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[cornelia sollfrank]

Cornelia Sollfrank: THIS IS NOT BY ME

Opening: 25 November 2006, Saturday, 6PM
Runs until 31 November 2006

Mag:net Gallery Katipunan
Agcor Building, 335 Katipunan Avenue,
Loyola Heights, Quezon City
Tel 9293191

"This is not by me" shows recent works of German artist Cornelia 
Sollfrank. Since she conceived the Internet art work "net art 
generator" in 1996 - a program that automatically creates art works 
from artefacts from the net - Sollfrank deals with questions of 
Intellectual Property and artistic freedom in her work. In "This is not 
by me" she takes on the works of Andy Warhol and his extensive use of 
material from the media and advertising. The show features works that 
relate to Warhol´s practise of appropriation, including a video 
interview with Warhol on questions of Intellectual Property, that 
Sollfrank conducted.

While Intellectual Property seems like a remote and academic topic at 
first, it has an increasing impact on artists, who work with found 
material from the media, with ready-mades and "object trouvés". 
Sollfrank´s incorporation of found material has actually prevented an 
exhibition of her work in Switzerland, because the curator was afraid 
of the legal ramifications that her use of material from Warhol´s work 
could entail. "This is not by me" is the first presentation of Mrs. 
Sollfrank in the Philippines.

Cornelia Sollfrank is a media, performance and installation artist, who 
lives in Hamburg and Celle. Trained at the Kunstakademie München and 
the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, she was a member of the 
artist group Innen. Her work has been shown internationally, most 
recently at the Kunstverein Hildesheim, Galerie im Taxispalais, 
Innsbruck, Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, La Vénerie’, 
Brussels, and Knabstrup Kulturfabrik, Kopenhagen. She is a founder of 
the cyberfeminist group Old Boys Network and has taught at the 
Universität Lüneburg, Universität Oldenburg and the Bauhaus 
Universität, Weimar.

More on her on her website: http://artwarez.org

She is also a participant in the conference "Asian Edition: A 
Conference on Media Piracy and Intellectual Property in Southeast Asia" 
(www.asian-edition.org), that is sponsored by the Goethe-Institut and 
the UP Film Institute. The conference takes place at the UP College of 
Mass Communication on November 24, and is organized by Tilman 
Baumgärtel, the curator of the show and a Visting Professor at the Film 
Institute.