The digital project l'Echoppe (The Stall) celebrates six years of online presence in February. Nearly 1000 photographs have been taken, and they are yours for the taking!
Commande 1782 Consumérisme : représenter la valeur ajoutée du plaisir symbolique présent dans tout achat.
Commandée le 13-09-2008 par zmudska et reçue le 13-09-200. Licence Art Libre
The project is going full steam ahead more than ever, and I invite you to make orders and to wait for the photograph that fits them, here: http://www.frespech.com/echoppe/order.php
Commande 2076 Un marteau,une faucille et une étoile rouge sur un sapin pour noëlCommandée le 27-06-2009 par lunama et reçue le 28-12-2009. Licence Art Libre
To mark this anniversay, you will shortly be able to download, for free, new curator kits from http://www.frespech.com/echoppe/kit.phpThe images are downloadable as a .rar file. Zipped images are high-resolution and can be printed, inserted into a digital photo frame or uploaded onto your phone. Or stick them on your blog; they are free under a creative commons licence.
Commande 2099 une super prof! Commandée le 14-09-2009 par didine et reçue le 28-12-200. Licence Art Libre
You can even exhibit them in your flat and organize an opening for your friends! L'Echoppe is also available on your phone or iPhone: http://www.frespech.com/echoppe/To see the project presented from an educational perspective: http://www.digitalarti.com/fr/video/mcdates11_3_loeil_monde_nicolas_frespech_netartThis year will focus on two principle projects: the continuation of the RSS journal of an artist in flux:http://frespech.com/rss/and an attempt to make the on-line documentary "how to make a documentary": http://www.frespech.com/documentairethese are undertaken in the context of a residency at Lux, Valence's theatre: http://www.lux-valence.com/programme/and in partnership with Poptronics: http://www.poptronics.fr As for my artistic practice, here is a little cut-and-paste from my Wikipedia page: Nicolas Frespech is a French artist born in 1971. He has worked with the World Wide Web since 1996, and taught net art at Paul Valéry University between 2002-2005. Since 2009, he has taught digital practice at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyons. His varied projects combine to form a work that touches as much on identity and its virtual and commercial standardisation, as on the concepts and phenomena of intimacy, Webcams and digital surveillance, media, games, or fiction. His best-known online work remains "Je suis ton ami(e)...tu peux me dire tes secrets" (I'm your friend; you can tell me your secrets), which was the first work of Net Art to be acquired by a public institution (FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon), in 1998. However, access to the project has been forbidden since 2001, provoking a debate on the presence of contemporary net art in the virtual and public space of the internet. In "I'm your friend," you could scroll through secrets sent in by internet users or gathered from public artistic projects (Contemporary Art Days organised by the Ministry of Culture and Communication). Frespech chooses to explore the internet because of its interpersonal and artistic qualities, playing with the paradoxes of the network and creating micro-creations that criticise the commercialisation of the internet. He continually questions net art by creating ever new experimentations, particularly in the realm of mobile telephony. For the rest, go to: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_FrespechWebsite : http://www.frespech.com
Thanks to Rose for the translation
