Andy Deck: Untitled
March 2001
Andy Deck: Untitled
Andy Deck’s Untitled, an interactive digital “painting,” invited visitors to reflect on the possibilities of art in the online context of the still early web. Visually rich yet mysterious, the page features multiple cursors that jump around the project window upon clicking, while the names of artists and corporations appear side by side on a central grid. Deck points to the parity of access that had suddenly emerged online: artists and corporate entities with their respective domain names existed in the same space, each probing the potential of the internet to different ends. With Untitled, Deck harnessed the new space of the web for experiences outside of productivity, commerce, or marketing.
Andy Deck (b. 1968; Monterey, California) has been at the forefront of aesthetic research into the creative possibilities of the internet as a medium. Deck combines code, text, and image to demonstrate new patterns of participation and control that distinguish online presence and representation from previous artistic practices. Deck has shown his works in numerous online exhibitions and at venues such as Moving Image Gallery (1999–2001), Postmasters Gallery (1984–2025), MediaNoche (2003–16), Location One (1998–2013), and MoMA PS1 in New York; ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo; HTTP Gallery, London; Mejan Labs (2006–8), Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; Plato Sanat, Istanbul (2013–17); Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. His work has been awarded prizes and honorary mentions by LÚMEN_EX Digital Art Awards (2011); Prix Ars Electronica (1998); the Webby Awards (2003); VIDA 4.0 (2001); the Biennial of Ibiza (2009), and the Web Biennial 10, Istanbul (2010), among others.
Gate Pages
Every month from March 2001 to February 2006, the Whitney invited an artist or collective to present their work in the form of a “Gate Page” on artport. Each page was meant to function as a portal to the artist’s own sites and projects. The Gate Pages comprise a range of artistic approaches to the format—while some of them are designed as entry points to the respective artist’s website or promote a recently launched work, others take the form of a more complex stand-alone project.
Wherever necessary and possible, these works are made functional through emulation and reconstructions from the Internet Archive. Not all of them have been restored to their original state and their conservation is ongoing. You can also view the original Gate Pages archive to see how they were presented at the time of their creation.
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