Correction of the adress of Millie Niss website:

The new "Electric Green Sheep":

I would like to introduce you the American Artist Millie Niss, who will be our Museum Newsletter Collaborative Review's June guest and invite you to browser at:

http://www.sporkworld.org (Millie Niss's URL)

Dear all,

Here are the news:

I )- The new "Electric Green Sheep":

I would like to introduce you the American Artist Millie Niss, who will be our Museum Newsletter Collaborative Review's June guest and invite you to browser at:

http://www.sporkworld.og (Millie Niss's URL)

Millie Niss 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, thirdplacehgallery.org, and others. A list of her publications on the web is at www.sporkworld.org/webpub.html Since 2001, Millie has been maintaining her website 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 Niss 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.

The review will begin on June 10 th.

To join the newsletter browser at: http://arteonline.arq.br

If you not read the first Collaborative Review on the work os isabel Saij (France), the adress to do it is:

http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_saij.htm

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II )- The new works at the Museum of the Essential and Beyond That:

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1- The sheep by Fred Forest, a pionner of video art and Internet art in France - http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep, find - page bottom - Fred Forest Forest received the communication's prize in Sao Paulo's Benal 1973 and he will do a retrospective exhibition at Paco das Artes de Sao Paulo, next 2006 April.

Browser at http://www.fredforest.org/Ina and type the name "mouton" (sheep)! Also writes a definition and you will receive a signed work by Fred Forest.

Fred Forest also has a web museum at:

http://www.webnetmuseum.org

Being there do not forget of looking for:

http://www.webnetmuseum.org/html/fr/expo_retr_fredforest/actions_fr.htm#text

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At http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/

I would like to call your attention to the new Sheep which have
arrived at the museum. http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/ , specially for the delicious but seriously political song sent by Louise Desrenards (France)

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2- "Promiscuous Design" by Jason Nelson (USA / Australia) at Anthropological / Sociological Gallery of the museum:

http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/antrosocio.htm

Although Jason is currently swayed by the tropical heat and forest, he
misses the treeless plains of Oklahoma. His work has appeared most
everywhere, but can always be seen at either http://www.heliozoa.com or
http://www.secrettechnology.com his most recent fascination is with mail. If you e-mail him your snail mail address he will send you an artistically built postcard from Australia. heliopod (at) gmail.com

"Promiscuous Design"

Technology is a translation engine, it reforms, recreates the texts of our surroundings into an infinite number of languages. These texts are more than words or speech and instead include radio static, temperature, the frayed edge of a sheet, the mumblings of a stranger.

Promiscuous Designs is a translation engine of itself, it takes poetry derived from speech to text experiments and processes that poetry through the different interfaces, and overlaying them within the words and intertwined with the graphics. And rather than have an end, a linear progression, the user becomes translator, creating their own poetics through their interactions with the work. Explore and Play.

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It is interesting that both artists - Nelson and Forest - are sending real feedback for you!

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At: http://www.arteonline.arq.br/museu/antrosocio.htm

Also you will find the works of Giselle Beiguelman - Brazil, Minerva
Cuevas - Mexico, Stehane Malisse - Brazil and my own work "Reload Celeida Tostes", a tribute for that wonderful Brazilian artist, dead in 1995 - there you will see digital clay ...

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Warmest regards,

Regina Celia Pinto

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

Dear friends,

Some good news:

1-Electric Green Sheep

The first Collaborative Review of this series is ready and on line:

We analysed the work of the French Artist Isabel Saij and at the same time we tryed to answer two questions:

>> Do you believe in the human species' CREATION POWER to change our "political landscape"?
>> Do you believe that the "Universal sufrage" can change the world?

To know everything what was analysed during a month through the Musem Newsletter, browser at:

http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/reviews2005/english_saij.htm

A success, without any doubts!

2- The Project "Sheep's Parade" that has the deadline on May 15th has already many flocks. It is estraordinary to see how a so simple theme can produce so different solutions from the artists.

http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/

Artists:

PAULO VILLELA,
P. VILLELA & R. PINTO
LIA BELART
MURIEL FREGA
ISABEL ARANDA - YTO
DANIELLE RICCIARDI
COLINO / BABEL
CARLOS RAMIREZ
ROB MYERS
TAMARA LAI
JOESER ALVAREZ
ISABEL SAIJ (I)
ISABEL SAIJ (II)
ISABEL SAIJ (III)
ISABEL SAIJ (IV)
MIGUEL JIMENEZ
DEA JUNQUEIRA
EDWARD PICOT
CRISTINA ORENSZTAJN
ALEXANDRE VENERA
LISA HUTTON
JUDSON (PLASMA STUDII)
REGINA PINTO (I)
REGINA PINTO (II)

TEENAGER SHEEP

JOAO PEDRO

3- Some sheep were reviewed:

I)- e-motion by Isabel Saij

It seems to me very charming although dramatic this Isabel Saij's almost animated series of 3D images for which the Artist wrote a poetic statement. The use of colors is excellent and it punctuates the drama that is developed through the pictures. The way Saij uses different points of view increases the observer's interest who becomes more and more interested in discover what is going to happen in the next scene... The electric green sheep are teeny robots, a probable allusion to all that Saij has already revealed us in her other work "Political Transparence". For me this is a fantastic series, I do not tire of observing it and everytime I discover new details and minutiaes which I really consider surprising. (The download is very fast!)

Saij revealed us that she was inspired in two classical to develop her tale:

- In the myth of the labyrinth of Knossos
- In the tale "Panurge" by the "old" French author Rabelais.

II)- How many sheep? by isabel Saij

After you delight yourself with e.motions, click Isabel Saij [IV], at the same page ( http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep ) and have a good time discovering "how many sheep", but also do not fail to appreciate the minutiaes and colors of this magnificent 3D scene, a QTR movie. To move the 360 º scene, move your mouse on the picture. Ah, the "download" (1 MB) will make you wait a little bit, mostly if you do not have a fast connection, but it is worthwhile!

III- The "loup mouton" (wolf lamb) by Isabel Saij

Let's starting with the "Loup-Mouton". The "Loup-Mouton" is a drawing from Saij's series Fragments. This drawing is made of nervous but strong black lines. It is a gestual "Loup-Mouton" where the agressiveness of the black lines that sometimes are almost barbed wire contrasts with the inocence of the soft and faded wool of the almost white lines (visible only in the print version). So that Saij's drawing gets to show the double character of the well known "Loup-Mouton" - the "wolf in sheep's clothing".

Nowadays, the expression "wolf in sheep's clothing" is very used to indicate someone, generally politicians, that shows to be nice people but by the contrary, they are the evil.

I am sure that everybody knows the famous Aesop's Fable:

The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

ONCE UPON A TIME a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. * In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.

* Nowadays thinking on some politicians and impunity, the fable always finishes in the word "costume"... ;-(

IV)- Sheep by Edward Picot

"Edward Picot's sheep's parade is very poignant - we have a general election May 5 and Mr Tony Blair's Labour Party may not be re-elected due to his lack of transparency over Iraq. A change of leadership would secure the vote. Most people have lost respect for the man due to his toadying to America. It doesn't feel good to be British at the moment." (Elizabeth Curtis - UK)

Do you remember what our friend Clemente Padin commented?

...Art necessarily expresses the social conflict (it cannot be avoid, it is impossible... )

Edward Picot's sheep, essentially political and very intelligent, shows this clearly. When , we browser http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/ ( click - Eduward Picot), we soon observe a white sheep peaceful flock, which eats the grass of a small elevation near a mirror of water (the sea?), in fact they are not real sheep but sheep painted by the Pre-Rafaelita English painter William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910); who sought to revitalize the art of his time emphasizing the detailed observation of the natural world in an almost-religious devotion regarding the truth. We also hear a beautiful and very calm musical composition by Erik Satie (1866 - 1925). It reigns a complete peace in this landscape... Sudden, in an action of the mouse, the first fright: the black sheep (the expressio black sheep has the tradirional meaning here...) Sadam Husseim appears on two different times - in the summit of the glory and in the bottom of the well. When we move the mouse, other surprises can appear: the scapegoat or some scenes of the current world (UK?) . We can not forget that the myth of the scapegoat today is related to extremists ideologies, and in it we can see Bin Laden X occident or George Bush X terrorism...). When I accessed the work for the first time, the last "sheep" which appeared was the ""the wolf in sheep's clothing." - Tony Blair... Perfect! So the Isabel Saij's "loup mouton" has a name now...

I do not have idea of the reason why Edward Picot chose "William Holman Hunt" to illustrate his work, but it is curious that the search of the truth is the same in Hunt as in Picot. A coincidence? If Hunt searched the natural world's truth, Picot searchs the political world's truth, Picot's search is much more arduous. As Muriel Frega affirmed:

"- This is one of the themes in which I do not believe. Politics is something that basically bores me, because it gathers the characteristics that most displease me: lies, hidden things, conveniences, corruption."

I agree fully with her. And it is exactly because of this that Edward Picot's "flock" excites me, through a simple game of images and through a music that enchants and that does not prepare the spectator for what is going to happen - a Picot's excellent discovery - a narrative that can be understood by everybody was built and it shows very well what politics and most of our politicians are - unfortunately!

V)- Coming soon: "De Velazquez y Ovejas" (On Velasquez and Sheep) or "Refranero espanol" (Spanish Proverb) ... by Miguel Jimenez - Zenon

I am waiting for your sheep until May 15th.

A hug,

Regina Celia Pinto

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

Well folks, let's participate! It is the first event of electronic media in my beloved city Rio de Janeiro!

Warmest regards,

Regina CA

During May we will be commented some sheep of Sheep's Parade.

Today the first one:

Edward Picot's Sheep

...Art necessarily expresses the social conflict (it cannot be avoid, it is impossible... )

[Clemente Padin]

Edward Picot's sheep, essentially political and very intelligent, shows this clearly. When , we browser http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep/ ( page down, click - Eduward Picot), we soon observe a white sheep peaceful flock, which eats the grass of a small elevation near a mirror of water (the sea?), in fact they are not real sheep but sheep painted by the Pre-Rafaelita English painter William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910); who sought to revitalize the art of his time emphasizing the detailed observation of the natural world in an
almost-religious devotion regarding the truth. We also hear a beautiful and very calm musical composition by Erik Satie (1866 - 1925). It reigns a complete peace in that landscape... Sudden, we move the the mouse and..., the first fright: a very well known black sheep (here the meaning of black sheep is the traditional one) appears on two different times - in the summit of the glory and in the bottom of the shaft . When we move the mouse, other surprises can appear: the scapegoat or some scenes of the current world . We can not forget that the myth of the scapegoat today is related to extremists ideologies. When I accessed the work for the
first time, the last "sheep" which appeared was the "the wolf in sheep's clothing." - who ????... Perfect! So that the Isabel Saij's "loup-mouton"(wolf-sheep / http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep, click on Isabel saij [2]) has a name now...

I do not have idea of the reason why Edward Picot chose "William Holman
Hunt" to illustrate his work, but it is curious that the search of the truth is the same in Hunt as in Picot. A coincidence? If Hunt searched the natural world's truth, Picot searchs the political world's truth,... Picot's search is much more arduous.

This Edward Picot's "flock" excites me, through a simple game of images and through a music that enchants and that does not prepare the spectator for what is going to happen - a Picot's excellent discovery - a narrative which can be understood by everybody was built and it shows very well what politics and most of our politicians are - unfortunately!

Would not you like to be a Sheep's Parade artist?

Send your sheep to arteonline@arteonline.arq.br, subject: sheep
Deadline: May 15th 2005

Regina Celia Pinto

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