VEXT is exactly this: A place of vision, voice and text for the online artist... A place where new online artists from all disciplines are welcome to showcase their work. A place to find ourselves and lose ourselves - our idea of Heaven on Earth. VEXT has no manifesto, no political pretensions, no editorial restrictions. Our editors, however, have a passionate belief in the need for art and the critical thinking that it inspires. We are committed to the internet as our medium for the creation and dissemination of art. The egalitarian nature of digital media with its global accessibility and its history of sharing information appeals to our aesthetic and ethical sensibilities. The internet allows for interaction and interpretation of works between writer and reader, artist and viewer, writer and writer, artist and artist, writer and artist. It is a divine consummation devoutly to be wished... However, YOU - The Viewer, The Reader, The Listener are our biggest contributor: In the preface to Obra poetica, Jorge Luis Borges writes: The taste of the apple (states Berkeley) lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself; in a similar way (I would say) poetry lies in the meeting of the poem and reader, not in the lines of symbols printed on the pages of a book. What is essential is the aesthetic act, the thrill, the almost physical emotion that comes with each reading. The creative act is only an incomplete and abstract moment in the production of a work. If the author existed alone he would be able to write as much as he liked; the work as object would never see the light of day and he would either have to put down his pen or despair. But the operation of writing implies that of reading as its dialectical correlative and these two connected acts necessitate two distinct agents. It is the joint effort of author and reader which brings upon the scene that concrete and imaginary object which is the work of the mind. There is no art except for and by others. ~Jean Paul Sartre
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