Dirk Vekemans
Since 2005
Works in Kessel-Lo Belgium

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BIO
born in 1962 in Lier, Belgium.
studied filology at Louvain, Belgium.

worked a lot in bars and restaurants before i became obsessivly addicted to producing stuff on computers.

i once won a design contest of cgi-magazine and they let me go to New York for four days, that was nice.

i think in terms of writing mostly (or programming, but those are very similar processes for me)

painting is a very different process and i'm very bad at it but i do it anyway because i like the differences it produces and i like the freshness of amateurism, i guess.

what i produce new media-wise is also very much influenced by my daily practice of webdesign and programming with its concerns of usability and the pragmatic approach it implies.

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DISCUSSION

Re: new name for Net Art News?


Nono, you're talking andives, no relation whatsoever...
dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Pall Thayer [mailto:p_thay@alcor.concordia.ca]
> Verzonden: maandag 12 december 2005 21:07
> Aan: Dirk Vekemans
> CC: 'Ryan Griffis'; 'rhizome'
> Onderwerp: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: new name for Net Art News?
>
> I thought sprouts came from alpha-alpha
>
> Pall
>
> On 12.12.2005, at 14:54, Dirk Vekemans wrote:
>
> > Yep, anything from Brussels will do :-) dv
> >
> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] Namens
> >> Ryan Griffis
> >> Verzonden: maandag 12 december 2005 20:25
> >> Aan: rhizome
> >> Onderwerp: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: new name for Net Art News?
> >>
> >> i think this is my favorite so far.
> >> ryan
> >>
> >> On Dec 12, 2005, at 4:15 AM, aabrahams wrote:
> >>
> >>> playing with abe's suggestion :
> >>>
> >>> sprOUTs
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DISCUSSION

Re: new name for Net Art News?


Yep, anything from Brussels will do :-)
dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]
> Namens Ryan Griffis
> Verzonden: maandag 12 december 2005 20:25
> Aan: rhizome
> Onderwerp: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: new name for Net Art News?
>
> i think this is my favorite so far.
> ryan
>
> On Dec 12, 2005, at 4:15 AM, aabrahams wrote:
>
> > playing with abe's suggestion :
> >
> > sprOUTs
> >
> >
>
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
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> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in
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DISCUSSION

Re: DEAD END


hm, yes: my institutionalised weakness! can i quote you on that?
greetings from the grave (& beyond that),
dv

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Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] Namens manik
Verzonden: maandag 12 december 2005 2:21
Aan: list@rhizome.org
Onderwerp: RHIZOME_RAW: DEAD END

Quoting Dirc:

>"The search for meaning will always be political. "
>Louis Bec,
>quoted by Raquel Renno in this month's discussion on art and cognition at
>empyre

Man can't talk about his thought without thinking about his own
discourse.Discourse is message.To rise up against certain discourse by using
other discourse always lead to liberation of "new speech",deep and free (of
norm) energy.Publishing book,even about (new media) 'art' is completely
public act-institutionalization of actuality.In today's historical
circumstances this kind of institutionalization is political and confirm
repressive universe.Every thought-out writing establish kind of subversive
'para-writing'.Hopeless situation between those writings is complete,that
way they talk about weakness,about alienation,about lack of living
space.Schism isn't personal,it's structural.There we can recognize
two-dimensional world:world compose of pure opposites out of every
mediation.This text here is not action,it's reaction.
MANIK

DISCUSSION

4 days left


The questions

1. We live in 'remix' culture. Are there limits to remixing? Can anything be
remixed with anything? Shall there be an ethics of remixing?

2. In the last few years information visualization became increasingly
popular and it attracted the energy of some of the most talented new media
artists and designers. Will it ever become as widely used as type or
photography - or will it always remain a tool used by professionals?

3. Today cinema and literature continue the modern project or rendering
human psychology and subjectivity, while fine art seems to be not too
concerned with this project. How can we use new media to represent
contemporary subjectivity in new ways? Do we need to do it?

4. 'Blobs' in architecture and design - is this a new 'international style'
of software society, here to stay, - or only a particular effect of
architects and designers starting to use software?

5. While the tools to produce one own media have been more accessible and
more powerful, people never consumed more commercial media than now. Thus
the essential division between 'media amateurs' and 'media professionals'
which got established in the beginning seems to be as strong as ever. In
short, the 1960s idea that new technologies will turn consumers into
producers failed over and over again. Will this situation ever change? What
will be the next stage in media consumption after MP3 players, DVD
recorders, CD burners, etc, etc, etc.?

The answers

1. We live in a culture. Are their limits to culture? Can anything be
culture next to anything? Shall there be an ethics of culture?

2.In the last few years artists have been using tools. Will tools ever be
used by artists - or will they not?

3. Today cinema and literature continue to be cinema and literature, while
fine art has a tendency to become fine art. Will new media become new media?
Do we need it?

4. Will Manovich become Manovich?

5. While the individuals have never ceased to produce meaning (construction)
, the industry only has an eye for her growing consumer potential
(destruction). Thus the essential division between succesful destruction and
half-hearted destruction established when you come to think of it, seems to
be as strong as ever. In short the 1960's idea that everybody is an artist
has failed to be recognised as such over and over again. Will you ever
change? What will you buy next?

[

Descriptions glide into the normative when they start using their own
descriptive power to establish their fiction as a valid reality, i.e. when
they become recursive. Manovich is Manovich is Manovich is .......is true.
Objects are objects are objects are......are true. Automata are automata are
automata are......are true. Unsoweiter.

Descriptions are useful and potentially powerful tools for the artist
because they offer diachronic maps of the individuals locality ( i usually
think of them allegorically as of the maps of enemy territory printed on
silk and sown into British air pilots' jackets during WWII).

Normative descriptions are defusing tools of oppression that need to be
exposed as such at the precise moment when they (re)enter their subject
field i.c. the semi-industrialised space of 'art production' (cfr. MANIC's
post on modular prison building, well done MANIC).

Exposing them enhances their virtual garbaging in the process towards the
Unreal Soup of Creation (aka Royco minute soup, in LM terminate-ology).

Recommandations for the Strategic Garbaging of Recursive Fictions will later
be derived from de facto standards by the Body of the Cathedral-Mother
(SGRF-recommandation 1.0, due for BCM publication in 2009 by the looks of
it)

"The search for meaning will always be political. "
Louis Bec,
quoted by Raquel Renno in this month's discussion on art and cognition at
empyre

]

dv, temporarily banned from the Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

DISCUSSION

Re: new name for Net Art News?


don't like all the tomorrow things either, might as well call it new news or
make news and before you know it you end up with nix news or nomo news

hmm, i don't like the (military) bliep in radars, either.

sth with 'hive' perhaps. Kinda like the idea of getting New Honey from the
artHive sticking in the mailbox.

Or sth with 'swarm'. Hitswarm(still).

Snapit. Synergetic News on Art Production, Information and Technology.

WWWart: Double U, double me, double everybody.

personally i'd call it "stack overflow", but that's way too nAarty...

goodluck,
dv

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Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org] Namens
aabrahams
Verzonden: maandag 5 december 2005 15:18
Aan: list@rhizome.org
Onderwerp: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: new name for Net Art News?

As Ryan I don't like the avantgarde connotation of Tomorrow

Among others I like

Art_Radar

annie

On 12/5/05, Pall Thayer <p_thay@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:

_Art_Tomorrow_
What we're doing today and you'll be doing tomorrow

On 5.12.2005, at 07:04, marc wrote:

> (the) hamster gazette
>
> m.
>
>> (the) sprout out
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marisa Olson"
>> <marisa@rhizome.org>
>> To: < list@rhizome.org <mailto:list@rhizome.org> >
>> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 3:49 PM
>> Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: new name for Net Art News?
>>
>>
>>> Dear readers,
>>>
>>> I'm writing to solicit your advice. We would like to
change the name
>>> of Net Art News and I'd like your input on a new name.
>>>
>>> As Lauren mentioned in a recent note to you, Rhizome is
currently
>>> redesigning our site. This is an exciting moment in
which we are
>>> thinking about all the recent developments in our field
and how
>>> Rhizome can reflect, support, and foster them.
>>>
>>> On the editorial side, my goal with Net Art News has
been to broaden
>>> our scope and reach, getting more international in our
coverage and
>>> also covering not only internet art but also software
art,
>>> performance, sound art, data visualization,
technology-enabled
>>> social
>>> sculpture, locative media, video, and the myriad other
branches
>>> of new
>>> media practice.
>>>
>>> While we are by no means giving up on net art, the title
Net Art
>>> News
>>> no longer reflects the breadth of the publication. The
first and
>>> simplest title that comes to mind is 'Media Art News,'
but of course
>>> this is potentially dry. I'm also not necessarily
looking to split
>>> hairs over the phrases 'media art' and 'new media art.'
The title
>>> needs to be rather short, self-descriptive, and
hopefully also
>>> inviting.
>>>
>>> What are your suggestions? Any feedback would be greatly

>>> appreciated.
>>> If you'd like to refamiliarize yourself with Net Art
News, you can
>>> look up previous pieces, by month, here:
>>>
>>> http://rhizome.org/netartnews/index.php
>>>
>>> With thanks,
>>> Marisa
>>>
>>>
>>> + + +
>>> Marisa Olson
>>> Editor & Curator at Large
>>> Rhizome.org
>>>