Jorn Ebner & Roberto Echen interviews by ---->JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project

[week 27 March - 2 April 2006]
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The weekly interviews on
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=11
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3rd & 4th  interview featuring
Jorn Ebner (UK) & -rechen- [Roberto Echen/ Argentina]
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Jorn Ebner
is an artist based in England. Born in Bremerhaven, Germany, he studied English 
Literature at Universität Hamburg 1990-95 and Fine Art in London at Central 
Saint Martins College of Art 1995-98. His internet-based works include "Leif 
Codices" (2003), "Lee Marvin Toolbox" (2001), which received the Kunstpreis des 
Medienforums München 2001, and "Life Measure Constructions" (2000/01), a New 
Media Scotland Commission. In September 2004, the Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse 
Stormarn, Germany, opened "Offline, On()", an exhibition of Ebner's computer- 
and internet-based works; the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle presented the work, 
"Portable Landscape"; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, organised Ebner's "Instability 
Experiment" in summer 2005.
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rechen-
Roberto Echen -born in Rosario/Argentina, is working since 1980 in different 
art disciplines and teaching at the School of Fine Arts of the National 
University of Rosario since 1987. He started in 1997 working with computers and 
incorporated Internet with the aim of making art on the net, and joined later a 
group of research on art and technology at the University of Rosario, working 
through Internet instead of having a physical space. In 2000, Roberto Echen 
became Coordinator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Art Juan B. 
Castagnino of Rosario, Argentina, and was envolved in 2004 in the creation of 
MACRO (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario - museum of contemporary art of 
Rosario) and became general curator of it.
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About JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project

JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org/start1.htm
is currently preparing a new project, entitled:
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://jip.javamuseum.org
to be launched in June/July 2006 online.

Agricola de Cologne, director of JavaMuseum
is interviewing a number of selected artists active in the field of Internet 
based art
who participated in the "1st phase",
the 18 JavaMuseum showcases 2001-2004,
in order to spotlight their artistic background, activities and visions.
Once completed - JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project will release the collected 
interviews online
on the new project site - http://jip.javamuseum.org , but immediately
also in form of one interview per week on the new weblog -
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=11

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