This year, Art’s Birthday is organic! And, our Art is digital and opaque, created in the image of the choices we have made in our networked lives.
On January 17th, 2008 …that’s tomorrow!… Studio XX welcomes artist Pascale Malaterre and her guests to its website – Olfa Driss, Alexandra Cloutier, Karin Combi – for Art’s Birthday!
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Happy Art’s Birthday 2008! Art’s Birthday is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Art was thus born and artists and artist groups worldwide celebrate this important anniversary by organizing international events and network art happenings, and by eating cake and offering gifts to Art. Every year, Art’s Birthday becomes an occasion for exchange between artists and art events. The Eternal Network grows this way by exploring the telecommunications arts.