Roberto Aguirrezabala. Net.art 1998 - 2008 :: until April 6, 2008 :: The Huarte Contemporary Art Centre, Huarte (Navarra), Spain :: Curators: Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana.

The Huarte Art Centre is pleased to announce the first net.art solo exhibition by Spanish artist Roberto Aguirrezabala. His works are focused in his two fetishes subjects: the concept of identity and the interpersonal relations in the age of Internet. His projects avoid the stereotype of the website, do not exhibit banners or navigational menu and manage to address the user towards unforeseen thematics developments. The show displays three net.art works:

what:you:get (1999) is a project that spies the user and configure a profile of his/her personality, analyzing the identity signs that he/she generates while browsing the website. Badplayer (2002) is a project developed in a context of artificial intelligence in Internet, that uses chat to reveal the new problematics related to the communication. Easyfriend (2006) investigates hybrid formats of expanded cinema on the web, throughout the interactive story of an artist in crisis. With the help of conversational robots, mails, chats, passwords and virtual alter ego, Aguirrezabala obliges the users to interact with many characters without knowing if they are real persons or just bots.

Roberto Aguirrezabala has been exhibited in numerous international festivals, exhibitions like net_condition (ZKM, Karlsruhe) and awarded, with acknowledgements such as the first prize for best work for net.art “X Canariasmediafest” (2002), the “Mobius Barcelona” award (2006), among others. He is currently investigating the development of fictional narrative systems of expanded cinema, using mediums between cinema, the installation, photography and Internet.

The Huarte Contemporary Art Centre: Located in Huarte (Navarra), 5 km from Pamplona, this new cultural space inaugurated in October 2007, is located barely an hour and a half from some of the most important contemporary art centres and museums such as the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the Artium in Vitoria, the future Krea Contemporary Expression Centre in the same city or what will be the future International Contemporary Culture Centre of San Sebastian. The Huarte Centre is the first cultural facility in Navarra, specifically conceived to house exhibitions and activities related to contemporary art, with special attention to the emerging international scene.