Website Unseen #64 About MTAA

Website Unseen, according to T. Whid, presents a question of faith. "Until the work is sold, until someone says 'Yes, I want what is implied and I believe it will be allright,' until that moment the work is unfinished."

From the Website Unseen list, which included such titles as "Dyslexic Search Engines," "Empire State Strip Tease," and "25 Concrete Examples of Why John Cage is Not My Father," I chose:

#64: Mind Control By Flashing Lights, an Internet Survey

The title "Mind Control By Flashing Lights, an Internet Survey" implies that MTAA may make use of outside sources­ utilize a "network" of participants to complete the "survey." But I have no idea what they will do. I have entrusted this title to their care. What will the artists do with the topic in the name of this exhibition that will support my curatorial competence?"

On April 30th, Website Unseen #64 will be completed. MTAA will make a presentation at the Center for Curatorial Studies. The HTML files that make up the project will be handed over on CD and become part of the exhibition archives in the Library of the Center for Curatorial Studies.

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The members of MTAA go by their screen-names, M. River and T. Whid, but there is nothing secret about their identity. Rather, the adoption of the screen name convention actively anchors their artistic practice online even as elements of their work may appear and circulate offline, via exhibition, purchase by collectors, or as gifts from artists to their patrons.

As MTAA cross back and forth between online and offline spaces, their screen-names identify them as artists whose work stems from an investigation of the relationship between the two not only physical and virtual, but critical spaces.

Projects such as TIME!®: the Nostalgia-Free History Sale, The Visual-Text Art Venue (or V-TAV), and Direct-to-Your-Home Art Projects (or DYHAP) complicate traditional, gallery or museum-based systems of exhibition making and the creation of artistic value by not ignoring them or dismissing them, but rather by embracing them and molding them to suit their needs.