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'EXPLODING DIGITA', 'REAL-AUDIO'99', 'The Gods Must Be Crazy', 'Hardcore-Cyber-Punk-Multi-media-Night', 'No School Graffiti', 'Idiot-Savante-Garde' are some titles Planetart announced her projects with for the last couple of years. Manifestations with an inter-disciplinairy diversity, presented at various locations, like the abandoned 19th century industrial zones, the crowded inner-city squares, the surroundings of chemical plants, the local podia of the electronic pop-music, or the universe of the internet. The limiting and sterile walls of the 20th century museum have been left behind. Overtaken has also been the discussion about 'The end of contemporary art...'(Arthur Danto): the increasing development of the information and communication technology has triggered new dynamics into the arts. On the other hand, an anarchistic and prolific consciesness has risen from a do-it-yourself attitude, the initiative of the young artist and art-student of self networking, and to realise projects beyond the traditional'discours': in the studio, in squatted buildings, in the streets, at techno parties or in cyberspace. These artist-initiatives, as cooperating groups of artists, have increasingly contributed to the discussion about and the development of contemporary art in the Netherlands since the nineteen eighties. Planetart foundation is one these energetic initiatives, and was founded at the brink of the internet era, in 1995. In order to investigate and explore the (global) aspects of the new media, web-art has turned into a proces, a never-finished product, for anyone with a PC and modem to download, manipulate and broadcast. Not only the sophisticated technology has offered new esthetic qualities to the medium (the screen), also the formal face of the hardware equipment can work for sculptorial objectives. A pile of trash, of keyboards, cables, the backside of a computer monitor and grinded loudspeakers can obtain similar beauty as any modernist master painting. The overwhelming flow of mass-media products in western society and its materialistic mass-consumerism runs parallel with the enormous growing stream of information that surrounds us today. The island that tells the story of this living chaos, as the good, the bad and the ugly, is the confronting audio-visual experience that the participating artists of Planetart offer with their presentation. For these artists cultural decay in western society appears to contain evil and esthetic qualities at the same time : get plugged in with 2000 beats per minute and enjoy the art of noise!
Deldenerstraat 25
Hengelo nl.
tel. +31 74 2509113 / 2439021
open:
thursday thr. saturday 14. - 17.hrs
PLANETART houdt zich bezig met verschillende activiteiten op Multimediaal gebied. Hopende via deze wegen een positieve cyberkinetische energie over te brengen... Zo onderscheiden wij verschillende activiteiten, n.l.:
Additional Information:
- contact: Kees de Groot
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