> STATEMENT
William Brovelli is a visual artist living and working in New York City.
...( Myartspace member and finalist in Myartspace NY 2007 competition.)
The urge to alter a pre existing image is hard wired into all of us to some degree. When set in a contemporary context, this primal urge is useful in the evolution of ideas and imagery.
I fully support appropriation in art!
By mid 2009 I will have a site posted online @ http://www.orphanedartwork.com
This site will house over 20,000 of my (original) hand drawn pen/ink figures that will be free for any person to use for whatever purpose.
I believe in the evolution of the image through appropriation and am releasing my images for this cause. I will refer to these unregistered images as feral images.
Samples of the images to be released are on my current web page.
What I see as the natural progression of the fine arts is a consolidation and categorizing of creative concepts via the web. These concepts would be extracted from a vast pool of the world population and then used as project material on a large scale with input from experts in a variety of the major sciences.
This process allows the common man a creative outlet that could be realized within a collective scheme. All humans have creative thoughts or even fragments of thoughts that surface at different times and if in the right hands these thoughts could be lucrative.
There are also common ideas or even concepts that arrive collectively in waves that could be fine tuned or redirected towards a legitimate project.
When a society fosters creativity on an individual level within a vast network, a vacuum is filled and the product suffers as well as the society.
Restraint is key to the creative process.
The ultimate goal in fine art is the discovery of the new. Any art that falls short of this is self indulgent or obsessive or at best therapeutic. With this view in place, it stands to reason that a scientific approach is the ethical/logical route to pursue.
The proposal is to position a site where any individual at any time can deposit creative information, this information would be collected and stored in a data base as material to be sorted into categories and consolidated.
The essence of the creative information would be made accessible to a select panel of qualified representatives of the major sciences for review.
At this point, an aesthetic project could be set into place based on information compiled and then could be split into branch projects and handed off to workers/artists for refinement.
The showcasing of these grand scale projects could be held on an annual basis.
The content of these artworks/projects would be substantial and current and thus beneficial to society as well as the individual.
Participants that submitted ideas/concepts that are used as core material or even substantial supporting material could be included in the production process of the work(s).
I think the progression of art will eventually surpass the need for such rigid guarding of an image or idea. time will tell.
Artists to check out:
Sherrie Levine. Rico Gatson. Cory Arcangel. Chapman Brothers. Joy Garnett. Benjamin Edwards. Nikki S. Lee. Paul Pfeiffer. and Pierre Huyghe.
*The project below is a true drama which unfolded on myartspace in 2008 over the issue of appropriation...enjoy
APPROPRIATION PROJECT ( political art? )
Matt Brookes was a fictional myartspace artist that I created for my Appropriation project. He is no longer with us as he was blocked for being a Flamer/troll...(Sorry Matt)
His work consisted of taking random photos of myartspace artists (Without permission) and using the photos as the content for his galleries and then he created portfolios using a sample of the appropriated artists works and superimposed the works over a photo of himself. ( The works were not altered)
Portfolios were entitled "Mine"
Galleries were titled by using the chosen artists name and attatching (Brookes) at the end.
Some members were offended that artists work was used ... my view is that the artists that where used recieved free advertising of their work and as mimicry is the greatest form of flattery, I feel the attempt should have been viewed differently, Although I do support rules as a tool for order, the aesthetic realm should encompass more flexibility.
This was not the point according to Myartspace overseer Brian Sherwin, the point is that artists felt a sense of insecurity over the appropriation of work without permission.
A very interesting situation unfolded between Matt Brookes and Brian Sherwin(Contracted overseer at myartspace) in which the tactics used to end Matt Brookes were a bit shady.
Had Brian Sherwin known that Matt Brookes was Will Brovelli... Very humorous on one hand but disturbing in its implications in the big picture.
The whole situation with Matt Brookes and on a larger scale, the current issues surrounding appropriation and reproduction/copy, is of great interest to me so on a certain level.... Hats off to Matt Brookes.
To express my fondness of his failed attempts, I brought Matt Brookes back from virtual death through appropriation.( on William Brovelli's myartspace site) Myartspace: artist search- webfigs.
One final bit of info: Ironically, I (william Brovelli) Did a project (Accumulative heads)on myartspace in which I used 961 photos of myartspace members in a piece without permission , The work can be viewed at Aferro gallery where it is part of a the group show "Networked" as well as on myartspace. LAST BUT NOT LEAST>>>>
To see Matt Brookes (Brovelli) : Go to Myartspace.com and type in WEBFIGS in the artist search bar and/or artist search Matt Brookes, ( His work has been removed and there is no way to contact him as myartspace froze his login ID but his profile has remained, maybe as a F--- you to Matt? You can still add yourself to his friend list... check it out!
-WB
DONT TRY THIS AT HOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exchanges...
EMAIL
FROM: balhatain
MESSAGE:
Hi,
I'm aware of him. I'm thinking that he may have just been a flamer/troll because I did a search for his name in order to find out more about his work and found nothing.
The issue was not so much about his art anyways... it was more about the terms of the site and his abuse of those terms. Thanks for the heads up though.
Cheers,
Brian
---------- williambrovelliart wrote :----------
Hey Brian. Hows it going? This is a bit awkward but an artist on myartspace just contacted me concerning you and it sounds like this might get messy. I think there might be some legal problems in the works concerning his artwork and there was hints of bad press somehow. I think this kid has some resources. His name is Matt Brookes. Ps I do like this kids work but he is young and fiery. Hope all works out. If you need me for anything, let me know. Will
EKTORAS BINIKOS (Friend and Myartspace member) Appropriated.
4.17.2008
I had no idea that they kicked the young artist out, because of the appropriation project; It is an outrage!I thought it was a brilliant act, and for sure i was flattered that he choose me as well.Good for you Will!!!Ektoras
Brian Sherwin
4.29.2008
For the record, Brookes was not simply 'kicked out'. He violated several terms of the site and was given chances to resolve the issue. Those chances were met with idle threats instead of productive solutions. A statement about his project would have been helpful for those confused about what he was doing. Perhaps if he had included that information people would not have complained. Sadly, he never included that information on his profile and he was combative when I addressed the issue.
VINCENT COMO (Winner 2007 Myartspace NY NY competition) Appropriated
yourartspace
From: Vincent Como (vincentcomo@gmail.com)
Sent: Thu 4/17/08 1:32 PM
To: william brovelli (willbrovellinyc@live.com)
I like your Homage to the fallen Matt Brookes. When Brian contacted me and told me he was appropriating images, i thought he was passing them off as his own outright. When I saw the site I didn't think what he was doing was all that spectacular but he at least obscured them somehow. I told Brian I didn't really think it was worth it to flag him, and i actually sent Matt a message saying that I see what he's doing and know some people are upset by it, and maybe he should post a statement. My thought was that he's a pretty young kid and maybe has more teenage angst than intelligence so try and call his bluff to see if there is anything there or if he's just doing it to fuck w/ people. I didn't get a response and I think it was all over pretty quickly. I also don't know what may have transpired between him and anyone else which could have likely triggered his dismissal.
Hope all is well,
Vince
KYLE PATTERSON (Myartspace member) Appropriated.
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 02:40:43 -0600
From: kylepatterson87@gmail.com
To: willbrovellinyc@live.com
Subject: Re: brian sherwin
I agree something else.
A reason that dealing with things electronically or personally I think even "Physically" may be tough and perceived in difference, as seemingly so much is, Confusion!(Machines, Technology).
I think it's interesting, you wrote a message to him in response to yourself, and he responded as though something was in the mix of a large epidemic(flamer/troll).
Keen, Very Clever, Witt, "Purely" Artistry.
Kyle
The BLAND FINALE:
---------- balhatain wrote :----------
Hi Will,
I was tipped off about the Artslant dealy. It really came as a shock! I thought at first that someone made the page without your knowledge or that maybe it was Matt trying to drag you into the issue. I was not sure what to think. You invented Matt?
You were not the only one with the profile link removed. I emailed everyone so that they would not freak out. I messaged you directly on here, because I know you. I still have some to remove. Trust me, when the links come back they are going to serve to bring more traffic to you and the others and the interview rotation on the front page will work better than what it does now.
---------- williambrovelliart wrote :----------
Hey Brian,
The person who alerted me about the possible removal had a similar situation as Matt Brookes but I think his work was actually questionable and if he fabricated the tip, which apparently he did, then I will have to deal with that now....
About Matt persona via my work, The problem I had and couldnt talk to you about because of the nature of the project (Which took on a life of its own as I knew it would) is this, I (Matt) knew every artist that I used with the exception of Marky Mark and Robert Ryman of corse except for one which I hand picked out of a possible list of ten that I felt would oppose the appropriation and she did, so it was only one artist that complained and I(MATT) responded to her comment to me with an explaination about what I was doing and then as Matt I wrote to you requesting an interview which would have explained on a wider scale what (Matt )was doing... I saved the emails between You and Matt and the exchanges were a debate about appropriation and whether or not Matt was in violation of copy rite laws which he was not. You would have to agree in retropect that matt was handled in a dismissive fashion which I understand in light of the slippery issues and time constraints on your part, A point I have made and find interesting is Matt was removed on the premise of using imagery without permission but I did that on a larger scale with Acuumulative heads and was not questioned on it.
Not that i'm complaining.
In retrospect I wish the project had gone differant by way of an interview with Matt and then an unveiling but things took an interesting turn.
I will remove the section in artslant about the interview and will tone down some other sentences.
Brian, I think you are a decent guy and an excellant writer and artist and Myartspace has been good to me and a good resourse as well and I in turn have endorsed the space in my ventures and will continue to do so.
talk to you soon,
Will
To:Will FROM: balhatain
MESSAGE:
Will,
Thanks for removing it. Hopefully I will have some free time so that I can keep in better contact with people eventually. I'll calm the informant down. The person has a jpg image of your artslant entry. This is all kind of funny actually.
Cheers,
B
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* To date the Brovelli interview remains unposted.
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