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ANdRÉ RUSU

Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and London, Uk

SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE www.medialworks.com

In our techno cultural society there is a need for new domains of expression architects invited to collaborate. It is an opportunity to experiment with the
that don’t create an outlined limit for the transavantgarde of our day, offer- virtual art works, objects, and installations designed by contemporary artists
ing endless possibilities to utilize modern technology and communication belonging to the new and old generation. The series of the online collec-
in a community-oriented environment. Opportunities to develop a global tive art events generated by a more or less experimental exhibitions which
art market where the individual artists are happily divorced from pressures by its subject and some of the works shown, make the transition towards
of the tribal art market. In recent years, the new means of expression are another type of artistic sensitivity and research. This opens the gates to a
evolving rapidly and artists are supported for refusing to be trapped in the new stratified cultural metaphor and to an eclectic trans-aesthetics virtual
predictable scapes or thought schools of the past. The Art in Real Time global domain and publishing.
Art Movement is a quality art publishing and an interactive art competition The trans-aesthetics virtual domain is a change of cultural mentality and
for visual art, video, animation, sound, music, essay, poetry and fiction, aesthetic paradigm that occurs gradually over time. This is an experimental
organized and curated by André Russu. It integrates the multidisciplinary art, which becomes gradually more elaborate to an almost aesthetic ethos.
visual, literary and audio creative production, and is the first interactive Molded by optimism in this search for knowledge, in some cases even
global art event featuring contemporary artists on virtual online exposure positive enthusiasm bears specific features: the rejection of traditional
and publishing. means of expression, such as painting, and a certain uniformism could be
Moreover, in these early years of the digital and virtual a number of web- the exploration of natural or artificial materials in process of art making.
sessions and online debates have sent significant ideas for the discourse The experimentation of certain new artistic methods originate in scientific
involving terms such as: virtual space, digital manipulation, computer graph- techniques or industrial technologies, the interdisciplinary attitude and
ics, 3D structures, modules, PDF’s, .JPg’s, mode, resolution, processor, the specific ideology that wish to shape the natural or social ambient by
worldwide, dot-com, all of which appear quite often in approaches made a symbolic configuration of real life materials, or even by merging with
by critics and artists, but also by the scholars, designers, engineers and industrial design.
ANDRé RUSU, artist
 VIrtUaL sPaCe FOr VIrtUaL sOLUtIONs, 2006 PHOTOgRAPHS, DIgITAL MANIPULATION, COMPUTER gRAPHICS 16x8¼ IN. /40x21 CM.
CHaraCter set DIsPLaY, 2006 PHOTOgRAPHS, DIgITAL MANIPULATION, COMPUTER gRAPHICS 16x8¼ IN. /40x21 CM. 

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