Teo Spiller

Teo Spiller (born December 4, 1965, in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian digital artist who has been active in the net.art movement since 1995. Spiller is notable for being one of the first artists to sell a piece of Internet art to a museum or collector. he was an assistant professor at Arthouse College in Ljubljana.

Teo Spiller, Cyber Graphic (2000). Collection of Municipal Museum of Győr, Hungary

Teo Spiller: In/Form/Aation (2011) & President Obama following execution of Osama bin Laden (2013). 30th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts

net.art Career

In May 1999 Spiller sold his work Megatronix to Mestna galerija Ljubljana for approximately . This made Spiller one of the first net.art artists to sell a piece to a gallery or collector. He also produced many fine art works reflecting the aesthetics of new media.

In 2004 Spiller launched X-lam, a different media for viewing images, in collaboration with Tadej Komavec. which he later used in the installation Intruders (Kino Siska, 2012).

In 2007 Spiller declined to participate in the U3 Triennial of Contemporary Arts due to conflicting ideas concerning the presentation of net.art in a gallery.

In 2008 Spiller launched Real3Dfriend, a project that questions the ethics of virtual-reality worlds such as Second Life and critiques virtual-reality systems for being too commercial and lacking basis in humanist values.

In 2011 Spiller launched projects in new media textuality and news sonnets.

Combining visual media and machinery, Spiller built the robot Laboro to explore the concept of cyborg artistry (a combination of human and machinery within the artistic process). This resulted in "Wooden In/Form/Ations" and robot-generated graphics such as President Obama following the execution of Osama bin Laden. "Wooden In/form/Ation", Trubar Literature House, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011 "Intruders", Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2012

Group exhibitions

film+arc, Graz; Austria, 1997 Ostranenie 97, Dessau, Germany, 1997 Digital Graphic Art on Paper, Ljubljana Municipal Museum, 1999 Masters of Graphic Arts, Győr, Hungary, 2001 Break 2.3, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005 Territories, Identities, Nets, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005 Device-art 2006, Kontejner Zagreb/Blasthaus San Francisco, 2006, Croatia/US 10th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, Egypt, 2006/2007 Kiparstvo danes, Celje, Slovenia, 2010 Interruption - 30th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic art, Ljubljana, 2013