Teo Spiller
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Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
, is one of four Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
n net.artists, active on-line since 1995.
About
Teo Spiller, Born on December 4, 1965 in LjubljanaLjubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
, is one of four Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
n net.artists, active on-line since 1995.
Spiller is well known as the worlds first net.artist, who sold a net.art
Net.art
"net.art" refers to a group of artists who worked in the medium of Internet art from 1994. The main members of this movement are Vuk Ćosić, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, and Heath Bunting...
work to a gallery. He sold his work Megatronix to Mestna galerija Ljubljana in May 1999. He organised negotiations between artist and buyer as an online forum with participants.
In 2004, together with Tadej Komavec, he launched X-lam project, a different media for watching images. It works best in (semi) dark place. A 'stick' contains seris of diods blinking. But if you moove your eyes quickly you can briefly see an image floating in the air.
In 2008 launched Real3Dfriend project as a critic of closed commercial oriented virtual reality systems (specially Second life), questioning ethics of virtual reality worlds, based on commercial instead on humanistic values.
Solo exhibitions
- Galerija Commerce, Ljubljana, Slovenija
- Klub Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenija
- Gallery Rael Artel, Parnu, Estonija
- Installation "Inside the web server", Hevreka!05, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005
External links
Other Slovenian net.artists:
Articles
- Hommage to Mondrian Sylvie Parent, CIAC electronic magazine
- Nice page Rossitza Daskalova, CIAC electronic magazine
- Real3Dfriend Rhizome art base
- X-lam Rhizome art base
- Historia net.art Arte.red, Universidad de los Andes (page 8)
- Arte de Internet Lourdes Cilleruelo Gutierrez, Tesis doctoral, Universidad del Pais Vasco (Page 296)