. One thing we share is the use of seriality, although the meanings of resulting from the use of this device are quite different.
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Lies, lies, lies: digital retouching. Here's a discussion item: what are the ethical and moral considerations regarding digital retouching?
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Lloyd, this may interest you because you actually saw (part of?) the Cremaster Cycle. Tom Moody mentions a slowly growing Matthew Barney backlash, and links to a hilarious pre-review of the films (now here's something interesting- "Reviews of Movies that haven't come out yet and the reviewer hasn't seen or otherwise have any idea about") and to some suggested future Cremasters:
Cremaster 6
Whoopi Goldberg reads the Magna Carta over the Yankee Stadium PA system, as a boa constrictor slowly slithers around the bases after a remote-control toy car with a real mouse in the driver's seat. In the outfield, 30 naked women play 30 grand pianos wearing cardboard Dalai Lama masks. When the boa makes it home, fireworks erupt, spelling "I LIKE IKE" in the sky.
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Yesterday I received another (final?) postcard from Karin: Brugge, August 10, 2003. She pretty much just talks about chocolate.
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Someone searched Yahoo for man+wanting+man+sex++monterey, and look at what page it took them to...
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Linked at ArtJournal:
PAINTING - NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN IN 17,000 YEARS Picasso, on visiting Lascaux, reportedly remarked that "we have discovered nothing new in art in 17,000 years." NYU professor Randall White writes in a new book that, "all of the major representational techniques were known at least by the Magdalenian [Period, beginning about 18,000 years ago]; oil- and water-based polychrome painting, engraving, bas-relief sculpture, sculpture in the round, charcoal and manganese crayon drawing, molded clay, fired ceramic figurines, shading, perspective drawing, false relief, brush painting, stamping and stenciling." Japan Times 08/17/03
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