Cym Net
Submitted by cym on Thu, 19/02/2009 - 13:46.
Traveling around Europe, researching the relation between virtual reality and real life, circumnavigating the question of success and failure. Recently transforming an old farm in southeast Austria into a modern art center.
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In her project 'No Men's Land' cym creates a transition of a real life situation into an abstract, almost poetic, composition that can be viewed only by the means of modern technology (a web browser). The original photos show the imaginary lines that define the different European countries and show the transitions of these imaginary lines through recent time.
The real life situations, captured in the different photos, are turned into abstract compositions that are created entirely in HTML, the language used to create websites. The restrictions that occur when creating an image as an HTML-table give each image its special, almost poetic atmosphere or rhythm.
The result is not only a transition from a real life situation into a digital composition, there is also the imaginary transition back to the real life situation, when the viewer watches first the abstract image and tries to imagine what the original source photo could be like, before clicking 'view source'.
The project was awarded with the Marianne.von.Willemer Women.Netart.Award by the city of Linz in 2006.
No Men's Land Composition Nr. 518
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The Patchwork series is a collection of self portraits, taken between 2005 and 2007. The photos, originally taken with a digital camera, were printed out, cut up, thorn apart and carefully patched together again. Lines and strokes made with pencils and crayons emphasized the patterns that had occurred because of ripping and tearing apart the photos. The original works were shown several times at different locations in Europe. The final exhibition consisted of more than 30 different works. The online presentation is a selecion of 16 images.
Patchwork by Cym
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Oscar and Cym are traveling around Europe, creating short videos and animations. The videos are collected online at http://www.youtube.com/cymnet
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Wd8 is an art center located in an old farm in a small village in southeast Austria. The center offers local and international artists the possibility to spend some time at the old farm and to realize art projects at the venue. The projects in the art center are always strongly connected to the old building and to the village and its residents. The projects usually balance on the border between real and virtual.
Become a facebook fan of Wd8: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wd8/54304500670
For more information, visit the Wd8 website: http://wd8.org/
Wd8 - Art in the Pigsty: The polyester pig made by Belinda Ziegler in the Wd8 pigsty.