Visual art exhibitions and events with a platform for critical writing
By: Elizabeth Barlow
Last week I finally took that step and put myself onto the world wide web (www.bethbarlow.com). And I feel pretty good about.
From now on I am going to call myself a topical artist. Most people say that they are a willow artist or a sculptor but as a right old flibberty jibbet of a person I have never stuck to one medium for long enough to say such things. There are however some persistence themes in my work, society, trace and loss being a few of them. If I work in the community I am more inclined to ask about topics that a group wished to explore than what they wish to work in.
# 1 [22 February 2008]
I finally took the step and put myself on the world wide web (www.bethbarlow.com)
I have done lots of projects about the internet even writing a whole novel about it. The novel "Whatever" looked at whether internet social networking can be used as a kind of adult play, a test ground for real interactions. As part of my MA I asked people in chat room to take part in my final year art project by proposing ideas which could then be made by artists. But until now I've never had the courage to put myself out there. At the end of the day it has all been pretty easy and I feel good about it. For two years until I have to decide whether to pay again I own my name on the internet and it is also giving me a little place to play. The art Haiku in the corner of the home page is an effort to make myself create a tiny experiment each week. If any other artists want to join me in this It would be good to have a link to other artist Tiny experiments in art. Drop me a line( what a funny expression, guess it relates to lines of words dropping through your letter box.).
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