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artist's manifest

It is the viewer who determines what she or he wants to see.
It is the artist who determines what she or he wants to make.

Since the appearance of the internet, publication has entered a new era. This medium makes it possible to update anything at any given moment. Inherently - the doubtlessly greatest - advantage is hypertext itself. One no longer needs to page through a book in search of references. Few people are yet aware of the effect this will have on writing itself. Imagine: a novel without a beginning or end ! In hypertext documents, choices concerning chronological- or thematic order are superfluous. That kind of order has actually proven to be detrimental to an independent interpretation and appreciation by the viewer.

Since the fifties it was the art historian who determined in which way his information was medicated.
The course of art has actually been changed due to their techniques and marketing tactics.
We do not have to put up with that anymore!

Since the appearance of the internet, the old strong, but now obsolete, instrument of the feeding of information (propaganda) has been taken out of the hands of the academics.

We, the artists can - and must - take the wheel again!

Building up your career has no sense as long as there are art historians and the like who poke their nose into contemporary art - give or take a handful of conscious ones.

Lucien den Arend