May 1, 2005
Turbulence Commission: "Imprimatur" by Andy Deck
http://turbulence.org/works/imprimatur/
Needs Java and Adobe Acrobat Reader

"Imprimatur" is a free, easy-to-use tool for producing posters. Users
contribute to a poster layout via their web browser. Creativity becomes
a shared process, as unpredictable as the people who are passing
through. The artist, rather than providing images, provides a system
intended to activate the viewer's thought and expressiveness. Against
the backdrop of a mass media culture that promotes conformity and
passivity, "Imprimatur" encourages 'viewers' to choose themes and
produce their own messages. It propels on-line expression out of the ink
jet and into the streets.

"Imprimatur" is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
(aka Ether-Ore). It was made possible with funding from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts.

BIOGRAPHY

Andy Deck is an American media artist specializing in Internet art. His
work addresses the politics and aesthetics of collaboration,
interactivity, software, and independent media. Deck's aesthetic program
seeks a cultural break from the modernization of passive consumerism.
Using the site Artcontext.net, he combines code, text, and image,
demonstrating new patterns of participation and control that distinguish
online presence and representation from previous artistic practices.

Deck is a co-founder of the environmentalist arts organization
"Transnational Temps" which was awarded a prize in the VIDA 4.0 Art and
Artificial Life Competition (Spain). His site, "Artcontext," was a
finalist for the 2003 Webby Award in NetArt. A retrospective of his
online work was presented at Furtherfield (U.K.) in 2004; and, as part
of the Athens-based arts collective, "Personal Cinema," he developed
"The Making of Balkan Wars: The Game," a precursor to the game which won
a 2005 award at the Electronic Media Art Festival. Deck teaches in the
MFA Computer Art department at the School of Visual Arts, New York City.

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