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            In Inour techno cultural society there is a need for new domains of   the specific ideology that wish to shape the natural or social ambient by
         expression that don’t create an outlined limit for the trans-avant-garde   a symbolic configuration of real life materials, or even by merging with
         of our day, offering endless possibilities to utilize modern technology and   industrial design. This becomes a temptation and an attempt to create
         communication in a community-oriented environment. Opportunities   art in everyday life, in “reality” and not exclusively in art terms, these
         to develop a global art market where the individual artists are happily   phenomena start a big demand to be community oriented. medialworks.
         divorced from pressures of the tribal art market. In recent years, the   com, artoteque.com, artaddiction.net and worldofartmagazine.com are
         new means of expression are evolving rapidly and artists are supported   windows into the global art world for the 21st century art lover and critic, a
         for refusing to be trapped in the predictable scapes or thought schools   place for the artist to express himself as his central platform for the viewer.
         of the past. The Art in Real Time global Art Movement is a quality art   A platform that is exclusively focusing on representing all techniques,
         publishing and an interactive art competition for visual art, video,   schools and trends open to all professional artists and beyond. This is
         animation, sound, music, essay, poetry and fiction, organized and curated   possible through curated exhibitions created for the purpose of reaching
         by André Russu. It integrates the multidisciplinary visual, literary and audio   as many people as possible. Since the seventies and eighties art has been
         creative production, and is the first interactive global art event featuring   changing rapidly and effortlessly as many more of today’s artists live the
         contemporary artists on virtual online exposure and publishing.  same experiences and vaster amounts of work are closely related to the
            Moreover, in these early years of the digital and virtual a number of   same world that we see around us as we become more globalized. The
         web-sessions and online debates have                                           work becomes an expression of internal
         sent significant ideas for the discourse                                       and external factors of our society and
         involving terms such as: virtual space,                                        modern thought schools which are globally
         digital manipulation, computer graphics,                                       connected on a scale that is both remote
         3D structures, modules, PDF’s, .JPg’s,                                         in time but also close to our own. Some
         mode, resolution, processor, worldwide,                                        artists make their Online debut under the
         dot-com, all of which appear quite often in                                    influence  of  the  digital  experimentalism
         approaches made by critics and artists, but                                    through  the  dot.com  channels,  the  late
         also by the scholars, designers, engineers                                     echoes of pop art and hyperrealism,
         and architects invited to collaborate. It is                                   deformed by the more recent experience
         an opportunity to experiment with the                                          of digital painting: a relatively new online
         virtual art works, objects, and installations                                  trend. It cannot be denied that, in spite of
         designed by contemporary artists                                               the tribal cultural disintegration, the online
         belonging to the new and old generation.                                       art echoes around the globe and is able
         The series of the online collective art                                       to  act  as  fermentation  that  is  necessary
         events generated by a more or less experimental exhibitions which by   to provoke a diffused mutation of sensibilities which in the global
         its subject and some of the works shown, make the transition towards   artistic environment is caused by specific frustrations and underground
         another type of artistic sensitivity and research. This opens the gates to   tendencies.  On  Medialworks.com, Artoteque.com, ArtAddiction.net,
         a new stratified cultural metaphor and to an eclectic trans-aesthetics   Mastersoftoday.com M|O|T or W|O|A. a single insertion is equivalent
         virtual domain and publishing.                           to a publication and an exhibition which is transfiguring them into a
            The trans-aesthetics virtual domain is a change of cultural mentality and   dynamic collaboration, never mooring the artists achievements in one
         aesthetic paradigm that occurs gradually over time. This is an experimental   place as many art galleries do around the world. It is not a question of
         art, which becomes gradually more elaborate to an almost aesthetic ethos.   condemning the current art affair in which things are run, but to bring it
         Molded by optimism in this search for knowledge, in some cases even   forward into a dynamic ground where publishing and exhibition coincide,
         positive enthusiasm bears specific features: the rejection of traditional   with points of departure for the individual artist that are clear but exist in
         means of expression, such as painting, and certain uniformism could be   real-time and in a virtual space with unlimited points of arrival designed
         the exploration of natural or artificial materials in process of art making.   to best insinuate their goals. Suited equally well for both emerging and
         The experimentation of certain new artistic methods originate in scientific   well known artists alike. The eruption of the new online trend is like an
         techniques or industrial technologies, the interdisciplinary attitude and   inevitable reaction against the consumerist institution. In spite of political

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