THE STORY OF audart page
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page 1 BY DIANA SILBERT
Meanwhile,
Audart was
taking its gallery online and beginning to broadcast its openings live
on the internet. It was early 1997 and the
corporate
world was beginning to pay attention to what was happening in the once
deserted bank. With five
exhibitions already
behind them, including the highly
successful "Ten Years
After: The Warhol Factory",
Audart was
now planning
the Art
& Technology Circus. Audrey Regan came up with the
circus
concept, as a way to integrate art and
technology and
capitalize even further on Audart's interdisciplinary
approach. John Toth, an established multimedia artist and
designer
created the first "tent" in the Audart gallery. Other tents
were
created by a number of artists. Artworks discovered on
the
internet by
Regan, were shipped to NYC from all over the world to be exhibited in
the
Circus and performance
rehearsals
took place in the gallery, for months, at all hours
of the day and night. The Audart Gallery was being described
in the
media as a "spaceship" and a zone of perpetual twilight where the work
of creativity never
stopped.
The Art &
Technology Circus opening was
attended by 3000 people, topped only by the Warhol opening which attracted
5000 people. |