White Page Gallery

ART INFLUENCES SOCIETY THROUGH ITS PRACTICES

The White Page Gallery is a new culture for art curatorial practices based on the values such as

sharing, caring, openness and inclusivity. The White Page Gallery/s are a distributed community and network made of independent online galleries in the format of web page hosted on the websites of artists, curators, academies, festivals and other art and cultural operators and aficionados. The White Page Gallery is a concept happening every time someone or a group of people opens a WPG on their/her/his website dedicating a web page to others's exhibitions and art projects. The White Page Gallery happens every time a connection and a collaboration are established between a host and a guest. The WPG's host offers a space and the setting up. The WPG's guests offer the contents. Every host of the WPG has their/her/his own rules for their own gallery.

WHERE PRIVATE SPACES BECOME COMMON SPACES

Name of the host: Konstantina Mavridou

What does the host do: Provides the space for posing questions & maybe finding some answers :)

WPG Description: This WPG space is an attempt to bring awareness around the Ethics of Internet [EoI]. It is an open discussion on the blurry in-betweenness of ethics at a private, social and public level. However, I would like to raise that the focus is not around the obvious ethical matters, like cybercrime, privacy, property & rights, accessibility, censorship, freedom, filtering, spamming, trolling, fraud. The focus will be on the following paradox that seems to be happening the last years; despite of GDPR laws, limitations and bans for databridges & heavy data tracking that are applied to organisations, internet & services providers of various types, but also wider consumer product businesses across sectors - which seem to be more aggressively usingconsumers’ behavioural data, using and promoting Gen Z ( Generation Z ) characteristics and what it takes tocreate a ‘good’ branding ( ‘Driving the value from experience’ ), so they target larger audiences, in order tomassively control the behaviours via social media marketing, targeting & content creation functionalities. It is very important to mention the characteristics defined by the market of Gen Z: More Global | Under the Influence | More demanding | Eager to stand out | After experiences | Pro social ( responsibility ) - “Ethics and message aremost important to me… you cannot expect people to buy your products if your ethics are trash.” Female, 17, US.
Based on the above ‘key insight’ businesses need to use and analyse consumer data at a personalised level inorder to be ahead of the market competition and so Gen Z is ‘satisfied’. At the same time these generation definitions were invented by the same research centres and experts of consumerism of the same markets. The same principles are applied by companies across sectors from daily products to very new high-end technology like AI, IoT and financial services.
The space is open to works around the ethics of the crossovers of spaces of the internet - do people demandor markets themselves build a non-ethical loop of ethics to be followed?

What I'm looking for: Open for video|image|text works, critical research, mixed reality works.

Keywords: #image #video #sound #glitch #conceptual #virtualinstallation #mixedreality #data #IoT #ethics#definitions #criticalresearch #audiences

Current exhibition: Open for suggestions.

Upcoming show: Open for suggestions.

Contact/email: dmrdart.89@gmail.com

Name of the host: Grace Kim Howard

What does the host do: Web experiments, creative coding, analog hardware/electronics hoarding, and sometimes writing.

WPG Description: Colors are computationally represented using hex triplets that you might know as RGB. From the Wikipedia page for web colors: The total number of colors that can be represented by this system is 16^6 = 256^3 = 2^24 = 1677216.

What I'm looking for: Work that is meant to be viewed on a screen, engages with Internet culture, or is otherwise born of digital means, as long as it can be displayed on a webpage. This could be anything from videos, images, gifs, text, 3D models, client-side code, a glitch (intended or otherwise), quantumed memes, net.art, a pdf, etc.

Keywords: #webcolors, #screens, #subpixelrendering.

Current exhibition: 16777216.

Upcoming show: Open for suggestions.

Contact/email: hey@16777216.online

Name of the host: Zsolt Mesterhazy

What does the host do: Zsolt Mesterhazy is an artist, organizer, lecturer, blogger frequently by digital means.

WPG Description: Would you wind a watch or bark at the moon? Will host! Invite the next and wake me up before you go-go 'Cause I'm not planning on going solo!

What I'm looking for: Client side code, text, image, video and sound (the last two 50MB max.) that relate to acquired tastes, usage and habits.

Keywords: #code, #text, #image, #video, #sound.

Current exhibition: Footfall Almanac 2020 pdf. Edited by: Kurt Tichy and Alex Zakkas. With contributions by: Femke Snelting and Dennis Pohl.

Upcoming show: The general idea is that invitees of Unbleached form a daisy chain and each invites the next artist. All are encouraged to set up their own WPGs.

Contact/email: zsolt@c3.hu

Name of the host: Dom Barra

What does the host do: Dom Barra is an artist, educator and visual content creator working in the field of digital art and dirty new media.

WPG Description: This WPG is an open space for counter narratives and experimental works.

What I'm looking for: I am open to all sorts of proposals, everyone has an unique voice and I will be happy to help you in telling that story giving space to your poetry on my WPG.

Keywords: #glitchart, #netart, #internetart, #databending, #conceptualart, #newmediaart, #dirtynewmedia, #zombiemedia, #remix, #memes #storytelling, #newaesthetic, #divineaesthetic.

Current exhibition: Rino Petrozziello - Bipolar Mornings - Audio & Video - (from 1 Feb 2020 to 29 Feb 2020).

Upcoming show: Oper for suggestions.

Contact/email: rockmyworld@dombarra.art

Name of the host: Noemata

What does the host do: Provide space for up and coming and down and out artists and net practitioners.

WPG Description: We have a long running site for net art and networking and a bad reputation, occasionally blacklisted spam site. This will be your road to fame and fortune! Start practicing now. In no time you'll be running your own WPG. That's our only requirement - that you set up your own WPG node.

What I am looking for: We especially like time-pieces, things about time, passing of time, virtuality of time, and thus ourselves as we abide in it, whether we like it or not. Non-time pieces are therefore also interesting, what would they be? Would they have any audience? Escape artists are also encouraged to apply.

Keywords: #noemata ('object of thought'), #time, #non-time, #virtuality, #audience, #escape, #characters.

Current exhibition:
Room1 : Nina Sobell - Hindsight is 2020 (from 1 Jan 2020 to 1 Mar 2020).
Room2 : Edward Picot - Very Large Circle (from 4 Nov 2019 to 1 Mar 2020).

Upcoming show: Open for suggestions.

Exhibitions Archive:
ronnie s - 10 mini narratives (from 1 Nov 2019 to 31 Dec 2019).
Almond Yeggs - Baryon Singer (LP) (from 4 Oct 2019 to 31 Oct 2019).

Contact/email: mail@noemata.net

Name of the host: Leandro Summo

What does the host do: New media artist.

WPG Description: Summo's WPG is open to all of the artists who create sculptures in three-dimensional virtual spaces. This space allows artists to blend the computational base of new media art with the traditional physical form of sculpture.

What I'm looking for: Collections of .obj/.dae/.fbx or WebGl build in Unity 3D

Keywords: #newmedia, #digitalsculptures, #mesh, #virtualspace

Current exhibition: Martina Menegon - The rapture of the self – Virtual Sculpture 2019.

Upcoming show: Open for suggestions.

Contact/email: leandrosummo@gmail.com

Name of the host: Karina Pálosi

What does the host do: unstable.media is a cabinet of curiosities, unfinished, as collections are. I collect the internet and fabricate new objects, meaning, context and stuff.

WPG Description: Rare find, this place is usually booked. Great location near the center, free internet, magnificent view, and state of the art facilities. You are kindly requested to refrain from being loud after 11 pm, the neighbours tend to complain. Leave the space as clean as you found it, and have a great stay!

What I'm looking for: All works are welcome: works I like, works others like, works that make everybody angry, works nobody understands, works I wish I had made.

Keywords: #art, #notart, #netart.

Current exhibition: Open for suggestions.

Upcoming show: Oper for suggestions.

Contact/email: temporarilyavailable@gmail.com

Name of the host: Ángel Sesma

What does the host do: 3d modeling, web design, net art

WPG Description: the Blank Space Station is a virtual space dedicated to low res digital art. Users are welcome to roam the station in search for blank textures and apply for an intervention of said texture.

What we are looking for: low resolution jpg/png/bmp image files (up to three per artist / project).

Keywords: #space, #exploration, #zero, #gravity, #texture, #swap, #static, #2d, #low, #resolution, #digital, #art, #retro.

Current Exhibition: テルメックス公衆電話

Upcoming show: Open for suggestions.

Contact/Email: angelsesma@gmail.com

Name of the host: Vuk Ćosić

What does the host do: Classic of net.art

WPG description: According to the "Web Dogma 95" that I still have to write (dammit, stop postponing) I want to remind everybody of the utopian intuitions of the heroic period of net.art. So it makes sense to invite humans to submit their favourite pixels to be included in the very sacred territory of my home page. The early negotiations are still under way so it is too early to announce when exactly and in which of the great art museums I will install the show of 8-10 selected best pixels. At this stage I want you to know that something's cooking.

What I am looking for: I want YOU to look closely at your favourite file and extract the best and most exciting pixel. It is completely irrelevant if the file was created by you or if it was intended to be art. It will be displayed with utmost respect in order to allow it to convey your (artistic) intention. While the call is very open indeed please do not send pixels that infringe on other people's copyright or freedoms.

Keywords: #keypixel

Current exhibition: Paul Wehby and Jeremy Hight.

Upcoming shows: jodi, Jaka Babnik, Alexei Shoulgin, Shulea Chang, Bani Brusadin, BriDa, Marc Garrett, Nika Autor, Marcel Mars, Tadej Vaukman, Jaka Železnikar, Rene Beekman, Maja Smrekar, YesMan, Janez Janša, Ben Grosser, Inke Arns, Mirko Ilić, but never mind the cellebrities, send your pixels now!

Vuk Cosic's WPG archive : http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/wpg/

Contact/Email: vuk.cosic at gmail.com

Name of the host: FUORIVISIONI

What does the host do: "FUORIVISIONI" is an artistic project open to interactions with artists and individuals. A living entity that performs every time in different realities with the intention of developing discussion and reflections. A fusion of space and poetics that arises from the need to create a non-place as a means to individual awareness. An experience for everyone, but at the same time only for those who are willing to take their time to embark on this journey within themselves.

WPG Description: A window on World Wide Web in which FUORIVISIONI project continues to develop this connection between artists outside mainstream. A space where is possible forge ideas and develop exchange with other and diffusion of alternative thought.

What we are looking for: Authentic narratives capable of triggering new approaches to thinking.

Keywords: #Narration, #Interstitium, #Connection

Current exhibition: Domenico Barra - Erasing Signs.

Upcoming show: Open for suggestions.

Contact/Email: fuorivisioni@gmail.com

Name of the host: Martha Hipley / An Artist's Guide to Computation

What does the host do: An Artist's Guide to Computation is an online publication and learning community for artists working with technology and technologists making art.

WPG description: This WPG is a safe space for you to share the things you are excited about learning and making with other people who want to learn from you. The format is totally open, so long as the work can be shared online in a webpage format. AGtC will provide development support to get your work up on the site. In addition to the digital exhibition, accepted recipients will be interviewed for a feature in the publication about their process and experiences.

What I'm looking for: Digital works that can be exhibited in a web page format, particularly those that reflect learning. Are you primarily a video artist, but used some 3D models in your latest work? Are you a backend dev by day, but have been learning to paint? Have you spent the last year working on a new ML library, and want everyone to fork it on Github and make it into something new? AGtC is a learning community, so works that reflect new skills and exploration are particularly exciting.

Keywords: #creativecoding, #experimental

Current exhibition: TBD, (opening Jan 2020).

Upcoming show: Open for suggestions.

Contact/email: info@marthahipley.com

Name of the host: Florian Kuhlmann

What does the host do: The digital3mpire platform consists of the perisphere-BLOG, the INTERNATIONAL OFFICE FOR AESTHETIC CONSULTING AND DIGITAL ISSUES, and a projectspace-gallery called THE HUB. Digital3mpire is also a node in a global network of places and platforms dealing with similar themes. The aim of the project is to collect ideas and strategies for connecting the digital and the natural sphere in an intelligent, accessible, and humane way. We work on both the daunting problems and vast opportunities of an increasingly digitally formed synthetic reality.

WPG Description: Every aesthetic mutation needs a place. Our is called the hub aka digital3mpire. Situated in Düsseldorf – a town in the heart of Western Europe with a long history of spawning groundbreaking movements like zero, dada, punk or fluxus – the hub is a space to gather with others in the Rhineland area who share our interest in the evolution of ‘the digital’ and our passion for all aspects of an increasingly digitalized world.

What I'm looking for: digital3mpire is looking for shows and pieces that emphasize an aesthetics of cybernetic politics, the aesthetics of network power and politics, and new forms of communities analog, digital and hbrids, also new ideas and views on metamodernize are always welcome.

Keywords: #politics, #cybernetic, #metamodernism, #community, #user

Current exhibition: Open for suggestions.

Upcoming show: Open for suggestions.

Contact/email: fk@digital3mpire.com

Name of the host: Rudy Paganini

What does the host do: FOREVERMIDI.COM is an electronic artist dealing with new (and obsolete) technologies and the Internet. House head.

WPG Description: WPG in its original shape, an open place for open minded people willing to share their works and a bit of their space on the www.

What I'm looking for: I’m looking for: surprise me.

Keywords: #romcorruption, #glitchart, #netart.

Current exhibition: Karina Pálosi - Portrait.

Upcoming show: Open for suggestions.

Contact/email: forevermidi@gmail.com

OPENING A WHITE PAGE GALLERY

IT IS VERY EASY. YOU ONLY HAVE TO CREATE AND SHARE A BLANK WEBPAGE ON YOUR WEBSITE THAT WILL WORK AS AN ONLINE GALLERY, YOU WILL BE THE HOST OFFERING YOUR ONLINE SPACE, COLLABORATION AND SUPPORT TO THE GUESTS WHO WILL WISH TO EXHIBIT THEIR PROJECT ON YOUR'S WPG. IT IS YOUR SPACE AND YOU WILL MAKE THE RULES, OF COURSE, SO ACCEPTING A PROPOSAL IT IS NOT MANDATORY. IT IS YOUR WEBSITE SO YOU WILL HAVE TO UPLOAD AND SET THE GUEST'S PROJECT AND ITS CONTENTS ON YOUR WHITE PAGE GALLERY. ONCE YOUR WHITE PAGE GALLERY IS ONLINE, GET IN TOUCH AND WE WILL LIST YOUR'S WPG ON THIS WEBSITE TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER WHITE PAGE GALLERIES ONLINE.

EXHIBITING ON A HOST'S WPG

GET IN TOUCH WITH THE HOST YOU WANT TO WORK WITH. EVERY WHITE PAGE GALLERY IS RUNNED BY THEIR HOSTS AND PROPOSALS MUST BE MADE DIRECTLY TO THEM. EVERY WHITE PAGE GALLERY IS INDEPENDENT, THIS MEANS THAT EVERY HOST IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR/HER/HIS WHITE PAGE GALLERY.

PLEASE, HOSTS AND GUESTS, YOU ARE ALL INVITED TO RESPECT BASIC NETETIQUETTE TO GUARANTEE EVERYBODY A PEACEFUL ONLINE LIFE AND A MERRY WHITE PAGE GALLERY EXPERIENCE.

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OPENING A WHITE PAGE GALLERY

EXHIBITING ON A HOST'S WPG