<nettime-ann> PHYSICAL EXHIBITION AND CALL FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION | CONT3XT.NET.NEWS #04.08

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PHYSICAL EXHIBITION AND CALL FOR ONLINE PARTICIPATION








CONT3XT.NET.NEWS #04.08
















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YOU OWN ME NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME.
















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OPENING RECEPTION: 15 May 2008, 8 pm 








EXHIBITION DURATION: 16 May - 22 June 2008 








HOSTING INSTITUTION: Mala galerija - Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana 








LOCATION: Slovenska cesta 35, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija








WEBSITE: http://www.youownmenow.net








CURATORS: Birgit Rinagl, Franz Thalmair / CONT3XT.NET
















WITH WORKS BY:
















Mary-Anne Breeze (mez)








Codemanipulator(R)








Christina Goestl, clitoressa.net








Karl Heinz Jeron, Valie Djordjevic








carlos katastrofsky








Joerg Piringer








Marek Walczak, Martin Wattenberg
















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ONLINE PARTICIPATION:
















Besides general information and documentation about YOU OWN ME NOW
UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME. the website of the exhibition includes the
possibility to extend the concept as well as the list of selected works
of art. Just go to http://www.youownmenow.net, enter a link of your own
choice plus short link-description and submit your preferred work of
art. Thank you for your participation!
















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EXHIBITION CONCEPT:
















Speech and the faculty of meta-reflection about one's language are
inherent characteristics of human beings. All projects shown in the
exhibition YOU OWN ME NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME. are originally
Internet-based artworks. The main common ground is their starting point
in the exploration of our language with its arbitrary systems and
rules, its corresponding functions within society, as well as with its
absurdities and restrictions for the individual. Rather than to focus
on the isolated - literary/literally - artwork, the exhibition
highlights general artistic tendencies leading to a discursive process,
which originates from the Internet and finds its way back to the
"virtualities of our real life".
















According to Ferdinand de Saussure's theses, human language can be
divided into three fundamental aspects: the biological preconditions
for speaking (langage), the fixed system of rules and signs (langue)
and the act of speaking itself (parole). The supposition that the
language system - thought as a collective institution of norms - and
the speech act - thought as an individual, coherent and meaningful
utterance - are linked reciprocally and that there is no backflow into
the system without speaking, it becomes clear that human language
withdraws itself from an immediate observation. Language can only be
examined in the course of the reconstruction of the process of its
appearance, that is, its articulation. Considering this point of view
of our communication system, the question arises if, accordingly,
language is an exclusively virtual product, the existence of which
begins and ends with its realisation.
















In parallel, digital artworks are predetermined by the binary
(linguistic) code, but do not become "real" (commonly comprehensible)
until the code is transformed into text, image, and/or sound (by
opening the data file and executing the commands). Both language and
digital artworks are based on processes, transformations, and a
continuous fluidity. The creation of digital artworks is built upon the
active participation of the user just like the existence of language is
built upon a speaking person. Hence, word and image are no longer
integer parts of the artwork, or langue and langage (as thought by
Saussure) are no longer part of parole. The individual elements of both
are entangled in a performative act making interpretation obsolete. The
open work manifests itself by intermediation and is created
individually through every new reception. But what happens if the user
closes the data file, or if the speaking person stops talking? 
















"In the end there is nothing of an object here, just a process, a set
of rules that leads you to the point of questioning unicity, ownership,
and the object-like nature of digital art works and what you can own is
nothing more than the memory of it."
















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