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In our techno cultural
society there is a need for new domains of expression that don’t create
an outlined limit for the transavantgarde of our day, offering endless
possibilities to utilize modern technology and communication in a
community-oriented environment. Opportunities to develop a global art
market where the individual artists are happily divorced from pressures
of the tribal art market. In recent years, the new means of expression
are evolving rapidly and artists are supported for refusing to be
trapped in the predictable scapes or thought schools of the past. The
Art in Real Time Global Art Movement is a quality art publishing and an
interactive art competition for visual art, video, animation, sound,
music, essay, poetry and fiction, organized and curated by André Russu.
It integrates the multidisciplinary visual, literary and audio creative
production, and is the first interactive global art event featuring
contemporary artists on virtual online exposure and publishing.
Moreover, in these early years of the digital and virtual a number of
web-sessions and online debates have sent significant ideas for the
discourse involving terms such as: virtual space, digital manipulation,
computer graphics, 3D structures, modules, PDF’s, .JPG’s, mode,
resolution, processor, worldwide, dot-com, all of which appear quite
often in approaches made by critics and artists, but also by the
scholars, designers, engineers and architects invited to collaborate. It
is an opportunity to experiment with the virtual art works, objects, and
installations designed by contemporary artists belonging to the new and
old generation. The series of the online collective art events generated
by a more or less experimental exhibitions which by its subject and some
of the works shown, make the transition towards another type of artistic
sensitivity and research. This opens the gates to a new stratified
cultural metaphor and to an eclectic trans-aesthetics virtual domain and
publishing.
The trans-aesthetics virtual domain is a change of cultural mentality
and aesthetic paradigm that occurs gradually over time. This is an
experimental art, which becomes gradually more elaborate to an almost
aesthetic ethos. Molded by optimism in this search for knowledge, in
some cases even positive enthusiasm bears specific features: the
rejection of traditional means of expression, such as painting, and a
certain uniformism could be the exploration of natural or artificial
materials in process of art making. The experimentation of certain new
artistic methods originate in scientific techniques or industrial
technologies, the interdisciplinary attitude and the specific ideology
that wish to shape the natural or social ambient by a symbolic
configuration of real life materials, or even by merging with industrial
design.
This becomes a temptation and an attempt to create art in everyday life,
in “reality” and not exclusively in art terms, these phenomena start a
big demand to be community oriented.
Ctrl28 [www.ctrl28.com], Medialworks [www.medialworks.com],
Artoteque [www.artoteque.com], Art Addiction [www.artaddiction.net]
and WoA Publising [www.worldofartmagazine.com]
are windows into the global art world for the 21st century art lover and
critic, a place for the artist to express himself as his central
platform for the viewer. A platform that is exclusively focusing on
representing all techniques, schools and trends open to all professional
artists and beyond. This is possible through curated exhibitions created
for the purpose of reaching as many people as possible. Since the
seventies and eighties art has been changing rapidly and effortlessly as
many
more of today’s artists live the same experiences and vaster amounts of
work are closely related to the same world that we see around us as we
become more globalized. The work becomes an expression of internal and
external factors of our society and modern thought schools which are
globally connected on a scale that is both remote in time but also close
to our own. Some artists make their Online debut under the influence of
the digital experimentalism through the dot.com channels, the late
echoes of pop art and hyperrealism, deformed by the more recent
experience of digital painting: a relatively new online trend. It cannot
be denied that, in spite of the tribal cultural disintegration, the
online art echoes around the globe and is able to act as fermentation
that is necessary to provoke a diffused mutation of sensibilities which
in the global artistic environment is caused by specific frustrations
and underground tendencies.
On Medialworks.com, Ctrl28.com, Artoteque.com, ArtAddiction.net or World
of Art Publishing a single insertion is equivalent to a publication and
an exhibition which is transfiguring them into a dynamic collaboration,
never mooring the artists achievements in one place as many art
galleries do around the world.
It is not a question of condemning the current art affair in which
things are run, but to bring it forward into a dynamic ground where
publishing and exhibition coincide, with points of departure for the
individual artist that are clear but exist in real-time and in a virtual
space with unlimited points of arrival designed to best insinuate their
goals. Suited equally well for both emerging and well known artists
alike. The eruption of the new online trend is like an inevitable
reaction against the consumerist institution.
In spite of political constraints and economic decline which became
obvious in the past years, the experimental online avant-garde trend
maintains a certain pace, certain effervescence: there is a gap between
political decisions and their consequences in the cultural field, by
virtue of a certain creative passiveness which is slower in modifying
its mental and behavioral patterns. The members of the art community
continue their individual studies in everything natural, in the spirit
of which it transforming and emerging more organic and effectively
converting their creative impulses into educational programs which will
greatly stimulate the digital art field, particularly in the fields of
web design, computer graphic art, and video art. In various artistic and
cultural actions such as virtual or traditional, solo or collective
ones, help maintain the guilds dynamic drive and become in return models
and inspiration for debutant artists.
New media have augmented owing to enthusiasm and receptiveness of gentry
involved in different forms of the art field, essentially through
intense engagement and dedication to understanding new technology,
demand, and contemporary philosophies. Only those who are totally
indifferent to the new global culture phenomenon can omit or pass over
the development in art with new media and the advantages it brings.
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Thanks to the outgoing
fortitude, this complex project has a deep significance for the global
culture through its dramatic change required by the computerization in
art and the transfer to online exposure over the traditional art
exposure. This project will continuously be considered and we will have
the support and confirmation of the public who is ready to experience a
new art movement. Exhibitions involving two or more academic disciplines
based either on very local problems or on the artistic process itself
makes online global art exposure an experimental event, bringing
together under related forms the representatives of various artistic and
contemporary idioms, visual, musical, and literary.
Motivated by conceptualism which deals more with culture than with pure
visual, the exhibition are not only the collective work elaborated by
personalities from the fields of culture, it is also the collective
metaphor of an active and energetic generation of artists through a
virtual synchronicity with global contemporary artistic movements,
original initiatives that made themselves known worldwide through this
medium.
Virtually every important
art magazine produces an electronic version alongside, or instead of its
printed issues, and these online versions have largely replaced print
in day-to-day use. The printed art magazine that once made sense but now
stands as a significant barrier to art progress. ERSATZ _apr (art public
relation)
announced as a quarterly printed art magazine will remain online,
independent of the number of readers or advertisers, because we believe
there is a better way.
Everyone with an internet connection will be a click away from a
comprehensive online art information and exposure in ERSATZ_ art public
relation online global art magazine - a resource that will foster the
art progress, lead to more emerging and established artists, and ensure
no one will ever again be unable to see an important piece of art just
because the artists does not subscribe to a particular art magazine (who
is published in Art news, Art in America?, Art Forum?...).
Until recently, the cheapest and most efficient way to distribute art
information was by printing art magazines, catalogues or leaflets and
delivering them to newsstands, galleries, museums, curators, collectors
and art lovers. The cost of publishing a printed art magazine mostly
came from advertisements and by producing and distributing printed
pages, and naturally scaled with the number of readers and subscription
-based art business model that made good sense, and was reasonably
efficient and fair.
With the rise of the internet, the sound premise of this business model
has vanished. The cheapest and most powerful way by far to distribute
published art work is the internet. In online publication of new art and
artists, all the costs intrinsic to publication are spent in producing
the original peer-reviewed, edited and formatted copy of each work. With
printing costs eliminated, and distribution infinitesimally cheap, the
costs of publication are now independent of the number of readers.
The virtual exhibition space is exposure capable of reaching more than
seven hundred thousand visitors per month. Such extensive coverage is
possible due to an exhibition listing and advertisement in cotemporary
global art publications and online art galleries. Works displayed online
reach thousands of collectors, journalists, curators, artists, art
dealers, museums, and gallery visitors which until now has been an
almost impossible feat to read - for this to be embodied it took a lot
of investment because global exposure was hard and cumbersome to
maintain.
I have reached an outburst of coverage and power in the art world
through a dynamic network that shares the same movement. Always
attentive to the sensibility of the artists, thus making indirect
cultural references that are deeply rooted in the subtle motives that
are translated in a single organic force, thus condensed and ready to
offer the possibility of limitless perpetual coverage, seen by an
extensive client base of artists, galleries, museums, curators,
journalists, art schools, collectors and the art lovers around the
world. This cultural exchange is directly distributed to over fifty
thousand international collectors, consultants, advisers, critics,
writers, curators, dealers, and other visual art professionals. This
achievement is best demonstrated by a database demographic which shows
us that it is truly an international affair in which 40% is in North
America, 45% in Europe, 25% in other locations (American, Australia,
Japan) etc...
However, statistically speaking, the number of artists willing to
participate in virtual events involving the experimental trend
drastically increase in comparison with the previous decade. Moreover,
the solo exhibitions of the most active artists who asserted themselves
earlier within this aesthetic front gradually show a significant
change of attitude. A kind of interiorization of the purely experimental
approach which occurs in the interest of research objects or the
exterior artistic process to the researching subjects and inner world.
The artistic act no longer consists of a purely aesthetical and
symbolical reality, but tries to visually configure certain models of
cultural archetypes or spiritual instances of the self. Thus, with
certain artists there is a sort of slow alteration of the initially
experimental impulse, a kind of spiritualization of the creative
experience, which seems to clear itself of the former virtual avantgarde
and cosmopolitan motivations to rediscover and project itself back into
the field of the local spiritual traditions. The exhibitions made in the
past years by Damien Hirsch, a British artist known for experimental
works involving animal parts and Gilbert & George proved influential in
the pioneering of this field. This shows the focused movement from a
more or less prospective vision towards a rather retrospective or
introspective one.
Synchronously with the well known names there are a lot of new talents
that will flourish in the future and they will eventually open new
perspectives in art. This portal aims to show the art world its
multifaceted resources and status: these are new lines of thought that
protect the development in our cultural structure. The traditional art
history and art theory valuations became gradually set aside. The new
generation use up most of their time on the internet therefore the depth
of
thought is that online global art gallery will provide our target age
group through the freshness and vitality a thorough insight into
contemporary global art. This is an opportunity for the artists to
receive through comparison the confirmation of their artistic capacity
to express ideas in the stimulating field of media related arts.
Simultaneously their works represent an important component to the Art
in Real Time Global Art Movement art projects.
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The new sensibility in art
brought with the new generation of artists who were emerged in
this field during the nineties share less and less the
experimental attitude of artists ten to fifteen years older.
Although they begin their career in a slightly timorous way and
respect the industrious and energetic older generation, which is
natural that they imitate in the beginning, the younger visual
artists seem to feel less motivated by the prospective type of
visual research, which takes over ever larger slices of reality.
They enter the new centurie's cultural stage at a time of a
drastic artistical shutdown. In a stagnant social situation the
young generations of artists inevitably turns towards the
individual world, towards other values and functions of the
creative acts. A big part of this generation doesn’t attempt pure
experimentalism, but experiments with a new realism, a new
sensibility expressed by choosing a rough figurative style
cultivating primitively existential or radically eclectic themes
populated by personal philosophies. Quite often reduced to the
mundane or purely biological life, combining an iconography with
mass-media or art history clichés. A new figurative style is
created, attracted by the expressionist attitude and by violent
instinctive colors done by sudden distorted gestures, with an
oversized and spectacular style but also by irony and ridicule.
Undoubtedly, painting is the favorite medium of this new wave of
artists, who without having a unitary aesthetic program shared
ideas, and sometimes refused the same
ideas, outlining quickly and passionate trends in the art of the
period.
The global art climate in the early 21 century’s became
perceptible at the level of the whole cultural artistic mentality.
However, due to its multiple implications, the term avantgarde and
then the international transavangard (*Achile Bonito Oliva), is
sometimes replaced with related terms like innovation and
experiment. In other words, the avantgarde inevitably becomes a
type of experimentalism, thus, one might say, in Gugliemi’s words
that “experimentalism is the style of present day culture”. After
the effervescence of post modernism and the post conceptualism,
installations and performances questioned and rejected a certain
enhancing of the exposure notion and was gradually advancing,
bringing a multiform of Multimedia types, Digital, and Virtual.
The new online attitude can be understood as a definite refusal of
the common place art, opposed both to the current cultural and
social affairs. The internet exposure stands out as the most
productive innovation worldwide, from London, New York, Tokyo,
Paris or Sydney as it’s an international affair. There are today
many collective online exhibitions which have displayed or
declared aesthetic programs of the new online generation.
It is quite relevant that online exposure and the digitalization
became the favorite trend foremost of the young artists, and also
the whole artistic generation worldwide. This is a sign that the
misrepresented visual discourse of “official” art is not longer
important and representative of the global movement in art. The
potentialities of the virtual creative act in its relationship
with digital technology, nature or society, cultivate more
intensely the metaphorical values and symbolism, either personal
or widely spiritual of the artistic act and its traces in space
and in a global consciences. The harsher material conditions
become and the constraints imposed on society make the artists
prefer computer and techniques such photoshop and photography
processed art with various ways of manipulation.
Ctrl28.com, Medialworks.com, Artoteque.com and ArtAddiction.net
online exposure gives the freedom to choose a desired inclusion
ranging from visual arts,
music, and writing supporting all techniques and schools of
thought, a display of several chosen works that go through a
rigorous selection, whereas submitters need to pass two individual
selections conducted by a qualified reviewer of works. This new
system offers dual qualities, a substance both visual and
intellectual for a wider range of people.
Curating shows and giving out information, exposure that
transcends a relationship rich in potential for other galleries
and museums who wish to advertise, likewise
for sponsors. You could say that there only exist three types of
people, people who make things happen, people who see what is
happening, and people who are wondering what is happening. Is
there a right place for art? Our target audience ranges from
galleries, museums, collectors, art centers, art fairs, cultural
institutions, subscribers, and our worldwide global online
audience. We show artwork from professional artists only, as
opposed to other websites who list unselected works
from a majority of non professional artists, and that is the
reason why we it is possible to integrate the passion to curate
such an extensive movement.
In addiction to publishing artists in their rightful place towards
the top, the online art gallery, which includes international
artists, provides a unique opportunity to build a thriving
business via the internet and unique art publishing projects. The
art website provides a network between artist and viewer,
additionally our websites provides facilities such as personal
communication through forum based systems for every individual
artist which many of today’s peremptory galleries dismiss and
ignore that such a development is positive for art. This mode of
curating gives form to an enormous opportunity that chains
contacts and relationships to the extent of transfiguring them
into another more powerful position, where more art lovers are put
into contact with emerging artists, it is offered a glimpse into
the person behind the art, an open invitation to peruse their
portfolios and welcome an artistic dialog. The Art in Real Time
project it is one of the largest Global Art Movement projects on
the internet within art today, representing many talented and
creative artists that continues to make major contributions to the
vocabulary of the new computer connected, fast-paced action of the
art scene.
Unpretentious multimedia actions and events with power of
communication and wide spread circulation makes it possible to
sublimate frontiers and participate in these global events,
without their authors in contemporary global art events, medial
art annuals and biennials such as Ctrl28.com, Medialworks.com,
Artoteque.com and ArtAddiction.net.
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André P. Russu
Artists and Curator,
ctrl28.com / medialworks.com
London 09/01/2006 ©
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