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DOTART Dot art is a radically new concept of art.

This movement is dedicated to showcase how time, space, and life can be explained with a dot... A single dot can prove that everything is the same in a different way. Hence information in art should be as important as it is in life.

It started with the first dot by Tibor Hargitai. It evolved with writing words for an hour on a canvas in a circle. Feeding information on a confined surface for a continuum of time, results in a structure of a dot. This concept of such dot, is the unit of time space life.

Every life or existence can be represented by one dot as a mark. And every mark is a dot in it self.

The fundamental difference to recent visual art is that the process of painting is secondary to the artist, and left entirely for the observers to complete on the set provided by the artist.

THE PROCESS:

A DOTART project starts with a surface of an existing painting. (Usually multiple works are displayed at once.) This represents a carrier dot, which in the process comes to be a mark it self. By design, a marker is attached to the middle of the artwork with a chain providing you with a radius that reaches the nearest edge of the picture. The area of the circle created represents the time, space and life which is given to us in real life. It is attached with an illusion of freewill. On their own time, viewers are invited to use the markers as they wish to leave a mark.

Viewers involved in the creation of the work by feeding information to the surface, keeping it alive. A new image is forming each and every time another mark is made. Time, space, and life are noticeable transformations in the painting. However the making of a visible dot is unavoidable. A collective consciousness is forming on each two-dimensional surface.

The voluntary participation in a controlled manner creates a unique time, space, and life experience for the artist, and the interacting audience alike. The purpose of the concept is to emphasize the interaction and influence we all have on each other, that's mostly in an indirect subconscious way. Dot ism can be considered a performance art, but fundamentally every art is a performance.

Each time a new mark is added to the canvas, the moment of NOW comes closer, but is never to be reached. With added time and information, the dots show more of the same characteristics.

Paintings equipped with a black marker comes closer to becoming a black dot. Entirely black cannot exist because the process could continue with no end. The color of the markers sometimes is changed on certain paintings. By slicing time such a way, a period in the process becomes more recognizable.

We find the end result very strange, because we may not see the reality due to our sub-consciousness. Our cameras will show completely different images in two dimensions as our own experience in time space life. We're seeing more of the dot than a concept of a figure in a background if there was one to begin with. In the case of using different color markers, it is very difficult to make visual relation with the other black dots.

At the end of the show, the chain is cut from the surface, like a newborn from her mother. The painting is released. Now it is alive or dead? It is indeed both.

But somehow at the end, participants understand that every dot is the same dot in a different way, and each dot is a mark it self.

Dot ism is an art movement with a philosophy of time space life.