ATENTION:!

BIG SHEEP, A NEW BLOG IS OPENING AT:

http://bigsheep.blogspot.com/ or at http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/

Sheep's Parade / Sheep's Parade II, the Big Sheep

The Project Sheep’s Parade was launched in March 2005 through a funny call which announced the “Fall and Spring Sheep’s Parade", an allusion to the collections of feminine fashion that are lauched to each new season. That because the parade was related to the new series of collaborative reviews - “Electric Green Sheep” - a Museum of the Essential and Beyond That 2005 activity which would analyse the web.art done by three women from three different regions of the Earth: France, USA and Chile. The title “Electric Green Sheep” was a reference to the work of the first artist analysed - the french artist Isabel Saij and to Internet and its electric green. To show those wonderful women / sheep that come standing out by the active participation in cyberspace and to confirm that technology also is a woman’s space nowadays is our intention with these review series - 2005.

The first invitation to Shep’s Parade was funny:

Send your sheep image, drawing, painting, photo, animation - any kind of sheep: Dolly ( coming back to cloning...), white, fashion, shock pink, electric green, what sheep you imagine, even the famous black sheep will be welcome!

The sheeps deadline will be May 15 th 2005. Send how many sheeps you want, we are looking forward to see the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That invaded by a sheep’s flock !!!!!

They sheep were arriving, at first funny sheep the first flock to arrive was the colorful flock of the Brazilian and carioca artist Paulo Villela, which deserved a comment by Muriel Frega (Argentina):

“- Y las de Paulo son senoras en la peluqueria, graciosisimas!” ( Paulo Villela’s sheep are madams at the hair - dresser, amusing!)

After the Easter holiday, more jokes and an excuse for the delay of the Summer's and Winter Festival end:

Everything is always perfect in the virtual cities or museums found on the Internet, but the Museum's space does not work that way. Instead, its operations aim at fulfilling the dictates of the principle of reality. For example, the Summer's and Winter Festival is finishing today, with a delay of about 15 days! The reason? Well it is not easy to manage a museum of this size but lately, as you certainly know, the museum is being invaded by sheeps' flocks (http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep ), and during the Easter's holiday the sheep ran away from their gallery and spreading theirselves by all the museum. It was difficult to control and to place to their own location such sheep quantity, for you have an idea, the "330 º sheep" that Rob Myers sent us insisted on form a halo around the museum... But finally, it seems that everything came back to calm, then you have here the complete Festival (http://arteonline.arq.br, go down by the scrollbar until the link or go direct to http://arteonline.arq.br/festival ):

But suddenly the parade started to change the tone, the first sign of this change was “The Sacrificial Lamb” by Colino and Babel, that revealed in a wise and ironical way and with lots of black humor that all sheep have a defect. Just after Tamara Lai (Belgica), sent us her sheep, which was an answer to the “Altar” (http://arteonline.arq.br/web\_art\_considerations) I built to the her Project Sacrifier le Sacrifice sacrificing 2005. In this "Altar" I ask in a funny way:

- How many pixels I sacrifice before finish a web.art work? Is this the web.artist craft or a sacrifice?

The image sent by Tamara Lai shows the image of an innocent little lamb being retreat from a computer screen in order to be sacrificed - devoured (?) by the web.artist (?), well maybe it is much more than this ... in fact the text that accompanies the work contrasts terribly with the innocent image.

Then Isabel Saij sent her serious and political sheep collection that was analysed in details in the first collaborative review 2005. In that review also was anlysed the flock done by Edward Picot (UK), which also burrow in serious political subjects. So the Sheep’s Parade that had started as a joke became something much more serious… And then Louise Desrenards (France) sent a comment to the lists nettime-fr-raw and nettime-fr:

“Lorsque Regina depuis le Bresil a lance l'appel de mai pour le defile des moutons "Sheep’s Parade", n'etait-elle pas visionnaire du mouton noir et du mouton du Non socialiste, mais aussi du Non europeen, car le mouton d'autrepart est devenu celui du Non divers de la gauche et pour dire l'appel quenous soyons les plus nombreux possibles ? C'est le mouvement de Mai 2005 “!

It is just because the black sheep has become in France a kind of symbol to the “left” NO in the countersign - for a constitutional treaty for Europe - on May 29th 2005... So that Sheep's Parade is now a Historical Parade !

Well, after all of this, there is not how to interrupt that sheep’s triumphant parade, which grew so much and acquired such different functions from those that have been proposed in our release.

My most graceful thanks to all the artists that have participated in its first edition, contributing to its success:

ALEXANDRE VENERA - ANGELICA CHIO - ASTREA EL-JAICK & RAYMUNDO AMADO GONCALVES - CARLOS RAMIREZ - COLINO / BABEL - CRISTINA ORENSZTAJN - DANIELLE RICCIARDI - DEA JUNQUEIRA - EDWARD PICOT - FRED FOREST - ISABEL ARANDA - YTO - ISABEL SAIJ - JOAO PEDRO - JOESER ALVAREZ - JUDSON PLASMA STUDII - LIA BELART - LISA HUTTON - LOUISE DESRENARDS - MIGUEL JIMENEZ - MURIEL FREGA - PAULO VILLELA - PAULO VILLELA & REGINA PINTO - REGINA CELIA PINTO - ROB MYERS - TAMARA LAI

I am sure that you would like to know that the project continues, now it is called “Sheep’s Parade II - the Big Sheep.”

What is the “Big Sheep” ?

It is a proposal of cloning. Every 15 days we will be commenting two of the first project flocks / sheep and at the same time mixing their “DNA” visually. Also a image / clone of them will be available on the “blog” to be copied and changed for who want and wish to participate of the Big Sheep. This mutant sheep or flock should be sent to arteonline@arteonline.arq.br. All the mutant sheep will form the “Big Sheep”, which will be exhibited permanently at the Museum of the Essential and That’ s Gallery Cloning and WEB.

With that project will be giving force to the Free Art:

"Free Art license / Copyleft Attitude

With this Free Art License, you are authorised to copy, distribute and freely transform the work of art while respecting the rights of the originator. Far from ignoring the author's rights, this license recognises them and protects them. It reformulates their principle while making it possible for the public to make creative use of the works of art. Whereas current literary and artistic property rights result in restriction of the public's access to works of art, the goal of the Free Art License is to encourage such access.

The intention is to make work accessible and to authorise the use of its resources by the greatest number of people: to use it in order to increase its use, to create new conditions for creation in order to multiply the possibilities of creation, while respecting the originators in according them recognition and defending their moral rights. In fact, with the arrival of the digital age, the invention of the Internet and free software, a new approach to creation and production has made its appearance.

It also encourages a continuation of the process of experimentation undertaken by many contemporary artists. Knowledge and creativity are resources which, to be true to themselves, must remain free, i.e. remain a fundamental search which is not directly related to a concrete application.

Creating means discovering the unknown, means inventing a reality without any heed to realism. Thus, the object(ive) of art is not equivalent to the finished and defined art object. This is the basic aim of this Free Art License: to promote and protect artistic practice freed from the rules of the market economy."

Much more at: Free Art (http://artlibre.org)

The last edition of the “Big Sheep” will be registered in Free Art site and so that it can be used indefinitely, for who wants, always respecting creators' rights.

In case one the artists of the first “Sheep’s Parade” does not agree to offer his/her sheep or flock to be "mixed and cloned”, please send an e-mail to arteonline@arteonline.arq.br with “No Big Sheep” in the subject.

Regina Celia Pinto

http://arteonline.arq.br
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm

ATENTION:!

BIG SHEEP, A NEW and EXCITING BLOG IS OPENING AT:

http://bigsheep.blogspot.com/ or at http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/

The New Blog is featuring Sheep's Parade II, the Big Sheep...

Regina Celia Pinto

http://arteonline.arq.br
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm

Museum of the Essential and Beyond That
The second Collaborative Review is launched!
Guest Artist: Millie Niss - USA

To see the texts below with images browser at:
http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_niss.htm

1- BIO AND INFORMATION:

ENGLISH:

1- BIO AND INFORMATION:

Millie Niss was born in New York City, USA, but moved to France at the age of two months, and has grown up bilingual French/English. She returned to the USA at age 2 1/2, then spent summers in France. Later, she spent a year doing her last year of French lycee, where she obtained her baccalaureat C (in math & physics) in 1990. Millie then went on to study math at Columbia University in New York City, obtaining a BA in math in 1993 with magna cum laude and admission to Phi Beta Kappa. She spent the next two years studying for a doctorate in mathematics at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA,
but had to quit due to illness. Later, she did a year of graduate school in creative writing at Emerson College in Boston, MA, USA, but also had to leave before finishing.

Millie started programming computers when her father bought a Commodore VIC-20 ( http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/comp/vic20.htm ) in 1983. This was a computer ( http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/attic/millie/vic.html ) with a whole 4K (!!) of RAM and it worked on your television, with only 20 characters on a line... Millie (then age 8) and her father learned BASIC together using the VIC, and later they both moved on to machine language (6502 Assembler). Their biggest project together was re writing the word processor for the Commodor 64 (a slightly more powerful similar computer), at first just to add French accented characters, then to add many more features.

Millie has been making web-based computer art since 2000, when she discovered Flash and HTML. Her work has been published on wordcircuits.com, bannerart.org, Rhizomes/hyperrhiz, The Museum of the Essential and Beyond That, trAce, thirdplacegallery.org, and others. A list of her publications on the web is at http://www.sporkworld.org/webpub.html. Since 2001, Millie has been maintaining her website http://www.sporkworld.org, which focuses on web art and poetry (although the poetry on it is old). Themes of work on Sporkworld include cities (especially New York), mental illness, contemporary poetry, politics, and more. Millie presented a workshop on Sound Poetry in Flash in 2004 at the trAce Online Writing Centre's Incubation3 Symposium in Nottingham, England. In 2004, a drawing from one of her animations appeared in Rachel Greene's Book -Internet Art - in Thames & Hudson publisher's "World of Art" series.

Millie also enjoys writing poetry and prose, and her poems and articles have been published widely online and some in print, including in The Buffalo News, Artvoice, The New York Times, Friends' Journal, New York City Voices (print), and futhertxt.org, unlikelystories.org, Beehive, poetz.com, Big Bridge, sidereality, poetrysz, m.a.g., and others (online). She loves to read poetry and novels, especially contemporary experimental works and some classics, and enjoys literature which is postmodern and does not make sense and/or is written in nonstandard styles. Millie is also very interested in science, medicine, mathematics, and computer science, and likes to base her work on scientific and technical ideas and algorithms.

2- WORK (s):

Spork, the Schizophrenic Skua

At the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That:

Spork's Toilet (http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/bathroom/toilet.html) >
It is one of the bathrooms
(http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/bathroom/index.htm) of the museum.

To learn more about Spork:

The Spork Web Site by Millie Niss

http://www.sporkworld.org/spork/

Spork the Schizophrenic Skua (http://www.sporkworld.org/spork/skua.html)* is a cartoon bird created by Millie Niss to critique the way (U.S.) society treats people with mental illness. The Spork cartoons are also meant to evoke the literary theme of the Absurd, and to touch on other sociopolitical themes (for example the theme of racism is addressed through Spork's status as a bird in a human-dominated society).

The character Spork is a skua (a kind of arctic bird) who has the illness of schizophrenia, a mental disease which causes people to hear voices which aren't real and to have delusions (false beliefs about reality, often of a paranoid nature). The first Spork cartoon strip (in The Spork York Times http://www.sporkworld.org/spork/sporkread.html ) illustrates Spork's illness and society's response to it. In the world of the Spork cartoons, Spork is genuinely ill and suffers from his illness. The site's critique of the mental health system is not based on the Szaszian idea (see the wrong-headed book by Thomas Szasz, "The Myth of Mental Illness") that mental illness does not exist or that it is a social construct which oppresses people by labelling them as ill. Spork actually has psychotic symptoms, caused by a brain disease. But the System's response to Spork's illness is oppressive and Absurd.

The representatives of the System do not see Spork for who he really is (on a basic level, they cannot see that he really is a bird and they think he is acting crazy when he acts like a bird), they lock him in nasty hospitals and they try to control his life by manipulating government benefits and pushing him to participate in stupid treatment programs and take harmful drugs. However, the viewpoint of the site does not disapprove of psychotropic medications in general, it merely emphasizes that they can be harmful and that doctors should pay attention to the dangers of drugs.) The System is represented in the cartoon world through the person of Miss Meddling, who reappears in many roles: social worker, nurse, case manager, etc. Any time Spork must be "treated" and controlled by a mental health worker who is not a doctor, that worker will be Miss Meddling. (The name Miss Meddling was suggested to Millie Niss by a patient in a mental health residential treatment center where Millie worked as a counselor.)Spork is much more than his illness, as all mentally ill people are, and he is portrayed as an intelligent and talented bird, whose particular interest is computer security. The System sees Spork only as disabled and fails to recognize his worth.

The heart of the Spork site is the cartoons (and secondarily, the articles) in The Spork York Times. Try clicking on various words in the headlines of The Spork York Times, the articles, and the cartoons. These tell the basic story of Spork's Adventures. The pages on Spork's Living Room, Miss Meddling, and Peter Pong the Bipolar Pelican provide background information. Spork's childhood history is told on the page "Spork's History"( http://www.sporkworld.org/spork/origins.html ) It explains where Spork came from and describes the onset of his illness, which had both biological and psychological causes.

Millie Niss has experimented with creating Spork merchandise, hence the
forthcoming Spork Store. She has made and sold notecards with the Spork
cartoon adventures printed on them, Spork T Shirts, refrigerator magnets, and more. The merchandising aspect of Spork was intended as a semi-ironic and semi-real example of transforming art into merchandise.

* Any of several Arctic and Boreal sea birds of the genus Stercorarius that harass smaller birds and snatch the food they drop.

http://www.sporkworld.org/spork/skua.html

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Have a good weekend,

Regina Celia Pinto

http://arteonline.arq.br
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm

Is it possible that reality only still be true at the sunshine?... Perhaps not, "my cave is very comfortable, there is security, television, video, phone, computer, Internet,...in it. An authentic paradise where the real is this set of nice chaotic fragments which I live daily" , and in a greatluck day I can get a holed tube and... a new work:

MAGIC WALLS
Magic and ghosts provoked by a holed tube...

http://arteonline.arq.br/magic_walls/

Walls:

1- Cave's Alegory
2- Inside
3- Hero
4- Alive
5- The Last Tango

Everything started when I realized that I had a holed tube in my bathroom. To fix the problem a great hole was opened and the man who came to place cement on the wall made contemporary art on it. Photos and photos and magic and ghosts appeared... I am thinking if I will paint the wall again... What do you think?

All the walls are interactive, so that explore ...
Resolution 1024 X 768, Flash Player Available, Sound on, PC Users press F11 on the keyboard to see full screen.

Prepare your heart!

Regina Celia Pinto

http://arteonline.arq.br
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm

Dear friends,

I would like to introduce you the amazing Project Friendship, by Muriel Frega (Argentina). The way Frega gets to make portraits of her friends using digital media is really amazing, because the portraits are not only very good but also they tell us something about the culture and the personality of each one of the portrayed.

http://www.murielfrega.com.ar/grafica/artedigital/amistades.htm

There you will find my portrait! ;-) - Have fun!

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Friendship / Muriel Frega
Portraits | Vector Art | 2005
Translation: Barry Smylie

We enjoy thinking of someone who is good company on Friend's Day. We remember to eat pasta together every 29th day of the month. Family gathers for Christmas and New Year. Those moments are kept in memory, associated with a day.There are many other moments in a friendship that do not happen on a special day. We do not remember them. Those times of life become, unnoticed, friendships of years.

These vector drawings are portrayals of some of my friends.
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Cheers,

Regina Celia Pinto

http://arteonline.arq.br
http://arteonline.arq.br/library.htm