Gilles Tran wrote:
> This is really bizarre. I can't make sense of the "Artvif" gallery/person 
> that seems to be at the centre of this. The Artfvif site is a total mess of 
> a website that is spread over several free ISPs. In fact it looks like some
> sort of very loose art collective that is used by its "members" to put some 
> images on line and generate some advertising revenues. I'm not sure that all
> the "members" are even aware of their presence on the site, as many images 
> aren't even signed. The Artvif people have a special interest in Madagascar, 
> though this isn't explained anywhere.

   Yeah... same conclusion here. But I think it's only 1 person, called 
Harvel Ireney, surely from Madagascar but living in France. This guy is 
really weird... but at the end all seems to respond to a need to 
generate ad revenues by any means (the amount and diversity of the sites 
where he submitted links to Artvif is impressive, only explained by this 
need).

> It is this "Artvif" that submitted a series of pictures, including yours, 
> signed by "St廧hane Marty" and others to various galleries (3DVF, Zieutez, 
> Overdoz, Yamafoto) with some bogus information.

   Well.. that's the most intriguing part... perhaps not the same 
person, perhaps someone who wanted to expose/compromise Artvif...

> Note that there's a "St廧hane Marty" who is well-known in the 3D world (he's 
> the author of Virtualight) who has (I hope) nothing to do with this one.

   I don't think there is "another" Stephane Marty... is this 
Artvif/Harvel Ireney who attributes these images to Stephane, and others 
to Luc Bianco or Piere Carril... he pretends these are french artist who 
work/create for Artvif...

   I'm going to start with a polite/friendly email telling him that the 
attribution to Stephane Marty in Artvif is wrong, to see how he reacts. 
I will keep you all updated... :)

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Jaime

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