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CURATORIAL STATEMENT

out4pizza.com is an online project, which was initiated as a LiveJournal blog in 2007 by the artist Laura Brothers with an intention of posting a single entry — a collection of found images from around the Internet. Despite the original purpose, the blog grew into a net art project tracking the evolution of Brother’s artistic practice. Black background, laconic texts, and simple vertical scrolling mechanism frame connected with a constant interplay with the flood of digital collages, which experiment with ideas of plurality, automatic drawing and re-worked Internet archaeology. Brothers makes use of the now outmoded digital tools MS Paint and Photoshop to create the understated animations. Although coming from a place of levity the animations impart a tinge of the eerie. Their pixelated quality and looping nature conjures meditations on time – evoking anticipations, intermissions, stasis, leisure, and play.