PIERRE RESTANY

From: José Roberto
To:
Subject: hommage à pierre
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:54:22 -0300

Cher ami Pierre Restany:
Mon exposition de sculptures Hommage à Pierre Restany, realise au Musee d'Art Contemporain de San Paulo en 2003, vient d'etre recompensée avec un prix special de l«Association Bresilienne de Critiques d'Art, ce qui prouve que vous encore bien vif au coeur de nous, les artistes et critiques bresiliens.    
SAUDADES!
Sonia von Brusky
Sao Paulo - Bresil

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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:19:28 +0200
From: pistelli@tin.it

Subject: Restany: un souvenir
To: press@webnetmuseum.org


J'ai un souvenir de Pierre de la Biennale de Venise du 1976: une foto ou
il semble un directeur d'orchestre. Je salue aussi Fred que je n'ai plus
vu depuis presque trent ans!
Massimo Pistelli

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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:32:14 -0400
From: SteveMiller
To: press@webnetmuseum.org


Dear Fred,

Thanks for keeping me informed about the memorial service for Pierre in Montparnase. There is one thing I did want to note that I forgot to mention in the memorial for Pierre that took place in New York City.

If an artist was using a computer to make artwork in the 1980’s in the New York art world, it was considered a gimmick. You could not be taken seriously as an artist if you brought a computer into the practice of painting. Today one cannot imagine this 1980’s attitude about the use of the computer in art. In the year 2004, it hardly seems possible to imagine any artist that does not use a computer in their art making process. Photoshop is an omnipotent tool for the composition, adjusting and reproduction of an image. The Internet is the accepted means to send an electronic image and looking at art in a digitized format is normal.

Pierre was one of the first critics to champion art, technology and science. Artists, like Joseph Nechvatal, and myself for example, had to move to France in order to gain the critical acceptance that was nurtured by Pierre. Way before many others, Pierre understood the importance of this artistic movement on the history of art. He had the intelligence, the sympathy and the vision to see what others could not. I will always be grateful for his warm friendship and support.

Sincerely,
Steve Miller
target=_new>http://www.stevemiller.com

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caterinagualco@192.168.0.108


Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 16:49:23 +0200
To: Presse WNM

From: "Caterina Gualco"

Subject: Re: INFO PIERRE RESTANY
Status:

               PIERRE RESTANY : ONE YEAR ALREADY !

We inform you that an event in memory of Pierre Restany is sheduled on wednesday, june th 2nd at 11A.M, at cemetery of Montparnasee, in Paris. Your messages in return for his visitor'book on the website http://www.webnetmuseum.org, after reading on the spot.(A word, a sentence, a memory with him, an anecdote, a theoretical text etc

Life, to die/ the past, to live in present/ memory, simultaneity, ubiquity, action at distance and remote presence worldwide
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My memory with Pierre: an afternoon at the bar of Hotel Manzoni in Milan, sitting to a little table in the spring sunshine, drinking ginfiz and speaking together about life and art.
Caterina Gualco
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From: "viana conti"

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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:34:00 +0200
nom=Viana Conti
e-mail=vianaconti@libero.it

Mi unisco alle riflessioni sulla figura e sul lavoro di Pierre
Restany, ricordandolo dentro la rete e fuori, dentro la mie riserva dei
ricordi personale. Grazie Pierre, Viana Conti, Genova
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From: "Giorgio Teglio"

To:

Subject: INFO PIERRE RESTANY
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:38:47 +0200

Dear Fred,
I remember  Pierre Restany, in the middle of the  phantastic confusion  of “L’ultima cena” (1970) in Milano, when  Tinguely gave fire  to his phallic structure  before the D?me of Milan.
I remember  also when  Pierre came to Genoa with his friend C/sar who made  a public expansion at the Fiera del Mare, one night, early seventies.

We had a pleasant chat all together.
Pierre was at the maximum of his “verve”.
Nobody noticed that the moon was covered by dark clouds.
(Giorgio Teglio)

FETE DE L'INTERNET 2004



http://www.fredforest.org/loupe/

FRED FOREST WebPages on their way into the national patrimony

WebPages on their way into the national patrimony!

Within the flow of information that determines our daily life, there had been one that has not earned the attention it merits yet. It is the press release of the French national institute of television (INA) who lets us know that the multimedia artist Fred Forest, or rather his consecrated work, will soon be part of the national patrimony of France. This extraordinary act leads to some basic observations:
1 – Fred Forest is the first living graphical artist who benefits from such an operation, and we can think of a couple of other artists who could follow this movement.
2 – Finally, the French institutions would have proved their initiative, without being retarded behind their European and American neighbours: From now on the Websites of artists will be saved and conserved eternally in the legal deposit of the French archives.
3 – This evolution (who forms a part of the information- and communication society, in which the number of multimedia creations grows constantly, nevertheless the ancient supports only decline very weakly, as it shows the latest FIAC) suddenly raises the question of the logistical and technical capacity of the museums of contemporary art. Those museums are structurally or even “psychologically” incapable to follow the rapidity of the mutations. Beyond the internal aspect of the insufficient equipment who doesn’t allow them facing the new situation, it is the question of the legitimization, the recognition and the symbolic charge assigned
by the institution, what makes us wonder about which future public or private authorities would be able to assume this role.
Simultaneously to the entrance to the patrimony of France, the work of the multimedia and graphical artist Fred Forest, figures the object of a publication by “Harmattan”, prefaced by Emmanuel Hoog, the COI of the French National Television Institute (INA) including unpublished writings of Marshall Mc Luhan, Edgar Morin, Mario Costa, Vilem Flusser, Derrick de Kerckhove, François Rabaté, Jean Devèze, François Ducastel, Harald Szeemann, Pierre Moeglin, Frank Popper, Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié, Pierre Restany, Pierre Levy, Louis-José Lestocart and Evelyne Rogue.
"Fred Forest pionnier et expérimentateur de l'art vidéo au Net Art", (" Fred Forest, pioneer and explorer from video art to Net Art") l'Harmattan, Paris, January 2004 (302 pages, 120 photos, 194 X 268,
32 Euros)