Alan Kotok

Nick Crowe (1968 - )

Engraved glass panel

2000

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
    The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, was founded in 1994 to develop and promote standard web technologies. Daniel Weitzner is Director of the Consortium’s Technology and Society activities. Nick Crowe has portrayed Weitzner and the other twelve members of the Management Committee through a simple hand-engraved outline on glass, which casts a shadow onto the paper behind. Ranged around the portrait of Tim Berners-Lee, Director of W3C and inventor of the web, when displayed, the series alludes to depictions of Christ and the twelve apostles. Although the people at the head of this incredibly influential, but little-known, organisation have a huge impact on our lives, we would probably not recognise them were we to meet them on the street. By portraying them in such an intangible, ephemeral way, Crowe comments on the vaporous nature of the web and its organisational power structures.
  • About the artist
    Nick Crowe was born in Barnsley and studied at Barnsley College of Art and the University of Hull. His work has been exhibited widely, both in this country and abroad. He has acted as a curator and has held visiting lectureships at numerous art schools, including Goldsmiths, the Slade and the Ruskin School of Art. He lives and works in Manchester.
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    Title
    Alan Kotok
    Series Title
    The Management Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c)
    Edition
    3/3
    Date
    2000
    Medium
    Engraved glass panel
    Dimensions
    height: 55.00 cm, width: 38.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Mobile Home, February 2003
    Provenance
    Mobile Home, London
    GAC number
    17764/9