Re_Cycled_Views: Sister Valérie of the Internet

It's not often you see two net-art pieces on the subject of religion in the same week.
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Granted, they both take very different approaches.
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Tamara Laï's questions whether new spaces require new religions while Valérie Lamontagne's takes advantage of the bizarre online cultural phenomenon of people wanting to write about every little detail of their lives.
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Two artists (ironically both French speaking artists) 'using' religion in unique and interesting ways and in such a would-be godless place questions whether net art is gradually moving away from the cold inhuman style it is so often accused of having and suggests that even in new places we can never escape ourselves or our culture.
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Valérie Lamontagne's "Sister Valérie of the Internet", a net-performance allowing users to confess their sins online, is the chosen "Splash Page Project" for the months of July/August on "Year Zero One".
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Further information, dates and times for the performance can be seen on the "Year Zero One" page or the "Sister ValŽrie of the Internet" project page. So, go redeem yourself!
:: Garrett Lynch :: [top]

Originally published on 07/22/03
This review for Valérie Lamontagne's new project "Sister Valérie of the Internet" came to me in the last few days via the "noemalab" mailing list and struck me as being both unique and linked to Tamara Laï's recent call for contributions to her "portrait of god" project. (see that? cross referencing!).

It's not often you see two net-art pieces on the subject of religion in the same week. Granted, they both take very different approaches. Tamara Laï's questions whether new spaces require new religions while Valérie Lamontagne's takes advantage of the bizarre online cultural phenomenon of people wanting to write about every little detail of their lives. Two artists (ironically both French speaking artists) 'using' religion in unique and interesting ways and in such a would-be godless place questions whether net art is gradually moving away from the cold inhuman style it is so often accused of having and suggests that even in new places we can never escape ourselves or our culture.

Valérie Lamontagne's "Sister Valérie of the Internet", a net-performance allowing users to confess their sins online, is the chosen "Splash Page Project" for the months of July/August on "Year Zero One". Further information, dates and times for the performance can be seen on the "Year Zero One" page or the "Sister Valérie of the Internet" project page. So, go redeem yourself!
:: Garrett Lynch ::

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