ORGANIZATOR
The Centre has been present on the Internet for two and a half years.
Through the Internet information about the events in the Centre and the
monthly program is on view as WWW pages (http://csw.art.pl/) and by
e-mail.
The Internet workshop offers new experience. The exhibition in the net
is a result of the course organized by the CCA for a group of young
artists working in various art fields: painting, sculpture, video,
design, photography, visual text, history of art. What they share is the
interest in the new medium, and the artistic opportunities it offers and
which have not been fully discovered.
The first edition of the workshop took place in November and December
last year. Sixteen people participated, Pawel Althamer, Katarzyna
Kozyra, Barbara Konopka, Piotr Wyrzykowski among others. The results of
their work also exist in the Internet:
http://csw.art.pl/warsztaty/ and
http://www.atm.com.pl/csw/warsztaty/
In May this year another series of meetings for a new group of
participants wishing to discover the Internet for their imagination
began
Observing the changes happening around us one realizes that the Internet
will soon have the same influence on culture as the television had.
However, as a new, not fully shaped a medium, the Internet challenges
the artists to take part in shaping its future form. Therefore, it seems important that among the people who are interested
in the Internet are not only those fascinated by its technical or
commercial aspects. Artists may make the Internet more humane.
All around the world people discover new possibilities of the Internet
and computers. In some way they continue mail art and fax art. It is not
so much important where an artist lives and creates but what is his/her
link to the outer world.
Working on the Internet gives a chance to use in a work of art ones
cultural background and contacts with other cultures. This may be
especially important for those who draw on private experience and
invention to express the ideas and changes of global importance.
Closing another edition of the Internet workshop the CCA wishes the
Polish artists to communicate through the Net. We hope our presentation
is going to be an impulse to broaden the artistic territories..
Please join us on the presentation of the WWW pages prepared the Second
Internet Workshop on Tuesday, June 17, 1997 at the Centre for
Contemporary Art. The exhibition is on view on the Internet:
http://csw.art.pl/warsztat02/