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: "Forty Years of Fluxus" by Ken Friedman


a very valuable link to me, thanks. The self-indulgent, tragic biblical
reference at the end is a bit hard to swallow though. Failing to become what
you want to become seems part of the artistic endeavour to me, there's
nothing uniquely fluxus about that. It's how you fail that makes art
interesting...
The broad historical/global view is refreshing, though. It made me think
there's a lot of 'desengano'in contemporary American art, many artistic
motivations resembling the perceptions underlying the Quevedo-Gongora strain
in Spanish Baroque. Or maybe it's just the cold and drizzling winter weather
outside here.
dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-list@rhizome.org [mailto:owner-list@rhizome.org]
> Namens Jim Andrews
> Verzonden: maandag 19 december 2005 10:52
> Aan: list@rhizome.org
> Onderwerp: RHIZOME_RAW: "Forty Years of Fluxus" by Ken Friedman
>
> Here's an interesting essay called "Forty Years of Fluxus" by
> Ken Friedman:
> http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/kfriedman-fourtyyears.html
>
> What I found interesting about it was not so much its history
> of Fluxus as its discussion concerning electric and
> electronic art and what Friedman finds of value therein and
> what he doesn't. Mostly why he does or doesn't.
>
> I admire his determination to simplicity. Simplicity not as
> over-simplification but as arising from philosophically
> informed as opposed to technologically-driven art.
>
> However, I'm not sure how much room a thorough-going pursuit
> of that erm aesthetic leaves for, say, software art, in which
> the application may be philosophically informed and strongly
> conceptual but forbiddingly complex beneath the hood.
>
> Also, I enjoyed his examples of work that failed, and why it failed.
>
> ja
> http://vispo.com
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DISCUSSION

Study for the LAVIE machine


END GAME - 16 bit movie#1
(flash6 animation - 810 kb - will only run on (very) fast computers -
Windows and Mac Projector available for download)
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/DSC02206.jsp

windows projector: http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/flash/kn01.exe (2.352 kb)
macintosh projector: http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/flash/kn01.hqx (4.118 kb)
flash 8 source file: http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/flash/kn.fla (4.110 kb)

greetings,
dv @Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

DISCUSSION

Don't ask what your bookstore can do for you


//TURK @ usage #1 (aka turk art critic)

read (url);
urlContainsArt= callMechanicalTurk(url);
if (urlContainsArt== TRUE){
acceptUrl;
}
else {
rejectUrl;
}

//TURK @ usage #2 (aka turk democracy)

read(blog);
blogIsFriendlyEllMechanicalTurk(blog);
if(blogIsFriendly=uLSE){
System.Security.Liquidate(blog.getAuthor());
}
else{
blog.ratings.rate++;
}

//untsoweiter:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/104-1897347-3742352?node879911

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

greetings,
dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends (Sacrificial Artificial
Artificial Absent Intelligence)

(HIT ME:) http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

DISCUSSION

locating the Cathedral


Eric's to blame for this one...

http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/nkdee_google_earth.jsp

greetings,
dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
htpp://www.vilt.net/nkdee

DISCUSSION

Re: new name for Net Art News?


Well i did when i ate them.
dv

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Pall Thayer [mailto:p_thay@alcor.concordia.ca]
> Verzonden: maandag 12 december 2005 22:05
> Aan: dv@vilt.net
> CC: 'Ryan Griffis'; 'rhizome'
> Onderwerp: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: new name for Net Art News?
>
> Oh good. Does that mean I can stop wondering where the hell
> alpha- alpha is?
>
> Pall
> On 12.12.2005, at 15:16, Dirk Vekemans wrote:
>
> > 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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> >> --
> >> Pall Thayer
> >> p_thay@alcor.concordia.ca
> >> http://www.this.is/pallit
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