OPEN FRAMES OPEN | 2009
Since 01 January 2009
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CONCEPT
OF is an open archive, giving artists the possibility to create an overview of their past and recent projects. By publishing your work on OF a selection and accumulation of works is produced that should naturally grow and interconnect with time.
The site functions as a library of works situated within the realm of performance in the widest sense (not limited to any one format or genre), with the goal of making work and working processes more accessible to other artists working in the field and to other interested parties.
USERS
OF is useful for people who are interested in sharing their work, while contextualizing their projects within a community of people working in the field. There is a notion of self-curating as well as making constructive use of name dropping and tagging.
OF is not meant to be a personal home-page - it is rather a selection that one decides to be a part of in order to share one’s working process and results with other artists and interested individuals.
While borrowing from commercial online systems like blogs, you-tube, myspace and facebook accounts, OF is a domain referring and connecting to a specific public interested and/or working in the field of performance, while proposing a wide enough definition (it is defined in fact by the users), enabling an 'entcounter' with very different types of work.
INTERFACE
Users present their projects by posting a descriptive text and photos or a video. Users can also add a PDF and a link to their personal sites. The projects are listed on the site and can be searched by artist name or by project title.
OF stresses the fact that work is almost always 'made' by more than just those who sign for the concept : All the names of the people who worked on the project and who are listed in the 'credits' appear in the main listing on the homepage of OF. If a person appears in the credits of multiple projects, the projects will be listed under their name.
OF emphasizes the fact that contemporary art rarely fits into clear cut categories, in addition to a navigation-system that allows visitors to search the site for projects by title and name, OF uses a tag system, that groups projects under particular headings (architecture, installation, concert, happening, festival, dance, performance, propaganda, etc.)
HOW IT WORKS
You can receive a log-in that allows you to post as many
works as you want by getting in contact with :
info@open-frames.net
It is compulsory to post a minimum of a descriptive text and 1 video or up to 15 images. There is also the option to add 1 pdf, tour data, as well as to attach tags from a tag menu and link to another site. A navigation-system allows visitors to search the site for projects by title, name and kinds of works.
OF provides it's user a simple interface:
Any work added to the list has the same presentation module.
Each project is displayed in a single window, formatted with a double scrolling frame -
The left side can be loaded with video or images, while the right side is reserved for text.
Registration on the site is by title, name, and date.
PREFERRED BROWSER
firefox --> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
HELP
The site offers little tutorials, signed with a '?', next to the respective 'register boxes'.
URLS
It is possible to create direct urls, linking only to 1 projects or the project-list of only 1 person's name (=administrator). They generally are composed as follows :
www.open-frames.net/projects/your_title
or
www.open-frames.net/people/your_name
HISTORY
open-frames.net results from the recent closure of f,r,o,g,s OS,
a netwerk of people and works that was active from 2000 until 2008.
open-frames.net started off as an overview of works connected to f,r,o,g,s OS. Recycling the results of f,r,o,g,s OS into a new project,
open-frames.net aims to be an open archive, which gives artists the possibility to create an overview is functioning as a library of works situated within the realm of performance in the widest sense (not limited to any one format or genre), with the goal of making work and working processes more accessible to other artists working in the field and to other interested parties.
Frogs was initiated in 2000 as a pilot project. In 2002 Frogs OS (open source) grew into a structure that supported collaborations between artists from different disciplines, providing workspace through an association with nadine (Brussels), wp Zimmer (Antwerp) and Netwerk (Aalst) and small working budgets through funding from the VGC and eventually from 2004, through a collaboration with Kunst/Werk. From 2000 - 2008 Frogs OS was coordinated by Heike Langsdorf.
Frogs OS thus became a busy network of people and projects: Christoph Ragg, Christophe Meierhans and Heike Langsdorf (now C+H) as well as David Helbich, Shila Anaraki, Koen Nutters, Mette Ingvartsen, Ula Sickle and Michel Yang formed the starting point for what would eventually become a much larger network of collaborators.
The 36 projects created under Frogs OS can be found by searching under www.open-frames.net/people/frogs_OS
Tour
21-06-2008 PREVIEW during Frogs_Funeral / Brussels01-01-2009 OPEN FRAMES OPEN official opening day
10-01-2009 OPEN FRAMES Hotelbich / Nadine / Brussels
23-01-2009 OPEN FRAMES Burning Ice Festival / Kaaitheater / Brussels
07-12-2009 OPEN FRAMES Questions Au Spectacle Contemporain / La Bellone / Brussels
the world wide opening of :
OF
concept :
Heike Langsdorf
development :
Ula Sickle, Matthieu Collet
thanks to :
David Helbich, Christophe Meierhans