Michael Atavar
Michael Atavar is a British artist from Dublin ( Ireland ), by performances , computer-based installations and Digital Art for the Internet has become known.
From 1992 to 1998 he worked as a performance artist before turning to digital art and artistic work on the Internet. In 1998 he won the best-of award in the internet forum of the COMTEC 98 Festival of Computer Art in Dresden and in 1999 the Runner-up prize (a hypertext competition) trAce / Alt-X International Hypertext Competition .
In 2001 Atavar produced "Join the dots" for the G2 magazine supplement of The Guardian newspaper, which had a circulation of 400,000. In 2005, at the invitation of the British Council's Artist Links Program, he visited Shanghai , China , where his work dusk (twilight) was created and about which Grayson Perry published an article in the Times in September 2006 .
Atavar lives and works in London. His work dusk has been featured in the Victoria and Albert Museum , Hayward Gallery and Artsadmin .
Works (selection)
- Tiny Stars (1993)
- Don't you want me, baby? (1994)
- Rock 'N' Roll (1996)
- 101 NITES (1995)
- * * * * (1998)
- Snow paper scissors rain (1999)
- Plus: (:) (1999)
- Thethingitis ™ (2000)
- Intimacy (2000)
- Windows (2001)
- Duolc (2001)
- Four dashes (2002)
- Four walls (2004)
- IMHO (2005)
- dusk (2005)
Michael Atavar's websites
Book publication
- Michael Atavar: Tiny stars: 70s 80s 90s. Rosamund St., London, 1997, ISBN 0-9531073-0-2
Web links
- Michael Atavar: Intimacy . Trace Online Writing Community, 1999 (Engl.)
- Simon Mills: Michael Atavar, interview . In: frAme: Online Journal of Culture & Technology (engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ trAce / Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998 ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Guardian's G2 Magazine
- ^ Dan Glaister on the Guardian's new cyber artist-in-residence
- ↑ Grayson Perry: Adventures in the twilight zone. In: Times Online, September 20, 2006 (Engl.)
- ↑ Via Artsadmin ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Atavar, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United Kingdom |