{"id":763,"date":"2012-02-13T20:19:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/venus-2-0\/"},"modified":"2021-01-17T22:28:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T06:28:03","slug":"venus-2-0","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/venus-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-763-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/vimeo\" src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/8594167?loop=0&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/8594167?loop=0\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/8594167?loop=0<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A well known interactive web artist, Mark Napier, is infamous for his works that can be found on his site, potatoland.org. \u00a0On his artwork portal he says, &#8220;I create &#8220;net art&#8221;, online artwork that is about the Internet and is designed to exist in the network environment. My work explores the ideas of ownership, authority, territory, and communication in the virtual world.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marknapier.com\/presskit\/mn_statement.html\">1<\/a> Furthermore, he defines his work as a\u00a0process, where\u00a0he can code and accept unexpected results when creating code that does not always turn out the way you want them to. \u00a0\u00a0Much of his work is critiquing or dematerializing the sometimes oversaturated data within the internet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The artpiece, <em>Venus 2.0\u00a0<\/em>is a series of works\u00a0of <em>PAM<\/em>, which<em>\u00a0<\/em>critiques a celebrity\u00a0through\u00a0an interactive interface of a fragmented\u00a0Pamela Anderson image. \u00a0Napier mentioned, &#8220;I started with a sympathetic view of the actual Pamela Anderson. She is part of the spectacle of sexuality in contemporary media.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/marknapier.com\/presskit\/articles\/furtherfield_2010\/furtherfield_venus.html\">2<\/a>\u00a0In\u00a0Greek and Roman art history, Venus de Milo or also known as Aphrodite is a well known sculpture\u00a0that is a symbol of\u00a0iconic and epitomy of beauty.\u00a0\u00a0How\u00a0the depiction of ideal beauty\u00a0of the past also prevails in the present, which is why Napier subjected Pamela Anderson.\u00a0 She has been a focus of the media for years and her body is always changing through plastic surgery enhancements to perhaps enhance her viewership. \u00a0The concept of the body and beauty is examined in the virtual realm of infinite metadata that can be used to mold something completely disfiguring is both interesting and haunting.\u00a0 This piece brings out the disfiguring and discomfort of how the media and celebrities have a great impact of what people want to see and how one sees themselves.\u00a0 It also brings to question of the real and the imagined individual, since the internet is a vast and complex\u00a0 network in itself and questions whether reality even exists anymore.\u00a0 Similar to this work is\u00a0a\u00a0project called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.detritus.net\/projects\/barbie\/\">Barbie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video interview with the artist, talking about his background and influences&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TECHNEArtistInterviewMarkNapier\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TECHNEArtistInterviewMarkNapier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marknapier.com\/presskit\/articles\/furtherfield_2010\/furtherfield_venus.html\">http:\/\/marknapier.com\/presskit\/articles\/furtherfield_2010\/furtherfield_venus.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/turbulence.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/05\/venus-20-mark-napier-berlin\/\">http:\/\/turbulence.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/05\/venus-20-mark-napier-berlin\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjoseph.org\/blog\/reviews\/review-of-mark-napiers-venus-2-0-by-angela-ferraiolo\">http:\/\/www.chrisjoseph.org\/blog\/reviews\/review-of-mark-napiers-venus-2-0-by-angela-ferraiolo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marziasdigitalartreview.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/mark-napier-venus-20.html\">http:\/\/marziasdigitalartreview.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/mark-napier-venus-20.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":15261,"template":"","artist":[922],"streams":[11],"keywords":[4043,4041,2305,4044,2203,3060,4042,4045],"decade":[5544],"media":[5546],"class_list":["post-763","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-mark-napier","streams-networks-surveillance-culture-jamming","keywords-code-art","keywords-culture-art","keywords-culture-jamming","keywords-mark-napier","keywords-net-art","keywords-networks","keywords-pop-culture","keywords-potatoland-org","decade-2000s","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15260,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/763\/revisions\/15260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}