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| Cyberart Pioneer and
Director of "Truly Virtual Web Art Museum"
(www.lastplace.com) Dr. Rodney Chang (Pygoya) about Ingrid Kamerbeek in April 2002: "Born in 1952 in Gummersbach,
Germany. Currently lives in the romantic area of Bavaria. The beautiful
landscape not only attracts many foreign tourists worldwide but also provides
inspiration for Kamerbeek's art.
Kamerbeek owned galleries in Kaarst near Düsseldorf (1978 - 1980) and in Mönchengladbach (1980 - 1982) before creating her own web site which assists other cyberartists to gain exposure for their work. A true inspirational leader and motivator for the cyberarts. Much art exhibiting, on earth and in cyberspace. One of her works, "Global Consciousness", was inducted recently into the online Cyberculture Art Museum. The artist finds time to maintain the position of Co-coordinator for East Hawaii Cultural Center's International Cyberart World Tour and Coordinator of CenterofCyberspace.com" Ingrid Kamerbeek about her work : Since 1999 I have been doing
digital paintings. For me the computer is the ideal tool to express my
creativity. No other tool enables such an immediate and spontaneous translation
of my emotions. The computer offers, so to speak, a direct line to the
world of my thoughts and life experiences, a connection from human to machine,
almost a merging, which makes me forget time and space and lets me dive
into the mysterious depths of my being. The results are often surprising,
even to me, and certainly would be instructive for any expert soul researcher.
Artists worldwide unite, people come closer to each other, even if separated by oceans. Together they can be creative and make the world a bit more friendly. I work in photopaint and
photo adobe. Quite often and automatically bodily shapes emerge, embedded
in mysterious surroundings. An erotic component is latently present as
an expression of my joy of life. Faces also fascinate me, asking, amazed,
demanding and evil ones too. The works come about without preconceived
motives. They have, so to speak, their own life. Again and again I use
many of my first pictures on the PC because they are the most "innocent"
ones, and fresh exciting mutations repeatedly emerge. Everything flows
without borders into each other. What is presently develops further, becomes
something entirely new, a never ending treatment, evolution, mutation.
For now, my pictures are "painted" with the computer without the help of
sketches, photographs or scans. Often I notice a small area in a present
PC painting which I then take out and work into a new picture - a never
ending thriller. An open challenge, sometimes even an addiction.
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