DIAN, Digital Interactive Artists Network
An international experimental website for online art.
I was Project Manager together with Gerhard Mantz, Berlin for DIAN, Digital Interactive Artists Network. In this project, artists from all over the world explored the potential of the Internet. The DIAN website and most of the artworks was built on Flash. After 2021, all major browsers have removed Flash support permanently. Therefore, it is no longer possible to see all these amazing web artworks.
Read our declaration below.
DIAN is a collection of net art produced between the years 2000 to 2003
During the period spanning these years we have attempted to go beyond other collections of net art and have, accordingly, tried to present only works with a high artistic quality. The works, we felt, explained themselves more visually than textually. Works that had enough charm, spirit and orginality to be concidered art and not only sophisticated programming. However the technical was important to our choice and was looked at for its help in realising the art and artistic vision of the piece.
Being artists our selves we felt that we looked and experienced differently art, artworks, and the idea of what an artwork is, than art critics, art historians or curators do. We experienced, more often than not, accordance among artists about quality and the actualisation that an art work achives than is common, or even acknowledged, among art theorists. These are some of the myriad and various considerations that can and have effected and informed this discussion, but, and in the final count of what really makes an artwork cannot be expressed in the realm of the word.
Producers
Gunilla Leander and Gerhard Mantz
Above are the artists that were associated with the DIAN project.
(one is missing; Lars Nilsson with his art work ”Hundbajs”)
Below are the two artworks I presented at DIAN. TEMPUS_MELT was serious, S A N T O was a bit crazy. However, Santo attracted one student from UK so much that he wrote his university thesis on the work.
If I find the essay I will post it here, as it shows the impact of internet art, how many people were touched by it.
