++ brian mackern ++

~creator of the netart latino database~

Born December 5th, 1961 (59 years old)

"Musician, composer and developer of autogenerative and reactive sound visual structures and environments"

- Monoskop

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"Since 1999 he has been working as a video-data jockey conducting musical experiments with projections, data and collaborating with sound and musical artists. 1 He has composed music for plays, videos, films, and has designed sound environments for performances. He teaches at the School of Fine Arts of the University of the Republic." - Wikipedia

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Other Works

  • no-content.net Vintage Collection (2003)
  • La Máquina Podrida (1998-2004)
  • This Too Shall Pass (2014)
  • "In these he reconditions obsolete equipment and recovers net works in order to be experienced again." - Wikipedia




    La Máquina Podrida (1998-2004)

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    Mackern is still active on social media! Here is his Twitter, with his last pinned tweet being a fun graphic about net art and it's smelliness.

    netart is not dead (it just smells funny) ❤
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    Brian Mackern
    curadora: Valentina Montero
    MAC FORESTAL, Santiago de Chile pic.twitter.com/4DXZ7Bf8Eo

    — Brian Mackern (@34s56w) January 24, 2022

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    Our Inspo

    Brian Mackern’s use of ascii artwork in the NetArt Latino Database has inspired the display, layout, and presentation of the website we created. “While ASCII art is associated with lo-fi aesthetics among artists in the US and Europe, Mackern has argued that this has a different meaning elsewhere. Low-tech solutions are less of an aesthetic choice than a practical constraint for many artists” - Net Art Anthology. While we are not limited to characters and letters for our artwork, we felt that this medium best embodies the way net artists use digital means to tell visual stories that can be understood regardless of language.