NET ART PROJECT Each Month Fringe Exhibitions will feature a new net art project. Past projects can be accessed here This month (April/May 2008) we are pleased to present: Online Newspapers: New York Edition by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied For Online Newspapers: New York Edition, artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied revive the amateur aesthetic by pairing it with the content of the mainstream press; they imagine how news sites would appear were they developed by the lay journalists whose aesthetic choices defined Web culture before the dot-com boom. By applying this aesthetic to a particular cross section of New York City papers, the artists subtly point to the qualitative assumptions we make about information we read and the significant role design plays in these impressions. Creating a faux precedent to today's Web news, Online Newspapers also alludes to the perpetual obsolescence of technology and style-a major factor in our ever-changing media landscape. Russian-born artist Olia Lialina currently teaches at the Merz Academie in Germany. Originally a film critic, for the past decade she has produced influential works of network-based art and art criticism. Dragan Espenschied, born in Germany, has received international acclaim for his online art and music, and is a lecturer at the Merz Academie in Germany. Individually and as collaborative partners, the work of both artists has been exhibited extensively online and at venues including Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Deitch Projects, New York; the New Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. For more information visit: art.teleportacia.org