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x-o-x-o-x.com

x-o-x-o-x.com is a website created by artist Erik Hoff Rzepka. Not only is this website a platform for displaying artwork and research, but it is also a multidimensional work that embeds the overarching subject matter in the virtual space. x-o-x-o-x.com explores the concept of theory and navigation of the internet and how it is connected with locations, labels, and multimedia forms[1]. The site acts as a hub for viewers to access art and research as well as to make their own discoveries on the web.

x-o-x-o-x.com displays a simple black and white layout. A different line of text is shown under the title of the website each time the page is reloaded. The animation that plays at the bottom of the page says "ceriph scrawl and the fervid/amnesia of dahlias". The main function of the site are the links that run across the page under the title and tagline, which lead to information on the site, works and research separated by categories such as projects, collections, webworks, and printpdfs. It is also intended for the viewer to explore media outside of the site, so a wide range of external links related to the artist are categorized under locations and publinks. x-o-x-o-x.com serves as an entryway for people to discover what the internet can provide.

Erik Zepka's Twitter page

Artist Biography

Erik Hoff Rzepka, or more well known as Erik Zepka, is a conceptual artist as well as a researcher who is interested in the intersections of art, science, philosophy, poetry and coincident practices[2]. He explores new environments and the science behind them, and is mixes the different modes of response from the discoveries[3]. Zepka is actively involved in scientific research and is committed to bringing knowledge to the people through his work. He asks, "am I an artist, a scientist, a blogger, a spammer?"[4] In order to share his research, Zepka communicates to the online community through a large variety of platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Blogspot, Art Shack, and more.

Subject Matter

The body of work displayed on x-o-x-o-x.com primarily focuses on science and technology, and the engagement with the internet. Different disciplines such as literature, science, art, and philosophy are incorporated to bring information to the people[5]. The internet is seen as a mode of sharing valuable information. The artist emphasizes that every person has the means of relaying information that matter to each other in the online community. It is the people that need the science, and also the people that create the science that is art[6].

Webworks

x-o-x-o-x.com houses a variety of internet art, or "webworks", such as choice ,paean(dialectics_of_the_gaze) ,sdzvzsvz ,sd-- ,sedv ,obj ,molec ,enufla ,hefs ,samp ,fetishism.swf logical_fetishism ,symptom_of_objects ,triplets ,apotheotics ,app ,consisted_in_symbol(remix) ,)-ri ,capably.swf crumbles_capably ,escape_route_diagram ,gaber ,the-cask-of-amontillado , and x.

Related Pages

Choice from x-o-x-o-x.com

Works and Exhibitions

  • “Medical Fashion Quarterly” - collaborative performance art experiment, April 2014
  • “The Tendency Towards Dendrite Moralism” - looping animation for .GIF @ Franklin Studios, Vancouver, April 2014
  • “Computers and Capital: The Rise of Digital Currency” - net art show for CoinFest Vancouver, March 2014
  • “Elastic Mettle” - art book publication and reading at AWP Seattle 2014, February 2014
  • Coupremine (Conceptual Journal Project), 2006-2014
  • “Banana Lit” - speculative literary performance installation, 2013 - present
  • "Technoscience and Participation: Art, Literature and the Social Web" – Panel prepared for theInstitute for the Humanities, SFU, December 2013
  • “Flesh and Structure” - exhibition curated for The Wrong Digital Art Biennale, Sao Paolo, November 2013
  • ”science for the people” - live performance and exhibition, Gallery Online, October 2013
  • “_ģ̶Ł̶1̶ɫ̶C̶ʮ̶_Δ┌┼---\/\/\/\/\/\/!┬-” - discussion panel presenting x-o-x-o-x.com, September 2013
  • Various interactive works – Net Art Discussion Panel, New York City, 2013
  • “Objects” - experimental course, UnderAcademy College, Sweden, March – August 2013
  • “#D” - new media art exhibition, New York City, June 2013
  • “Phonics Abrogate” - video art piece presented at Not Sent Letters @ The Western Front, May 2013
  • “Or, the Modern Prometheus” - for Cupcake/SPAMM, presented in Paris & NYC, March 2013
  • “social media writing performance” - talk for Group of X, 2013
  • “The Data Pedestal and other works” - Streamed video performance for GET>PUT, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, November 2012
  • “Logical Fetishism” - interactive work for Transfer 3D, Wroclaw, Poland, November 2012
  • “Systems of Existence” - textual/sculptural installation, November 2012
  • “The Material Glitch” - Exhibition Curated @ Quinary Art Projects, http://materialglitch.com, August 2012
  • "The Investigation of Whatever" - conceptual course taught through UnderAcademy College - Term 1 (Jan - Mar 2012) & Term 2 (Apr - Jun 2012)
  • "shrugging" - On Barcelona, June 2012
  • "Crumbles Capably" - projection at Rubble Gallery for BINGE, May 2012
  • Selected Pieces, The Last Vispo Anthology, 2012
  • "ZSW - M" - publication of post-oulipian remixes w/ crashtest, gammm press (Italy), 2011
  • "Sample Text" - video and robotics installation for Picturing Intuition, curated by M. Salemy, SUB Art Gallery, 2011
  • "We Give a Shit Because We Care" Installation and Publication w/ Catherine Chun Hua Dong for Ill Repute Series, Helen Pitt Gallery, 2011
  • "Prefatory Remarks" - Historical/Philosophy Essay for Publication Studios Vancouver Curatorial Book Project (for Ill Repute Publication), 2011
  • "Censes" - The Cutting, VIVO, 2010
  • "Eat the Feeling", Machinima for React2010, Alternator Gallery Exhibition for Olympics, Winter 2010
  • "Technotransit" video essay for Grace Gallery for Vancouver Olympics, Winter 2010
  • "Blu", Looping Video, Gam Gallery, Summer 2010
  • 3D Video-Sound Performance for "The Cadaver, the Comatose and the Chimera" (performance with Stelarc, Daniel Mounsey and others), Lamama Courthouse, Melbourne, Australia, December 2009* Video Installation, Pacific Thorn Gallery, Vancouver BC, November 2009
  • "Electra Misunderstood as an Allusion to Eve", Multimedia Projection, Bridge & Tunnel, Vancouver BC, November 2009
  • "from Siluris", Pinstripe Fedora, October 2009
  • Virtual Performance w/ Stelarc (Museum of Fine Art, Korea), Summer 2009
  • ISEA: The Exhibition (International Symposium on Electronic Art), Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 2009
  • "Philosophy of Technology and the Body" (Course designed and facilitated) Spring 2009, University of British Columbia
  • "Xenoplasy" - Reading/Performance, Poodle Dog Cafe, Vancouver, BC, Summer 2009
  • SL Sculptures (w Stelarc) (Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France), Summer 2009Ars in Ara, Ara Pacis, Roma 2009
  • Various Multimedia Compositions, Humlab, Umeå University, Sweden, May 2009
  • Degree in Philosophy and Science, University of British Columbia, Spring 2009
  • Virtual 3D Compositions, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts 2009, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis March 2009
  • "Sidle", Graphic Tales, March 2009
  • Collaborative Digital Works, ePoetry Festival (Barcelona, Spain), February 2009
  • "Technomaterialism and Biotic Rupture", Conference Paper and Presentation, Material Affinities (Graduate Symposium, UBC), February 2009
  • The Book of Noise, Avance Publishing (Australia), 2008
  • Inhuman Resources, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna BC 2008
  • Xenoplasy, Coupremine, 2008
  • Arena, Museo del Metaverso, Second Life 2008
  • "Xee.n", As Long As It Takes, November 2008
  • Pikselfest 08, StudioUSF, Bergen, Norway 2008
  • "Tincture", Front Magazine, October 2008
  • Hamburger Klangwerktage, Kampnagel, Hamburg 2008* "Somnambulist", forwardtext (Finland), August 2008
  • "Indflette", NPC (Scandinavia), June 2008
  • Edges Festival of Media Art, Victoria 2008
  • "Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen", Graphic Tales, May 2008
  • "Gradual Effector, Sentence", Word for Word, April 2008
  • Art.xxX.tenxion, IT-Inkubator, Regensburg 2008
  • "Nanaja Leizaku", Critiphoria, February 2008
  • "Pshed.meshye", Big Bridge, 2008
  • "Devil's Rope", Interactive Futures (Victoria, BC), November 2007
  • "Eschewal", blazevox, October 2007
  • "Nantosvelta", W (Vancouver, BC), October 2007
  • "Cytologies", Skicka (Sweden), August 2007
  • "Hue.co", otoliths (Australia), July 2007
  • "’Swail cus", i-outlaw 2.5, May 2007
  • "Basura, Precio", Garage103 (Nice, France), May 2007
  • "Xenografts", VILT (Netherlands), April 2007
  • "Scrale", VIVO (Vancouver, BC), February 2007
  • "Ideolemma", Zinhar (Turkey), February 2007
  • "Epäjohdonmukaisuus", nokturno (Finland), January 2007
  • "Sentiomere fl", Unlikely Stories, 2007
  • "Chotil", Codepo, October 2006
  • "Endomorph Saurian", Nuls (France), September 2006
  • "NLD Cottage", VK, July 2006
  • "Pachetul de Interese", DOI (Romania), June 2006

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References

  1. ↑ http://x-o-x-o-x.com/about.html
  2. ↑ http://x-o-x-o-x.com/about.html
  3. ↑ http://www.erikzepka.com/?page_id=107
  4. ↑ http://gallery0nline.wordpress.com/erik-h-rzepka/
  5. ↑ http://www.erikzepka.com/?page_id=107
  6. ↑ http://gallery0nline.wordpress.com/erik-h-rzepka/
  7. ↑ http://x-o-x-o-x.com/genCV.pdf

Authors

Kathy Li & Kathleen Escanan, 2014

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