[spectre] Art-Domains project presentation at Art Frankfurt
Peter Luining
email at ctrlaltdel.org
Wed Apr 27 19:58:57 CEST 2005
For immediate release
Artist: Peter Luining
Project: Art-Domains
Description: Art-Domains is a project that brings internet domain trade
to an art context, thus penetrating the space of the white cube with one
of the most lucrative virtual money making businesses, that of selling
domainnames. For this particular project Peter Luining did over one year
of research and became a domain broker himself. He bought and sold
domain names to get the knowledge of how this trade works and also to
get the best art related names available. Over the last year Luining
aquired domain names like clementgreenberg.com, artcriticism.org,
marcelduchamp.info, whitecube.us, etc. The Art-Domains stand Luining
will present at Art Frankfurt will connect virtual to real space and the
public domain of trade to the artworld. At the moment Luining owns about
200 art related domain names that will be offered for the first time for
sale at Art Frankfurt.
For his presentation of Art-Domains Luining uses Mel Bochner's "Working
Drawings And Other Visible Things On Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be
Viewed As Art." (1966) as a basis. Bochner's presentation used
photocopies and contained ephemeri of "non- art" sources, which were put
in identical ring binders and displayed on standard white plinths.
Whereas Bochner used new materials to display the creative process over
it's results, Luining uses Bochner's classical presentation method (use
of standard office techniques i.e. laser prints of webpages) to connect
virtual selling strategies with the institutional artworld in a low tech
manner.
Buro Empty
standnumber: G30 Hall 1-1
Art Frankfurt, Germany
29 april - 2 may 2005
website: http://www.art-domains.com
*Note: Besides that domain names can be purchased at Art Frankfurt and
through the art-domains.com site, from april 29th premier art names will
be offered for auction at ebay. Check out the art-domains website for
more details.
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