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Parallel Notion Network is


Reiner Strasser
r.strasser@xterna-net.de
Germany


Dino Ignacio
fcow@portalinc.com
Philippines

Fabio Doctorovich
fdoctor@qo.fcen.uba.ar
Argentina

Gary Zebington
garu@merlin.com.au
Australia

Lars Wikström
wkstrm@kuai.se
Sweden

Ted Warnell
ted.warnell@bbs.logicnet.com
Canada


 

C o m m u n i q u é

A Joint Statement
Parallel Notion Network

 

Notions

Art seen as a system of signs
Art is a kind of language with its specific rules
Art is for communication
Art is communication
The Net is for communication
The Net is a new medium with its own language
The Net is an information system

Artists on the Net

Time goes by
In the morning
there is a notion of the sun at the horizon
In the evening
there is a notion of stars in the sky
Signs of the time

Parallel Notion(s)

- Reiner Strasser


It's all about connecting
Art is a medium so powerful, a painting of 12 inches by 18 inches can affect a nation 12000 miles by 18000 miles, a movie of 1 hour and 47 minutes can affect a whole generation for 5 decades. It's all about connecting. We as creators have been given such power as to affect the rest of mankind with a few drops of paint. Art is so powerful a tool that it should be created with care. The responsibility is so immense that an artist must learn to be sensitive to the world beyond his. It is one thing to speak and another to actually say something.

This to me is the essence of Parallel Notion, it is a continually evolving connection to the rest of the world that promises to say something. We as seperate artists connect to each other, tapping from each other's muses and connecting to the rest of the world. Connecting and caching our art/souls in hard drives around the world, and if we are lucky... some place much deeper.

- Dino Ignacio


An n-dimensional neural network
Humanity could be viewed as a neural network conjoined by phones, wires, light, high frequency waves: unrestrained stimulated electrons.

In that scenario Parallel Notion creates a consciousness of informatic worlds running on collateral dimensions, each one of them similar to the rest but not quite.
Like an n-dimensional web.

- Fabio Doctorovich


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- Gary Zebington


Art is communication
Although I have worked as an artist since the late sixties, I can't say that I am very interested if what I am making is called 'art' or not any more. Working with Internet has more and more opened my eyes for the basic function of art-- communication. For the artist who likes more than anything to experiment and to find new paths in his work, the Net is the right place to grow the art of communication.

Parallel Notion is an experiment in building a small open network, where artists get together in a continously changing exhibition. Each artist administers his own page and nobody knows when or how the exhibition is going to change; only that it will. I really hope you will enjoy the show. Have fun!

- Lars Wikström


Parallel Notion
is a widely distributed network of web sites created to foster arts and communication on the Internet. Each site in the network is hosted and maintained by an individual artist. Each represents the work of all participating artists.

The network supports and promotes all participants by the efforts of the individual, and the individual by the efforts of all. I hope, too, that this notion might reflect the nature of the universal creative spirit that is the heritage of all artists, and all mankind.

Notion parallèle
est un réseau grandement diffusé de sites web créés dans le but d'encourager les arts et la communication sur l'Internet. Chaque site du réseau est pris en charge et maintenu par un artiste individuel. Chacun représente le travail de tous les artistes participants.

Le réseau soutient et publicise tous les participants par les efforts de la personne, et la personne par les efforts de tous. J'espère, aussi, que cette notion pourrait refléter la nature de l'esprit créatif universel qui constitue l'héritage de tous les artistes, et de toute la race humaine.

- Ted Warnell

 

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