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Initially attracted to the world wide web as a form of publishing Tilson found it to be a new form of popular communication that could be hi-jacked for artistic ends. He spent much time working on the ideas behind ‘thecooker’ before the site went online, trying to explore possibilities and decide what it was that an artist might do with such a tool. ‘thecooker’ is made up from three ‘areas’: 1-‘here’: new works that require being on the internet to function, 2-‘there’: an area that contains information on current non-internet projects, 3-‘files’: an area listing previous projects. Since its initial phase Tilson has concentrated on producing work that makes use of the unique space on the web. |  Foundsounds, ISPY2K, Macro Meals |
The web is a unique medium because the Internet occupies both public and private space at the same time. It has the benefits of the one-to-one experience of radio as well as the many-to-one and one-to many experience of online interactive lectures or online shopping. It mixes the boundaries between public spaces, personal spaces, retail spaces, exhibition spaces, broadcast media and printed matter. LINK to TheCooker website |
 City Picture Fiction, Invisible Exports |
 the first front end - 1994 |
 Macro Meals |
Art has always hijacked evolving media and new spaces for its own ends. But unlike traditional broadcast media and other mainstream entertainment the Internet offers artists, and others, a real chance to communicate in a democratic way. You don't need a million dollar budget to build a website that will communicate to a large responsive audience. Artists that can connect the meaning and content of their work with this new medium are in a unique position of being able to talk directly with a wider audience - and have the audience talk back and interact with their work. As with other forms of popular distributed art it functions rather like dada, fluxus or activist art - there is no conspicuous consumption involved. Its an exciting place to make art for those artists who can make use of the Web's shifting parameters. |  |
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exhibited at 1998 Pandaemonium, London festival of Moving Images, LEA. La Biennale de Montréal. Net Condition, ZKM. 1999 thewaitingrooms.co.uk. 1994 Tidsvag, Timewave, Goteborg. 1995 Networks 95, NEC, USRobotics stand. |
appeared in these articles 2003 Jake Tilson-Profile, Pen magazine, Japan. Jake Tilson-Profile, Exposure, Japan. 2002 Jakes Progress, Liz Farelly, Blueprint. Undercover Magazine, Belgium. 1999 ISPY2K Websites, Bill Pannifer, The Independent. ISPY2K, Website of the Week, The Big Issue. ISPY2K, What’s New in Web Design, Creative Review, Sept. 1997 Pixelated Visions, Jane Burton, The Art Newspaper. Art Colleges Online, Graham Vickers, Creative Review. La Mirada Meditica, Alfonso Castro, El Mundo 12 Dec. 1996 If You Visit One Web Site This Week, The Observer Preview Feb-Mar. Cooking With Jake, Graham Vickers, Creative Review May. Digital Art, Geoff Broadway, NetUser May. 1995 Drawn to be Wild, TheCooker, .net 10 p47. TheCooker, interview, Mute 2, Starwave TheCooker, net Directory. Art on the Internet, Design Week vol10 no35. Netwatch, The Guardian Aug 24. TheCooker, Art Monthy July-Aug. TheCooker, Designers Workshop. |
featured in these books 2001 Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design, Christian Küsters and Emily King, Thames & Hudson. 2000 Net Condition ZKM , MIT Press. Web Design Index , Pepin Press. 1999 New Media in Late 20Century Art, Michael Rush, Thames & Hudson World Art series. 1997 Browser, Liz Faber, Laurence King Publishing. 1996 Typographics 2 Cybertype, Roger Walton, Hearst Books. |
