DIGITAL II - ON NET ART

BOREDOMRESEARCH [Southampton, United Kingdom] boredomresearch is a collaboration between artists Vicky Isley & Paul Smith based in Southampton, UK. boredomresearch aims to create engaging digital works, developing themes and crossing boundaries between science, art and technology. Currently they are exploring the relationship between the physical and electronic world in a new media residency at artsway, UK, where they are deconstructing computer programs to produce computational paper based art works. This work reverses the normal trend of taking physical material and rendering it in electronic form. They hope to demonstrate that despite many works being produced or viewed on computers, it is the significance of the computational process above its means of delivery that fully exemplifies the potential of this medium. www.boredomresearch.net ANDREAS BRØGGER [Copenhagen, Denmark] Ph.d.-candidate, University of Copenhagen, writing a dissertation on the theory and history of digital art. Visiting scholar, Dept. of Art History, Columbia University, New York 1999-2000. Critic-in-residence, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles 2001. Editor of the print magazine HVEDEKORN (www.hvedekorn.dk) since 1996. A critic for the Danish daily newspaper Politiken, various magazines and web sites. NILS CLAESSON [Stockholm, Sweden] Mixing art and film production combining new and traditional media. Nils Claesson has also been active in networking new-media-artists and media- labs in Scandinavia, Baltic Countries, Russia and Belarussia in building the nice network (www.nice.x-i.net). Member of Crac board ( www.crac.org) and a:t association for temporary art (www.art.a.se). THOR MAGNUSSON [Iceland] Thor Magnusson is an Icelandic writer, musician and artist/programmer who uses code as material for artistic expression. After having studied philosophy and cultural studies in various places in Europe, he graduated in Electronic Arts from the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts in London. Since then he has been working in sound-related programming in various projects, one of them being the ixi software project (www.ixi-software.net) where he and others are experimenting with creating alternative interfaces for musical composition. At present, Thor is doing an Artist-in-Residence program at the Digital Research Unit (www.druh.co.uk) of The Media Centre in Huddersfield, U.K. ALEXEI SHULGIN [Russia] Alexei Shulgin is an artist, theorist, musician, curator and teacher. Participated in numerous exhibitions, festivals and conferences. He is a pioneer of net.art. He has invented Form Art (www.c3.hu/collection/form). He is a web-master at FU-FME (www.fu-fme.com/). He is a leader of the world's first cyberpunk rock band 386 DX (www.easylife.org/386dx). He is also a curator of Read_me software art festival (m-cult.org/read_me). easylife.org AMANDA STEGGELL [Oslo, Norway] Residing in Norway since 1985. Co-director of the artist group Motherboard since 1995. Studied dance at London College of Dance and Drama from 1982-1985, and choreography at the National Academy of Dance, Oslo, from 1992-94. Choreographed several works for stage[s] and screen[s] and worked as guest teacher at several institutions of visual and performing art. Occasional VJ, video maker, web mistress, consultant, etc. www.liveart.org SHEILA URBANOSKI [London, United Kingdom] Sheila Urbanoski is a video and performance artist whose life has been subsumed by online projects and new media artworks for almost twelve years now. Past web-based art projects include artist-driven and collaborative projects (www.sheshe.co.uk/web.html) the founding of Cyberfemme; channeling the online sex therapist Mystress Cybernoski; ThisIsYourSister anti-porn and porn-spoof sites and the original shera.org. Sheila Urbanoski has a long history with Canadian artist-run access centres, she has served on the boards of over thirteen arts organizations, was Programme Coordinator at EMMEDIA (an artist run media centre) and the Prairie Region Representative on the Canadian national Independent Film and Video Alliance. She is currently based in London, England where she is exploring her inner Corporate Whore by working for the man, eg. being the Head of Interface Development at Razorfish London, Web Manager for IGIndex PLC and taking on private clients such as Vodaphone, the BBC. SonyMusic, etc. etc.. MILOS VOJTECHOVSKY [Prague, Czech Republic] Milos Vojtechovsky was the curator of Fine Arts at the Czech National Museum and Strahov National Institute for Literary History in Prague during 1985 – 1991. He held lectures about East European Art at Centrum voor Kunstgeschiedenis Amsterdam and was the founder and only employee of Oko Production, an exhibition space in Amsterdam 1991-1995. He was the initiator, coproducer and author of the multimedia project Orbis Pictus Revised commisioned for ZKM Karlsruhe (on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyreader$613) and the artistic leader and manager of The Metamedia Center Project at the Plashy Monastery and founder of The Hermit Foundation (www.hermit.cz). He gives now lectures about mediaart, contemporary art and communication at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Technical University Brno www.ffa.vutbr.cz and he is the curator and manager of Artlab at the Center for Contempoary Art in Prague www.fcca.cz

BOREDOMRESEARCH [Southampton, United Kingdom]

boredomresearch is a collaboration between artists Vicky Isley & Paul Smith based in Southampton, UK. boredomresearch aims to create engaging digital works, developing themes and crossing boundaries between science, art and technology.
Currently they are exploring the relationship between the physical and electronic world in a new media residency at artsway, UK, where they are deconstructing computer programs to produce computational paper based art works. This work reverses the normal trend of taking physical material and rendering it in electronic form. They hope to demonstrate that despite many works being produced or viewed on computers, it is the significance of the computational process above its means of delivery that fully exemplifies the potential of this medium.
www.boredomresearch.net

ANDREAS BRØGGER [Copenhagen, Denmark]

Ph.d.-candidate, University of Copenhagen, writing a dissertation on the theory and history of digital art. Visiting scholar, Dept. of Art History, Columbia University, New York 1999-2000. Critic-in-residence, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles 2001. Editor of the print magazine HVEDEKORN (www.hvedekorn.dk) since 1996. A critic for the Danish daily newspaper Politiken, various magazines and web sites.

NILS CLAESSON [Stockholm, Sweden]

Mixing art and film production combining new and traditional media.
Nils Claesson has also been active in networking new-media-artists and media- labs in Scandinavia, Baltic Countries, Russia and Belarussia in building the nice network (www.nice.x-i.net). Member of Crac board ( www.crac.org) and a:t association for temporary art (www.art.a.se).

THOR MAGNUSSON [Iceland]

Thor Magnusson is an Icelandic writer, musician and artist/programmer who uses code as material for artistic expression. After having studied philosophy and cultural studies in various places in Europe, he graduated in Electronic Arts from the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts in London. Since then he has been working in sound-related programming in various projects, one of them being the ixi software project (www.ixi-software.net) where he and others are experimenting with creating alternative interfaces for musical composition. At present, Thor is doing an Artist-in-Residence program at the Digital Research Unit (www.druh.co.uk) of The Media Centre in Huddersfield, U.K.

ALEXEI SHULGIN [Russia]

Alexei Shulgin is an artist, theorist, musician, curator and teacher. Participated in numerous exhibitions, festivals and conferences. He is a pioneer of net.art. He has invented Form Art (www.c3.hu/collection/form). He is a web-master at FU-FME (www.fu-fme.com/). He is a leader of the world's first cyberpunk rock band 386 DX (www.easylife.org/386dx). He is also a curator of Read_me software art festival (m-cult.org/read_me).
easylife.org

AMANDA STEGGELL [Oslo, Norway]

Residing in Norway since 1985. Co-director of the artist group Motherboard since 1995. Studied dance at London College of Dance and Drama from 1982-1985, and choreography at the National Academy of Dance, Oslo, from 1992-94. Choreographed several works for stage[s] and screen[s] and worked as guest teacher at several institutions of visual and performing art. Occasional VJ, video maker, web mistress, consultant, etc.
www.liveart.org

SHEILA URBANOSKI [London, United Kingdom]

Sheila Urbanoski is a video and performance artist whose life has been subsumed by online projects and new media artworks for almost twelve years now. Past web-based art projects include artist-driven and collaborative projects (www.sheshe.co.uk/web.html) the founding of Cyberfemme; channeling the online sex therapist Mystress Cybernoski; ThisIsYourSister anti-porn and porn-spoof sites and the original shera.org. Sheila Urbanoski has a long history with Canadian artist-run access centres, she has served on the boards of over thirteen arts organizations, was Programme Coordinator at EMMEDIA (an artist run media centre) and the Prairie Region Representative on the Canadian national Independent Film and Video Alliance. She is currently based in London, England where she is exploring her inner Corporate Whore by working for the man, eg. being the Head of Interface Development at Razorfish London, Web Manager for IGIndex PLC and taking on private clients such as Vodaphone, the BBC. SonyMusic, etc. etc..

MILOS VOJTECHOVSKY [Prague, Czech Republic]

Milos Vojtechovsky was the curator of Fine Arts at the Czech National Museum and Strahov National Institute for Literary History in Prague during 1985 – 1991. He held lectures about East European Art at Centrum voor Kunstgeschiedenis Amsterdam and was the founder and only employee of Oko Production, an exhibition space in Amsterdam 1991-1995. He was the initiator, coproducer and author of the multimedia project Orbis Pictus Revised commisioned for ZKM Karlsruhe (on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyreader$613) and the artistic leader and manager of The Metamedia Center Project at the Plashy Monastery and founder of The Hermit Foundation (www.hermit.cz). He gives now lectures about mediaart, contemporary art and communication at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Technical University Brno www.ffa.vutbr.cz and he is the curator and manager of Artlab at the Center for Contempoary Art in Prague www.fcca.cz