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VJ13
Commissions ⇔ Projects
Exhibitions of net/digital/participatory art are dispointing institutional. There is a will from some actors of the field to conform to traditional standards of recognition within the art field which goes with the importance given to the name, to the individuality of another rather than to process and to collaboration. The movement seems to be: let's adapt the processes and experiments of net/collaborative art to Art rather than to transform the 'exhibition' or the institution to open itself to the potential of net/collaborative projects. VJ13 is an attempt to create a form of exhibition that takes the full potential of these artists/processes and make them accessible to the public, considering the public as possible contributors in many cases.
The VJ13 programme reflects our interests in works, practices that are in the intersection of art, technology, which are exploratory and critical. We are interested to show the productions of people for whom ideas of networks, connections, community, sharing are central. These works would tackle the poetics and politics of participation with a particular eye on the codecs, protocols, licenses, rules, practices, habits that regulate them.
These themes/concerns/interests can be the subject of the selected work: visualising networks, showing forms of exchange or reflection upon it. They can be the dynamics of the work itself: film produced by collaborative video editing, books written by different authors. The 'selected works' can be the tools that 'enable' people to give form to these ideas.
Questions about the exhibition itself: Online-offline: How to show projects that are produced online in a form that takes advantage of the space they are displayed in?