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Virtual experimental Art Cafe

Doris Stricher (Domido)

Ernst Koller (J.A. Limes)

2008 – April 2010

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

Francois Delsarte

Telematic Art and Society

• heterogeneous connexions
• consistency layers
• great diversity
• forms of dimensions
• temporary connexions

Virtual Art Cafe f/2 like a Rhizome?

Art Cafe f/2 cannot be a rhizome and has the following characteristics:

• decentralised structure and data
• unpredictable features
• connected Input/Output System
• multiple entry points
• branches

ArtForum Art Cafe f/2

• Your Art
• Your Content
• Your Liberty
• Your Artistic Ability
• Your Quality

Three experimental Art Cafe layers

• Art Cafe f/2 top layer → Exhibitions with the best artists
• Art Cafe f/2 layer → Curator and Center of excellence
• Art Cafe f/2 bottom layer → Artists: self-check of the quality of their photos

Datastream of Art Cafe f/2

Telematic Art and Society: Ephemeral visual and oral communication with instable states. Short-term Memory Art or Random Access Memory Art in Art Cafe f/2 stream.

Recursive artist (Art Cafe) formula

For my next art step, take my best next art step. If I'm (art) done, I'm (art) done.

Experimental virtual Art Cafe f/2 exhibitions with curator and art historian Doris Stricher

Virtual Art Cafe f/2 exhibitions [Art Cafe f/2 (2009)] and artists (examples):

• Emmanuel Smague "Cairo's ragpickers“

Doris Stricher about the exhibition:

Let me introduce you Emmanuel Smague. He is a very smart guy. He loves to travel all around areas where usually people avoid to go. His friendly contact to people, the way he listen, look, smile makes every thing easy. His respecfull attitude in front of delicate situations keeps the dignity intact of everyone. I admire his human talent of behaving and the photos he did for this exhibition. Despite the living conditions of these poor people, he was abble to show happiness and hope in their eyes!

Emmanuel est un garçon assez exceptionnel. Il adore se rendre dans des lieux peu communs pour faire ses photos afin de montrer d'autres styles de vie dignes d'intérêt. On pourrait dire qu'il a le contact facile, il sait écouter, regarder, sourire, mais cela n'est que du respect envers l'autre et il sait dans son approche préserver la dignité de chacun.
J'admire son talent de relation humaine et les très belles photos qu'il a faites, ce n'est pas une chose facile.

• Luis Miranda "Dreamland World by batabidd"
• Dominique Guillochon "N'importe quoi! ~ Whatever!"
• Olivier Gilet "Otherworldly innocence"
• Carlo Tardani "Geometrie di terra"
• James Wainwright "Untitled"
• Anne Clements "English Playtime"
• Painter Gerard Stricher "Beyond Good and Evil"

Doris Stricher about the exhibition:

The colorfull vision of his world offers an artistic escape of nowadays dark surrounding, i wish it will make you fell happy, enjoy the exhibition!

Je vous présente le peintre Gerard Stricher:
La vision colorée de son monde propose une échappatoire artistique à la noirceur environnante, je souhaite que cette visite vous apporte un grand bonheur visuel!

• César Augusto V. R. "Photography behind our immediate sun"
• noisette* "figures d!eau"
• Olli Kekäläinen “clouds, clouds, clouds“
• Visual Artist Shari Baker "Silent dialogue"
• Srecko Lebinec "People"
• Levan Kakabadze "staged"
• Augusto Rosa "Asphalt"
• Brancollina "Shadowland"
• Dibujos de Molina "felicidad"
• The first Exhibition "The fine art of Osvaldo Pieroni"

Important Contemporary Artists

Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, Tony Smith, Joseph Beuys, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, George Segal, Duane Hanson, John Chamberlain, Donald (Don) Judd, Sol LeWitt, Cy Twombly, Robert Ryman, Robert Morris, Fernando Botero, Richard Estes, Nam June Paik, Gerhard Richter, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Eva Hesse, Frank Stella, Georg Baselitz, Brice Marden, Robert Smithson, Judy Chicago, A.R. Penck, Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Jan Dibbets, Bruce Nauman, Sigmar Polke, Gilbert & George, Blinky Palermo, James Turrell, Christian Boltanski, Rebecca Horn, Jörg Immendorff, Sean Scully, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Rothenberg, Richard Long, Jeff Wall, Anthony Gormley, Julian Schnabel, Bill Viola, Francesco Clemente, Mona Hatoum, David Salle, Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Martin Kippenberger, Anish Kapoor, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Thomas Schütte, Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Andreas Gursky, Andy Goldsworthy, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Keith Haring, Francis Alys, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Rachel Whiteread, Damien Hirst, Matthew Barney, Mariko Mori, Chris Ofili

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Culture – Identity – Force Triangle

Cybernetic triangle Visual System – Photo/Drawing - Reality

Gilles Deleuze – Connexion – Heterogeneity