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http://www.acidlife.com/deface DEFACE! Dedicated to Piero Cannata. Deface! is disfigurement in its non-negative meaning, act of real union between who originally made the work and its viewer. In the time of digital reproducibility, deface! destroys artist's sacred role giving the spectator the possibility to actively operate on the work making it definitely of his own. But Deface! is something more. Deface! makes the dead and static work of art something constantly mutable, finally alive. Something that is not there just to be admired and venerated but is indefinable, receding, ready to be something else after every new intervention on it by someone. And exactly with the destruction of the aura of holiness surrounding the work and the artist and the impossibility to consider a work concluded, finished (the work is concluded just with its destruction), Deface! makes itself unfit for the market traffics and for the gowned critics' soilings. The art of Deface! is a living, open, collective art. It's the collective destruction of art. Deface it! HOW TO USE IT. 1. Download from our archive the image of the work you want to deface. 2. Operate on the work in the way you prefere. 3. Send the altered image to deface@acidlife.com We will put the new work in place of the old one. They take part to deface!: Jean Arp, Francis Bacon, Giacomo Balla, Jean-Michel Basquiat, William Blake, Hieronymous Bosch, Fernando Botero, Canaletto, Caravaggio, Marc Chagall, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Giorgione, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Rene Magritte, Edouard Manet, Man Ray, Edvard Munch, Parmigianino, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mike Rothko, Peter Paul Rubens, Tintoretto, Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, William Turner, Diego Velazquez, Ian Vermeer. http://www.acidlife.com/deface _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold