Press release

"Breaking Solitude" "Second Season" : a series of 6 Net performances between October 29, 2007 and January 28, 2008.

http://panoplie.emakimono.org/index.php/projets/voir/16

In this series Annie Abrahams and panoplie.org propose Web-meetings of about 20 minutes long using chat and streaming to experiment new ways of being together. Each meeting starts with a performance of an artist.
The entrance of the web-salon is limited to 30 people. People registered on the site of panoplie (it is free) can take part in the chat (English or French) and will have priority over the others, which can nevertheless assist as "voyeurs" within the limit of the places available.

"Breaking solitude" is a project of Annie Abrahams (www.bram.org) and panoplie.org.

The artists invited in the second season of "Breaking Solitude" are : Florian Fernandez, Aya Karpinska, Igor Stromajer, Anne-James Chaton, MTAA and Helen Varley Jamieson.

29 10 2007 20h Florian Fernandez lives in Marseille in France.
Fernand is not the anagram of Florian. If one makes Florian with Fernand that gives : a dolphin.
http://cuicuirock.free.fr/index.php/2006/03/09/13--elemant-phan- , http://www.radiolist.org/index.php?cat=5&paged=2 and
http://www.arborescence.org/article549.html

12 11 2007 20h Aya Karpinska, New York, Providence. http://technekai.com
is a digital media artist and interaction designer. She creates interactive experiences through installation art, digital text, sound, and game design (but not all at the same time). Aya is the 2006 recipient of the Brown University Fellowship in Electronic Writing; she splits her time between Providence and New York City.

26 11 2007 20h Igor Stromajer, Slovenie http://www.intima.org/7012
Igor Stromajer was born in Slovenia in 1967. He graduated at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Lives in Ljubljana, works and exhibits worldwide. Stromajer is an intimate mobile communicator. He researches tactical emotional states and traumatic low-tech guerrilla strategies. His most known works are Oppera Internettikka and Ballettikka Internettikka (1997-2007).

10 12 2007 20h Anne-James Chaton, France. http://aj.chaton.free.fr/
Anne-James Chaton is poet sound. He is 35 years old and lives in Montpellier, France. He directed several reviews (Derivation, The Incredible New Justine' S Adventures...) and published five books, three works of poetry to editions Al Dante and two essays with the editions Sens & Tonka. He gave a hundred readings in France and abroad and organized a great number of events around sound poetry in Besancon, Lyon, Paris, Montpellier. (PC- Poesies contemporaines, Sonorites)

14 01 2008 20h MTAA , New York. http://www.mteww.com/
Artists M. River and T. Whid formed MTAA in 1996 and soon after began to explore the internet as a medium for public art. The duo's exhibition history includes group shows and screenings at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Postmasters Gallery and Artists Space, all in New York City, and at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. International exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel.

28 01 2008 20h Helen Varley Jamieson , NZ / Australie http://www.creative-catalyst.com/
Helen Varley Jamieson is a writer, theatre practitioner and digital artist. She is currently undertaking a Master of Arts (research) at Queensland, investigating her practice of cyberformance. She is a founding member of the globally dispersed cyberformance troupe, Avatar Body Collision, and has collaborated in and contributed to various other online art projects.

For more information please contact Annie Abrahams, Clement Charmet or Elisabeth Klimoff.

Panoplie.org : Web magazine for contemporary creation .
Composed by a collective of artists from very different horizons, Web and non Web, the online magazine Panoplie.org aims to be a platform for exchange between artists and Net surfers : Calls for participation, performances, writings and follow-ups of artistic projects and events are mixed to propose an original approach and highlight problematics of art on the Net. In projects like "Why Rock" (2005), "Habiter" (2006 ) and "Robots" (2007), Panoplie.org also treats universal themes in a contemporary way and makes them accessible to a larger public. While collaborating with galleries and official art institutions Panoplie.org helps to discover and instore new artistic practices in the realm of traditional art.

PeurS/FearS" Lecture/performance. Mai 23th 20h30, festival e-poetry2007
Annie Abrahams and The All Star GirlsBand. Featuring Caroline Delieutraz,
Marika Dermineur, Nathalie Fougeras, Aliette Guibert, Julie Guilbault,
Pascale Gustin, Carroline Hazard, Anne Laforet, Janique Laudouar, Albertine
Meunier and Anne Roquigny.
Le Cube, 20, Cours Saint Vincent Issy-les-moulineaux.
http://bram.org/peur/girlsband/

"L'un la poupee de L'autre" Performance by Annie Abrahams and Nicolas
Frespech. Regie Clement Charmet.
Mai 26th, 14h15, flashfestival, petite salle -1, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
http://bram.org/confront/sphere/index.html
Annie Abrahams and Nicolas Frespech comment in their performance on the
present situation where *we tend more and more to live in our own bubble,
our own sphere, without need for the other, by forming a couple with our
virtual doubles*.

"Alka Seltzer" web performance by Guerine Regnaut aka POUN during the last
"Breaking Solitude" Rendezvous of this season.
Mai 25th 2007 / *6 PM GMT *
http://panoplie.emakimono.org/index.php/projets/voir/10

"kicks" : Sound work by Jan de Weille. Get your kicks on the page where one
of his Soundmaps works is dissected into separate tracks.
http://www.bram.org/sound/kicks/index.html

Bye
Annie

Please reply with "no" in the subject if you don't want to recieve my news
anymore.

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Dorons videos are very special
My favorite is "Lenin"

yours Annie

On 3/15/07, Michael Szpakowski <szpako@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Wonderful.
> This is quite literally sublime, but there's a note
> of bathos too as the birds flock & squawk around - you
> catch your breath -and if you don't catch your breath
> please look hard into your soul - & then you have to
> smile a little. Something of Shelley's Ozymandias too
> in this: 'Look on my works ye mighty and despair!'
> There's an interesting dichotomy in Doron's work
> between the highly worked pieces - those with music &
> actors, or the poetic documentaries - & these
> apparently simple, found, works where he points the
> camera at the right time, the at-the-right-time,
> Cartier-Bresson like, being key..
> (Indeed it seems to me there's somethig not dissimilar
> to the influence of surrealism in C-B's work operating
> in Doron's - it's as if the surreal/magical realist
> element has been distilled, refined down so delicately
> & completely that its presence is almost imperceptible
> at first glance..it's only on further
> investigation/contemplation/reflection that the
> revelation, the unwrapping, of the profound
> strangeness & singularity of the subject as a *central
> theme & action* of the piece becomes clear)
> I really recommend to people they spend some time
> looking at Doron's recent work...in particular from
> 'broadway canal'
> http://the9th.com/?p1
> to this one.
> It doesn't shout from any rooftops, it has no
> gimmicks, no punch lines, in some ways it's quite
> austere but it has a genuine depth & an unforced
> complexity. Each movie is a mystery movie - one
> returns many times & still finds something new..
> It's an impressive & substantial - & I believe it
> will be an enduring - body of work.
> michael
>
>
> --- doron golan <d@the9th.com> wrote:
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> > http://the9th.com/?p4
> >
> > new video from Giza.
> > cheers,
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art is not useless

art is that what is, when something
cannot be used by some other societal purpose
is not of economic use
is not politically exploitable
doesn't help juridical purposes
doesn't incarnate scientific values
flees religious beliefs

art is a useful leftover?

art helps art
art reinforces art
art augments possibilities of being out, unadapted
art can make the precarious valuable

art is also a market
but that is another question

yours
Annie

On 2/28/07, Jim Andrews <jim@vispo.com> wrote:
> the notion that art is necessarily useless seems to me an exclusionary
> tactic rather than a compelling argument.
>
> what are some arguments for the position that art is necessarily useless?
>
> ja?
> http://vispo.com
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dear Eric

Could you name these significant paintings, photos and installations made
in the last 12 years?

Opening the doors to self publishing and networked visual expression might
not have produced great images and text (but that's in for discussion also),
but it has produced new communication spaces and very significant volatile
interactions. It is contributing every day to giving people air in a totally
by economics determined world, that only interacts with them on a customized
base and accustoms them to being treated as databases.

Eric, if you want me to take you serious, you should start to give precise
critics on works you don't think meeting the standards you would like to
use.

yours Annie

On 1/12/07, dymond@idirect.ca <dymond@idirect.ca> wrote:
>
> Why is New Media Art so insignificant?
> I have been going over the last 12 years of New Media
> works trying to find a significant work of art and I
> have come up empty. Not lost however, and that is a positive thing. This
> failure isn't true of Painting, Photography,
> Installation Art. Those media have all produced
> memorable works.
> Film and Video have flourished as well ( I think that
> helps explain the flood of videos by new media
> artists), but the use of new media for visual
> expression is sadly on the last bench of the stadium.
> Even the so-called success of electronic literature
> pales when compared with the interesting work created
> in the printed media.
> Why?
> It doesn't make sense at first.
> Opening the doors to self publishing and networked
> visual expression should have produced great images and
> text by now, but it hasn't.
> Whats wrong?
> I think there is a strange attractor act work here.
> Works that go through the pain and prejudice of the
> existing mandated mechanisms actually come out the better for it.
> There is rigor and self-criticism that is sorely
> lacking in networked publishing and visual expression in *communities*.
> For me to acknowledge this is blasphemy in many ways.
> I was an early proponent of the creative commons (see
> Leonardo, Vol. 31, No. 4 (1998), pp. 297-298).
> Is a culture important when it concerns
> itself with determining what works contain quality and depth and operate
> as a necessary filter to keep out those works that deserve to fail? Well,
> no more lazy art. No More easy graphics.
> If New Media wants to grow up, then it has to set some
> rigorous standards and demand that the work ACTUALLY be
> culturally significant on a broad scale. Self indulgence is fun, but it's
> lazy and middling, and stupid.
> My avatar died last month, send condolences to Dymes Mulberry on Second
> Life. Eric
>
>

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17-24 Jan. "wat is angst, waarom bang zijn, waarvoor vrezen" and a new
version of "rassur" for "Oog" the internet art page of "de Volkskrant", a
Dutch national news paper. http://extra.volkskrant.nl/oog/