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“The Dream Net” is an Internet adaptation of the ambiance that Kata Mijatovic executed using textual descriptions of her dreams at the exhibition K+Z in Fine Arts Gallery, Slavonski Brod, 2001. The on-line texts are complemented with visual materials according to the artist’s code. The possibility of hypertext linking is used to structure a network of dreams similar to a labyrinth. The work has no real beginning nor ending, navigation becomes vague and every further step leads deeper into the realm of unconsciousness. [Taken from http://www.g-mk.hr/online/dreams/eng/about.htm ]

Language is corrupt! The subject reignes over the alienated object! Language is the code of power! Therefore "smash the surface" and concrete it in a new way. The concrete_machine™ liberates the language from the dominating code into the pictorial concrete. It was already in the last century that language seemed suspicious to numerous artistic movements. The Cubists and Dadaists collaged text-fragments into pictures. Dada dissolved words into sounds. The Lettrists reduced language which they understood as aesthetically exhausted to the single letter. The concrete poets composed letter-pictures and the utopias of the 70ies tried to convert the ruling code. The concrete_machine™ will go on this road to the very end. Compute the text: give it to the concrete_machine™ and so make a free picure of it.