WHAT IS WEBISM ?
WEBISM - A GLOBAL ART
MOVEMENT
Webism is a movement where the
primary medium is the Internet and the Web. As such, Webism
is a dynamic and fluid entity. Webists participate in on-the-fly,
ad hoc projects that come together at light speed in a joyful
dance of exuberant enthusiasm. Like all art movements there
is a manifesto. The Webism manifesto turns our normal view of
digital art on its head. From the Webist perspective the original
work is the web-based art and the printed work is a copy.
WEBISM MENIFESTO
1.
Creates art using any medium to share primarily online and thereby
contribute to and expand Cyberculture.
2. Contribute digital art, as
a product of the same technology that makes the Internet a reality,
as the main source for global cyberculture.
3. Network artists together with
the mission of building Web visual arts culture
4. Promote a sense of the peace
through friendship without barriers and expand global consciousness.
5. Identify this new specialized
form and application of digital art/graphics (monitor size presentation,
what- you-see on screen is the 'original' work of art, web page/site
environment for the imagery, inclusion even of mixed media elements
through high tech tools).
6. Demonstrate the existence
of identifiable personal styles among the developed digital
artists.
7. Recognize those artists that
deserve the world's recognition for excellence within their
chosen medium, even if not yet so by the traditional art establishment/market
and their critics.
8. Declare the ephemeral digital
online image as the original work of art and any print or painting
derived from the digital as a copy or 'reproduction;' assists
others to realize photographed or scanned painting and sculptures
are merely digital 'reproductions,' even at prestigious museum
web sites.
9. Organize exhibitions online
to showcase talent of the artists and the expressive and cognitive
statements the works themselves generate.
10. Document the activities of
the Webists as they unite to form a new worldwide -ism in Art;
record their existence and passing for traditional historians
to discover thereafter.
11. Organize off line exhibits
to expand the awareness of more people (both lay public and
art institutions) of different regions and cultures of the world
of the existence of the Webist movement.
12. Assist off line digital artists
in the acceptance of their art tools as a legitimate fine arts
medium.
13. Distinguish for the public
the differences in meaning of "graphic artist," "digital
artist, "cyber artist," and "Webist."
14. Create opportunities where
Webists can physically meet each other, outside of cyberspace
and the limitation of email.
15. Create and promote an identity
of a new group of artists with such common goals as a historic
art movement, here conceived and materialized through the new
communication modality of the World Wide Web.
16. Educate through awareness,
the next generation in the schools, of the new generation of
digital art available a click away on their computers; try to
teach the ethic of not stealing online copyrighted works of
art.
17. Promote the marketability
of signed limited edition prints as worthy commodities to help
support Web artists efforts online.
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