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Electrohype 2000
University College of Malmo and Digitala Bildverkstaden i Skane (Digital
Workshops of Scania), Malmo, Scania region, Sweden. Such questions were discussed during the international conference and exhibition Electrohype 2000 at the University College of Malmo, Sweden, 25-29 October 2000. Per Platou, member of the Norwegian performance- and NetArt group Motherboard (www.liveart.org), claimed the absurdity of maintaining ordinary copyright laws in the present situation of easily reproduced uniqueness. But some interesting questions remained unanswered: how to create new rules, and how to maintain an activity in which everything is offered for free? And what about preserving electronic art? Curator Perttu Rastas (from Kiasma Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki) aimed at a conclusion when he stated that we may have to abandon the routine of collecting material objects. The important thing is maybe not pictures and programs, but rather the ideas behind them. The Electrohype exhibition of digital works, in the galleries and at the Web, featured international pioneers like Vuk Cosic, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, Mez and others, as well as interesting Nordic artists like Bjorn Wangen, Anna Kindvall, Klara Nagy, Sebastian Campion, Kirsten Bergaust and others. For more information: see the website at www.electrohype.org. |
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