[spectre] Art-Domains project presentation at Art Frankfurt

[Peter Luining]

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.