New York Times, 13.5.1999

Teo Spiller closed a deal this week, and digital artists everywhere may be enriched by his experience. Spiller, an artist in Ljubljana, Slovenia, will pocket about $500 for ” Megatronix ,” a work of Web art that the Mestna Galerija , Ljubljana ‘s municipal gallery, has just agreed to acquire.

Negotiations for the sale were conducted openly on the Web, and the outcome was announced Wednesday at a computer-arts festival in the Slovenian city of Maribor…” och sedan: ”…” Megatronix ” is among the first pieces of Internet art to be sold to a museum or collector, and the public nature of the transaction may help establish pricing in this nascent segment of the art market…” Hela artikeln kan läsas på New York Times sidor , http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/indexartsatlarge.html men du måste registrera dig på N.Y.

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