Here No Nonger
Claire Evans & Eugenio Tisselli >

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A skeleton speaks. A plane hangs for a moment over Los Angeles. Text
corrupts itself into oblivion. This month Window Online presents a
series of works from two artists, Claire Evans and Eugenio Tisselli.
Evans, a young Portland-based artist and self-described "net native"
creates short video snapshots alternating between academic texts and
youtube confessionals, abstract concepts and hand-held shots on a
footpath. Parisian Tisselli creates work that becomes non-work,
implicating users in the destruction process: webpages that corrode
away letter by letter and photos that erase their subject.

Claire Evans:

I'm a 23 year old artist and writer living and working in Portland, Oregon. Although formally edu- cated in the dry pantheon of the literary arts, I've long held a profound passion for all things digital. When I was young, my father worked for a major semiconductor manufacturer; I was fully computer-literate before I could read and write. I am a true net native. Growing up inside the Internet, it's impossible to make art that isn't about it. My work is rooted in a profound love for both the norms of the early Internet and their echoes throughout the quickly- evolving social spheres of web use, and for the dynamic, terrifying future which lies ahead. Accord- ingly, I mine found images and information from the vast archives of the web, which I then use as source material to articulate ideas that somewhat transcend the tropes of the purely online: decay, synergistic structures, social interfaces, the evolution of language, and the absurdly awe-inspiring presence of the cosmos. Of course, my work tends to be necessarily self-reflexive, being that it uses technology to discuss our relationship to technology, with little mediation. It is also, sometimes, funny.

Eugenio Tisselli:

I was born in Mexico City in 1972, and I lived there for 26 years. I learned to program when I was 10 years old, and have been a programmer ever since. I studied Computer Science at the University, and also played drums in a well-known punk band. I moved to Barcelona in 1998, and studied a Master in Digital Arts at the Pompeu Fabra University. Funnily enough, I ended up being a professor and co-director of this Master, from 2003 until 2006. While I lived in Barcelona, I developed many projects involving creative uses of computers. For example MIDIPoet, a software tool for interactive visual poetry. Also, I formed a group called Vaina Systems, and we made interactive installations and developed special hardware. Other net-based projects can be enjoyed at my website, motorhueso.net. In Barcelona I mostly did teaching... besides Pompeu Fabra, I also taught at MECAD, and did an on-line seminar for UNESCO digiarts. I have collaborated in other artists' projects. The most fruitful of these collaborations was with Antoni Abad, at zexe.net. I am currently living in Paris, working as a researcher at the Sony Computer Science Lab.