Teo Spiller

About

Teo Spiller, Born on December 4th 1965 in Ljubljana, is one of four Slovenian net.artists, active on-line since 1995.

Spiller is well known as the worlds first net.artist, who sold a net.art work to a gallery. He sold his work Megatronix to [http://www.mestna-galerija.si/ Mestna galerija Ljubljana] in May 1999. He organised negotiations between artist and buyer as an online forum with participants like Simon Biggs, Josephine Bosma, Vuk Cosic, Steve Dietz, Alex Galloway, Brian Goldfarb, Rachel Green, Jean-Philippe Halgard,
Jon Ippolito, Tapio Makela, Lev Manovich, Timothy Murray, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Olu Oguibe, Alan Sondheim, Igor Štromajer, Gilane Tawadros, Mark Tribe, Myron Turner and others (see Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times, [http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/artsatlarge/13artsatlarge.html?scp=2&sq=mirapaul%20matthew%20there%20may%20be%20money%20internet%20art%20after%20all&st=cse There may be money in internet art after all] , May 13th, 1999.

In 2004, together with Tadej Komavec, he launched [http://www.s-p-i-l-l-e-r.com/x_lam.htm X-lam] project, a different media for watching images.

In 2008 launched [http://www.s-p-i-l-l-e-r.com/3D/ Real3Dfriend] project as a critic of closed commercial oriented virtual reality systems (specially Second life), questioning ethics of virtual reality worlds, based on commercial instead on humanistic values.

olo exhibitions

* Galerija Commerce, Ljubljana, Slovenija
* Klub Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenija
* Gallery Rael Artel, Parnu, Estonija
* Instalation "Inside the web server", Hevreka!05, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005

elected group exhibitions

* 10 th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, Egypt, 2006
* "Device_art 2006", Zagreb, Belgrade, San Francisco, 2006
* "95-05", contemporary arst in Slovenia, Ljubljana Museum of modern arts, 2005
* Final Flash City 6.4, Izola, Slovenia, 2005
* Break 2.3, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005
* CeC & CaC, New Delhi, India
* The floor of my atelier, Galerija Gradec, Zagreb, Croatia, 2003
* UNESCO day of poetry 2003, Technopoetry for peace, Milano, Italy
* "Net.art open", Irish museum of modern arts, Dublin, Ireland
* "The masters of graphic arts", Municipal Museum of art, Gyor, Hungary
* "The works of art in the age of mechanical reproduction", Machida city museum of graphic arts, Tokyo, Japan
* Venice Biennial '99 (togetherwith Gruppo Oreste), Venice, Italy
* "Eye and its truth", Ljubljana Museum of Modern Arts, Slovenia
* "Digital graphic works on paper", Ljubljana Municipal Museum, Slovenia
* "Pixxelpoint 2002", Nova Gorica, Slovenia
* "Kosov@ benefit auction",New York City, USA
* "Omnizone", New York City, USA
* "Zu casa", Del Mar, California, USA
* "Ostranenie 97", Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany
* "Film+arc graz", Graz, Austria
* FILE 2001 electronic language international festival, Sao Paolo, Brasil
* "Casa das rosas web.art contest", Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
* "Altamira cave", Mexico City, Mexico
* "Medi@Terra", Atene, Greece
* "The Digital Labyrinth Theatre", Acco, Israel
* "Korea web art festival 2002", Chiang Mai, South Korea
* "runme.org", Macros Centre, Moskva, Russia
* "Internationa Festival of Computer Arts" '96, 97, '98, '99, Maribor, Slovenia
* "ARCO - El Mundo net-art award", Barcelona, Spain

Articles and reviews

* New York Times, " There may be money in internet art after all", Matthew Mirapaul, 13. May 1999
* ORF on kultur, "Beuys meets Mondrian meets Spiller", Simon Hadler,
* CIAC Electronic Art Magazine, "Review: Hommage to Mondrian", Sylvie Parent, December 1999
* CIAC Electronic Art Magazine, "Review: Nice Page", Rossitza Daskalova, January 2001
* Fluctuat.net (Centre Pompidou), "Tour du monde du Web", Isabelle Arvers & Vuk Cosic,
* Rhizome, Mobilegaze, "Teo Spiller interview", Brad Todd, 5.3.2001
* Venezuela Red de Arte, "Guiones curatoriales navegables?", Galanda Lugo
* Active Viewing (University of Washington), "Writing with Images", George L. Dylon,
* Neurobot electrozine, " Ostranenie '97 [prezentowane strony www] ",
* Aura Digital, HIstoria del Net Art, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 1999
* A világra nyomott ablak, Tolnay Imre, Balkon contemporary art magazine, dec 2001
* Guardian unlimited, " Fine art of browsing",
* 0 Mediachannel, " The Art Exhibition as Political Theater", Brian Holmes, 1999
* Artnine (Academy of visual arts, Leipzig), "Zur Geschichte der Netz.Kunst", Hans Dieter Huber, 2000
* New Media Notes, "Art.commerce", Steve Dietz, 1999
* " Currating new media " , Tim Murray, The University of New South Wales, Australia, march 2003<(LI>
* Film and Media Arts Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Web Art: How the Medium affects the Artist and the Audience", Candis Callison, 22. May 2001
* Galileu, "Web arte: talento em telas virtuais", Claudio Fregata Lopes,
* Balkon, "A vilagra nyomott ablak", Tolnar Imre, dec 2001
* FineArtForum 99/13 (queensland University of Technology), "There may be money in internet art after all", Michael Lean, 6.June 1999
* Netzwissenschaft, "electrolobby-Interview",
* Artnet News, "Fight over leonardo", Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, 29.2.2000
* MARS (Museum of Modern Arts, "INFOS 2000 off-line net.art contest", Ljubljana, March 2001
* Bauhaus video arhive, Inteview with Teo Spiller, Dessau, Germany
* Gajba TV, interview, Ljubljana, Slovenia
* Manuscrit.com, "Culture du web, culture des reseaux", Audrey Cluzel, 2002
* La Sapienza (Universita degli studi di Roma), "Il mercato e il collezionismo dell'arte Digitale, Sara Rocchegiani, 5.4. 2002
* Archee, "Oeuvres d'art en ligne", Cecile Petit, December 2002
* ISEA newsletter #92, "Montreal's web-based production", Valerie Lamontagne, April 2003
* NOEMA, "Tangible net.art", December 2003
* Radio Student, March 2004
* Studio city, TV Slovenia, 5. April 2004
* Delo, "Temporary images we must exert ourselves for", Tanja Stankovic, 24. may 2005
* Dnevnik, Instalation Inside the web Server on Hevreka!05, 24. may 2005
* RTVSLO, Project that hides from camera, 24. may 2005
* Osmi dan, TV Slovenia, 12. august 2005
* Radio Koper, interview, august 2005
* Delo, Teo Spiller and X-lam, Mateja Princic, November 2005
* HRT 1, Transfer, 30. November 2005
* NeDelo, "Teo Spiller, Media Artist", Semira Osmanagic, 5. November 2006

External Links

* [http://www.s-p-i-l-l-e-r.com/ Official website]

Other Slovenian net.artists:

* [http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ Vuk Čosić]
* [http://www.intima.org/ Igor Štromajer]
* [http://www.jaka.org/ Jaka Železnikar]

Reference

* [http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/cyber/artsatlarge/13artsatlarge.html?scp=2&sq=mirapaul%20matthew%20there%20may%20be%20money%20internet%20art%20after%20all&st=cse There may be money in internet art after all] Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times.

* [http://www.ciac.ca/magazine/archives/no_9/en/magelectronique.html Hommage to Mondrian] Sylvie Parent, CIAC electronic magazine

* [http://www.ciac.ca/magazine/archives/no_12/en/oeuvres.html Nice page] Rossitza Daskalova, CIAC electronic magazine

* [http://rhizome.org/object.php?48021 Real3Dfriend] Rhizome art base

* [http://rhizome.org/object.php?46939 X-lam] Rhizome art base

* [http://hipercubo.uniandes.edu.co/redes03/pdf/historia_netart.pdf Historia net.art] Arte.red, Universidad de los Andes (page 8)

* [http://www.ehu.es/arteytecnologia/lcilleruelo/textos/arte_de_internet.pdf Arte de Internet] Lourdes Cilleruelo Gutierrez, Tesis doctoral, Universidad del Pais Vasco (Page 296)