[Nettime-bold] invitation/private view +++ shopping windows

["Armin Medosch" <armin@easynet.co.uk>]

Shopping Windows, Part I

Shopping Windows I is the first part of a two part ongoing online 
exhibition with works newly commissioned by Telepolis. In part 1 
the following works are presented (alphabetically):

* Giselle Beiguelman - <Content=No Cache> 
* Matthew Fuller - BallPool
* Harwood/Scotoma.org - Waste_Words Their Weight & 
Frequency in London's Municipial Rubbish


Shopping Windows index page (English)
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/kunst/nk/shopping/default.html

Shopping Windows index page (German)
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/kunst/nk/shopping/default.html


Shopping Windows - Net art after e-commerce

'Net art after the age of e-commerce and the death of net art' should be 
the full subtitle of the exhibition 'Shopping Windows' which follows the 
intertwining pathways of art on the Internet and the arrival and death of 
e-commerce as we knew it. 2000 will be remembered as the year when the 
I-Bubble burst. For others, disillisionment about the net started a while 
earlier ago represented by manifestos and other declarations about 'The 
End of Net Art'. Both, in the artistic and commercial realm we can only 
look forward while still doing some damage assessment. We hope that 
what can be seen as the end of an era has also cleared the air and gives 
us the chance for a fresh start in 2001. The good old dialectic of 
deconstruction and rebuild allows us to embrace irony in view of near 
disaster and thereby stay optimistic.

Excerpt of curatorial statement. Full text:
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/kunst/nk/shopping/about.html

Curated by: Armin Medosch


Giselle Beiguelman - <Content=No Cache> 
giselle@desvirtual.com

<Content=No Cache> is about the loss of inscription. It talks 
about error messages.
Its point of departure is a curious tag, "content = no cache". 
Placed in
the html code it updates the contents of any on line page, erasing 
what
was written before. It announces a new condition of writing.