[rohrpost] Interview with Jan Robert Leegte: THE 'ONE IDEA, ONE RESULT' METHOD

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*THE 'ONE IDEA, ONE RESULT' METHOD
*In conversation with the Amsterdam-based artist Jan Robert Leegte
http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=3533

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The experience-based way of testing physical reality defines the choice of
material in Jan Robert Leegte's installations and Internet-based work.
Amongst others, he developes so called single-serving-sites, which are
defined as web sites comprised of a single page with a dedicated domain name
and do only one thing. In "Blue Monochrome .com" (2008), for example, Leegte
makes use of the tools of Google-Earth to transform satellite images of the
globe's water surface into ready-mades. Geographic coordinates are linked to
the coordinates of a website, the real space is linked to the virtual; the
title of the artwork represents on a linguistic level, what can be seen on
the screen image: a granulated blue surface with minimal elevations, which
can immediately be associated with thick acrylic on canvas and finally with
its predecessors in art history. In the interview with CONT3XT.NET the
artist explains how the Internet can be seen as a space and why he is still
fascinated by the "new medium".

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*Recent exhibition:*

WHITE, YELLOW, BLUE, AND BLACK, ONE COINCIDENCE, AND ONE OBJECT.
Galerija Galzenica, Velika Gorica/Croatia, 15 September - 19 October 2010
http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=3429

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*More interviews:*

MONOCHROMACITY AS A REFLECTION OF COMPUTING PROCESSES IN INTERNET-BASED ART
In conversation with the art historian Thomas Dreher
http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=3424

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