www.teo-spiller.org/trash_can/
Teo Spiller was born in 1965 in Ljubljana. He studied machinery and paintings. He met computers in early eighties. First he mostly worked with photography, his first bigger opus (also his first solo exhibition) was computer paintings. In 1996 he already did his first net.art pieces and later he became world famous as a net.artist. He found net.art interesting expecialy because of multimedia and interactivity. His works were shown on many festivals and exhibitions of computer and media art around the world. Most famous is his exploration about the possibilities of selling net.art. In 1999 Ljubljana Municipal Museum bought his work Megatronix. He organised the negotiations between author and buyer as an international internet forum with many world know media artists, curators and theoretics from around the world. The project was very well accepted and there were many articles wroten about it (http://www.teo-spiller.org/forum/).He also explores, what is the real net.art (against so called interactive or CD-ROM art). He believes, the real net.art can't exist without being on the internet (For Example, the project Trash can, shown on this exhibition, doesn't work off-line). He is also sceptic about exhibiting net.art in gallerie and museums. He believes, net.art is an intimate experience between the work and user. In the gallerie, there should be exhibited net.art souvenirs. The examples of that are for the first time exhibited on this exhibition (the showing of his net.art work Trash can on this exhibitionis more an exception from the rule!).
