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CulturalOlympics.com

(mirror site: CulturalOlympiad.com)

The web site CulturalOlympics.com is Greek artist Christos Prossylis' net art work and includes his participation in the exhibition that was organised by the  European Patent Office in Munich, Germany (June-September 2004).

CulturalOlympics.com, has to do with my manifesto about net art; I don't believe that we can define 100% today what net art and internet art work is in general. The internet world is so young to have its own intellectual history; therefore -in my opinion- most of the internet "art works" are just experiments, without a strong theoretical and philosophical background, formulated for this new world. Very few expressions come directly from this new world: and I believe that this is the key, to define this early steps of net art, a secure status for internet art work. One of these expressions is undeniably the domain name.

My opinion is that, the post modern position of net citizen, can validate a domain name as art: a domain name and the copyright in internet as well, under a domain name expression, could be net art. This is the CulturalOlympics.com: an international domain name that can work as art, as it is; a virtual cultural domain name, that confirm itself as art work in internet chaotic universe. So, I put the domain name CulturalOlympics.com in a virtual stand and I say: this is net art. This is my position for this work.

Art critics Olga Daniylopoulou and Thanassis Moutsopoulos, as well as the European Patent Office curators, agree that this point of view could be valid: but the most important is your presence as net citizen. I think that you validate this work each time you visit this site.

Christos Prossylis

April 2002

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