New Media Artist

🇬🇧Roy Ascott

Art

contemporary art

b. 1934

"When art is a form of behaviour, software predominates over hardware in the creative sphere. Process replaces product in importance, just as system supersedes structure."

🇦🇹Helmut Lang

Art

b. 1956

"The time when physically nothing is happening is equally important."

🇦🇹Johannes Grenzfurthner

Entertainment

b. 1975

"Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox."

🇺🇸Carolee Schneemann

Philosophy

Fluxus

1939–2019

"I never thought I was shocking,” she says. “I say this all the time and it sounds disingenuous, but I always thought, ‘This is something they need. My culture is going to recognize it’s missing something.'"

🇺🇸John Zerzan

hunter-gatherer

anarcho-primitivism

b. 1943

"It is clear that a retreat from the social, based largely on the experience of defeat and consequent resignation, promotes the personal as the only possible terrain of authenticity."

🇨🇦Brion Gysin

Literature

Beat Generation

1916–1986

"I Am the Artist when I am Open. When I am closed I am Brion Gysin."