The next big thing we're working on is the reconstruction of the
#netart project "without addresses" by
#JoachimBlank &
@khjeron from 1997.
The project is supported by
@digiSberlin – Förderprogramm zur Digitalisierung von Kulturgut des Landes Berlin.
http://blankjeron.com/sero/without_addressesThe work "without addresses" was commissioned by the documenta x in 1997. The canonical work by the Berlin artist duo Blank & Jeron, which has not been accessible online for 26 years, forms an important part of Berlin's digital cultural heritage. The reconstruction of a work of net art was to be conceived and realized together with the artists as a pilot project.
Joachim Blank (*1963) and Karl-Heinz Jeron (*1962) have been working together since 1993 on the realization of Internet projects in the art and culture context. In this year
they founded Handshake together with Barbara Aselmeier and Armin Haase, one of the first communication projects involving the electronic network, the Internet, in Germany. Blank and Jeron were two of the eleven employees of the International City (IS) Berlin, which saw the Internet as a "digital meeting place" between 1994 and 1998 - comparable to De Digitale Stad Amsterdam. In September 1997, Blank & Jeron opened their own website under the domain sero.org, which took up the name of the GDR's state waste disposal company and SERO Entsorgung AG (Berlin), which emerged from it after privatization. At the same time, the name also reflected the artistic principle of the two artists: the reuse and further processing of data input. Blank & Jeron are among the most important players in the Berlin net art scene of the 1990s and are pioneers of a net-specific artistic practice. Their works, created in the context of Berlin's unique history, point beyond this local reference and thus situate themselves in the international scene of media and especially net artists.